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Toy Story 3 Looks Far Too Entertaining To Be A Movie Tie-In
Who says a movie tie-in can’t be innovative and exciting? Toy Story 3’s build-your-own-adventure Toy Box mode could wind up the most entertaining thing to come of a movie video game since we started putting moving pictures to pixels. When Disney Interactive first revealed the Toy Box mode developer Avalanche Software was creating for the…
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More Multiplayer Maps Coming To BioShock 2 This Week
The second dose of BioShock 2 multiplayer downloadable content is coming this Thursday with the Rapture Metro Map Pack, featuring six new maps, two masks, three achievements, and a new game mode for fans of blunt objects. A recent Microsoft update on upcoming downloadable content lists the Rapture Metro Map Pack for release on April…
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How To Create Your Personal Hell In Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno’s Trials of St. Lucia downloadable content is due out this Thursday, giving players the opportunity to create and share their own hellish combat levels. Here’s how that works. Trails of St. Lucia’s lead system designer Mike Brinker may urge moderation and common sense in using the trial creator included with the upcoming downloadable…
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Get Me To The Airport In Time For It To Explode
Routine trips to the airport will never be the same, now that Disney Interactive Studios has released a playable demo of action racing game Split/Second on Xbox Live. I had a pretty good time racing through the Airport Terminal level in Disney’s Split/Second during E3 last year, so I think there’s a pretty good chance…
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Reviews
3D Dot Game Heroes Review: Connecting The Dots To The Past
Can the innovative implementation of 3D pixels and a good sense of humor save Silicon Studio’s 3D Dot Game Heroes from being labeled a gimmicky Zelda clone? The king of 2D Dotnia felt that sprites were outdated, so he decreed the kingdom switch to 3D, and so it did, though not in the way one…
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Just Cause 2 DLC Brings Inventive New Ways To Cause Explosions
Want some parachute thrusters? How about a half-shotgun, half rocket launcher? All this and more is coming in two sets of Black Market downloadable content for Just Cause 2. As if there weren’t enough ways to cause havoc in Just Cause 2, Square Enix has tapped the black market to bring even more power to…
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Lost Planet 2 Lady Pirates Don’t Need Armor, Pants
The male pirates of Lost Planet 2 multiplayer are generally covered head-to-toe in protective body armor. The females? Not so much. Someone’s going to lose an underboob. I mean, I could understand the desire to show a little bit of skin. Otherwise you wind up with fully-armored females that only look slightly different from fully-armored…
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Metroid: Other M Moves To August, Sin & Punishment Slides As Well
Fans looking forward to the June release of Metroid: Other can now start looking forward to its August release, as Nintendo delays the Team Ninja developed title along with Treasure’s Sin & Punishment: Star Successor. Originally scheduled for release in June, the new release date for Metroid’s return to form is August 31, giving fans…
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Street Fighter: The Early Years
Ryu has a crush on Chun-Li, Sakura has a crush on Ryu, Cammy can’t seem to keep her clothes on, and Crimson Viper hasn’t had her period in eight months. Welcome to Street Fighter High. What if the characters from Capcom’s popular fighting franchise were given the Dawson’s Creek/Smallville treatment? It would probably go something…
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Gothic 4 Is Looking Rather Gorgeous Lately
Seeing as I forgot anyone was working on a fourth entry in the Gothic series, I’m pleasantly surprised to see these screenshots for Arcania: Gothic 4 looking as fine as they do. To get myself up to speed, with original Gothic developer Piranha Bytes moving on to Risen, European developer Spellbound Entertainment stepped in to…
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Player Feedback Pushes R.U.S.E. To September
Proving that public beta tests aren’t just for early free access, the team behind Ubisoft’s deception-based strategy game R.U.S.E. are postponing the game’s release until late September based on community feedback. The news was delivered via the R.U.S.E. Facebook page this morning, complete with a laundry list of issues that the extra development time would…
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Finding Balance In The Combat Of Star Wars: The Old Republic
How do you make sure people play something other than a Jedi or Sith in Star Wars: The Old Republic? By making sure the other classes can kick Force-sensitive ass. Star Wars: The Old Republic might have the strength of one of the biggest science fiction franchises in history behind it, but that franchise also…
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The Godslayer Rises On May 11
After two years of tweaking the main game, Funcom has nailed down a May 11 release date for Rise of the Godslayer, the first full expansion pack for massively-multiplayer online role playing game Age of Conan. Age of Conan’s early start went live on May 17, 2008, and it’s come quite a long way in…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Meat, The Final Frontier
Remember that one episode where Captain Kirk had to fight the man-bratwurst, and made his own horseradish sauce out of naturally occurring materials on an alien planet? Man, that was awesome. Does it get any better than a replica of the starship Enterprise made of meat? What about a shoe made out of meat? Or…
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A Little Background On Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s Backgrounds And Settings
During our weekly Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, Marvel’s Chris Baker talked about the settings, stages, and fan service we can expect from next year’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. No more generic backdrops? Can it be true? It’s definitely true. While the previous two entries in the Marvel Vs. Capcom series gave us more characters than…
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Seventy-Three Sega Employees Restructured Out Of Their Jobs
Staff cuts have struck Sega London and San Francisco today, as an email from Corporate Operations Officer Masanao Maeda informs employees of the termination of a combined 73 positions between the two locations. In the email, forwarded to Kotaku from several different sources today, Maeda cites a reorganization of Sega’s business in the American and…
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Legal Battle Over Fallout MMO Continues
The legal battle between Fallout IP holder Bethesda and original creator Interplay rages on, despite a dropped appeal granting false hopes to fans eager for a massively-multiplayer online Fallout title. Last September, Bethesda, the current owner of the Fallout intellectual property, filed a lawsuit against Interplay, the studio that created Fallout, claiming trademark infringement due…
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PETA Doesn’t Want Animals In The Mafia
Reacting to yesterday’s news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus’ own beloved pet as ammunition. Pit bulls, tigers, and lions are among a few of the animals that Mafia Wars, a social game that’s…
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Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation Home Items Come To North America
Let your Final Fantasy fanhood ring across the hallowed halls and cubbyholes of PlayStation Home today, as Final Fantasy XIII avatar items, costumes, and spaces make their way to North America. You might recall the gear that made its way to the Japanese version of PlayStation Home last year. The costumes transforming avatars into generic…
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Dead Rising Star Passes Through Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing
Players passing through an abandoned pool hall in Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing might catch a glimpse of the last words of a Capcom character who has covered wars, you know. Possible Dead Rising spoilers ahead? Behold the final words of Frank West, another victim of the zombie apocalypse. Left without film, without a…
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