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The BioWare Community Is Legion
BioWare breaks EA web-traffic records as the developer’s community swells to more than 5 million registered users in the wake of the release of Dragon Age and the shadow of Mass Effect 2. Integrating a community website with Dragon Age: Origins and the upcoming Mass Effect 2 has paid off in spades for BioWare, bringing…
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Tekken 6 Online Play Less Of A Turkey On Thanksgiving
If you’ve got any strength left to hold a controller after gorging yourself this Thanksgiving, why not hop online to give the eagerly-awaited Tekken 6 lag patch a spin? Namco Bandai is releasing the free online play patch previously promised this Thursday, which includes various tweaks and adjustments aimed at making Tekken 6 somewhat enjoyable…
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Ezio Is Kicking Altair’s Assassin’s Creed Sales
According to internal Ubisoft estimates, Assassin’s Creed II has sold 1.6 million units in the first week of release, 32% more than the original Assassin’s Creed sold two years ago. While Assassin’s Creed the first remains the fastest selling new video game IP in U.S. history, it’s younger brother isn’t doing too shabby itself, selling…
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World of Warcraft Turns 5: How Blizzard Built A Nation
World of Warcraft was launched five years ago today, and Kotaku is celebrating all week long, starting with a look at the Warcraft franchise’s fifteen-year history with key members of Blizzard’s development team. World of Warcaft is important. The developers tell Kotaku they even dared to dream that they’d some day get a million subscribers.…
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Atari Adds An Arcade To Its Web Page
Why sit at your computer working all day long when you can head over to the new Atari.com and play Yars Revenge all day long? The new Atari.com represents phase one of the company’s internet re-launch, allows fans of the company’s works to browse the latest Atari titles, buy games from the Atari Store, enter…
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Two Remaining Old Republic Classes Revealed
The latest issue of German magazine PC Games spills the beans on the two final classes for Star Wars: The Old Republic – the Jedi Consular and the Sith Inquisitor. Well that’s certainly a novel way to make sure you don’t have a huge overpopulation of Jedi Knights and Sith Warriors. The Jedi Consular and…
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IBM: We’ll Keep Making Cell Processors As Long As Sony Needs Them
Rumors are circulating today about the death of IBM’s Cell processor, which powers Sony’s PlayStation 3. Kotaku spoke to IBM about the fate of the Cell and its commitment to the PlayStation 3. The rumor sprang from an article on German website Heise Online, which posted a story about an interview with IBM’s vice president…
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Undead Labs Crafting Console-Based Zombie MMO
Founded by MMO industry veteran Jeff Strain, Undead Studios has only one goal – to create the definitive massively multiplayer zombie game for console gamers. There’s been post-apocalyptic MMO games in the past, but the apocalypse in those games has never been of an undead nature. Undead Labs is looking to fix that with the…
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Dress Your 360 Avatar In Fallout 3
The Fallout 3 t-shirt is nice. The Vault 101 Suit is even better. The Vault Boy head? Possibly the best use of 80 Microsoft points in the history of fake money. Bethesda is bringing out a line of Fallout-themed avatar wear to the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace on Thanksgiving day, giving players six new ways…
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The iPhone Gamer’s Gift Guide
It’s been an amazing year for the iPhone and gaming. Not only have a slew of new, blockbuster titles come out for the emerging platform, Apple finally realized that maybe they should wake up and start touting the gaming benefits of their smartphone and media player. This is by no means all of the iPhone…
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The Nintendo Download: Bits, Trips, Karts, And Blobs
It’s a jam-packed Thanksgiving edition of the Nintendo Download, with enough games to leave you comatose on the couch for hours. Where to start? This week is pretty packed, especially in the DSiWare department, with five more Electroplanton to play with at 200 points a pop. There’s also a notepad application called myNotenook Blue from…
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Visceral Games Tells Facebook Users To Go To Hell
Visceral Games has unleashed hell on Facebook, with a new Dante’s Inferno-themed app that lets you condemn your friends to eternal damnation. Not only can you send your friends to one of the nine circles of hell in the Facebook Go To Hell app, you can also vote to punish or absolve them, or simply…
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Bayonetta Demo Drops Next Week
If you missed out on early access to Sega’s Bayonetta demo your disappointment comes to a close next week, when Sega opens up the demo to everyone with a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. And here you thought you’d have to wait until January to get your hands on PlatinumGames’ saucy hair witch. Not so!…
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More Mr. T World Of Warcraft Shenanigans
There’s something breathtakingly glorious about having Mr. T’s Mohawk scanned by fake imaging technology and declared perfection. Blizzard continues to make Mr. Laurence Tureaud the face if its brand. 2007’s World of Warcraft commercial starring Mr. T might have been a lark, but Blizzard is serious this time around, with not one but two Mohawk-themed…
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Black Friday DSiWare Bundles Are Limited-Time Only
Answering a question we posed last week, Nintendo has officially announced two DSiWare-packed DSi bundles for Black Friday, available only as long as supplies last. Last week’s leaked Best Buy Black Friday ad outed the two new Nintendo DSi bundles, each packed with a unique assortment of DSiWare, which left us wondering if the DSi…
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ModNation Racers: Express Your Inner Pink Kitty Girl
The latest trailer for the PlayStation 3’s ModNation Racers gives us a much better feel for the sheer amount of customizing you’ll be doing when the game launches next year. Once more I get the distinct feeling that I will spend hours upon hours designing my racer, car, and special tracks, only to get bored…
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Square Enix Already Rolling Out Paid Gyromancer DLC
In the grand tradition of My Life as a Dark Lord for WiiWare, Square Enix releases a batch of tiny paid downloadable content for two-day old puzzle RPG Gyromancer. To be fair, the downloadable content for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Dark Lord came out the same day the game was released…
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Star Wars Galaxies Fans Generate 3 Million Works Of Fan Fiction
In just over a month since the release of Star Wars Galaxies Chronicle Master mission creation tool, fans have created more than three million pieces of interactive Star Wars fiction. The Chronicle Master system works much like City of Heroes Mission Architect, allowing players to use in-game tools to create their own missions and share…
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Who Is Beating Up Chun-Li?
An update to the official Japanese Super Street Fighter IV blog teases a new character reveal for Super Street Fighter IV next week. Who could possibly be the source of so much Chun-Li pain? Capcom US posted a link to the Japanese site today with the headline “New Super Street Fighter IV Art and… A…
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World Of Warcraft Celebrates Thanksgiving
World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it’s lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim’s Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating. I knew something was missing from World of Warcraft. If I am going to be nearly comatose from eating brown food, then my WoW character should…
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