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Halo: Reach Is A More Human Halo Story
Bungie has released the first ViDoc for Halo: Reach, in which the team talks retooling the engine, crafting new weapons, and creating a more human story in the Halo universe. This video elevated Halo: Reach from just another Halo game to a new title to keep my eyes on in the coming month. I mean,…
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Square Enix Puts A Price On Cuteness
Now available at the North American Square Enix store, these adorable Tarutaru Play Arts figures represent the best thing to come out of Final Fantasy XI. That is unless you are reading this sometime after the next MMO comes out, in which case these adorable Lalafell represent the best thing to come out of Final…
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Your First Look At Fable III In Action
The first episode of the second season of Lionhead’s video diaries gives us our first look at Fable III in motion, showing off the combat, the weapons, and the extreme morals it takes to be a king. Peter Molyneux sure gets excited about his creations, doesn’t he? Look at him talking about the wing-sprouting expression…
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New Crackdown 2 Screens Show Off Shiny Preorder Armor
As far as purchase incentives go it’s no Halo 3 multiplayer beta, but Crackdown 2’s preorder bonus armor is definitely…okay, I’ve got nothing. While the inclusion of access to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta definitely pushed sales of the original Crackdown, I think the game proved itself to be a worthwhile purchase on its own.…
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360 Scores The Only Final Fantasy XIII Bundle Outside Of Japan
Microsoft confirms the March 9th release of a Final Fantasy XIII 250GB Xbox 360 bundle, noting that it’s the only console outside of Japan to come bundled with the game. At the X10 event in San Francisco today, the company revealed that the rumored Xbox 360 North American Final Fantasy bundle is indeed a reality,…
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Exclusive Dead Rising 2 Prologue Coming To Xbox Live
Xbox 360 owners’ wait for Dead Rising 2 just got a bit more tolerable, with the announcement of an exclusive playable prologue, Dead Rising: Case Zero, launching on Xbox Live prior to the game’s release on August 31st. Crecente is embedded at Microsoft’s X10 event in San Francisco, where he sends word of a special…
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Nothing Says I Love You Like A Stuffed Scrotum?
Who needs an actual game to generate buzz? Certainly not Postal developers Running With Scissors, celebrating Valentine’s Day with an adorable plush scrotum named Krotchy. Every once in a while we half-heartedly wonder when Postal III is going to come out. We haven’t seen much of the game, and Running With Scissors is supposed to…
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Star Trek Online Couldn’t Resist The Borg
Cryptic just couldn’t resist using the Borg as its first big content update for Star Trek Online. After all, nothing can move the Borg! Wait, that’s not right. The Borg are the best at what they do, and what they do isn’t pretty. Having recovered after the Voyager crew somehow dealt them a severe blow,…
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Blonde Dragon Age: Awakening Companions Don’t Have More Fun
Velanna the Dalish Elf is the latest new character revealed for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins expansion Awakenings, and she’s got a bone to pick about how her people have been treated. In Dragon Age: Origins, elves are treated as second-class citizens, and that’s putting it gently. The humans took their lands, burned cities to…
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Scenes From Samurai Shodown Sen
So Samurai Shodown Sen is coming to the North American Xbox 360 this spring, courtesy of XSEED. What’s that going to look like? Pretty lifeless, if you ask me. It’s a problem that crops up whenever classic 2D characters are rendered in 3D, though some companies have done a much better job of it recently.…
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How To Play The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo
If you’re having trouble making any progress in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo, this tutorial video should help. Or you could just ignore it and keep sniping me for no reason. Did you know the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo had goals? You did? Well if I’ve played it with you on…
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If All You Need Is Love, Then You’re In Luck
The Beatles’ classic “All You Need is Love,” once exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of The Beatles: Rock Band, is finally making its way to the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with its charitable intentions intact. Released for the Xbox 360 in September of last year, “All You Need is Love,” quickly became the fastest…
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Shockwave Cares Not For Your GameStop War On Cybertron Preorder
Shockwave is confounded by your impulsive, irrational excitement at his appearance as a preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Shockwave is a cold, calculating machine that only cares for usurping Megatron as leader of the Decepticons, not because he holds any hatred for him, but because it is logical that he do…
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World of Warcraft: No Growth Since 2008
When we last checked World of Warcraft subscriber numbers in December of 2008, the game had 11.5 million. In March, Vivendi According to Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime, today’s numbers are exactly the same. Has the mighty MMO plateaued? During Activision’s calendar year 2009 conference call today, Blizzard top dog Mike Morhaime spoke of the stability of…
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Activision Narrows Music Focus To Guitar And DJ Hero
Having released 25 different rhythm game SKUs in 2009, Activision narrows the focus in 2010, with only a new Guitar Hero and DJ Hero 2 slated for release in 2010. During Activision’s 2009 financial results conference call, Activision’s Mike Griffith explained that while 2009 saw Activision increasing its share in the rhythm genre to 51%,…
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Samurai Shodown Sen Makes It To North America
Originally slated for release last November as Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, the 11th game in SNK’s weapons fighting franchise will be released this spring in North America as Samurai Shodown Sen for the Xbox 360. We’ve been wondering about the fate of Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny ever since original North American publisher Ignition…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Damaged Packages, Missing PS2s, Bad Science, And Cheating
In this week’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, Pykestein, Jimmuhpage, Sazzrah, and WhiteMåge is in fact a boy take on packaging woes, PS2 availability, cheat devices, and Jo Frost. 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, and sometimes…
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Frankenreview: Dante’s Inferno
After going through a huge stack of reviews for our Dante’s Inferno Frankenreview, I have determined that this game might have a few things in common with God of War. That, and Dante has no idea how to play Limbo. Is it strange that a game revolving around a long, drawn-out philosophical exploration on the…
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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Teaches Irresponsible Driving
How can Sega expect kids to play Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and not be tempted to jump out of moving vehicles? There are so many bad ideas laced throughout this special moves trailer for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing that I hardly know where to begin. There’s drinking and driving, standing up while driving…
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