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Toy Soldiers — It’s Ain’t Exactly Army Men, But It’ll Do
I have fond high school memories is of secretly installing Army Men on school computers. I’m not in high school anymore, thank God, but my love of toy soldiers can continue in… Toy Soldiers. The upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game is a strategy game that probably has some action-y elements (based on how close the…
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Final Fantasy VIII Is On PSN In Japan Today
Forget Final Fantasy VII — eighth grade was all about Squall for me and nearly every other girl in my middle school. We thrived on his taciturn drama (so unwhiny, unlike Cloud!) and we worshiped mighty… uh, gunblade. Anyway, you can get Final Fantasy VIII on PlayStation Network as of today. As in right now.…
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New Snoopy Screens For Flying Aces
It’s been a while since Snoopy vs. The Red Baron, so I for one am thrilled to see him flying the skies once again in Snoopy Flying Aces. From what I can tell based on a press release and on these screen shots, this Xbox Live Arcade game looks like it’s got online multiplayer. And…
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The Voice Of A Master: James Arnold Taylor
I got a lot out of LucasArts’ Clone Wars junket, but the best treat was meeting the man behind the voices of Tidus, Ratchet and of course Obi-Wan Kenobi. Journalists were given about 20 minutes with Mr. Taylor (pictured, left) during the junket for a roundtable Q&A. Naturally, I had to let the TV critics…
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Week Of Disney: When A Games Journalist Moonlights
GamesRadar is doing Disney theme week to celebrate the upcoming release of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and yours truly was lucky enough to participate. So if you ever wonder what I do when I’m not blogging my little heart out for Kotaku, go check out this massive feature I put together on the history of…
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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Preview: Split Personality Gameplay
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a massively successful CGI show on Cartoon Network. Can its tie-in game live up to the hype? I’m still confused about how to think of Republic Heroes. On the one hand, it’s a tie-in game for a show that turned out to be way cooler than a I thought…
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Impressions: Impressive… Most Impressive
I scorned the CGI Clone Wars cartoon when it first came out for several reasons – the biggest one being Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. I mean come on, an apprentice? He’s not even a Jedi Master, plus she’s never mentioned anywhere in the movies. That means that either Skywalker’s hallucinating for the entire cartoon,…
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LEGO Indiana Jones 2 Driving Segment Preview: Smash! Crash! Rehash!
I get apprehensive whenever a developer announces a driving part of their adventure game. It’s like, what’s their motivation for putting that in there? Do they even know how to design driving levels…? Luckily, LEGO Indiana Jones 2 does it right. Not only is it adding a gameplay element that you’d kind of expect based…
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Reviews
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Review: Heroes And A Half-Smash-Bros.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is one of the longer video game names out there, but it says pretty much everything you need to know about the game. Except exactly which flavor of Ninja Turtles to expect. The series evolved a lot since the 1980s, so it’s important for fans to know whether they’re dealing…
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Tales of Monkey Island: Episode Three Impressions – In The Belly Of The Beast
We’re pretty much at the midpoint in Tales of Monkey Island episodes. At the risk of spoilers, let’s just say things are looking pretty icky for Guybrush Threepwood. Being inside a manatee will do that – and I don’t just mean in its mouth, I mean deep inside its bowels. Our smart-talking hero finds himself…
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International Relations And Video Games — An Almost-Interview
For four years, I studied everything about East Asian security dilemmas and conflicts in post-Soviet Russia. What good is my international relations major if I can’t inflict it on a game developer? Luckily, Sion Lenton — Executive Producer at Codemasters on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising — was a good sport and let “Professor Glasser” talk…
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Here’s A TMNT Smash-Up Launch Trailer
If you’re wondering why this looks like Smash Bros. Brawl with Ninja Turtles, it’s because of developer Game Arts. But don’t expect too many Smash Bros. throwbacks out of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up besides the control scheme. There’s plenty of Turtle lore from the comic books, movies and cartoons for Game Arts to work…
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Watch The First Fifteen Minutes Of Dead Space: Extraction
It should go without saying, but… SPOILER WARNING! Thanks to Dead Space: Extraction hitting the streets in Australia a whole week earlier than here in the US, we’ve got nothing better to do than watch an Australian gamer play through the first fifteen minutes. I know it’s an on rails shooter a “guided first person…
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Ju-on: The Grudge Dev Says Wii Is “Most Ideal” For Horror Games
Sure, this trailer for Ju-on: The Grudge was less than impressive, but the idea behind a "game" that’s really a haunted house simulator is pretty cool, right? GamePro‘s got an interview with Makoto Chida, Project Manager on the upcoming Ju-on game. In it, there’s all kinds of tidbits on Japanese versus American horror and gameplay…
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Obey The Fist Full Of Cake Screens!
Not to whine about the hand that feeds me, but I was bummed out about not having any screens of Fat Princess: Fist Full of Cake to run with my first look. But today, all that changes and I (via Sony Computer Entertainment) bring you a Fist Full of Cake in screenshot format. Click on…
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iPhone Game Predicts Where You’ll Be In 10 Years
Forget your high school guidance counselor — let your iPhone tell you all about your glorious future as a systems analyst. Japanese game developer Acute Entertainment aims to inform iPhone owners of their future with the new game, Forecast of Yourself After 10 years. For a mere $1.99 USD on the App Store, you can…
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Dark Void Community Site Encourages Cult Mentality
Capcom’s new Dark Void community site works like a cult — they want you to recruit new “resistance members” for the cause… and for free stuff, too. Members of the Dark Void site get access to the usually goodies — developer diaries, screenshots, production blogs — but it seems like they’re really pushing the “missions”…
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AJ’s Super-Huge PSP Media Event Blitz
I seriously did not anticipate the sheer number of games I’d be seeing for the PSP at last night’s Sony Computer Entertainment event. Too bad there wasn’t time to play them all. I did my best to prioritize the stuff we hadn’t seen before, but I found myself jockeying with a lot of other journalists…
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Petz Preview: There’s Some Strategy Here
Sometimes at a press event, it’s a good idea to try the one game everybody doesn’t want to play – because it’s usually right next to the one everybody would kill to see. That’s right: Petz was my devious strategy to get a good look at Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines. Was it worth it? Actually, yes…
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Visualization: A Weird Experience With Beaterator
How do you get a feel for a music game when there’s no sound? Answer: Learn to visualize music. Rockstar’s game that’s more like a music application, Beaterator, features a ton of modes for the making of music on your PSP – all of which Stephen Totilo breaks down for you here. The project was…
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