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The Old Republic’s Advanced Class System Revealed
With only four classes for each of its two factions, BioWare’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic further mixes things up with the Advanced Class system, a talent system that splits each class right down the middle. The Advance Class system comes into play once your character in The Old Republic grows in power.…
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Building A Better Guybrush Threepwood
Rather than bury us in another flood of screenshots for Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge, LucasArts gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into bringing Guybrush Threepwood to life from 19-year-old sprites. For an iconic video game leading man, Guybrush Threepwood’s look is open to a lot of interpretation. LucasArts went through…
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Who’s Killing Who In Alpha Protocol
There’s so many different battling factions in Sega’s Alpha Protocol you’d need a score card to keep up, or perhaps an explanatory trailer. Alpha Protocol drops on June 1, with plenty of different factions packed in for Agent Michael Thorton to shoot at, make deals with, and play against each other in a high stakes…
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This Is Not The Marvel Super Hero MMO You’ve Been Waiting For
It might not be the City of Heroes meets the X-Men we were hoping for, but kids should get a kick out of playing as tiny versions of their favorite Marvel characters in Gazillion Entertainment’s Super Hero Squad Online. Gazillion finally draws back the curtain on Super Hero Squad Online, the massively-multiplayer online game first…
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Coming Soon: LEGO Human Organs
Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have found a way to encase living cells in stackable cubes to create what some are calling LEGO organs. Building things out of toy blocks has long been a favorite pastime of children and adults the world over. Why should biomedical engineers be left out…
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How To Opt-In For The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta
The closed beta test for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion is just around the corner, and Blizzard is encouraging players to opt-in for their chance at early access. Here’s how you do that. You’ll need a Battle.net account with a World of Warcraft license attached to it in order to opt-in for the Cataclysm beta.…
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God Of War Writer Gets Shanked
Marianne Krawczyk, best known for bringing Kratos to life as the writer of God of War, is lending her talents to a different kind of hero in Klei Entertainment’s Shank. Shank’s story is a gritty, personal tale of revenge, and that’s one subject that Marianne Krawczyk is fluent in, thanks to writing credits for all…
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Quadriplegic Gamer Calls For Custom Button Remapping In Console Games
To many of us, custom button remapping in video games is a luxury, but for quadriplegic gamer Chuck Bittner, forced to control games with his mouth, it’s a necessity. Bittner, seen here hating on the Rust map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, broke his neck in a car accident, resulting in total paralysis…
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Project Natal “World Premiere” To Be Complete Media Cirque Du Soleil
Microsoft is holding the “world premier” of Project Natal the Sunday before E3 2010, with a special performance by Canada’s own Cirque du Soleil adding an air of magic, wonderment, and subtle creepiness to the evening. Sunday, June 13 is the date of what Microsoft is calling the “world premiere” of Project Natal, the camera-based…
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Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Deploys Next Month
Enough whining about the high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack! It’s time to whine about the likely high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack, due out early next month for the Xbox 360. During a company financial earnings call last week, Activision’s Thomas Tippl seemed to indicate that the next…
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Hell Is For Koopas
Did you ever wonder what happened to that unfortunate Koopa Trooper you left bouncing between those two pipes in Super Mario Bros.? Of course you didn’t, you heartless cad. Thankfully College Humor has its ever-bouncing back. The Koopa is sentenced to a life of hell, sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Human Sexuality, Online Achievements, The Super Show, And Ostracism
It’s a whole new line-up in this week’s Speak-Up, as Ubikblack, Pointy, Anenemy, and Yantelope discuss the finer points of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, human sexuality, online achievements, and returning to the good old days of gamer ostracism. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up…
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Massive World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Leak Gets Plugged
Remember that giant compilation of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha test info and screens MMO Champion released last week? It’s gone now, but certainly not forgotten. Let’s have a moment of silence for the staggering amount of work MMO Champion put into collecting, hosting, and posting images from the alpha build of World of Warcraft’s…
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Someone Needs To Make A Cube Video Game, Right Now
Speaking to MTV about his upcoming film Splice, director Vincenzo Natali expressed his desire to create a video game based on Cube, one of the greatest science fiction films ever created. This needs to be done. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, Cube is the story of a group of ordinary people who…
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Monster Runaway Star Rampages Through Universe
30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science fiction video game? Alien invasion? Please. Exploring strange new worlds? So overdone. If you want to inject real drama…
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Guild Wars 2 Does Away With Flawed Quest Systems
In the latest Guild Wars 2 update, lead content designer Colin Johanson talks about how the game’s dynamic event system is doing away with the traditional question-mark driven MMO quest systems in favor of world-changing events with lasting results. The standard quest system sucks. Mechanically it works fine, but in terms of immersion, it leaves…
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Someone Had The Balls To Release An Iron Man 2 Demo
The last thing you want to do when critics are calling your movie tie-in game one of the worst titles of 2010 is release a playable demo for the Xbox 360, yet here we are. When you’ve got a completely ass-tastic video game on your hands that could possibly still generate sales from movie fans…
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Is That A Cracked Version Of Max Payne 2 On Steam?
The Steam executable for Rockstar’s Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne bears a striking resemblance to a no-CD hack released by now defunct piracy group Myth. Could it just be a coincidence? Several Kotaku readers have pointed us towards a post on the Max Payne Steam forums, in which Steam user Liamaj points…
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Guess Who Is The World’s Most Successful Game Studio
Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo. I really suck at this whole hint thing. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard may have kicked the house of Mario from…
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