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Noby Noby Boy Multiplayer Teaser Is Slightly Disturbing
Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has dropped a Noby Noby Boy offline multiplayer teaser that leaves us feeling slightly queasy for some reason. I don’t know if it’s the random gasping noises or the fact that the multiple boys pop out of that little house like intestines unraveling from a particularly nasty torso wound, but…
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Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing
According to a former employee of Lionhead Studios, being openly gay at a Microsoft-owned development studio can be just as bad as having an openly gay Xbox Live gamertag. Gay video game designer Jamie Durrant is suing Microsoft for £45,000 in ‘hurt feelings’ and lost pay, claiming discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. Durrant…
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Microsoft Makes 360 Development Easier All Around
Microsoft makes game development easier for all levels of Xbox 360 developers, with new development kits for professionals and updated XNA Game Studio software that adds avatar and Live Party support. Both XNA community game creators and Xbox Live Arcade developers who utilize the XNA Games Studio will be able to add Xbox Live avatars…
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Ubisoft’s Real-Time Strategy Is A Clever R.U.S.E.
Ubisoft teams with developer Eugen Systems to create R.U.S.E., an innovative real-time strategy title where deception is the key to victory. R.U.S.E., built by Act of War: Direct Action developer Eugen, promises to reinvigorate the real-time strategy genre by adding the element of bluffing, allowing players to fake out their opponents as they battle it…
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Red Faction Guerrilla: Tools Of Destruction
Richard Machowicz, host of the TV show Future Weapons, showcases the destructive power of the arsenal available in Red Faction: Guerrilla. The first video deals with the more personal ways to hurt people, places, and things in Red Faction: Guerrilla, including the assault rifle and the powered sledgehammer – my personal favorite. The second clip…
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New Steamworks Feature “Makes DRM Obsolete”
Shortly after Microsoft revealed new features for their Games for Windows Live service, Valve counters with new Steamworks features, including in-game downloadable content, robust matchmaking, and new technology they claim “makes DRM obsolete.” We’ve already heard about the new downloadable content support for Steam, and the matchmaking is the same we’ve seen in the PC…
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Fallout 3’s The Pitt Isn’t Quite Right, Bethesda Is On The Case – UPDATE
Reports are pouring in from all corners of the intersphere that Bethesda’s The Pitt downloadable content for Fallout 3 is relatively broken, with graphical glitches and freezing issues abounding. Three separate threads can be found on the official Bethesda forums regarding glitches in The Pitt downloadable content for Fallout 3, mostly centered around the Xbox…
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Now This Is How You Remake Punch-Out!!
.html The first trailer for the Wii remake of Punch-Out!! enters the ring, knocking other boxing games on their asses with a nostalgic uppercut. Judging by the trailer, Nintendo has managed to maintain the gameplay of the original, updating our favorite boxers while maintaining their original look and feel. Even Disco Kid, the new boxer…
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Microsoft Pretties Up Games For Windows LIVE
Microsoft is adding several new features to their Games for Windows LIVE service in order to make it more attractive to gamers and publishers and less attractive to pirates. Microsoft first attacks PC game piracy with the introduction of zero-day piracy protection and server-side authentication, requiring that consumers verify their products before participating in online…
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Tour Aion’s Lovely Ishlagen Zone
At this point I am relatively sure NCsoft just enjoys teasing North American and European online role-playing game fans, releasing another clip of a place we won’t soon be able to go in Aion. Until we have a solid date on when we’ll be able to step foot in the lovely places displayed in videos…
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Left 4 Duty: World At War
Activision’s trailer for the zombie-slaying Verrückt map from the first Call of Duty: World at War map pack is more survival horror than any World War II shooter has a right to be. At first the zombies in Call of Duty: World at War were merely a novelty, but the more I see of them…
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Tell The Guards To Stop Aiming At Me
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey Re: The Magic of Fax Machines So apparently Crecente, McWhertor, Amanda, and Adam are far too busy dealing with the Game Developers Conference to come online and scribble down some notes for the day, so the task is left up to me, the lone wolf, left guarding Kotaku Tower with nothing…
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New Screens Capture The True Essence Of A Bash Party
Finally a set of screenshots for EA’s Boom Blox Bash Party that accurately portray what a true Bash Party should look like. Mind you, most of the images are just colored blocks with various colorful characters interacting with them, but the last one in the gallery completely nails it. It’s hard to believe they managed…
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Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack Rushes To Retail
Harmonix packs twenty classic tunes from the likes of The Who, Rush, Steve Miller Band, and The Police into the Classic Rock Track Pack, a standalone disk hitting store shelves in May. The Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock is the latest retail expansion for the Rock Band series, with 20 classic rock tracks playable…
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Castle Crashers Is The Xbox Live Game Of The Year
Microsoft has announced the winners of the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade Awards, with The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers walking away with Game of the Year. Castle Crashers actually won three categories in the Xbox Live Arcade Awards, the annual awards voted on by the players themselves. Along with Game of the Year, it was also awarded…
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Screens From A Killing Floor
Following last Friday’s announcement of their upcoming PC shooter Killing Floor, Tripwire Interactive sends along a handful of screenshots to help identify what we’ll be killing on the floor, and how we’ll be killing it. There’s an awful lot of rust and green in this set of screens, which I am sure has something to…
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Oh Captain My Spore Space Captain
What does it take for your creature to become a space captain in Spore: Galactic Adventures? A dynamic trailer with dramatic voice overs, that’s what. Its pretty much a whole new game added onto the already existing one, once the Spore: Galactic Adventures expansion is released this June. A whole new game starring a space…
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PETA Fights Call Of Duty Dog Killing With Nintendogs
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have thrown their support behind the Academy of Notre Dame student protest against dog killing in Call of Duty: World at War. To show their support to the student group that organized a petition to voice their disgust over the shooting of killer guard dogs in Activision’s…
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It’s Ubisoft Sale Week On Steam
Every day this week, Steam will be featuring special deals on Ubisoft PC titles, with Assassin’s Creed up first on the block. Today and today only, Assassin’s Creed for the PC is available on Steam for 50% off the regular price of $19.99, meaning you can snag the Director’s Cut Edition of Altair’s adventures in…
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PlayStation Home Gets Much More Interesting With Xi
There’s much more to do in PlayStation Home than the Running Man today, as Sony launches the first console-based Alternate Reality Game, Xi. Mysterious graffiti has shown up in the main square area of PlayStation Home, and looking at it gives you access to The Hub, where this whole new Alternate Reality Game pans out.…
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