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Puzzle Quest 2 Preview: The Same, Only Different
I got to spend a half hour this morning with Puzzle Quest 2, the sequel to a game I found so addicting that I’d rather play it than write up this preview. Is my life over come late spring? In short, yes. While dramatic changes have been made to the navigation system, experience points, money,…
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PAX East Kotaku Party: Scenes From The Rattlesnake Bar
The turnout at last night’s Kotaku Pax East meet-up was nothing short of amazing. There was dancing, drinking, more drinking. After that, we drank a little. Wanna see what that looked like? Here you go. The folks at Alienware, makers of the M11X, which isn’t in my backpack right now thanks to really strong locks,…
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Red Dead Redemption Preview: I’m A No Good Dirty Horse Murderer
The air shimmers with heat as I survey the scrub plain laid out before me. Wild animals frolic. Horsemen go about their business. I whistle for my horse, saddle up, and take my first ride into Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption tells the story of one John Marston, a bad man trying to…
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Live At PAX East: The 10 Best Games Of All Time?
Join us live at PAX East as Stephen Totilo, N’Gai Croal, and special guests help redefine the ten best video games of all time. Here’s the starting list, for you playing at home: 1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina 2. Super Mario Galaxy 3. GTA IV 4. Super Mario World. 5. Metroid Prime 6. SoulCalibur 7.…
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PAX East Creates A Game Of Cold-Blooded Journalism
Pen and paper role-playing game designer David Hill tasked a theater packed with PAX East attendees to create an RPG in sixty minutes, resulting in a thrilling game of journalistic intrique – with talking dinosaurs. The Design an RPG in an Hour panel at PAX East was already underway when I arrived, the room overflowing…
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PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day One – Feeling A Bit Tingly
It’s been a busy first day at PAX East, and we’ve only managed to capture a handful of cosplayers in our mad dash about the convention area, but what they lack in quantity they make up in quality. Okay, maybe not, but they try really hard, and win points for originality? The Tingles are cute?…
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Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Preview: I Don’t Have Your Goddamned Orb
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise – oh dammit I’m dead. That’s pretty much how my ten minute session of Rocket Tag went down. I slipped into one of the last rounds of…
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Attention PAX East: The Rock Band Freeplay Stage Needs A Drummer
While the singer desperately tries to make up for the absence of percussion, the PAX East Rock Band Freeplay stage is clearly in desperate need of a drummer. I clearly remember there being a substantial line to play Rock Band at last year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Perhaps it’s just too early in the…
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The Secret World Gameplay Isn’t So Secret Anymore
Funcom promised something big related to The Secret World was coming today, and they’ve delivered, with the first in-game trailer for the upcoming modern day occult MMO. Crecente’s extensive preview of Funcom’s The Secret World from Tuesday ended with a trailer that suggested something big was coming on March 25, and so it has. Behold…
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Reviews
Cave Story Micro-Review: So This Is What The Excitement Was About
So how does the WiiWare version of Cave Story stand up to the original? I couldn’t tell you, as I’ve never played the PC version. For those of you who, like me, have been in the dark, Cave Story is a shooting platformer along the same lines as Nintendo’s Metroid. The player awakens in a…
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PAX East: Kotaku Has Landed
It’s 37 degrees outside in scenic downtown Boston, but Totilo and I are staying warm inside the John Hynes Convention Center, where the inaugural PAX East is slowly swinging into gear. Behold our first image gallery! The crowds are gathering; the badges being distributed, and the swag bags are being stripped of their Magic cards…
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Sexy TERA Trailer Shows Its Lineage
I don’t know much about TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arborea, but after watching this gorgeous trailer for the upcoming action MMO I’d definitely like to get to know it better. TERA is the inaugural work of South Korean MMO developer Bluehole Studios. Bluehole was formed in 2007 by a handful of ex-NCsoft employees, including…
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We’re Off On The Road To PAX East
Behold stately John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. As this post goes live, Kotaku’s East Coast contingent is speeding towards this very location, in order to regale you with glorious tales of PAX East. I’m likely crammed against the bulkhead of a magical flying machine, snoring loudly and trying desperately not to touch the…
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This 3D Dot Game Heroes Trailer Is Zelda-Riffic
It might not be a real word, but Zelda-riffic is the only one I can come up with for this first full trailer for Atlus’ PlayStation 3 exclusive 3D Dot Game Heroes. The word applies to the gameplay as well. I’ve spent a little time with 3D Dot Game Heroes since I last posted on…
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Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package In Five Pictures
We’re still five days away from the release of the first Modern Warfare 2 map pack for the Xbox 360, so you might want to check out these latest screens one at a time, one per day. The Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package, featuring five maps for the interesting price of $15.00, or 1200 Microsoft…
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Ubi Apologizes For Assassin’s Creed 2 PC Downtime With Free Games
Ubisoft apologizes to Assassin’s Creed 2 purchasers who found themselves unable to play due to attacks on the verification servers, offering free game downloads in exchange for their forgiveness. I suppose you don’t even need to forgive Ubisoft in order to take advantage of the special offer, sent via email to Kotakuite Igor, one of…
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Wii Netflix Streaming Discs Are In The Mail
Netflix completes its console triple play, as discs begin to ship for the Wii version of the streaming video service. Several Kotaku readers have forwarded emails like the one seen here, alerting them to the impending arrival of the discs necessary to enable Netflix streaming on the Nintendo Wii. By Friday, Wii owners all over…
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Fat Princess Travels To Candy Mountain
Patch 1.05 for Titan Studios’ hit PlayStation Network game Fat Princess goes live today, bringing with it two new maps – Frost Bite and Candy Mountain – the latter of which is a land of sweets, and joy, and joyness. Candy Mountain, Candy Mountain, fill me with sweet sugary goodness! I can’t imagine a more…
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Mafia II Playable At PAX East, Buyable In August
2K Games nails down a (hopefully) concrete release date for Mafia II, with fans getting their first taste of the 1940’s sandbox-stylings of the sequel this weekend at PAX East in Boston. Delayed, delayed, and then delayed again, 2K Czech has had plenty of time to polish the sequel to Mafia, refining the experience and…
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New South Australian Attorney General Supports Adult Game Ratings
Australia is one step closer to a mature rating for video games, as resigning ratings-blocker Michael Atkinson is replaced as South Australian Attorney General by John Rau, a man who reportedly says an R18+ video game rating is common sense. Australian gamers and publishers alike have long lamented the lack of an R18+ rating for…
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