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Want Star Trek Online Beta Access? Play Champions
Star Trek fans might want to consider becoming Champions Online fans as well, with Cryptic offering guaranteed Star Trek Online closed beta access to players who purchase long-term subscriptions to the superhero MMO. Fight aliens in Champions Online, and you can be an alien in Star Trek Online, but Cryptic wants a commitment. Gamers who…
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Reviews
Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta Micro-Review: The Final Frontier
Bethesda has released the final planned downloadable content for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 and PC, beaming players aboard a strange alien vessel in Mothership Zeta. We’ve been to Alaska in the past, Pittsburgh in the present, and we’ve even taken a field trip to Point Lookout State Park, so really, is there anywhere…
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Developing A Shadow Complex
Witness Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, Chair’s Donald Mustard, and sheer awesomeness’ Peter David talking about the final Summer of Arcade game, Shadow Complex. I must have missed McWhertor’s story on Peter David taking up writing duties for Shadow Complex, which is strange, considering David is one of my all-time favorite comic book writers, and not too…
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Fileplanet Has Your Huxley Beta Invite
Yes, Webzen’s massively mutliplayer online first-person shooter Huxley: The Dystopia is still a going concern, and all it takes is a Fileplanet login to get in on the closed beta action. It’s player versus player on a massive scale in Huxley, the game we first heard about ages ago when it was initially announced for…
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X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter Making A Comeback?
With LucasArts in a re-releasing and re-making mood, with classic games on Steam and the Monkey Island remake on Xbox Live, is there anything happening with the classic X-Wing space combat series? Could be… G4’s Patrick Klepek inquired as to the future of the X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter series during an…
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Left 4 Dead On A Crash Course To New DLC
Left 4 Dead 2 doesn’t mean the end of downloadable content for the original game, as Valve announces Crash Course, a new single-player, multiplayer, and versus mode campaign for the Xbox 360 and PC. Crash Course ties together the No Mercy and Death Toll campaigns from the original release, adding a little bit of continuity…
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World Of Warcraft Patches To 3.2
Blizzard upgrades World of Warcraft to version 3.2 today, implementing the Crusaders’ Coliseum dungeons, PVP experience, level 20 mounts, Druid form changes, Rogue axe-wielding, and far fewer embarrassing raid looting situations. 3.2 is a huge patch, with changes to nearly every aspect of the game. Raiding guilds have several new places to play, while the…
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Turtles In Time Re-Shelled: Oh The Nostalgia
The launch trailer for the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is jam-packed with sigh-inducing nostalgia. I remember going on a family vacation to Kiawah Island, South Carolina when I was 18 years old. I had been sent out to a nearby shopping complex to pick up pizza and…
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Tokyo Drift Writer Signs On For Wheel Of Time Games
Hollywood screenwriter Chris Morgan has signed on with Red Eagle Games as the story director for games based on Robert Jordan‘s The Wheel of Time novel series. Having written The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Chris Morgan is no stranger to wheels, and as the screenplay writer for Wanted, he has a fair understanding…
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Dress Your Avatar In Fable II
Ever wonder what an avatar placeholder wearing a Fable II t-shirt looked like? Well BAM, there it is. A post by Sam Van Tilburgh on the Fable II development blog this morning reveals that Fable II avatar clothes are coming soon to an Xbox 360 near you. A package of Fable II clothing will be…
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Exclusive Rides For Gran Turismo PSP Preorders
Preordering the long-awaited Gran Turismo for the PlayStation Portable scores you one of five rare rides, getting you ready to smoke your friends from the starting line. The five preorder vehicles might already be in the game, but preordering means that you don’t have to pay to unlock them, and you also score them in…
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Taylor Swift Shakes Her Polys In Band Hero
Activision’s pop-ridden Guitar Hero spin-off Band Hero scores Taylor Swift as a playable character, and while I might not know who she is, she sure looks fine in polygons. Swift is actually one of pop’s finest songwriters, if Wikipedia and the New York Times are to be believed, regularly topping the country charts with songs…
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You Cannot Unsee The Mario And Peach Sex Tape
Not only is College Humor’s Mario and Peach sex tape extremely not safe for work, it will change the way you play Super Mario Bros. forever. I’m going to say it again, in case you miss the tag, and never read the first sentence of any Kotaku story. This is not safe for work. So…
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Call Of Juarez DLC Delivers More Legendary Wild West Action
Ubisoft unleashes the Old West Map Pack for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood this Thursday, with four new multiplayer maps covering important moments in Wild West history. General Custer sure is getting a lot of play lately. The famous Battle of Little Bighorn is not only the starting point for the upcoming time-travelling shooter…
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GameStop’s New Rewards System Could Be Your Ticket To E3
GameStop is currently surveying customers about a new points-based rewards system for customers that could be your ticket to the E3 Expo. In a survey sent out to customers who’ve signed up for the company newsletter (like myself,) GameStop is shopping around a new free customer rewards program that would see visitors earring points for…
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Visit Arkham Asylum This Friday
Players get an early chance to slip on the cape and cowl of the World’s Greatest Detective this Friday, when the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo drops for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The Batman: Arkham Asylum demo gives players a taste of the opening scenes from the full game, with Batman and Commissioner…
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Third Eye Blind Re-Records For Rock Band
The band that no one could escape in the late 90’s is coming to Rock Band, with Third Eye Blind‘s drummer Brad Hargreaves tweeting about re-recording “old hits” for Harmonix’s rhythm game. Step back from that ledge, Third Eye Blind fans! According to the band’s drummer, six of the band’s older songs are heading to…
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Monster Hunter TRI Finally Goes West
Four-player online co-operative monster hunting is coming to the Wii in 2010, as Capcom finally stops teasing and officially announces Monster Hunter TRI for North America and Europe. Fans have been clamoring for the North American and European release of Monster Hunter TRI ever since the first gorgeous screens trickled over from Japan, and now…
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Nintendo Download: Sexy Poker And Friends
This week’s Nintendo Download is dedicated to those of you who felt that the poker games already available for the Nintendo Wii just weren’t sexy enough. North America gets its first M-rated WiiWare title this week in Gameloft’s Sexy Poker (500 Wii points), which features six anime-flavored women stripping to their underwear if you’re good…
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Let The Sims 3 Expansions Begin
Travel around the simulated world this November, as EA announces The Sims 3 World Adventures, the globe-spanning first expansion to the top-selling threequel. The Sims 3 World Adventures introduces several exotic new locales for your little fake people to visit, all based off of real-world locations. China, France, and Egypt are represented in Shang Simla,…
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