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Retro Game Master Episode 9: Battle Golfer Yui
This week on Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on Battle Golfer Yui, a golf game that it is more than it seems. Launched in 1991 in Japan, Battle Golfer Yui follows the exploits of two normal high school girls who are drafted into a tournament thanks to their exemplary golf skills. Little do they…
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Nine Minutes of Sneaky-Stabby Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Gameplay Footage
Get it while it’s hot, folks. Nearly ten minutes of what appears to be an early segment of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has found its way to the wild interwest. See Altair stab! See Ezio bomb things! Marvel at the lovely engine that just keeps staying lovely!
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Modern Warfare 3 Gets Dedicated Servers on PC (That’s a Great Thing for Competitive Play)
You heard that right: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on the PC, just like your daddy’s multiplayer shooters did. That’s the kind of stuff we like to see—and the kind of stuff you get when the king of pop shooters has a challenger to the throne. Robert Bowling’s Twitter [Twitter.com]
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This Thursday Retro Game Master Takes On Battle Golfer Yui—In 16-Bit HD!
This week on Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on Battle Golfer Yui, a golf game that it is more than it seems. Launched in 1991 in Japan, Battle Golfer Yui follows the exploits of two normal high school girls who are drafted into a tournament thanks to their exemplary golf skills. Little do they…
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Preorder Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC) for $34
Never having ordered from Greenman Gaming before, I can’t tell you if you’ll have to pay shipping (or if that shipping will get you release-day delivery), but for $34 you can probably stand to wait a day or two after launch. Just be sure to use coupon code “20SUM-MERSA-VINGS”. Update: It uses Steam somehow?! This…
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Sony Launching a New Wi-Fi-less PSP for €99 [Update: Europe Only!]
Apparently unwilling to give up the older PSP platform despite launching the PS Vita successor next year, Sony has just announced a new regular PSP that doesn’t use discs, but only supports downloads. [Update: I misheard the announcement. I’m hearing now the new model doesn’t have Wi-Fi, which would certainly imply it doesn’t have downloads.…
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“Soul of Toys”, a Gallery of Ugly Mugs atop the Shoulders of our Favorite Action Figures
Jeremy Schultz loves taking photos of action figures. No posing, no irony. Just unadorned portraits of aging, flaking action figures, which for those of a certain age will evoke quite a bit of memory. (And no small bit of “God, was that thing really that ugly?”) He’s working on a coffee table book called “Soul…
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Imagine a World of Battleships (Minus Kevin Costner)
From the maker of World of Tanks comes World of Battleships, a free-to-play PC game that will allow players to smack each other around using giant action battleships. Although there are few details on release dates, my gut is telling me we’ll see this sooner than later with the same sort of approachable gameplay that…
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Mass Effect 3 Screens Show BroShep Killing Alien Types, Being BroShep
You’d think after all the hullabaloo about FemShep, the female version of Mass Effect 3‘s “Shepherd” main character, that BioWare would release some screenshots showing the new fan-picked blonde model shooting some aliens in the mandibles. But nope! It’s hunky ol’ BroShep instead.
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Brown Badasses Are Back: A Boatload of Gears of War 3 Campaign Screens
I recently got myself in a bit of hot water by mentioning I wasn’t all that excited for Gears of War 3. I didn’t mean it as an insult. It’s just that there are a million interesting new games coming out this year that hold the promise of new experiences, while Gears is going to…
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If Bioshock Infinite Encourages Cosplay Like This, I’m All For It
Russian cosplayer Ormeli offers her take on Bioshock Infinite‘s “Elizabeth”, the emotive sidekick that accompanies you throughout your adventure in a time-rent floating city. It’s a little bit Alice in Wonderland, a little bit Alice in Wonderland at the adult costume shop. Either way: bring on the Lizbots! Elizabeth Cosplay [Flickr via Reddit]
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Planetside 2 Keeping Friendly Fire, Adding Offline Skill Training
Planetside 2, the massively multiplayer first-person shooter with persistent warfare between three competing factions, is shaping up to be a pleasantly hardcore experience, if a presentation by the team is anything to go by. FPSGuru.com spoke to Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley and Matt Higby, who described Planetside 2’s dynamic, gameplay-affecting warfare, multiple planets, skills…
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Kotaku Presents Two New Tracks from Jonathan Coulton’s Upcoming Album “Artificial Heart”
It’s our singular honor to be the first to present two live cuts from the massively talented, massively bearded troubadour Jonathan Coulton‘s upcoming album “Artificial Heart”. You may know Jonathan from his fan favorite songs “Skullcrusher Mountain”, “re: Your Brains”, “Code Monkey”, or—very likely around these parts—”Still Alive (GLaDOS’s Song)” and “Want You Gone (Love…
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Technically, this is a new Skyrim Screenshot
After getting an hour with Skyrim at QuakeCon last weekend, I was promised by I’d get a screenshot of the character I’d created from Bethesda when I returned home, like a souvenir. Without further adieu, here is “Prisoner”, an orc character with more or less random settings. He’s rather fetching, with his sexy triceps and…
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Thirty Years of IBM PCs Means 29.9 Years of PC Gaming
Today’s a special day: The 30-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM PC, a machine created for business that many of us soon discovered made a perfectly wonderful gaming machine. The PC wasn’t my first gaming computer (that was a Radio Shack TRS-80), but it was certainly the one that turned me into a…
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A Hardcore Triber Tells You Why Tribes: Ascend is So, So Close to Being Transcendent
I have played Tribes: Ascend. If that statement doesn’t make you jealous, provoke salivating, or awaken tense memories of last-minute flag captures that you can physically feel in your shoulders and mousing hand, this probably isn’t going to be the article for you. Tribes is my all-time favorite game series of all time. Tribes and…
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An Hour with Skyrim. It’s Amazing.
I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn’t give a dragon’s ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series—none of which I’ve played for more than an hour or two at most—I’ve never had any opportunity to understand, let alone…
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Live from QuakeCon, a Rage Playthrough Liveblog
Hello, eerbody! I’m in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software’s new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play. I’ll be updating every five minutes or so. 12:33 The music in the…
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