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Fan Pleading Got NiGHTS Into Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing
While Sega’s jester wasn’t slated to appear in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Sega and developer Sumo Digital took the heartfelt pleas from countless fans to heart, giving NiGHTS a very important role in the upcoming racer. NiGHTS won’t be racing, but he’ll be an important part of each race, taking on the role of…
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With Gerbil Physics
Pencel Games, the London-based developer of Xbox Live Indie game Gerbil Physics has a firm grasp on one universal truth – nothing says “I love you” like a heart-shaped box full of gerbils. Gerbil Physics is a game all about physics…and gerbils. Going beyond the title, it’s a game about using tools to solve puzzles…
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Dante’s St. Lucia DLC Brings Online Co-Op, Player-Created Content
A trailer shipping with the retail version of Dante’s Inferno reveals the Trials of St. Lucia downloadable content, adding a new character, online cooperative play, and player-created trials to EA’s epic action game in April. An Australian Kotakuite who purchased the Death Edition of Dante’s Inferno for the PlayStation 3 tipped us off to the…
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The Lich King Would Like A Word With You
I wasn’t sure how I felt about a rap song about World of Warcraft‘s Lich King at first. Then he beat the crap out of Edward Cullen, and I decided I could live with it. Convoke has released a music video for “Get Lich or Die Tryin,” a song that celebrates the cooler side of…
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Building The Perfect Star Trek Frankengame
Has the perfect Star Trek video game been created? Perhaps not, but by taking key elements from the Star Trek games we’ve played over the past three decades, I believe we can come up with the perfect Star Trek Frankengame. Over the years, many Star Trek video game titles have come close to perfection in…
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Try A Little Miles Edgeworth On For Size
Capcom takes advantage of the Nintendo DS’s download capability today, putting up a demo for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth two weeks ahead of the game’s release date. Sometimes I forget that I can download things to my regular old DS. Hell, sometimes I forget I can do it with my DSi, and I write…
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Aliens Vs. Predator’s Horde Mode
Check out this trailer for Aliens Vs. Predator’s Survivor Mode, in which up to four players co-operatively take on the Alien hordes. I suppose it’s time to set aside the comparisons to Gears of War 2 and simply accept Horde Mode as a standard game type in online multiplayer shooters. It’s just the natural progression…
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Days Of Thunder Drops The Hammer This Summer
Are you ready to drop the hammer? Test your speed against greats like Cole Trickle, Rowdy Burns, and Russ Wheeler in Days of Thunder, coming this summer to PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. Yes, Piranha Games and Paramount Digital Entertainment are making the dreams of early-90’s racing movie fans come true…
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EA Brings Hell To The Super Bowl
EA is dropping a huge portion of the Dante’s Inferno advertising budget this Sunday with the company’s first Super Bowl commercial, hoping to capture the massive cross-section of football fans familiar with the work of Dante Alighieri. With the estimated cost of a half-minute Super Bowl commercial estimated to cost close to $3 million, EA…
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The Nintendo Download: Monkey Island Ends, Shinobi World Beckons
WiiWare finally sees Tales of Monkey Island through to its dramatic conclusion, and Alex Kidd takes a trip to Shinobi World, plus golf, cards, puzzles, and a little action RPG, all in this week’s Nintendo Download. It’s been nearly two months since PC players got their hands on the fifth chapter of Telltale Games’ Tales…
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Resonance Of Fate’s Dancing Even Better Than Its Underpants
Resonance of Fate‘s panty shots had one Kotaku commenter wondering where the fan service for women was. It’s right here, along with a little something for the guys as well. The curvaceous Barbarella provokes an interesting reaction in Resonance of Fate’s Vasheron, culminating in what could be the new mating dance for the human race.…
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Join The Queue For Command & Conquer 4’s Semi-Open Beta
EA has launched the multiplayer open beta for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, and all you have to do is sign into your free GameSpot account and wait. You see, waiting for your key is the key to waiting to get into the C&C 4 multiplayer beta. GameSpot is doling them out by the…
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Sonic Ditches Mario For iPhone Olympics
Sonic gives Mario the slip and sets out on his own (with a few friends) in Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Sonic’s solo winter Olympics outing is now available for purchase, with $4.99 scoring you 10 different characters playing 4 different events. Team up with Sonic,…
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Star Trek Online Boldly Goes Live
Star Trek Online is now online, with early start players flooding the game in order to get a leg up on the Starfleet captains waiting until launch day. Ensign Qbert Qix of the U.S.S. Kotaku, reporting for duty. Don’t worry, the name will change as I play, I was just at a loss for what…
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Global Agenda Is Go
Hi-Rez Studios has launched the head-start program for its massively multiplayer online shooter, Global Agenda, and so far nothing has exploded! Granted it’s only been online for about an hour, but things are moving smoothly for the dozens of soldiers, handful of scouts, couple of robotics, and one medic that are playing currently. I may…
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It’s A Dante’s Inferno Combat Montage
If you want to get a good idea of how Dante handles the minions of hell in EA’s Dante’s Inferno, you’ll need a montage – a Dante combat montage. Behold Dante’s lightning-fast moves, looking much better in this video than they did in the demo I played on the Xbox 360. As I was watching…
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Steam Exploded In 2009
With active users surpassing the 25 million mark and a 205% jump in year over year unit sales, 2009 was an extremely good year for Valve’s Steam service. Valve announced Steam’s spectacular 2009 today, providing plenty of statistics to back it up. Active accounts are up 25% to more than 25 million, with 10 million…
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Your StarCraft II Beta System Requirements Are Here [Update – No They’re Not]
Blizzard has released the required and recommended PC system specifications needed to participate in the StarCraft II beta test. Can your system handle the new Zerg Rush? It doesn’t look like PC gamers will have much of a problem running the StarCraft II beta. They give out Intel Pentium IV processors in cereal boxes these…
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HeroCraft Fills The iPad With Majesty
Smartphone developer HeroCraft is bringing Paradox Interactive‘s Majesty series to the iPad, with a belief that the device will “provide the ideal platform for gaming.” Russian developer HeroCraft might be better known right now for its Java mobile phone games, but the team behind such classic titles as Bikini Balls and Erotic Galaxy now sets…
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