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Toy Story 3 Game Delves Deeper Into The Toy Box
While a portion of Disney Interactive’s video game adaptation will follow the events of the animated movie, its Toy Box mode will allow players to create their own adventures using the franchises iconic characters. Props to developer Avalanche Software for thinking outside of the toy box. Or inside of the Toy Box. However you put…
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2009 BAFTA Video Game Award Nominees Are In
The annual British Academy Video Game Awards has revealed this year’s nominees, with Assassin’s Creed II, Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, and Arkham Asylum poised to win big, and the GAME Award of 2009 awaiting your votes. Aside from nominations for FIFA and Football Manager, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ 2009 video…
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Hitler Stares Into The Memeverse, Sees Himself Staring Back
Of all the things that make Hitler angry, nothing angers him more than not being able to create a video of something making him angry. Since the original Hitler video parody video hit YouTube, the führer has lashed out against everything from being banned on Xbox Live to not being able to preorder Modern Warfare…
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You Can Watch A Movie With Rob Zombie On Your Xbox
Ah, technology, making our lives so much easier. Now, through the magic of the Xbox 360, you can watch The Devil’s Rejects with director Rob Zombie this Friday without actually having to sit near Rob Zombie! On Friday, February 19th, Microsoft’s Game With Fame presents Xbox Live Film With Fame with Rob Zombie, your chance…
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Nothing Says I Love You Like Being Stabbed With Final Fantasy Characters
Forget boxes of chocolates, flowers, and stuffed animals. Those are gifts you should be exchanging every day. No, for me, Valentine’s Day is the kind of day where you and your loved one go out and get Final Fantasy tattoos. Long-time Kotaku readers might have been here when I got my first Final Fantasy tattoo,…
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2010: A Video Gamer’s Guide
We’ve taken this year’s big game releases, conventions, and assorted events, and condensed them all into a handy infographic we’re calling 2010: A Video Gamer’s Guide. What you see before you, or in the extremely large image below, is a snapshot of the year 2010 in gaming, as it stands right now. It is by…
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New Skate 3 Screens Gleam All Sorts Of Cubes
Only EA could create a skateboarding title so pretty that it has me flashing back to a Christian Slater movie from 1989. Actually, I’m not sure that is true, now that I’ve typed it. Gleaming the Cube occupies one of those default slots in my brain, just like Breakin’ and Geggy Tah’s “Whoever You Are.”…
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The Sims 3 Gets Sweet And Sultry For Valentine’s Day
Aw, isn’t that adorable? That Sims couple is celebrating Valentine’s Day together, enjoying a sweet little snuggle on the couch. Meanwhile, next door… …Roxanne went and wore that dress. Oh Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light. Neither of these accurately portray how I spent my Valentine’s Day, but then, I am…
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Don’t Call It A Race War
It’s the human race versus the Predator race versus the Alien race in Alien Vs. Predator Species Deathmatch. One-on-one against the stealthy Predator or the relentless Alien, the Colonial Marine is only so much meat. Teamed up in an elite, highly-trained special squad of accomplished killers, the Colonial Marines are a lot more meat. It’s…
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Street Fighter IV Brings The Fight To The iPhone
Capcom brings their biggest brawler yet to one of the smallest gaming devices, announcing an iPhone version of Street Fighter IV, due out in March. How are Ken and Ryu handling the trip? From the looks of the screenshots, which you can find more of at IGN, the dynamic duo is a little worse for…
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Cryptic Wants Star Trek Online Players To Explore Their Ships
If you can’t bring an Orion girl into your personal quarters, what good is Star Trek Online? Cryptic has plans to unlock more of the players’ ship interiors for exploration, answering the prayers of role-playing STO subscribers across the universe. If you want to have a private meeting aboard your starship in Star Trek Online,…
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The Nintendo Download: And Justice For Some
Our new gallery format for The Nintendo Download highlights the fact that, other than big releases like Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All, DSiWare and WiiWare titles aren’t getting nearly as much exposure as they should. Just look at the lineup we have here. DSiWare Spotto! from Nintendo? Nothing to see here. I had…
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How Xbox Live Works On Windows Phones 7 Series
As expected, Microsoft’s Steve Balmer announced Xbox Live support for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series at the Mobile World Congress, but what exactly will Xbox Live users be able to do on their phones? According to the official press release, not all that much. Accessing Xbox Live through the Windows Phone 7 Games hub…
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Reviews
SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo 3 Review: Fire In The Hole!
SOCOM: Tactical Strike and Confrontation developer Slant Six Games gives the franchise another go, picking up where Zipper Interactive left off with SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 for the PSP. There are weapons of mass destruction in the fictional country of Koratvia, and it’s up to you and your crack team of Navy…
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Europe Gets Two Final Fantasy XIII Xbox Bundles
While North American Final Fantasy XIII fans ponder forking out $400 for a special Xbox 360 bundle, European fans are getting two different models to choose from – the Special Edition and the Elite Bundle. What’s the difference? Europe’s Special Edition Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 bundle is very much like the one we are…
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Marcus, Dom, And Wesker Party In Lost Planet 2
Here’s a group of guys you probably never expected to see in the same game, much less fighting side-by-side. By the time Capcom and MIcrosoft got around to announcing the cameo appearances by Gears of War’s dynamic duo Marcus and Dom in Lost Planet 2, I had completely forgotten about the GameStop preorder skin of…
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Darkest Of Days To Become Darkest Of Movies
Proving once again that game review scores don’t matter to movie producers, a movie version of 8monkey Labs’ time travel shooter Darkest of Days is being shopped around, with the writers of The Rock attached to craft the screenplay. With a Game Rankings index of 47.80%, Darkest of Days didn’t exactly set the video game…
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Super Street Fighter IV Girls Gone Wild
Capcom celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new trailer featuring Chun-Li, Cammy, and Juri from Super Street Fighter IV, beating the living daylights out of each other. I’d like to make it perfectly clear here that it was Capcom that presented this as a Valentine’s Day tie-in, and not me. I personally don’t find women beating…
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Frankenreview: Heavy Rain
Would Quantic Dream’s cast of characters be depressed over the results of our Heavy Rain Frankenreview? We’ve been entranced with Heavy Rain since the very first screenshots Quantic Dream shuffled our way, and as the meaning behind those rain-dappled faces become clearer, so did our fascination. Now the game is about to be released, the…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Always Have Taris
It’s civilization annihilated by Sith Lord Darth Malak during the Jedi Civil War, the planet Taris is a symbol of hope for the Republic, and the latest planet revealed for BioWare’s upcoming MMO. You may remember Taris as the first planet you visit in Knights of the Old Republic after escaping from the Endar Spire.…
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