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You Can Play The Secret Of Monkey Island Inside This Post
Online gaming innovator InstantAction may have just changed the way games are distributed on the internet, with the introduction of a service that lets publishers embed games like The Secret of Monkey Island as easily as a YouTube video. InstantAction’s new service uses thin-client, in-browser, and progressive downloading technology to allow publishers to stream video…
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Meet The Man Who Stormed The Old Republic’s Jedi Temple
Remember the amazingly cool trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, where the Sith crashed a transport into a Jedi temple? Now you can meet the man in charge, Darth Malgus, an anti-hero so interesting he scores his own novel. Darth Malgus made a huge impression at E3 last year, starring in one of the…
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You Cannot Club Seals On The iPhone
Developer Matthew Smyth is upset that Apple rejected his seal clubbing game for the iPhone. PETA, on the other hand, is so overjoyed they sent Steve Jobs chocolates. iSealClub is a game based on Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia. Taking place during…
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An All Points Bulletin On APB’s Release Date And Pricing Structure
Realtime Worlds’ massively-multiplayer sandbox game APB finally has an official release date: June 29 in North America and July 1 in Europe. How much will players have to pay to play? Realtime Worlds is introducing an “evolutionary” pricing plan for APB, giving players some room to move in terms of subscription fees. The game itself…
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Okay, This Naughty Bear Victim Deserved To Die
You’d figure any bear living in the woods would constantly be on the lookout for bear traps. I mean come on, not only is this latest victim of Naughty Bear’s homicidal rampage a bear in the woods, he’s a bear in the woods that seems to be scanning the ground as he walks. I’ll chalk…
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The Many Faces Of Transformers: War For Cybertron
Activision shows off the various box arts for the Transformers’ return to Cybertron today, from the faction-specific Nintendo DS offerings to the less-shooting, more running Cybertron Adventures for the Wii. I still can’t believe they’re calling it Transformers: Cybertron Adventures on the Wii, doing away with the War for Cybertron moniker in favor of a…
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Free Realms Makes It To The PlayStation 3 For E3
What happened to the promised PlayStation 3 version of the massively successful free-to-play MMO Free Realms? On this, the first anniversary of the PC release, Sony Online Entertainment gives Kotaku the skinny on the console version’s E3 2010 appearance. SOE’s Free Realms team is partying from 9AM to 5PM Pacific today in celebration of one…
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Timeless Speculation: Exploring The Games Of Bungie’s Past
What fruit will this new partnership between Bungie and Activision bear? Perhaps the answer to that question lies buried in the Halo developer’s past games. When we think of Bungie, we immediately think Halo, so it makes sense that the knee-jerk reaction to the news that the developer has teamed up with Activision is that…
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The Whispered World Quietly Slips Onto Steam
Daedalic Entertainment’s acclaimed adventure game The Whispered World is finally available for purchase on Steam, letting North American players step into the role of Sadwick, the sad clown who doesn’t know that he’ll destroy the world in three days. At least that’s how the narrator introduces us to Sadwick in the opening sequence of The…
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The First Alan Wake Add-On Is Free, But The Flashlight Will Cost You
Microsoft reveals that a free token good towards the download of the first add-on for supernatural thriller Alan Wake will come packed in every new copy of the game, which should offset the price of the official Alan Wake flashlight. Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake is nearly upon us, and Microsoft is making a big push…
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Penny Arcade Creators Make The Time 100
The voting has ended and Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have officially join Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson, and Ashton Kutcher in Time magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Sure, the annual Time 100 isn’t much more than a popularity contest, but it’s good to see a couple champions of…
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Brother Stabs Brother Over Video Game Argument
From Chile comes another tragic tale of a sibling murdered over a video game console. The BBC reports on an incident involving two brothers, aged 16 and 18, a PlayStation of undetermined number, and a kitchen knife. According to the report, the younger brother became angry when his older sibling turned on the PlayStation without…
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City Of Heroes Celebrates Six Years With New Graphics
NCsoft’s City of Heroes is six years old, and Paragon Studios celebrates with the release of Issue 17: Dark Mirror, a free update that brings new story arcs, huge enemies, and an extremely fetching graphical makeover. Issue 17: Dark Mirror is now live, bringing with it the promised Ultra Mode, changing the way the game…
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Reviews
Sumosac Gigantor Bean Bag Chair Review: It’s Nothing Like Standing Up
Somehow I went from discussing reviewing the neat little bean bag chairs Sumo provides to events like the recent Penny Arcade Expo East to having a seven foot by six foot Sumosac Gigantor in my living room. Sumo sells bean bag chairs, from the relatively small one-person Omni often seen piled throughout the corridors of…
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The Xbox 360 Memory Card Battles Continues
Former Xbox 360 third-party memory card manufacturer Datel is free to pursue its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, as a federal judge dismisses the console maker’s attempts to have the case thrown out. Datel, the UK manufacturer of various video game accessories, filed the suit last November, after a crackdown by Microsoft rendered the third-party memory…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Drunk Mudkips, Stupid Parents, Beetle Adventures, And Yoshi’s Sad Little Game
This week in Speak-Up on Kotaku, Erwin, Culebra, Ursus-Veritas, and The Drunken Moogle talk that kiddie Yoshi’s Story game, how cool Beetle Adventure Racing was, parents who think the worst, and delicious Mudkips. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot…
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No New Titles For Game Room Until Further Notice
According to a Tweet from Microsoft’s European Xbox Live editor, the next round of content for Microsoft’s virtual arcade Game Room has been delayed “until further notice.” We’ve been waiting for new titles to arrive in the Xbox Game Room since it launched last month, disappointed when we heard that the promised weekly updates wouldn’t…
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See Guild Wars 2’s Elementalist In Action
ArenaNet reveals the first class for Guild Wars 2, the magic-hurling Elementalist, complete with new screens and extremely impressive video of the class in action. The Elementalist harnesses the forces of nature to do her bidding. By attuning herself to one of the four elements – fire, water, air, and earth – the Elementalist changes…
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