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So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
After nearly a year and half of being Kotaku’s San Francisco Correspondent and default token girl*, it’s time for me to say goodbye. GamePro is whisking me away to that fabled land of print journalism I’ve heard so much about. I can easily say that my time here has been well spent. Kotaku taught me…
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So Now I Have My Own iPhone — What Games Should I Get?
Usually the best gifts we get for the holidays are the ones we buy for ourselves. In my case, this would be an iPhone. Now that I’m in possession of what people are calling the next big portable gaming platform, I need to load it up with games. I’ve got a few in mind so…
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It’s A PopCap App Sale
Looks like I picked a good time to finally get an iPhone. PopCap Games — developers of many addictive games like Peggle and Bookworm — are having an App Store sale. From now until January 4th, you can get Bookworm, Peggle and Chuzzle for $1.99 each. Bejeweled 2, sadly, is excluded from this deal so…
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Listen to Zelda Reorchestrated
Russ Frushtick at MTV Multiplayer was following the progress of a musical group that wanted to remake the music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a real orchestra. Today, he reports, they’ve finally finished their work. The Zelda Reorchestrated project (a.k.a. ZREO) first got started six years ago when a 14-year-old had…
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War Never Looked So Shiny
We’ve established that the upcoming Toy Soldiers for Xbox Live Arcade has things in common with the old PC game, Army Men. Mostly the part where you’re playing with plastic soldiers. But were Army Men ever this shiny? These gameplay trailers give you a good look at just how glossy the plastic soldiers are on…
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Get Fallout 3 Game Add-Ons For 400 Microsoft Points [UPDATE]
All five Fallout 3 game add-ons (Mothership Zeta, Point Lookout, Broken Steel, The Pitt and Operation Anchorage) are only 400 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live today. So, if you’ve been holding out on even one of the add-ons because 800 Points is too high a price, today you officially don’t have any excuses. Tomorrow, you…
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Batman Comic Book Writer Advocates More Video Game Violence?
Landry Walker, writer on comic book Batman: The Brave and The Bold, recently played Batman: Arkham Asylum and did not like what he saw. In his own words, “Batman doesn’t get shot. He doesn’t get shot, because he’s Batman.” As a comic book writer with the name Batman in his bibliography, Walker says he has…
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Assassin’s Creed Fan Film Shows You How Altair Lost His Finger
High quality fan films can enrich video game lore as much as yaoi fanfiction damages it by filling plot holes and visualizing pieces of the game’s back story we only hear about in passing. Take for example the loss of Altair’s ring finger on his hidden-knife-hand. From playing Assassin’s Creed, we know he lost it…
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A Modest Proposal For Holiday YouTube Videos
Every year, I always end up seeing this home video on YouTube as everybody gets into the holiday spirit. I’m sick of it. I want to nominate another video clip in its stead. Now obviously, you’re not going to get the exact same reaction from another pair of fresh-faced youngsters opening up their first major…
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Guess What San Jose Mercury News’ GOTY Is?
Street Fighter IV wowed the San Jose Mercury News enough this year to earn it’s Game of the Year award. No, there won’t be a parade — have you seen the streets in downtown San Jose? Mercury News writer Gieson Cacho put together a top 10 list the likes of which I’m more used to…
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Why Can’t This Ever Happen At The Airports I Use?
This is quite possibly the only Army of Two: The 40th Day teaser that’s made me laugh. Probably because I’ve spent six hours in airports so far this holiday and have another four ahead of me to go home. I don’t even care that it’s a United Kingdom teaser instead of a North American one.…
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Robin Williams On The Wii
If you ever wanted to know how Academy Award winner Robin Williams feels about the Nintendo Wii, we can’t help you. We can just direct you to this one bit of comedy wherein he mentions it. It’s right at 6:44 in that video. The rest of it is pretty hilarious, too, though. Fans of Williams…
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Schrödinger’s Rat Isn’t What You Think It Is
Quick science lesson: Scientist Erwin Schrödinger had a thought experiment where you put a cat in a sealed box with poison. In a nutshell, at a certain point the cat is both alive and dead until you unseal the box. No, he didn’t kill a cat to test this out so far as I know.…
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Fashion Fantasy Knows What Girls REALLY Want For Christmas
Social networking/online game, Fashion Fantasy Game, surveyed over 2,500 teen girls to see what they want for Christmas this year. The answer? Cash. I guess they’ve finally grown out of that I-want-a-pony phase. Fashion Fantasy found that after the 65% that wanted cold, hard cash for Christmas, a whopping 59% wanted a laptop. Coming in…
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Here, Have A Sonic Racing X-mas Video
I cannot express in words just how sick I am of the 12 Days of Christmas song. And I’m not saying that just because I’m Jewish and Hanukkah is over — I really can’t stand that song. Doesn’t it drive anybody else crazy how the first five days or so are birds? Or how you…
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Reviews
The Sims 3: World Adventures Review: A Form Of Manifest Destiny
Expansions are to The Sims series as pimples are to puberty: they’re going to happen, so embrace them and try to avoid nasty pit scars. It’s just part of growing up. The Sims 3: World Adventures opens up three new remote locations your Sim can visit: China, France and Egypt. The purpose of visiting the…
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Realism’s Place In The Legend Of Zelda
Edge magazine has an interview with Legend of Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma in their 211th issue feature, Links To The Past. His feelings on Twilight Princess? Regret. In a snippet of of the interview reprinted on Edge Online, Aonuma says that the realistic look and feel of Twilight Princess presented challenges for the designers…
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Capcom Delays Major Games
Capcom is delaying Lost Planet 2, Super Street Fighter IV, Dead Rising 2 and the North American release of Monster Hunter Tri into a 12-month period starting on April 1, 2010. A forecast revisions document reveals that all four titles will be pushed back to the company’s 2010 fiscal year (staring in April, ending March…
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