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How To Role-Play Your Way Into Becoming A PlayStation 3 Developer
James Marsden, the managing director of developer FuturLab, explains how a budding Flash developer managed to catch the eye and funding of Sony Computer Entertainment. Apparently the key lies in impressing the hell out of everyone, and LARPing. In 2007 Marsden had just finished building FuturLab’s Flash game engine PRISM, and he and his team…
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Monopoly Gets The Grand Theft Auto III Treatment
After years of top-down and isometric views, EA is taking the Monopoly franchise to the streets, transforming it from board game to a “dynamic, living, 3D world.” Will this be Monopoly’s Grand Theft Auto III? While the Grand Theft Auto series is known today for creating living, breathing, immersive 3D worlds, the series started off…
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More World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Info Than You Can Handle
Say hello to Deathwing the Destroyer, the dragon whose escape from the plane of earth causes devastating changes to the world of Azeroth. It’s just one of hundreds of screens in MMO Champion’s massive World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha update. MMO Champion has access to the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha client, and they’ve posted…
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The Frosty Halls Of Halas Return In EverQuest II
Halas, the wintry home of the Barbarians in the original EverQuest and one of the most confusing starting zones in any MMO ever, makes its triumphant return this month in EverQuest II’s Halas Reborn game update. Ah, Halas, sweet Halas. How many hours did I spend wandering around your narrow, uniformly white nooks and crannies,…
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Watch A Full Scene From The Prince Of Persia Movie
Tired of seeing only quick flashes of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie? Here’s 55 seconds’ worth of Prince Jake running across rooftops, dodging arrows, and swinging from ropes for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of ComingSoon.Net. This certainly seems to be the sort of trouble we’d expect the Prince to get into.…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Fake E3 Leaks, Dog Voting, Bad Genres, And Retired Pirates
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Speak-Up on Kotaku! This week Deanb, Goldy, Lmaonade, and Nintendo451 discuss potentially prize-winning dogs, giving up piracy, fake E3 documents, and genre failure. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say,…
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Fight For The Enemy In Dragon Age: Darkspawn Chronicles
What if your character hadn’t survived the Joining at the beginning of Dragon Age: Origins? That’s the question explored in the Darkspawn Chronicles, a standalone adventure in which you lead the Darkspawn to victory. Clearing up the confusion over yesterday’s Xbox Live news update, BioWare has put up a web page dedicated to Dragon Age:…
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GameStop Placeholder Art Names Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – Update
While Ubisoft is busy teasing players via Facebook, we’ve got anonymous tipsters sending us images of the placeholder art for something called Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Ubisoft now confirms that this is indeed the next Assassin’s Creed title. Between this alleged placeholder art and a recent website registration for AssassinsCreedBrotherhood.com, we’re pretty sure we’ve nailed down…
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Why E.Coli Bacteria Is Better Than Your Computer
Computers crash all the time, even when running Linux. Human beings do not. A Yale study compares the structure of the Linux operating system to E. Coli bacteria to help determine why you and I suffer so few system crashes. I suppose the prevailing question is this: Why the hell would anyone compare Linux to…
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StarCraft II Hooks Up With Facebook
Starting with the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty your Facebook friends can easily become your Battle.net buddies as well, as Blizzard unveils integration with the world’s most popular social networking website. Odds are your Facebook and Battle.net friends list don’t coincide much, but that’s about to change, as Blizzard reveals Facebook integration features…
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Female Robots Represent In The War For Cybertron Multiplayer Trailer
Is that Arcee I see in this trailer for the online multiplayer modes in Transformers: War for Cybertron? Even if it’s not Arcee and just some generic female Autobot, it’s nice to see female representation among the ranks of robots in disguise. The Transformers have a ridiculous amount of female fans out there, and they’ve…
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Relief In Sight For PlayStation 3 Dragon Age: Origins Crashing Issues
A patch to fix the frequent crashing issue that’s plagued PlayStation 3 players of Dragon Age: Origins since the release of firmware 3.3 is currently being tested by BioWare, though an actual release date is still up in the air. According to a posting on the official BioWare forums by online producer Fernando Melo, the…
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The Agency Opens On Facebook
Fans waiting patiently for Sony Online Entertainment to get The Agency together can get a small taste of the spy game via The Agency: Covert Ops, one of the deepest Facebook games I’ve ever seen. Performing missions with your friends is nothing new for a Facebook game, but SOE’s The Agency: Covert Ops takes things…
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The F.E.A.R. 3 Box Art Has Its Eyes On You
I’d say evil little psychotic girl Alma is almost looking hot on this official box art for F.E.A.R. 3, but her kids are watching. The box art is really quite lovely and striking, capturing the spirit of the new unholy trinity of Alma Wade and her two sons quite nicely. Hopefully the folks at Day…
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Perfect Game Scores MLB 2K10 Player A Million Dollars
In January, 2K Sports put up a $1 million prize for the first person to pitch a perfect game in MLB 2K10. Today an Alabama man is $1 million richer. Pitching a perfect baseball game is no easy feat. It’s only happened 16 times since 1900, but of course in real life baseball they only…
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Test Drive Unlimited 2’s Rides Are Gorgeous Inside And Out
A couple of interior shots made their way into the latest set of screens for Eden Games’ Test Drive Unlimited II, showing of interiors every bit as sexy as the colorful candy shells they inhabit. As McWhertor pointed out when he posted the trailer last Friday, Test Drive Unlimited focuses strongly and driving pretty things…
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Who Needs NFL Teams When You Can Make Your Own?
NaturalMotion’s Backbreaker might not have the official NFL license like Madden does, but who needs that when you’ve got the tools to make the football team of your dreams at your fingertips? I’m going to call mine the Atnalta Falchions! I am both excited and filled with dread at the options Backbreaker gives players for…
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The 28th Golden Joystick Awards Need Your Help
Voting is now open for the 28th annual Golden Joystick Awards, giving us until May 27 to make sure the unreleased Powerpuff Girls Snowboarding iPhone App makes it onto the shortlist for Ultimate Game of the Year. The Golden Joystick Awards are the longest running video game awards, and they are powered by gamers’ votes,…
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Reviews
Nier Review: Not Without His Daughter
Can one hideously ugly man facing impossible odds to save his daughter from a mysterious disease make for a beautiful action role-playing game? Find out in our review of Square Enix’s Nier. Dog-faced Nier’s young daughter Yonah has been infected with the strange Black Scrawl virus, and he’ll do whatever it takes to free her…
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Another High Quality Street Fighter Fan Film? Awkward…
Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is a fan film with amazing fight choreography, some tight special effects, better than normal Ken hair, and a terrifically bad sense of timing, releasing the same week as the Capcom-sanctioned Street Fighter Legacy. Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is the work of Los Angeles filmmaker Chris Cowan, whose Thousand Pounds Fight…
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