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Gears Of War Designer Walks Us Through Bulletstorm
Confused by the over-the-top combat of frantic gameplay of Bulletstorm? Let the dulcet tones of Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski guide you through the game in terms you can understand, like “radial blur” and “gang bang.” This director’s commentary walkthrough video is full of wonderful Cliffy B. quotables, like “toy with your enemies like…a…
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Man Punches Punching Arcade Game To Death
A Meridian, Idaho man has been charged with malicious injury to property after allegedly causing $3,000 to an arcade machine at a local bar by punching it. The goal of the game? To punch it as hard as you can. According to witnesses, an intoxicated 30-year-old Dustin Gooden was playing a ‘test-your-strength’ arcade game at…
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Rock Band Finally Gains Creedence
Creedence Clearwater Revival music will not be available in Rock Band until next week, yet somehow the series has still been a smashing success. How can this be? CCR is the sort of band that has a song that fits any particular moment in your life. Songs like “Down on the Corner,” “Bad Moon Rising,”…
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20 Amazingly Detailed Call Of Duty: Black Ops Screens
Can you spot the dragonfly in this picture? Treyarch and Activision have released 20 new Call of Duty: Black Ops screens brimming with nice little touches, from snow-speckled facial hair to insects thriving in the jungle heat, but something’s missing. As detailed as these new screens are, they still manage to highlight some of the…
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It’s Better To Deathspank With A Friend
What could be more lovely than an afternoon spent frolicking with unicorns in the wilderness with Deathspank and his best pal Sparkles? Ron Gilbert’s latest and potentially greatest is coming out this month for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, and Hothead Games is celebrating the impending release with a brief look at the…
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Intel Inside Your Mind, Serving You Drinks
We’re one step closer to browsing the internet with our mind while our robot butler brings us drinks, and it’s all thanks to Intel. PC Magazine tells us about the wonderful tech on display at the company’s latest R&D day. Behold HERB, the robotic centerpiece of the festivities at the most recent Intel R&D day,…
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Meat Bun Dresses You In Wizards And Warriors
The sorcerers at Meat Bun have summoned forth a magical set of t-shirts for their summer 2010 line, “Wizards ‘n Warriors,” celebrating the 8-bit fantasy fighters and casters who made the early days of gaming so magical. The six new t-shirts in the “Wizards ‘n Warriors” line continue Meat Bun’s proud tradition of creating wearable…
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Guild Wars 2 Is A Big Book Of Fun Activities
From the shooting gallery to bar brawls, Guild Wars 2 will be filled with fun things to do when you’re not sticking your sword in things until your numbers don’t go up anymore. In the latest post on ArenaNet’s blog, Guild Wars 2 game designer John Stumme explains how the upcoming game goes beyond standard…
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Six Canadian Video Game Characters We Love
On July 1, 1867, two British colonies and a province of the British Empire merged together to form Canada. Today we celebrate our neighbors to the north with a look at the Canadian video game characters we love. You didn’t think we forgot about you guys up there, did you? Of course not. Here in…
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Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC Makes A Comeback
After disappearing from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network months after its release, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 downloadable content returns, making Magneto, Black Panther, Carnage, Psylocke, and Cable available for purchase once more, but only for a limited time. A limited time only deal is what the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 downloadable content was…
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Microsoft Is Hiring For The Next Halo Game
While Halo: Reach is Bungie’s last hurrah in the Halo universe, Microsoft’s 343 Industries is keeping the dream alive, with fifteen new positions opening today for qualified individuals seeking to “be part of the awesome.” The 343 Industries jobs page at Microsoft updated today with fifteen new positions on top of the nine that were…
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You’re Never Too Young For PC Gaming
Three-year-old Finley’s hands might be too small for the mouse, but that doesn’t stop him from kicking ass at both Mirror’s Edge and Portal on the PC. Reader Callum sends us this vid he recorded yesterday of his friend’s son rocking the PC, playing through Mirror’s Edge nausea inducing first-person action and Portal’s perplexing puzzle…
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Dragon Quest Creator Launches Sentinels Of The Starry Skies In New York
Celebrate the launch of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinel of the Starry Skies next weekend in New York City, with a Nintendo party in Rockefeller Center featuring the creator of the Dragon Quest series, Yuji Horii. Dragon Quest IX was a big release for Square Enix in Japan, and now it’s a big release for Nintendo…
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First BioShock 2 Single-Player DLC Is Little Sister Defense
After two injections of multiplayer downloadable content, 2K Games finally makes with the single-player DLC for BioShock 2 this August, putting your defensive skills to the test in the Protector Trials. Did you enjoy defending your Little Sister against swarms of Splicers as she attempted to harvest the precious ADAM from corpses in BioShock 2?…
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Reviews
Catalyst DSi Slim Cover Review: Worst Analogy Ever
What is it about CM4’s Catalyst DSi Slim Cover that makes me break out the worst literary comparisons I’ve written since I was into bad goth poetry in high school? The Catalyst DSi Slim Cover is a simple enough thing. You get two pieces of aluminum shaped to fit your Nintendo DSi, covered tightly with…
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Science Proves Facial Hair Is Sexy…On Fish
Here at Kotaku, we’re big proponents of facial hair, even if some of our esteemed colleagues aren’t with the program yet. Now science proves that a bushy moustache does indeed make males more attractive to females. Well, female fish at least. Science is all about answering unanswered questions. Why is the sky blue? Why do…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Pokémon Rematches, The New WWII, Kids Reviews, And A Blizzard Love Letter
In this week’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku is here, with Chewblaha, Senselocke, and Pat Chan ramble on about how efficient Blizzard customer service is, easier Pokémon rematches, reviews for kids, and post-apocalysm. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot…
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Final Fantasy XIV PC Gets Two Release Dates
The first steps players take into the world of Eorzea will be wide ones, as Square Enix reveals two September release dates for Final Fantasy XIV on the PC; one for the normal edition, and an earlier one for the lavish collector’s edition. That’s right, Final Fantasy XIV for the PC is coming out on…
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Student Cockpit Concept Puts Wii Balance Board In The Pilot’s Seat
How can the Wii Balance Board make life better for the pilots of international passenger aircraft? Graduate student Nicoline van der Vaart suggests they sit on it and spin. In her graduation project for Industrial Design Engineering, van der Vaart tackles the issue of airline pilot back pain with an innovative and inventive application of…
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See Seth Green Talk Up Dragon Quest IX
Comedian, voice actor, and television producer Seth Green isn’t just the star of Nintendo’s Dragon Quest IX commercial, he’s also a client, or at least well-coached on the game’s merits, as demonstrated in this video clip. We posted the commercial yesterday, and I have to agree with McWhertor here – it really works. Green is…
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