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Yuke’s Launches Downloadable Games Division With Adorable Logo
Yuke’s Company of America loves downloadable gaming platforms so much that they’ve just created Akinai Games, a special division with a special logo, devoted to creating downloadable console titles. Yuke’s recognizes the growing shift towards downloadable titles with Akinai Games, which loosely translated from Japanese means “keep entertained.” The division will be focused on creating…
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Linden Lab Buys Second Life Virtual Marketplaces OnRez And Xstreet SL
Second Life creators Linden Lab have been shopping for shopping, acquiring virtual goods marketplaces OnRez and Xstreet SL in order to integrate them into their popular virtual world. OnRez and Xstreet SL (formerly SLExchange) are basically the Amazon.com of Second Life, where residents of the virtual world can browse and purchase items for their avatars…
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WoW Patch 3.0.8 Brings Important Changes To Clams
The first patch since The Wrath of the Lich King has just hit Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, bringing fixes, class changes, and perhaps most importantly – a complete revamp of the clam system. While the ability to create a Death Knight on any server is nice, and the fact that damage over time spells that…
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Class Of Heroes In Session This April
Dungeons? Alchemy? Catacombs? PSP? Yes, it’s a new title from the folks at Atlus! They’ve just announced portable dungeon crawler Class of Heroes, coming this April to the PSP. 80 hours of dungeon crawling await you in Class of Heroes, an action RPG from Japan that manages to combine together all of the usual elements…
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President Barack Obama’s Video Game Buyer’s Guide
There’s a Nintendo Wii in The White House, and while this indeed is a great day for the gaming industry, without proper guidance, President Barack Obama could easily find himself under a pile of shovelware. We at Kotaku cannot let the leader of the free world be caught on television playing the likes of Ninjabread…
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Wizard101 Expands Into Dark Territory With Dragonspyre
The family-friendly massively multiplayer online magic dueling game Wizard101 from KingIsle entertainment expands today, with a new PVP arena and Dragonsprye, a new high-level world for players to battle in. Dragonspye is an ancient, haunted world with a magic Academy of its own, rivaling the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts in Wizard City that features…
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Aussie Game Business Gives Aussie Movie Business A Good Thumping
The video game industry is exploding in Australia, with new figures released today showing games revenue double that of box office revenue and 40% larger than the DVD market. The figures were released by the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia, so they of course are a bit biased, but the numbers certainly look good. The…
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Runes Of Magic Item Shop Is Open For Business
There’s a reason Frogster America’s free-to-play MMORPG Runes of Magic is free, and that reason is the Runes of Magic Item Shop, now accepting cash in exhchange for items that make your grind easier. The Runes of Magic Item Shop is just that – a shop that lets you spend real money in order to…
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What Does Windows 7 Mean To You?
Will the upcoming new version of Windows be yet another Vista for PC gamers to worry about, or will Windows 7 be a boon for the mouse and keyboard set? TechRadar takes a look. When I first upgraded to Windows Vista, I wasn’t just disappointed. I was depressed. It looked lovely, had all these new…
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Minter’s Gridrunner+++ Added To XBLA In April
Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft is so very pleased with PC Gamer UK’s 92% review of the PC version of Space Giraffe that they’ve spilled the beans on the release date for their next title, Gridrunner+++. Gridrunner+++ is actually a reworking of Minter’s PC shooter Gridrunner++ for Xbox Live Arcade. As with Minter’s head, it should be…
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Play Street Fighter With Toys Via YouTube
Patrick Boivin is a French Canadian autodidact director who does amazing things with toys, and amazing things with YouTube as well, using their annotations feature to create an interactive YouTube Street Fighter game. Don’t worry if clicking on the video takes you away from the page; it’s supposed to. Using annotations to embed links to…
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Mark Jacobs Addresses Mythic Layoffs
A rumor posted yesterday on Joystiq regarding layoffs occurring at Mythic Entertainment led to a fan forum frenzy that Mythic head Mark Jacobs couldn’t help but respond to. Mark Jacobs isn’t known for being quiet, so when his forums explode with panicked players worrying about the state of Mythic’s Warhammer Online, he did what he…
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America’s Army Announces America’s Army 3
Six years after the first Army-branded game took the country by storm, the U.S. Army is ready to roll out sequel number two, announcing America’s Army 3, due out later this year. So how does the U.S. Army make a sequel? “In AA3 we’ve taken all of the best features in AA2, incorporated feedback from…
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Venetica Enters The Twilight World
We’ve not seen much of the daughter of death since Venetica was announced back in May, so dtp has sent along some new screens depicting the sort of on-the-job hazards she’ll be facing. Scarlett’s journey in her upcoming action RPG for the 360 and PC takes her into the Twilight World, where she can communicate…
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Lights, Camera, Stoked Screens
This latest batch of screenshots from Destineer’s Stoked highlight what goes on behind the camera and in the editing booth once you’ve finished carving your name in the side of a mountain. The whole point of Stoked is to get yourself fame points in order to appear in snowboarding films and magazines, and these screenshots…
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Mini Ninjas Make Happy Pandas
IO Interactive takes a step away from their popular Hitman franchise to introduce us to an all-new, all-tiny brand of hero, with the announcement of Mini Ninjas. Mini Ninjas tells the story of Hiro, a tiny little ninja killing machine on a quest to restore harmony to the world by battling the Evil Samurai Warlord…
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Marble Saga: Kororinpa Trailer Ups The Ant
Hudson rolls out a teaser trailer to the follow-up to Kororinpa: Marble Mania, Marble Saga: Kororinpa, which adds a story and balance board support to the marble madness of the original. Marble Saga: Kororinpa has the players helping Anthony the Ant as he rolls about in his ball on a journey to reach the Golden…
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Try Puzzle Quest: Galactrix Online
Gamers eager for a taste of the gameplay in D3Publisher’s futuristic take on Puzzle Quest can now do so, with a flash demo that lets you play a round right in your web-browser. Much like they did with the original Puzzle Quest, D3Publisher has made a browser-based demo for the upcoming sequel to the fantasy…
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GameTap Rolls Free Games Back Into The Vault
After a year spent rolling out premium games for non-playing customers to play for free, online gaming service GameTap has announced that they’re now beginning to roll them right back in. Come January 22nd, a large chunk of the free content on GameTap is being rolled back into the premium membership, which means that non-paying…
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EVE Online Drops Classic Client Support, Welcomes Players To This Century
CCP has announced plans to phase out the current Classic Client for EVE Online in favor of a new system that could require users to upgrade for the first time in a decade. The dual-client nature of EVE Online in its current form allows players with more modern PC technology to enjoy spectacular graphics, while…
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