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Tree Plus Chainsaw Equals BioShock 2 Big Daddy
I don’t believe I’ve seen anything quite as beautiful as a man dressed as Jason from Friday the 13th carving the Big Daddy from BioShock 2 out of a tree using a chainsaw. I’d imagine it’s hard to find a tree in the underwater city of Rapture, which is probably why Japanese chainsaw artist “Jason”…
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Just Cause 2 Demo Gives You 35 Square Miles To Explore, Explode
A demo for Just Cause 2 is coming to the PlayStation Network, Steam, and Xbox Live next week, giving players 35 square miles of the Lautan Lama Desert, packed with plenty of things to do, see, and blow-up. Just Cause 2 isn’t due out in North America until March 23, but Avalanche Studios and Square…
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Arc Rise Fantasia Is As Pretty As Eight New Pictures
Ignition Entertainment is gearing up to release “the definitive JRPG for the Wii” this summer, and eight new screenshots show us how much that looks like a Namco Bandai Tales of Something title. That’s not a bad thing, of course. In truth, Luminous Arc developer Imageepoch’s first console title is looking quite lovely. Plus the…
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The Stalling Of An Anti-Bush Video Game
Evocative and provocative, a game born of the anxiety about George W. Bush’s polices abroad would have included a Chinese invasion of the U.S. and the emotional journey of a soldier struggling over whether to flee military service. But the game was killed, not by politics but the popularity of the other game that developer…
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Aion: The Official Magazine Packed WIth In-Game Goodies
NCsoft reveals Aion: The Official Magazine, a monthly online publication that delivers the latest news, player guides, and community tips to Aion players to the tune of $3.99 an issue, with exclusive in-game items coming every month. The first issue of Aion: The Official Magazine hits the game’s official website next month, with 100 pages…
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Battle The Borg In Star Trek Online
Here’s the trailer for Star Trek Online’s first major content update, in which the Borg decide to give the whole Borg Queen thing another try, since it worked out so well the last time. It’s good to see Cryptic making good on its promise of regular updates to the Star Trek Online, seeing as the…
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Square Enix iPhone Games Go On Sale
In honor of the release of Final Fantasy I and II for the iPhone, Square Enix has dropped prices on the rest of its iPhone offerings, in case you wanted something new with your ancient remakes. Square Enix has been quite busy on the iPhone front leading up to today’s release of Final Fantasy I…
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Your Lost Planet 2 Preorder Bonus Has Changed
Remember back in November, when Capcom announced a Wesker skin as a GameStop preorder bonus for Lost Planet 2? Forget that. Now the company is giving GameStop preorder customers two exclusive underwater combat maps. What about Wesker? There’s good news, and better news. The good news is, players who preorder Lost Planet 2 will no…
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Windows Games On Demand Drastically Discounts Arkham Asylum
Every weekend in March, Microsoft will be discounting Games on Demand for Windows titles, kicking things off with 75% off the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum this Friday through Monday. Perhaps Microsoft’s Games on Demand program for Windows isn’t getting as much attention as the company hoped, or maybe they just feel like passing out…
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Dress Your Avatar In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
With Xbox Live Avatars all the same height, you never have to worry about being called a little short for a Stormtrooper while wearing your Star Wars: The Force Unleashed clothes and accessories, now available on the Xbox Avatar Marketplace. LucasArts delivered a fresh crop of Star Wars themed avatar goodies to the Avatar Marketplace…
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First Screens Of Warhammer 40K: Space Marine
It’s been nine months since THQ officially announce the Warhammer 40K action RPG Space Marine, and we’re finally getting the first screenshots for the game. Are they worth the wait? Announced in May of last year and shown in footage form at E3 a month later, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine seems to be a title…
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EA’s Salt Lake City Studio Expands For “Groundbreaking” New Project
EA’s Salt Lake City, Utah studio, home to The Sims, Littlest Pet Shop, and Nerf development teams, is moving to a larger location and hiring developers for a “groundbreaking” unannounced new project. EA’s announcement reads less like a studio expansion announcement and more like travel brochure for Salt Lake City, discussing the numerous ski resorts,…
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Heavy Rain Explores Player Depression With Freezes And Glitches
Players across multiple regions are reporting technical issues with their copies of Heavy Rain, with word of out-of-sync audio, full-on freezes, and unloadable auto-saves filling the official forums, giving players an ironic taste of the depression the game explores. Despite having to download a rather substantial patch on launch day, or perhaps because of it,…
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Bad Company 2’s Pre-Owned Sales-Stifling DLC Revealed
EA’s “Project Ten Dollar” initiative marches on in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, with four multiplayer maps included on the disc, unlocked via VIP codes found only in new copies of the game. Using the VIP code that comes packed in every new copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, players will be able to unlock two…
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Mile Marker 14: Shank
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Shank. In A Sentence Shank is a fresh new take on the side-scrolling beat-em up, combining a gritty, Spaghetti Western meets animated graphic…
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Blur Gets All Twittery
Bizarre Creations’ Blur is hopping on the Twitter bandwagon, giving players the ability to send customized Tweets while playing through the developer’s latest racing title. Bizarre Creations would have us believe that Blur is the future of video game racing, so of course it needs to be tied together with the future of talking about…
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Nintendo Summit News Round-Up
The Nintendo Summit in San Francisco is positively bursting with news, with release dates for the Nintendo DSi XL, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M, and plenty of information on the games coming in the first half of 2010. Nintendo of America’s Cammie Dunaway kicked off today’s festivities with the long awaited pricing and…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Game Mash-Ups, T-Shirts, Singalongs, And Viewtiful Woes
In this week’s thrilling episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, Rear Admiral Meatwad, Nathan Obbards, Steve Rowland, and Trygle12 discuss t-shirts, Viewtiful Joe, commenting games, and the unofficial Andrew Ryan theme song. 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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Nintendo Details Upcoming WiiWare And DSIWare Titles
As if Cave Story wasn’t enough, Nintendo has plenty more downloadable games coming out in the first half of 2010, from Art Style and WarioWare for WiiWare to a DSiWare fighter that puts you inside the game. If you’ve been keeping up with the flood of Nintendo news this morning, you’ll know that Cave Story…
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