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The Warriors: Street Brawl Preview: Go Home To Play
The late 70s must’ve been a hell of a time to spawn visions of a futuristic New York controlled by themed gangs. You’ve got the Baseball Furies, the Lizzies and more neon pieces of clothing than you could shake a crowbar at. Seriously, did something happen in 1975 to inspire these strange, strange interpretations of…
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NHL 2K10 Preview: Zamboni Smackdown
One of my worst nightmares – next to the one about a high school reunion – is attending a preview event where I’m the only girl and I have no idea how to play the game. You’d think I would have faced this fear enough times to master it, or at least learned to play…
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So What Did You Think Of Fairytale Fights?
At PAX, I dragged two of my friends over to the Playlogic booth to check out Fairytale Fights – just to make absolutely sure I wasn’t off my rocker for liking the game. I also wanted a longer look at the giants’ table level. The level interested me the first time I saw it, but…
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Torture In Video Games
At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda’s Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. Of course, the game doesn’t call it torture. I think the term they use is “extreme interrogation…
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MySims Agents Sneaks In Some Dead Space, Mirror’s Edge
I went back for a second look at MySims Agents specifically to see the spooky mansion level. It turns out there’s more to that level — and the game — than meets the eye. The mansion is set up like the board game Clue, except nobody dies. Instead, somebody breaks something and your Sim has…
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Kotaku’s Fall Fashion Special
Fall is here and that means two things: Prices are rising and temperatures are dropping. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide. We tracked down gamer-made gamer apparel from all across the Internet, some with game publisher licenses and some without. Between…
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Reviews
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Review: My Cup of Tea
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is the second game in the Professor Layton series created mostly by Level-5’s puzzle-obsessed Akihiro Hino. Like the other games, the plot of Diabolical Box is driven by the Professor’s need to solve an overarching mystery – this time around, it’s the death of his friend and mentor. Accompanied…
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PAX Panel Attempts To Define “Gamer,” Sparks Casual Controversy
The PAX panel, Game Culture: How Gamers Impact Society & How Policy Affects Gamer Culture, had some mildly interesting moments – but it got really interesting right at the end, during Q&A. Throughout the event, panelists Joel DeYoung of Hothead Games, Jennifer Mercurio of the Entertainment Consumers Association, James Portnow of Divide By Zero Games…
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Nostalgia Preview: The Winds Of Staying The Same
Nostalgia is a DS role playing game that hearkens back not only to when Final Fantasy VII’s graphics were next-generation, but to an era of steam and airships that never quite existed. That’s right – that thing I’m always going on about is the main selling point of this game: steampunk. Normally, this would be…
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Time Warp: Inside the Turtle Van
The outside of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles PAX display was laregly about the new TMNT: Smash-Up game, but the inside was a trip back in time to the late 80s/early 90s. Inside the Turtles Tour bus (modeled to look as much like the Turtle Van as spray paint would allow), there were all kinds…
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PAX Swag Report: The Good, The Bad And The WTF
Well, it turns out that Poogie I was eying at the Capcom booth went for like $40, so I settled for all the free stuff you see here. You tell me — did I make the right decision? Actually, not all of the PAX swag this year was completely “free.” To net the majority of…
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PAX Cosplay Round One – FIGHT!
The doors are open and the cosplayers are out at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo. Here’re the highlights of the first day. The Killzone 2 guy is by far one of the better non-sexy costumes on display, while Pyramid Head leaves a lot to be desired (like an actual prymid, perhaps). In the sexy department,…
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Dreamkiller Preview: What Dreams May Die
Dreamkiller is a sequel to a fan-made sequel of a first-person shooter where the entire point of the game was to kill as much as you could as fast as you could. True to its roots, Dreamkiller has a lot of killing and not a lot of time to do it in. For some, you…
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Fighting Fantasy Follow-Up Preview: Fear My Stylus
It’s been a little more than two months since I last saw Fighting Fantasy – the DS action/adventure RPG based on a choose-your-own-adventure book series of the same name. Here’s what’s changed since then. Just in case you missed my last preview, here’s a little history lesson. The Fighting Fantasy books were penned back in…
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Order Of War Preview: Almost Everything Is In Order
Please forgive the author as her headline-writing guy seems to be out of the office at the moment, along with the chick who comes up with puns. Order of War is a World War II strategy game for PC with a slightly different angle than all the other WWII strategy games out there: it’s not…
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Earth Eternal Impressions: Dispelling Furry Worries
Up until yesterday, all I’d heard about Earth Eternal was some grumbling about furries and over-long exposition text. Funny, because I saw neither of those when I sat down with the game. There were anthropomorphic animals, of course. The entire game is rooted in a back story where humans have died off and various animals…
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Capcom’s Plans for PAX… I’m Gonna Need A Bigger Swag Bag
I’m packing my bags for the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo – packing empty bags, that is, in which to cram all my anticipated swag. Luckily, Capcom’s supplied me with a list of what they’re planning on giving away or offering at their store on the weekend of PAX. That should make my attack strategy planning…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla PC Preview: PC Gamers Get Best Version (If Their Rigs Can Handle It)
I feel awful for PC gamers most of the time because they often get games late and have to deal with more controversy about piracy and digital rights management. Having seen and played Red Faction: Guerrilla on the PC, however, I no longer feel so bad for PC gamers. In fact, I think I envy…
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See Valhalla Knights for yourself
My preview of the upcoming Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga for the Wii seems to have a lot of people up in arms about graphics, gimmicks and general Wii skepticism. Far be it for me to be the only way the game can represent itself to skeptics and optimists alike. Get a load of this trailer…
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Half-Formed Half-Minute Hero Impressions: Why Am I Naked?!
Another game Stephen Totilo got to first that I was curious about was Half-Minute Hero, the game where you really only have 30 seconds to beat a level. The game’s concept sounded simple enough to me – you play as little 8-bit characters that riff on classic role-playing game tenants and have 30 seconds to…
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