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Welcome To Aion Server Queues, Europe!
If you thought we had it bad in North America, many European Aion players weren’t even able to get into a queue during peak hours during the game’s launch weekend. Consider yourselves lucky! During the weekend several tipsters emailed us with horror stories about the European launch of NCsoft’s new MMORPG Aion. Like North America,…
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Everybody Back In The Britannia
Ultima Online celebrates its twelfth birthday by inviting everyone who has ever played back to rediscover the joys of getting killed over and over again while trying to chop wood. Sure, there are other good things about Ultima Online as well. It’ll run on your toaster, and there isn’t any of that third-person camera view…
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TGS Round-Up: Day 3
The 2009 Tokyo Game Show continues into the weekend, but today we’ve got Dead Rising 2, Hideo Kojima, Crackdown 2 multiplayer, and much, much more! Hands-On With Crackdown 2’s Tribes-Like Multiplayer Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun Hands On With Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum Theory Order Of Importance? Booth Check: Sony’s PlayStation Space Dead Rising…
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Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun
We’ve got a quartet of videos showcasing some of the new weapons in Capcom’s Dead Rising 2, but only one of them really matters. Ladies and gentlemen – the rake shotgun. Don’t get me wrong. The stick thingy, wheelchair, and explosive footballs you’ll find in the clips below all look…nice. It’s just that they can’t…
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Rock Band Next Week: Broken Benjamins And Chained Alices
New albums from Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin prompt new music from the former and a 3-track debut pack for the latter in next week’s Rock Band Music Store Update. Breaking Benjamin’s “Dear Agony” and Alice in Chains’ first album in 14 years, “Black Gives Way to Blue” both hit music stores, iTunes, and…
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Aion Gets Rid Of Idle Shopkeepers To Lessen Queue Times
Aion general chat has one less thing to complain about this morning, as NCsoft takes steps to prevent folks from abusing the personal shop system in order to remain online during peak hours. The shopkeeper system has been abused terribly since the North American launch of Aion. Here’s how it was supposed to work: a…
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Tekken 6 Character Customization
Yesterday we took a look at the Scenario Campaign mode in Tekken 6. Today, it’s all about the character customization. This is the feature I will spend the most time in when I play Tekken 6. More time than even fighting, which is arguably the main focus of the game. I’ll be the fairy pixie…
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Rage Of The Gladiator Is The First MotionPlus WiiWare Game
While we’re all waiting for more retail titles utilizing Nintendo’s more responsive MotionPlus add-on to arrive, Ghostfire Games is busy readying Rage of the Gladiator, the first MotionPlus-enabled WiiWare game. The community wanted more games with MotionPlus and Ghostfire listened, adding in support for the Wii remote add-on to their upcoming gladiatorial combat title. Ghostfire…
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Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery DS Confirmed
Ubisoft finally confirms Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery for the Nintendo DS, presenting an untold chapter from Assassin’s Creed II on the handheld this November. Developed by Griptonite Games, Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery for the DS sounds a whole lot like the iPhone version, also hitting on November 20th. The game sees Ezio travelling to Spain…
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A Boy And His Blob Get Their Own Month
Majesco reveals new concept art and the cover to the Wii reimagining of NES classic A Boy and His Blob as part of Blob Month, a celebration leading up to the game’s October 6th release. Sure the game is out in 12 days, but it’s Majesco’s title and they can set aside a whole month…
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Imagining Lyrics To Zelda
First there was Mega Man. Then Duck Tales. Now YouTube singer/songwriter Brentalfloss takes on his biggest challenge yet: The Legend of Zelda. Does he triumph, or will Ganon win the day? Brentalfloss applies his unique vocal stylings to Link and his original quest to rescue Princess Zelda and save the day, donning an odd beard…
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Battlefield Heroes Two Million Strong And Updating
More than 2 million players have signed up free-to-play online shooter Battlefield Heroes, and EA celebrates with the free “Heroes of the Fall” game update, complete with a new map in stylish fall colors. The Battlefield Heroes community continues to grow in leaps and bounds, having added an additional 1 million players since the first…
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Reviews
Muramasa: The Demon Blade Review: Hot Springs Eternal
Odin Sphere developer Vanillaware brings their signature hand-drawn 2D style to the Nintendo Wii with Muramasa: The Demon Blade, a touching tale of a boy, a girl, and a whole bunch of swords. Kisuke is a young ninja in search of his past. Momohime is a young and quiet Japanese princess possessed by the spirit…
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Don’t Make Me Come Out There
To: The Japan Crew From: Fahey Re: Absolutely Nothing Look kids, just because you are all in Japan and I am here with Owen and AJ (collectively known now as The A-Team) in the ghostly-quiet North American Kotaku Tower doesn’t mean you can skimp on the Night Note. We came into the tower this morning…
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A Look At Tekken 6’s Scenario Campaign Mode
When you aren’t kicking the living hell out of total strangers via Tekken 6’s online multiplayer mode, you might fancy a play through the co-op Scenario Campaign mode. Here’s some new screens from it. I’ve never been a huge fan of the additional modes added to the console versions of the Tekken series, as they’ve…
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8 Minutes Of Modern Warfare 2 Story Mode
There’s no telling where this cam-footage of an entire Modern Warfare 2 mission came from, but there’s no mistaking it for any other game. A reader pointed us to the YouTube version of this clip, uploaded by a user named “kajsghkjab” as his sole YouTube contribution, so we’re guessing that he probably doesn’t want fame…
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Love Is An Open Alpha
A labor of love should be shared by all, so Eskil Steenberg has opened up the first alpha test for his procedurally-generated MMO Love to all comers, though be warned – the test is extremely limited. How limited? Downloading the alpha client takes only a moment, and that’s because there really isn’t all that much…
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Square Enix Creates Puzzle RPG With A Bejeweled Twist
What do you get when the puzzle game masters at PopCap team up with RPG kings Square Enix for a Puzzle-RPG for Xbox Live Arcade and Steam? Sounds like countless productive hours lost to me. Puzzle Quest showed us that the puzzle game and the RPG could be successfully married into an entertaining and highly-addictive…
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