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Choose Your Own Just Cause 2 Adventure
This choose your own adventure style trailer for Just Cause 2 showcases the different ways to tackle a mission in Eidos’ upcoming action-adventure. Clicking the video at the designated time will take you on a magical journey to YouTube, but don’t worry, we’ll be here waiting for you when you get back. That is, unless…
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Mega Man 10 Robot Masters Sprites Vs. Art
Here’s a closer look at all eight of Mega Man 10’s evil robot masters, showing us how the dynamic concept art fared in its conversion to sprites. As you can see, some of the Robot Masters made out better than others during the journey from cartoon art to pixels. Sheep Man, Nitro Man, and Strike…
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When Capcom Says Gold Edition, They Mean Gold Edition
Sheva gets bumped in favor of Jill Valentine on the cover art for Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 update, with a gold etched cover that leaves no room for doubt that this is indeed the Gold Edition. Ash posted the latest trailer for the Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition earlier, but it’s nowhere near as shiny…
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Gabe Newell Is 2010’s Game Developers Choice Pioneer
Valve’s Gabe Newell joins the prestigious company of Ralph Baer, Alex Rigopulos, and Eran Egozy as the 2010 winner of the Game Developers Choice Awards Pioneer Award, honoring breakthrough figures in the game industry. Ralph Baer, winner of the 2008 Pioneer award, is widely considered to be the father of video games. Alex Rigopulos and…
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What Do You Want In Your Dead Space 2 Collector’s Edition?
The Dead Space Facebook page wants to know what sort of swag you’d like to see in a theoretical collector’s edition of Dead Space 2. EA needs your help! Dead Space 2 is in the works, and they’re trying to figure out what they could put in a special box that would make you pay…
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Global Agenda Teaser Prepares For Launch
Hi-Rez Studio’s action MMO Global Agenda is coming February 1st, and this official launch teaser should give you a good idea of what to expect once next month rolls around. Laser Gatling guns, sword fights, and giant robots; it doesn’t get much better than this, at least conceptually. Hell, I’d buy a cereal that listed…
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You Can Now Buy Ratchet And Resistance Action Figures
As if we needed another excuse to visit our local comic book stores, DC Unlimited is finally shipping its Ratchet & Clank and Resistance action figures to wherever fine monthly graphical literature is sold. It’s been a long time coming. We first heard about the Resistance 2 action figures nearly a year ago, with the…
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You Will Believe A Hamster Can Fly
Developer The Game Atelier delivers the first screenshots for The Flying Hamster, the first horizontal hamster shooter for the Sony PSP. I am filled with joy beyond words. Okay, perhaps not as beyond words as I initially thought. I’m just a big fan of hamsters in general, and haven’t been able to keep one as…
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Wii Fit Plus Targets Target Parking Lots
Nintendo is rolling out the Wii Fit Plus Experience at select Target store parking lots in California, Georgia, and Texas over the next three weeks, with a $15 gift card for those willing to get their exercise on in public. Nine Target stores across the three states will be hosting Wii Fit Plus demos in…
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Survey: 82% Of “Gamer” Parents Are Hip To The ESRB
A survey conducted by The Harrison Group and Activision Publishing has found that a large percentage of parents with gaming children are familiar with the ESRB ratings system. As the popularity of video games continues to grow, so does parental awareness of the ratings system that governs the industry. The survey, which gathered the results…
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Metro 2033 Screens Depict A Really Dark Future
It doesn’t get much darker than a post-apocalyptic survival romp through Moscow’s ruined subway system, as proven by these very dark screens for THQ’s upcoming shooter Metro 2033. I’ve the type of person that gets really into my story-driven first-person shooters, to the point where I get extremely jumpy and, at times, have to turn…
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Naughty Bear Ignores Your Cries For Mercy
If this clip of Naughty Bear relentlessly pursuing his whimpering prey with a shotgun featured humans instead of stuffed animals there would almost certainly be some sort of public outcry. This is the second trailer for Naughty Bear, following up on the introduction video we posted on Tuesday. In it we see a far less…
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Isn’t It A Little Late For MGS4-Themed Accessories?
Running between $199 and $250, Astro Gaming‘s newly-released A40 Audio System: Metal Gear Solid 4 Edition is the perfect way to say $199-$250 on PlayStation 3 headphone solution with interchangeable MGS4 speaker tags. McWhertor reviewed the generic version of the A40 Audio System last year, and found it a highly capable if slightly pricey product.…
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Dragon Age Return To Ostagar DLC Now Unavailable
Briefly going up for sale on Xbox Live yesterday, BioWare has pulled the Return to Ostagar downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins until it can fix a title update that was breaking specialization classes. A title update released yesterday meant to prepare the Xbox 360 version of Dragon Age: Origins for the Return to Ostagar…
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Bow Down Before Your Mega Man 10 Robot Masters
Japanese monthly CoroCoro Comic has revealed the full roster of evil Robot Masters that will plague the blue bomber in Capcom’s Mega Man 10. Are you ready to find out who is teamed with the stupendeous Sheep Man? If you don’t want to know, don’t look down. Just be content with the knowledge that there…
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Frankenreview: Army Of Two: The 40th Day
The assembled game critics team-up to take on EA’s latest co-op shooter in our Army of Two: The 40th Day Frankenreview. Salem and Rios teach us an important lesson about friendship as they make their way through decreasingly scenic, increasingly war-torn Shanghai, adding their bullet-holes and shrapnel to a situation that’s quickly getting out of…
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Mass Effect 2’s Soldier: The Shooter Class
According to lead game designer Christina Norman, “If you love intense shooter combat and carrying way too many guns, when you play Mass Effect 2, you’ll want to play the soldier.” Mass Effect 2 is setting its sights on the Modern Warfare 2 crowd, and the soldier is a class aimed right at that demographic.…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: An Inconvenient Truth, Death, Swag and Fantasy
Our readers discuss death, customer service, the fantasy genre, and your inconvenience in the first weekly installment of Speak-Up, where what you say matters. Want to be featured? Read on. 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…
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Warner Bros. Moves Onto Sesame Street
Warner Bros. has inked a new deal with Sesame Workshop to develop and publish video games based on the Sesame Street license, hopefully bringing more Muppets to an industry deficient on google eyes and felt. It’s been a few years since a Sesame Street video game has graced video game consoles, and it’s about time…
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Dragon Age’s Ostagar DLC Is Live, But Isn’t As Good As This
The delayed Return to Ostagar downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins is now available on Xbox Live, but I’d rather have this imaginary DLC, featuring big head mode, Morrigan slapping, and more taint than you can shake a stick at. YouTube user FergusMacpherson created this fantasy DLC trailer using the editor included with the PC…
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