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GameStop Inviting Gamers to One-Day Exposition in Texas
GameStop is holding a consumer-facing exposition, “EXPO,” in San Antonio, Texas, on August 29. EXPO, open to the public, is an addition to GameStop’s annual employee-only conference. A number of large publishers plan to attend and demo upcoming games. [GameStop]
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Fallout‘s Chris Avellone Agrees to Join Fan Webseries Project
Fan webseries Fallout: Nuka Break is, as Kotaku once observed, actually pretty good. The first season ran through 2011. Riding the wave of gamer zeitgeist in 2012, the series’ creators have turned to Kickstarter to find the second season. Fans rallied and the Kickstarter campaign met and exceeded its goals some time ago, so the…
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Kingdoms of Amalur Developer Lays Off Some Employees After Missing Payroll
The future continues to look grim for Rhode Island game developer 38 Studios. After missing a May 1 loan payment and failing to make payroll last week, the beleaguered studio has had to lay off some employees. Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee confirmed to local network WPRI yesterday that 38 Studios would be letting an…
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Sony’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Launching For iPhone
Sony’s “Music Unlimited” app, a streaming music service in the vein of Spotify, is launching this week for iPhone and iPad. Previously, it had been available only for Sony devices (including the PS3) and Android phones. [CNet]
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Nolan North is in Star Trek 2 Because J.J. Abrams Likes Uncharted
It seems like Nolan North is in everything. If there is a video game, and that video game has a voice cast, he is somehow bound to be in it somewhere. North is now best known for his starring role as Nathan Drake, in the PS3’s Uncharted series. He’s a smart-ass Indiana Jones for the…
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These Squishy Nintendo Controllers Were Meant for Hugging
Haven’t you always wanted to cozy up with an NES? Okay, well, maybe not so much. They do have a lot of sharp edges, and do you even know where that controller has been? I swear I saw the dog licking it yesterday, and then your little brotherā€” Well. Over at her shop Felt Sew…
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Bungie’s Next Huge Game is an Xbox-First “Sci-Fantasy, Action Shooter,” Court Records Show
The court case between Activision and developers Jason West and Vincent Zampella has brought all kinds of ugliness to light. But filings for the case have also made the details of the April, 2010 contract between Bungie, developers of Halo, and Activision a matter of public record, revealing Bungie’s upcoming game development plans. The L.A.…
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Ghost Recon Commander Lets You Sneak Around Facebook Today
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Ubisoft’s new third-person sneaky shooter, comes out tomorrow. But for those eager to dive into stealth shooting action, the tie-in Facebook game, Ghost Recon: Commander, is available now. The game starts out like many Facebook games, introducing the player to their base, which the player builds up over time purchasing items…
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The Newest Player in the Game of Thrones Marches its Armies onto Facebook
Like five kings fighting over the Iron Throne, games hoping to represent the true Game of Thrones experience keep arising. The newest contender hopes to wave its victorious banner over the fertile fields of Facebook. Game of Thrones Ascent will take place in HBO’s version of George R.R. Martin’s sprawling fantasy world. Developer Disruptor Beam…
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How a Pro Athlete’s Video Game Studio Came To Owe Rhode Island Millions
In a week filled with video-game related drama, one of the main stages has starred 38 Studios. The developer, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is evidently out of money, and can’t repay their loans. Worse, the loan in question was from the state of Rhode Island, potentially leaving taxpayers footing the bill for incomplete MMO…
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Racist Comment Leads DOTA 2 Commentator To Apologize To Community
Toby “Tobi Wan” Dawson is a professional commentator for esports site JoinDOTA. He covers DOTA and now DOTA 2 matches and tournaments, and is considered to be quite entertaining. Unfortunately, the commentary he was caught making while playing in a live-streamed public match over the weekend is not so much entertaining as it is inexplicably…
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Borderlands 2 Loot Chest Wants to Get Players Pillaging
The team behind upcoming shooter Borderlands 2 first showed off their fancy loot chest last month at PAX East. The design came from community suggestions, made to look like the in-game loot chests, and they promised it would be filled with as-yet unannounced goodies. Well, now the goodies are announced. Nestled deeply in among the…
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Give Your Modern Electronics a Handmade, 8-Bit Boost
Does your PC need a power-up? Perhaps a little boost in speed, power, and size? Or maybe it just needs more magic, or a certain sword. Or maybe your iPhone will charge better if you plug it into a pipe! You never know, it might just come back full of coins. Or you could give…
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ReviewsStarhawk: The Kotaku Review
Starhawk is a third-person shooter. Actually, scratch that, let me try again: Starhawk is a fighter-pilot game. Although… only sort of. Maybe Starhawk is a real-time strategy game. This is all getting complicated. How about: Starhawk is a Western, in space. And a fun one. Yes. Let’s go with that. The truth is, Starhawk takes…
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Nvidia Wants to Stream Your Next GPU to You
NVidia made a splash at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, with the announcement of their first virtual, cloud-based GPU. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed a presentation explaining how the Nvidia VGX, based on the new Kepler architecture, can distribute streaming graphics processing. They’re aiming their new tech both at businesses and at gamers,…
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Unravel Society’s Disaster in Analogue: A Hate Story
It’s the far future. You’re a salvager, and you’ve been notified that a derelict, ancient 25th-century colony ship, one of the generation ships Earth sent out eons before you were born, has been found drifting aimlessly in space. Your task is to dig through all of the log files you can turn up on board…
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Kingdoms of Amalur Creators Owe Millions, And They Can’t Pay
Yesterday, after a comment from Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, rumors began to swirl that Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios was finding themselves with money woes Today, the Providence Journal reports that 38 Studios has, indeed, missed a loan payment to the state and now essentially finds itself in default. Speaker of the Rhode…
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Max Payne 3‘s Kill Shots Are Expectedly Violent, But Strangely Artistic
I’ve seen quite a few slow-motion CGI kill shots in my life, really. That’s part of what it is to play a game featuring guns, in the modern era: you take a shot, and you spend a moment with time slowing around you, watching blood and bone part ways. Max Payne 3 brings the artistry…
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Smell Your Video Games While You Play Them
Given what some games could smell like (blood, dirt, hellspawn hordes), this is far better than you’d think. Over on Etsy, a haven for geeky goods, seller Bubble and Geek has created a lovely line of fan-favorite home goods. These scented candles draw inspiration from fan-favorites like Doctor Who, Star Wars, and, yes, video games.…
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