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APB Transforms A Regular Guy Into A Pierced And Tatted Criminal
Cops and robbers MMO APB is world filled with grungy-looking criminals covered with tattoos and riddled with piercings. Now Realtime Worlds is letting fans vote on how they permanently disfigure a real human being with the Human Avatar Project. The Human Avatar Project is a reality television take on video game marketing. Over the period…
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StarCraft II Beta Patching, Phase Two Imminent
A new patch for the StarCraft II beta test has hit Europe, raising hopes that the promised phase two of the test will be starting shortly. It’s been a month since Blizzard shut down phase one of the StarCraft II, and fans around the world have been patiently waiting for the second phase of the…
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Obsidian Wouldn’t Mind Tackling A Chrono Trigger Sequel
Now that they’re working on Dungeon Siege 3 for Square Enix, are there any other Square Enix series the company would like a stab at? “Chrono Trigger,” says CEO Feargus Urquhart. With their first attempt at an original role-playing game tanking, Obsidian Entertainment is free to focus on what they do best: Making sequels to…
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League Of Legends Kicks Off Season One Next Week
Oh it’s on. After several months’ worth of pre-season play, Riot Games is ready to kick things into high gear with next week’s launch of League of Legends’ first official competition season, complete with ladders, ranked games, and draft mode. Crecente and I were both extremely fond of Riot Games’ take on the Warcraft II…
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NASA Invites Gamers To Explore Moonbase Alpha
While NASA might not be returning to the real moon any time soon, the virtual moon is anyone’s game in Moonbase Alpha, a multiplayer lunar exploration adventure game, now available for free download via Steam. Every day gamers perform feats they never could in real life via the games they play. Now NASA is doing…
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And The Game Critics Best Of E3 Award Winners Are…
The game critics have spoken, and the 2010 E3 Game Critics Awards winners have been chosen. Check out a Best of Show that isn’t a game, big wins for EA and Rage, and a little vindication for our E3 awards Now before you read this, remember that the Game Critics Awards are not chosen by…
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Archetype Isn’t Your Typical iPhone First-Person Shooter
Speaking of first-person shooters, Villain has just released Archetype for the iPhone, a quick-and-dirty online FPS that crams all the features you’d expect in a PC game into a tiny little package. Looks pretty good for an iPhone first-person shooter, doesn’t it? Developed by MunkyFun, Archetype is an attempt to bring the console and PC…
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Blizzard Forums Will Soon Display Your Real Name
How do you stem the tide of a forum flooded with flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness? Just do what Blizzard is about to do in the official forums for StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Display posters’ real names. Blizzard poster Nethaera breaks the news to fans in the Battle.net forums: their internet anonymity…
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Sing Along With Leliana’s Song In Dragon Age
The latest downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins drops today on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, allowing players to delve into the shady past of the lovely bard Leiliana. This is the Dragon Age downloadable content I’ve been waiting for. New characters are nice and all, but some of the characters that journeyed…
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A Visual Guide To The First-Person Shooter
It doesn’t matter if you’re a sniper, a camper, or a target; everyone can learn a little something from the Kotaku Genre Guide to First-Person Shooters. From the relaxing ease of role-playing games to the frantic, fast-paced action of the first-person shooter. The second in our ongoing series of genre guides takes a look at…
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Street Fighter High Enrolls Some New Students
Remember the Street Fighter meets Dawson’s Creek hilarity of Street Fighter High? There’s a sequel on the way, with a whole new cast of characters adding to the intense cosplay drama. Capcom’s Sprung64 was in Los Angeles for the filming of Jennifer Zhang’s follow-up to Street Fighter High. He took some pictures, hung out with…
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Average Reviews Mean No Second Helping Of Alpha Protocol
Fans hoping to experience the further adventures of Agent Michael Thornton will be sorely disappointed, as Sega West president Mike Hayes reveals that a sub-70 Metacritic average and slow sales rule out the chance for an Alpha Protocol sequel. Alpha Protocol was a solid action role-playing game, but its more glaring flaws brought it to…
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Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update Day One: Let Those Golden Wrenches Fly
It’s Engineer Update Day One, and twenty-five lucky Team Fortress 2 Engineers have already found themselves on the receiving end of the fabled Golden Wrench, forever enshrined in the Official Wrench Log. Only seventy-five remain. Do you have the golden touch? Now I have to be honest here: I’ve not been following the lead-up to…
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Transformers: Cybertron Adventures Review: Robots In Disgrace
Remember that really great Transformers: War for Cybertron game we reviewed last week? This isn’t it. This is Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, and it is not the Wii version of War for Cybertron. While the story may cover similar ground and contain many of the same characters, Next Level Games’ Cybertron Adventures trades the third-person shooting…
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Multicellular Life: It Might Be Older Than You Think
Remember when all of those scientist people told us that multicellular life on Earth began about 1.9 billion years ago? New evidence suggests they might have been off by a few hundred million. Is it time for a Spore patch? The earliest life on Earth were single cell creatures. Long before the dinosaurs, creatures like…
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Grand Theft Auto Blamed For Failed Teen Firebombing
“They appear to have crossed the line from virtual reality to reality,” said Police Chief Lou Pachec of the two teens who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at an apartment building in Raynham, Massachusetts over the weekend. Two teens, one 16 and one 12, claim to have been playing Grand Theft Auto on Saturday night when…
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How To Switch Sides In City Of Heroes’ Going Rogue
In this video documentary for Paragon Studio’s super hero MMO City of Heroes, the team talks us through the morality system that changes your villain into a hero and vice versa in the upcoming Going Rogue expansion. Changing sides isn’t a simple choice in the Going Rogue expansion. It’s a path that a hero takes…
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What Video Games Teach Men About Sex
Did you know that if a woman repeats herself three times, you have to go gain more experience before hitting on her again? GamesRadar takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the carnal lessons males learn through gaming. It’s called “The Three Strikes Law,” and it’s common throughout most early Japanese role-playing games. It’s completely ridiculous, but…
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First Transformers: War For Cybertron DLC Contains All Three Preorder Characters
Folks who spent up to $100 for War for Cybertron preorder codes on eBay are going to kick themselves, as a listing on the Xbox website for the game’s first map pack indicates that all three preorder characters are included. This is why we don’t buy preorder codes on eBay Released just last week and…
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