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Shaun White Skateboarding Will Change The World
Shaun White Skateboarding won’t just give players the chance to live out their skateboarding fantasies this fall; it’ll give them the power to transform an entire city into the skate park of their dreams. I was playing Skate 3 this past weekend when it occurred to me that I didn’t like the Skate series, or…
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A Visual Guide To The Role-Playing Game
In case you needed a quick primer on the who’s who and what’s what of the role-playing genre, or just want something pretty to hang on the fridge, here’s The Kotaku Genre Guide to Role-Playing Games. Consider this a round-up of some of the key info you need to know to stay abreast of the…
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A New Challenger Enters Super Mario Bros. Crossover
A deadly assassin stalks the back alleys of the Mushroom Kingdom, as Exploding Rabbit adds a new challenger to popular Flash game mash-up Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Those poor Goombas will never see it coming. During a recent interview, Crossover creator Jay Pavlina explained that several characters had to be cut from the game’s initial…
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Mecho Wars Creator Goes HD With Reaper
Luc Bernard, the man behind the pretty yet flawed Eternity’s Child and the well-received Advance Wars clone Mecho Wars for the iPhone is thinking big again with Reaper, a gorgeous new 2D action-adventure game. Eternity’s Child was a charming little game that lacked depth and polish. Mecho Wars was a strategy game with some great…
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Game Nation: A Massively Multiplayer Offline Role-Playing Game
Game Nation is gearing up to make your live-action role-playing dreams come true, now scouting locations for the world’s first “Experiential Video Game Theme Park and Resort.” Sounds like some expensive LARPing to me! In 1981, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes produced Dream Park, a novel about an interactive role-playing game resort, where players participate…
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Magic The Gathering Gets Steam-Powered
After a successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, Wizards of the Coast is bringing Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers to keyboard and mouse set via Steam next month. Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers for Xbox Live was an addictive little digital version of the long-running collectible card game, that…
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Here’s Your Special Launch-Day Halo: Reach Hat
Halo fans who pick up Reach on its September 14 release date will score this attractive exclusive in-game Spartan Recon Helmet. Fans who wait until after launch day aren’t really fans, now are they? Just in case you needed incentive to pick up Halo: Reach on launch day, Microsoft offers it in the form of…
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The Most Provocative Movie Of 2010 Is Now A Flash Game
The Human Centipede could be the most disgustingly appropriate movie video game ever created. Warning: Content probably not safe for anyone. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a horror film by Dutch director Tom Six, in which a German doctor dreaming of creating new species kidnaps three people and joins them together, mouth to anus.…
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Frankenreview: Super Mario Galaxy 2
What do the stars hold for our favorite plumbing protagonist in the Super Mario Galaxy 2 Frankenreview? Mario’s back, and for the first time in a long time it’s not a whole new game. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a follow-up to the original Super Mario Galaxy from 2007, featuring many of the same game…
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GameStop Powers Up A New Rewards Program
Soon there will be a completely different card to forget to bring to GameStop with you, as the retailer’s new PowerUp Rewards program goes into beta testing, featuring both free and paid cards packed with benefits that don’t entirely suck. GameStop’s Edge card is on the way out. I’d say good riddance, but I haven’t…
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Creating Some Of The Best Video Game Menus Ever
Graphic designer Joe Kowalski gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into creating what some consider the best video game menu ever made. While I might not have been overly fond of Brutal Legend’s mix of action and strategy game play, I’d say the opening menu is indeed one of the greatest…
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Stuff Your Wii Remote Inside A Baby
I’m not sure what’s more disturbing; the fact that Majesco’s Babysitting Mama has you stuffing your Wii remote into the plush equivalent of a tiny human child, or the fact that it uses the nunchuck as well. It turns out Majesco is completely serious about Babysitting Mama, the latest profession being taken up by our…
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The Nintendo Download: Light Trax And Monkey Mayhem
Just because this week’s Nintendo Download doesn’t contain much in the way of recognizable titles doesn’t mean there isn’t fun to be had. You can’t go wrong with monkeys. At least I hope you can’t go wrong with monkeys, for the sake of The Code Monkeys, whose Manic Monkey Mayhem goes up for sale on…
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Aion Prepares For The Assault On Balaurea
Aion: Assault on Balaurea, will bring a level cap increase, functional in-game pets, new instances to explore, and more to NCsoft’s massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, but before it comes out, NCsoft hopes to lure old players back with update 1.9. Assault on Balaurea is the new name of Aion update 2.0, an expansion pack-sized chunk…
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PETA Sends Me Vegan Chocolates For Not Kicking My Cats
A week and a half ago I jokingly commented in a story about Mafia Wars and PETA that “I’d kick one of my cats for a box of vegan chocolates.” Apparently it’s not kicking your cats that scores you loot. I’ve posted a lot of PETA stories over the past couple of years, and they…
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I Refuse To Call It P3P, But The Trailer Is Nice
Atlus seems to think it needs more marketing for the PSP version of Persona 3 than simply telling people it’s Persona 3, in your hand. Here’s the full trailer for Persona 3 Portable. I hereby resolve never to refer to this game as P3P, even ironically. You can’t force your silly acronyms on me, marketing…
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Meet The Elements Stuck In My Brain
To: Crecente From: Fahey Between my relatively new daily science posts and my 20-plus years as a fan of the band They Might Be Giants, I cannot get the song “Meet the Elements” out of my head. It’s firmly embedded, and no amount of toothpick-ear poking will dislodge it. Yes, I’ve tried my car keys.…
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Reviews
Bit.Trip Runner Micro-Review: Running Down A Dream
Tired of rhythm games filled with glitz and glam, high-priced plastic instruments, and licensed music you may or may not enjoy? Commander Video comes to the rescue with Gaijin Games’ latest WiiWare title, Bit.Trip Runner. With its simple graphics and rhythm-based game play, Gaijin Games’ Bit.Trip series has charmed the pants off of countless Nintendo…
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