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StarCraft II Takes A Shot At Apple
You can elude the Dominion. You can evade the Zerg. You can swipe precious artifacts out from under the watchful eyes of the Protoss and escape without a scratch, but you can never escape Apple’s crack marketing squad. Note: iPistol will not fire if held firmly by the grip.
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New Space Marine Unit Found In StarCraft II
Kotakuite Harejordna was exploring the Zero Hour level in StarCraft II when he stumbled across a decidedly different sort of Space Marine. Find out how to spot this elusive creature before his portable toilet blasts off. Spoilers ahead! If you’d rather find all of StarCraft II’s easter eggs on your own, now would be a…
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A Sneak Peek At Kane & Lynch In Comic Book Form
With interior art by Chris Mitten, covers by Ben Templesmith, and a story Ian Edginton, Wildstorm’s Kane & Lynch comic book series could do a better job at capturing the duo’s manic action than the video games do. One look at those lovely Templesmith covers for issues one and three tells me that Wildstorm might…
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All You Need To Know About Warriors Of Rock’s Quest Mode
Technically all you need to know about the Quest Mode in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is that Gene Simmons from Kiss is in it, but some additional information on the Warriors and their powers doesn’t hurt. I’m getting a little tired of music games at this point, but if I had to choose between…
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EVE Solicits Player Support, Players Solicit Lag Fix
When EVE Online developer CCP games asked players to cast a vote for the game in the European Games Award, the response was overwhelming: fix the game first. It was a simple enough request. Yesterday on the official EVE forums, CCP dev Zymurgist posted the following: The European Games Award is the first award exclusively…
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Lost In Shadow Continues To Astound And Delight
Take a new look at the shadow-bending gameplay that took home our Best Gameplay Mechanic E3 award this year in this new video for Hudson’s Lost in Shadow. Every time I see video of this game in action, I kick myself for not getting the chance to play it at E3 this year. Then I…
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A Little Extra Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For Europe
The European PlayStation blog shows off the lovely box art for the Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Special Edition. What’s in the box? Game.co.uk lists the normal edition of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep at £24.99. The Special Edition of the game lists for £29.99, meaning that someone better have packed an extra £5 of…
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Worms Reloaded Brings 2D Back To The PC
After a couple of failed attempts at making classic trajectory-based shooter Worms 3D on the PC, Team17 returns to its 2D PC roots with Worms Reloaded, due out August 26 on Steam. Worms never needed a 3D version. It was perfect as it was, and Team17 acknowledges that fact with next month’s release of Worms…
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Runes Of Magic Brings Fashion And Metal To Gamescom
Runes of Magic publisher Frogster brings the spectacle to Gamescom in Germany next month, with a Runes-themed fashion show, a costume contest judged by model Gina-Lisa Lohfink, and a performance by a cappella metal band Van Canto. Frogster’s Gamescom plans feature enough entertainment to warrant its own separate show. First they’ve got a Runes of…
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Two More Murderers For Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood’s line-up of sleek and deadly killers gets some serious bolstering by the armored Officer and the all-important tubby guy with a beard. Finally a character for me! As a relatively tubby guy with a beard, I often find myself forced to pick a sleek and sexy character in multiplayer games, and that…
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How To Fail At StarCraft II Multiplayer
Last night I played my first round of StarCraft II multiplayer. It was the first time I ever played any StarCraft game against a human opponent. It might also be my last. As mentioned during our Kotaku Talk Radio podcast today, I never played the original StarCraft, and while I am enjoying my time with…
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APB Developer Rebuilds The World In Our Image
“What would it look like if Nintendo built Google Earth?” That’s the question used to describe Crackdown and APB developer Realtime World’s new project, a mix of social gaming, social networking, and traditional gaming known as MyWorld. Do you ever wish you could do with Google Earth? Sure, you can browse down to the street…
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You Play Video Games Like A Cyclops
You might have a pair of eyes, but when you’re playing first-person video games, you’re no better than a cyclops. Neuroscientist Mark Changizi explains how our cyclops-vision helps pinpoint what we’re missing out on when we lose an eye. In the book The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew…
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Call Of Duty: Black Ops DS Declassified
Developer n-Space returns to the Call of Duty franchise this November with a portable companion to Black Ops on the Nintendo DS, complete with helicopters, stealth jets, and six-player online multiplayer. n-Space has done some pretty amazing things with the Call of Duty franchise on the Nintendo DS. Nintendo’s handheld is the last platform that…
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Face The Golems of Amgarrak In The Next Dragon Age DLC
While fans wait for next year’s Dragon Age II, BioWare continues to pump out the downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins, uncovering the ancient secrets of the dwarves’ magical constructs in Golems of Amgarrak. Due out August 10, Golems of Amgarrak sends the player character and his party deep into the underground in search of…
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The Modern War Gear Solid Saga Continues
The ultimate paramilitary crossover continues in part two of Modern War Gear Solid. “Ghost, get in my box!” The combat is fast and furious as Ghost and Snake go mano-a-mano with Marakov and Liquid Ocelot. Fists fly, moustaches are transferred, and Liquid makes the ultimate mistake – trying to headbutt a footballer. The second part…
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Now’s Your Chance To Grab Pokemon’s Enigma Stone
Starting July 31, North America players of Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver have 28 days to download the Enigma Stone, the key to unlocking Legendary Pokemon Latias and Latios. Legendary Pokemon Latias can be captured in Pokemon HeartGold. Her brother Latios can be captured in Pokemon SoulSilver. Both are exclusive to those games, unless the player…
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Thor Could Really Use A Problem-Free Philosophy
Sega has released the first teaser trailer for Thor: The Video Game, giving us a tantalizingly brief look at the son of Asgard’s in-game model, standing atop the ruins of Pride Rock. Well, the back of Thor’s in-game model at least. Thor stands on the rocky outcropping from The Lion King, now laid waste due…
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