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The Characters Of Zenonia 2
Gamevil’s follow-up to the beloved iPhone role-playing game Zenonia brings four new characters, ranged fighters Ekne and Morpice, and melee warriors Daza and Lu. Get to know them in their official bios. Zenonia 2: The Lost Memory, in closed beta testing as you read this, features four characters, each falling into one of two categories,…
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Buy The Forza 3 VIP Car Pack, Help Haiti
Microsoft has unlocked the Forza Motorsport 3 downloadable content previous exclusive to new copies of the game, and developer Turn 10 have unlocked their hearts, donating $10 towards earthquake relief in Haiti for every VIP Membership Car Pack sold. The Sidewinder Proving Grounds Track Pack, Benchmark High Speed Ring Track Pack, and Motorsport Legends Car…
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Rock Band Goes On Tour This Summer
The only thing more entertaining than playing Rock Band is standing about watching other people play. Cedar Fair Entertainment knows this, so they’ve teamed up with MTV Games to bring Rock Band Live on tour this summer. Rock Band Live is an all-new interactive experience that will be touring several Cedar Fair amusement parks around…
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Sony Buys LittleBigPlanet Developer Media Molecule
Sony liked LittleBigPlanet so much they bought the company, as Media Molecule becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment. Announced via a posting on the European PlayStation Blog, Media Molecule, the developers behind PlayStation 3 smash-hit LittleBigPlanet, have been purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment for an undisclosed sum, making them an official part of…
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Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow – Belmont’s Inferno
This new batch of screenshots, concept art, and enemy renders for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are lovely and all, but I can’t help but think the game could use a tie-in with a revered work of religious fiction. Now I am not calling Lords of Shadow a Dante’s Inferno clone, but protagonist Gabriel Belmont is…
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Report: Modern Warfare Dev Head Leaves Company
According to his Linkedin page, CEO and Studio Head of Infinity Ward Vince Zampella has parted ways with the Call of Duty developer, as the strange goings-on at the development studio continue. Keen-eyed Kotaku reader Sam passed along a link to Zampella’s Linkedin page this morning, showing that the employment status had changed to TBD…
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Resonance Of Fate Website Has Free Music For You
Along with the requisite trailers, screenshots, and character bios, the new website for Sega’s gun-toting role-playing game Resonance of Fate has a couple songs for you to add to your collection of video game music you hardly ever listen to. I have quite a large collection of video game music I hardly ever listen to,…
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Nintendo Lets You Play With Beyoncé’s Clothes
Nintendo’s partnership with pop diva Beyoncé comes to fruition, as five new pieces from her and her mother’s Deréon fashion line become available for download in Style Savvy for the Nintendo DS. Are you excited by the thought of your avatar wearing a Deréon Pop polo and “D’s Studded” skinny jeans? Should you accent your…
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Splinter Cell: Conviction’s Multiplayer Experience In Three Parts
Three new videos provide nearly everything you need to know about the multiplayer of Splinter Cell: Conviction, from Deniable Ops side games and Persistent Elite Creation system to the co-op story mode. Splinter Cell: Conviction’s aim is to redefine the stealth action experience, and according to game director Patrick Redding, that covers the multiplayer aspect…
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Tropico 3 Succumbs To Absolute Power In May
Tropico 3’s upcoming expansion pack, Absolute Power, is your license to print money, as long as you keep it in-game. Kalpyso Media’s reboot of the classic island nation simulation Tropico last year was quite a success, garnering praise from the hardest of strategy game critics, so it’s only natural the game get an expansion. Coming…
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Power Girl Shows Off Her Powers In DC Universe Online
A new set of screenshots from Sony Online Entertainment depict Kara Zor-L, aka Power Girl, showing off her mysterious ability to avoid severe and constant back pain. Power Girl is the Earth-Two counterpart to Supergirl, sent to Earth from Krypton in a ship much slower than the one that delivered Clark Kent to the DCU.…
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It’s A Beautiful Knight For Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
BioWare reveals yet another new character coming in the Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening expansion pack, as the lovely knight of the Order Mhairi pledges herself to your cause. Mhairi grew up fascinated by tales of kings and nobles, skipping out on her betrothal at the age of sixteen to join the king’s army and…
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Random House Wants To Write Video Game Stories
The Random House Publishing Group is taking its storytelling expertise “one step further”, forming a group dedicated to crafting original story content for video games and collaborating with developers on existing IP. like Stardock’s Elemental: War of Magic. Random House is no stranger to video game fiction. The company’s Del Rey imprint publishes video game…
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Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer Releases Free On The iPhone
Ubisoft stuns all sorts of civilians with Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer for the iPhone today, available as a free download for the first 48 hours of release. First teased early last month, Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer is, as one might expect, an online multiplayer game that takes place in Assassin’s Creed II’s Renaissance Italy setting.…
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The Nintendo Download: The Blue Bomber Returns
Eight new titles and eight new robot masters come to Nintendo’s DSi, WiiWare, and Virtual Console this morning, with Capcom’s retrolicious Mega Man 10 leading the charge. It used to be when a big name title hit WiiWare, Nintendo would hold back on the rest of the week’s releases to make sure said title got…
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LOVE Blooms In March
One-man development army Eskil Steenberg announced a March 25 release date for Love, his procedural online adventure game and perhaps the most ambitious video game ever made by a single person. We’ve been following Love for quite some time with great interest. It’s concept art graphics quickly catch the eye, but it’s the technology behind…
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Where Have All The Zombies Gone?
The Infected. Los Ganados. Majini. Parasite hosts. Some of the biggest “zombie” games in recent years don’t feature the undead. Why can’t we call a spade a spade, burying it in the neck of a good old-fashioned undead zombie? This is a conversation we’ve been having fairly often lately at Kotaku Tower, mainly due to…
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Reviews
Star Trek Online Review: A Piece Of The Action
After years of television series, books, cartoons, movies, and video games for both consoles and PCs, Star Trek faces the final frontier: the massively-multiplayer role-playing game. When Star Trek Online was first officially announced back in June of 2008, fans of the series were excited, cautious, and slightly nauseous, all at the same time. The…
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Jay Electronica Made This Track With Beaterator
Just in case you forgot how amazingly versitile Rockstar’s Beaterator is, the developer passed us a clip created by unconventional rapper and producer Jay Electronica to remind you. Beaterator is the PSP and iPhone music creation software from Rockstar that was said to be so easy that even a 12-year-old could produce good music in…
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A Million Players Flock To Dungeons & Dragons Online, Seeking Freedom
Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September. Having just experienced the joys of IHOP’s free pancake day, I can personally attest to the fact that things taste…
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