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Fly Through World Of Warcraft’s Cataclysm, Quickly
YouTube user Supereuropaa has posted a pair of videos taking us through World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm alpha test, from character creation and beyond. Catch them while the catching is good! Blizzard is none too happy about the leaks coming out of the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha test, having already shut down several videos and…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Persona 4 Love, Muramasa: The Demon Story, Helmets, And Drunken Hedgehogs
This week’s thrilling episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku is brought to you by the letters Ursus-Veritas, The Drunken Moogle, John-Hamptonshire, and Guru Smooth, who’d like to discuss helmets, Muramasa’s story, Persona 4’s greatness, and getting hammered with you. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
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Super Mario Crossover Gets Crossover Box Art
What if Exploding Rabbit’s excellent Flash game Super Mario Crossover were a real Nintendo game? It would probably look something like this. This awesome box art was mocked up by Steve Napierski of Dueling Analogs, a comic we regularly feature in our Sunday Comics posts. Seems he was just as charmed by the game as…
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We All Had Super Powers Once
An article at Cracked.com explores the fact that every human being on the planet is born with super powers, from telepathy to heightened senses – we just grow out of them. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s super babies! Scientists love studying babies more than they enjoy studying rats and monkeys, mainly because babies…
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Google’s Chrome Web Store Brings Games To Your Web Browser
At the Google I/O conference today, Google revealed the Chrome Web Store, a browser-based application store where users will be able to download and install games like LEGO Star Wars and Plants Vs. Zombies directly to their web browsers. The Chrome Web Store, due to launch later this year, will enable users to easily discover…
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Talk Live To Alan Wake’s Creators Right Now
Load your pistol and make sure you pack plenty of batteries as Kotaku Talk Radio talks with two members of Alan Wake development studio Remedy Entertainment. Have a question about Alan Wake? Remedy Entertainment’s Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen have answers, and they’ll be taking your calls live for the next hour with Stephen Totilo…
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The Only Time You’ll Find A BMW At Kmart
Blur comes out next week, and should you choose to pick the game up at Kmart or Sears for some strange reason, you’ll find a chromed-out BMW waiting for you when you launch the game. People still shop at Kmart? I drive by a Sears every once in awhile, but in order to pass a…
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Target’s Video Game Department Gets All Fancy
If you’re the kind of shopper who makes a beeline for the game section of any store you enter, the reinvention of Target gaming department should be a welcome change, making games more accessible and organizing by platfom and genre. I’m a relatively regular Target shopper, and up until now I’ve known exactly what to…
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PAX East Breach Code Theft Suspect Faces Arraignment
Arrested at the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston for allegedly attempting to steal early code for Atomic Game’s upcoming multiplayer shooter Breach, Justin D. May faces arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court. May was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games caught him attempting to download the source code…
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Dragon Quest IX Comes Stateside In July
The wait for the North American release of the game that sold more than four million copies in Japan comes to an end this July, as Nintendo locks in a date for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS shattered sales records in Japan, so it came…
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Are You An Autobot Or A Decepticon?
The co-op campaign in Transformers: War for Cybertron allows players to experience the game as either an Autobot or Decepticon. Which one will you choose first? As game director and snappy dresser Matt Tieger points out during this clip covering the campaign mode in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Hasbro sells an Autobot toy for every…
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An Entirely Different Sort Of LEGO Video Game
Dissatisfied by the video game LEGO offerings released thus far, LEGO enthusiast Ben Fleskes takes matters into his own hands, crafting a working Pac-Man arcade cabinet made almost entirely of LEGO bricks. I’m not actually sure if Fleskes is dissatisfied or not, but I do know he’s got mad LEGO building skills. The electronics and…
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You Can Help Fund Indie Game: The Movie
After covering the 2009 Game Developers Conference, BlinkWorks Media decided they wanted to create a documentary film that studies independent game developers as a way to understand the medium and the theory behind video games. Independent filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot have gathered footage from GDC 2010, along with interviews with creators at Flashbang…
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Scientists Implant Biofuel Cells Into Rats, I Call Next
A team of scientists from Joseph Fourier University in France have successfully implant biofuel cells into rats, generating 6.5 microwatts by harnessing the power of glucose. If they can amp that up, I might never need a DS charger again. A glucose biofuel cell works by taking the naturally occurring glucose and oxygen in an…
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Assassin’s Creed Publisher Could Copy EA’s Downloadable Content Model
Answering a question about downloadable content during their fiscal year 2009-10 fiscal earnings call, Ubisoft indicated it would likely they would adopt EA’s Project 10 Dollar DLC plan sometime in the future. Ubisoft’s earnings were down for the year but strong for the final quarter of fiscal year 2009-10, riding on strong sales of Wii-exclusive…
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BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Ready To Sell Out In June
Mark your calendars, Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft fans, as Blizzard lays out two dates in early June for you to attempt to spend $150 a ticket to BlizzCon 2010. Like last year, Blizzard is selling tickets to its immensely popular fan gathering in two batches. The first batch goes on sale on Wednesday, June 2,…
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PixelJunk Shooter 2 Is Full Steam Ahead
PixelJunk Shooter will be the first title in Q-Games’ series of PlayStation Network games to get a proper sequel, with “everything and the kitchen sink” going into PixelJunk Shooter 2. Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert outs the shooter sequel in a post on the PlayStation blog today, indicating that PixelJunk Shooter 2 is currently in full…
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Guild Wars 2 Fashion Is 250 Years Ahead Of Its Time
When the world is in turmoil, fashion is everything. Guild Wars 2 character artist Kristen Perry discusses the process of creating the clothes the races of Tyria will wear 250 years after the first game. Guild Wars 2 is a completely different animal than Guild Wars. Rather than having to create styles for the handful…
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Reviews
Looksley’s Line Up Micro-Review: Broken Promise
When we first saw the pseudo-3D wonder of Nintendo’s hidden object game Looksley’s Line Up in action, we wondered why we’d ever need a Nintendo 3DS. Now we know. Looksley’s Line Up is a hidden object puzzle game that works by showing you various scenes presented in a perspective-altering sort of pseudo 3D. While looking…
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