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What Diablo III’s Interface Got From World Of Warcraft
In the latest episode of the Blizzard podcast, Diablo III senior artist Mike Nicholson discusses organizing the inventory system by size and giving skill buttons a World of Warcraft makeover. The Diablo series has always had inventory issues. I’d say 90% of “Town Portal” scrolls are used to head back to town and offload your…
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Tomorrow Is Wii Deal Day At Amazon
Wii owners would do well to pay close attention to Amazon.com tomorrow, when the Gold Box fills with more Wii games than you can shake a white remote-control looking dealie at. We normally don’t hear about Amazon.com’s game deal days until whatever the first one was sells out, but this time around we’ve been given…
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Frankenreview: MadWorld
Platinum Games and Sega turn down the color and turn up the violence with MadWorld, a brutal, bloody beat-em up for the Nintendo Wii. As soon as the first black, white, and red all over screenshots of MadWorld first surfaced, everyone knew this wasn’t going to be your ordinary Wii beat-em up. The game’s art…
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Re/Visioned Activision 2600 Classics Finally Arrive
In November of 2007, Gametap promised to continue their Re/Visioned animation series, with comic book talent taking on classic Atari 2600 games. Now those shorts have finally seen the light of day, and they’re brilliant. Since Gametap isn’t quite the original content developer they used to be, the six animated shorts now appear on the…
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The Heavyweights Of Fight Night 4
Decades worth of ass-kickery come to life in the latest screenshots from Fight Night Round 4, showcasing the power of seven legendary heavyweight boxers. Ali. Frazier. Foreman. How can you tell a true boxing heavyweight legend from the rest? Well for one, you could say those three names and I’d know what you’re talking about.…
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Xbox Live Arcade Finally Gets A Dishwasher
A year and a half of drooling comes to fruition this Wednesday, as The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai rides a blood-soaked guitar riff onto Xbox Live Arcade. The Dishwasher has come quite a long way since it won Microsoft’s 2007 Dream-Build-Play competition, but its core values remain intact. It’s still a bloody good mess of sexy,…
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Nickelodeon Kids Choose Guitar Hero Over Rock Band
Nickelodeon once again justifies our nation’s voting age restrictions, as Guitar Hero World Tour comes out at the top of a rather sad nominee pool at the 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards. Not that Guitar Hero World Tour isn’t a fine game, and out of the four nominees it could certainly be argued from a certain…
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Nintendo’s DSi Midnight Launch Spectacular
Nintendo is kicking off the release of the DSi with a ever-so-slightly star-studded midnight launch event at Los Angeles’ Universal CityWalk GameStop. Nintendo’s mom Cammie Dunaway and the host of G4’s Attack of the Show, Kevin Periera will be on hand, counting down to the midnight launch of the third iteration of their dual-screen handheld,…
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Metal Gear Solid Mega 64: Super Stealth Kojima
Mega 64 stealths their way through the streets of San Francisco, Metal Gear Solid style, until the characters they are portraying finally meet their maker. In a brilliant callback to their 2007 Game Developers Conference Mario skit, which featured a cameo by creator Shigeru Miyamoto, Mega 64 runs into the creator of the Metal Gear…
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Toby Keith Drops A 6-Pack On Rock Band
The country music singer that’s sold more than 25 million albums this century sells some more music next week, with the release of the Toby Keith 6-Pack for Rock Band. Six of Keith’s tunes will be available for purchase on April 7th and April 9th for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively. The lineup…
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The Last Weekly Wii Update: Super Punch-Out!!
It’s the end of an era, ladies and gentlemen, as Super Punch-Out!! and Bonsai Barber mark the death of the Weekly Wii Update and the beginning of the Weekly Nintendo Download. With the Nintendo DSi releasing this coming Sunday, Nintendo’s weekly list of Wii downloadables will be expanding, as weekly DSi downloads join the mix,…
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10 Reasons To Buy Prototype
Need a reason to pickup Radical Entertainment’s Prototype when it hits store shelves this June? Activision gives you 10. In case you aren’t patient enough to watch all 10, let me sum things up for you. It’s Hulk: Ultimate Destruction plus Spider-man: Web of Shadows. If those were your type of games, it certainly looks…
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Midnight Club Los Angeles DLC Finally Hits 360
Xbox 360 owners of Midnight Club: Los Angeles now join PlayStation 3 owners in tooling around South Central, as the new downloadable content finally makes an appearance on Microsoft’s console. Originally scheduled to be released last week (after a previous delay) both the free South Central map expansion and the premium paid downloadable content were…
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Watch Someone Playing Excitebots: Trick Racing
Witness with joy and wonder in your tear-filled eyes as someone else plays Nintendo’s follow up to Excite Truck, Excitebots. Excitebots seems to look and play just like Excite Truck, only with some new obstacles and gimmicks thrown in to cater to the new animal robot racers. Consider this..Excite Truck was one of the better…
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Same Desk, Different Apartment
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey Re: Slept Late, So Great I’ve been in my new apartment for about two and a half weeks now, but I’ve hardly seen it. For the first week and a half or so it was covered in boxes, which I slowly worked my way through. Now that the majority of the…
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What Is Sony Announcing On Tuesday?
Sony dropped Kotaku a line to let us know that something is going down on Tuesday, March 31st. Could it be the long-rumored price cut is finally upon us? Or could it be something completely different? Rumors have been doing little twirly things all over the internet over the past few weeks regarding a potential…
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Is Blizzard Working On A Fifth Game?
The internet is abuzz with rumors that Blizzard is currently working on an unannounced fifth game, based around an entirely new intellectual property. The source of the buzz seems to be two new job postings that have appeared on Blizzard’s job site over the past week under the category of unannounced. The two listings are…
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Stardock’s Answer To DRM: Goo
With Steamworks’ new CEG technology preparing to make DRM obsolete, Stardock has unveiled their own three-letter acronym answer to digital rights management: Goo. What is Goo? Goo stands for Game Object Obfuscation. What it does is allow game publishers to encapsulate their game’s executable file together with Stardock’s Impulse Reactor virtual platform in a single…
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Here’s How You Play The New Punch-Out!!
Direct from the 2009 Game Developers Convention, here’s someone demonstrating how to play the new Wii version of Punch-Out!! The person playing Punch-Out!! in this clip is making it look rather easy, which is a relatively good thing. Considering how badly motion controls have been implemented in another recent boxing franchise revival, ease-of-use is a…
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Batman Takes On Arkham Asylum’s Challenge Rooms
Batman: Arkham Asylum game director Sefton Hill walks us through one of the game’s challenge rooms, demonstrating exactly what they mean by “invisible predator” gameplay. This is one of the games that really makes me regret not making it to the Game Developers Conference this year. I’m a relatively large fan of Batman, but I’ve…
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