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What Kind Of Gamer Are You?
The average U.S. gamer is spending more time gaming than ever before, but only 4% of the gaming population is classified by the NPD Group as “Extreme Gamers.” What kind of gamer are you? The NPD group has released the 2010 edition of its Gamer Segmentation report, which looks into gaming and game purchasing habits.…
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Frankenreview: Red Dead Redemption
John Marston faces off against some of the toughest hombres the waning Old West has to offer in Red Dead Redemption, but he’s never faced a posse quite as cantankerous as the game reviewers we’ve rounded up for this Frankenreview. We’ve gathered the roughest, toughest game reviewers this side of the 1900’s to size up…
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Bulletstorm Storms GameTrailers TV Tonight
Want more Bulletstorm? Tonight’s episode of GameTrailers TV has you covered, with interviews with the shooter’s design director Cliff Bleszinski and producer Tanya Jessen. We’re told the 12:20 AM Eastern and Pacific episode on Spike TV will include some “big gameplay reveals,” including one gigantic boss battle.
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Monkey Island Success Could Mean More Adventure From LucasArts
Could the success of the Monkey Island Special Editions herald LucasArts’ return to straight adventure games? I spoke to Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge project lead Craig Derrick about the new remake and the possibilities it raises. It’s a time of resurgence for Guybrush Threepwood and the cast of the Monkey Island series.…
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Lost Planet 2’s Second Map Pack Has Something Old And Something New
If we’re going to complain about Modern Warfare 2 DLC including older maps, should we also complain about the return of the original Lost Planet’s Frozen Wasteland as one of two maps in Lost Planet 2’s second map pack? There are a couple of major differences between Lost Planet 2’s second map pack, due out…
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Need For Speed World Starts Its Engines In July
EA’s massively-multiplayer online racer goes live on July 20, giving PC drivers a chance to experience the mix of open world driving mixed with role-playing game style progression completely free, to a point. Need for Speed World is free-to-play, meaning that anyone with a PC strong enough to handle it can download the game, setup…
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Sonic Team On Sonic Colors
Yesterday Sega revealed a new Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic Colors, but didn’t mention who’d be handling development duties. According to an update from ArchangelUK at the Sega City Blognik, the development team formerly known as Sega AM8, Sonic Team, will be handling development on the Wii version, with longtime Sonic collaborators Dimps pitching in…
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Two Worlds II: Two Harder Debut Trailer
Okay, Two Worlds II isn’t subtitled ‘Two Harder,’ but wouldn’t it be glorious if it was? I’d get confused and buy four copies. Check out the debut trailer for SouthPeak’s sequel for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. I’m not quite sure what to think about Two Worlds II: Not Two Harder. I wasn’t…
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This Is More Likely How The World Ends
We can daydream about alien invasion, killer robots, and rampaging genetic mutations, but the world is more likely to go on until something like this happens: the death of a star. Sure, we’ll all be long-dead by the time it happens, but it’s nice to image that our sun will look nearly as pretty as…
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ModNation Racers Creator Talks Playing, Creating, And Sharing Beer
Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download. United Front Games’ Dan Sochan took your calls today about ModNation Racers, the newly-released create-your-own racing game for the PlayStation 3. Hell, he even took…
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How Many Free PSP Go Games Does Europe Need?
Europe has been on the receiving end of great PSP Go game bundles since the device launched in October of last year, and they’re only getting better, with Sony soon offering ten free big-name titles to Euro Go purchasers. It seems like Sony has always pushed the PSP Go stronger in Europe than it has…
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Guild Wars 2 Character Creation Asks Personal Questions
Selecting your race, class, and look is just the beginning of character creation in Guild Wars 2, with a series of biographical follow-up questions that determine how your personal story unfolds. ArenaNet wants to make Guild Wars 2 unlike any other massively-multiplayer online role-playing game out there, and that all starts with character creation. Borrowing…
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ModNation Racers Review: Where The Vinyl Meets The Road
The PlayStation 3 Play Create Share initiative takes to the streets with ModNation Racers, the urban vinyl-fueled kart racer from United Front Games. Let’s take it for a spin. ModNation Racer takes the same creative spirit found in the PlayStation 3’s LittleBigPlanet and applies it to the kart racing genre, providing players with the tools…
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Sony Still Teasing North America With Final Fantasy IX
Garnet wants to be kidnapped right away, and while that’s all fine and good in Europe, where Final Fantasy IX is now available for purchase on the PlayStation Network, here in North America we must ignore her desperate pleas. Japan got a PlayStation Network version of Final Fantasy IX on May 20, and now the…
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Mafia II Collector’s Edition
2K Games reveals the Mafia II Collector’s Edition, a Steelbook case filled with the game, a hardcover art book, a soundtrack CD, and a tear-resistant map of Empire Bay, as well as free access to the Made Man DLC, with two new cars and matching outfits for Vito. Check out the Mafia II preorder page…
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Kane & Lynch Play Cops And Robbers
Following up the original game’s Fragile Alliance, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days makes some Cops and Robbers action. You have and five cohorts have four minutes to steal four million dollars. You’d best hustle. Cops and Robbers is a 12-person team-based multiplayer mode that sounds a lot like the first game’s Fragile Alliance, which…
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Sonic Colors Streaks To The Wii And DS
With fans eagerly awaiting the retro Sonic 4, Sega pulls back the curtain on Sonic Colors, a brand new adventure for the Nintendo Wii and DS, heading our way by the end of 2010. Check out the reveal trailer! Sonic Colors sees our blue hedgehog hero speeding through theme-park inspired worlds as he attempts to…
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Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Nightmares
A recent study suggests that video game players could have the power to alter their nightmares, turning the tide on the things that go bump in our subconscious minds. We are the Dream Warriors. Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, thinks that gamers might have the power to alter their dreams.…
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