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Halo 4 Reviewers All Glad That The Fight’s Not Finished Yet
Players jumped in by the millions to finish the fight in Halo 3, back in 2007. And yet, like many a franchise before it, the one-time trilogy of Halo games finds itself with a new fourth sibling, years later. This year, the old franchise-Halo first launched in 2001-found itself in new hands, no longer developed…
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Reviewers Love Playing With Animals, Climbing Trees, and Stabbing People In Assassin’s Creed III
Swinging through the treetops certainly doesn’t seem like a particularly colonial pastime. And yet reviewers seem to love it. The newest entry in the Assassin’s Creed saga takes to the 18th century and the heart of the American Revolution. Can Boston and New York, in their fledgling states, measure up to Damascus, Rome, and Istanbul?…
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Original Mass Effect Available For PS3 On December 4, Some DLC Included
The Mass Effect Trilogy, due out for PC and Xbox 360 on November 6, will be available for PlayStation 3 on December 4, BioWare announced today. The trilogy brings the first Mass Effect game to the PS3 for the first time, although Mass Effect 2 and 3 were both available on the console. Where the…
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Dreamfall Chapters Is Real. Actually Happening. Ragnar Tørnquist is ON IT.
Adventure game fans, now is the time to begin squeeing and flailing with joy. Ragnar Tørnquist, the man behind The Longest Journey and Dreamfall-and recent MMO The Secret World-has formed a new studio and actually begun production on Dreamfall Chapters, Funcom announced today. In a press release, Funcom said that Red Thread Games, Tørnquist’s new…
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Scary Games And I Do Not Get Along. I’ll Stick With The Cuter Side of Halloween.
Tonight, Halloween night, isn’t just for trick-or-treating or parties and dances. It’s the perfect time of year to turn down the lights, turn up the speakers, and play the hell out of a scary game. Except that horror games and I, well, we don’t mix well at all. I don’t do spooky and scary. The…
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Seven Reviewers Love Zooming Around In Circles In Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Do you have a strong desire to go fast? A veritable need for speed, perhaps? Reviewers worldwide have raced madly through a Fairhaven mainly devoid of normality, but chock-full of cars, cops, and crashes. Even the single-player in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an asynchronous multiplayer and the rules of both is “go fast”…
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You Can Start Tapping Curiosity’s Cube On November 7
Curiosity will launch early in the morning on November 7, developer Peter Molyneux announced on Twitter today. “Curiosity will be out on 7th November 2012 at 00:22PST 08:22UST,” Molyneux wrote. “The development has been a fascinating ride,release will be 10x fascinating.” Curiosity is the first experiment from Molyneux’s new studio, 22 Cans. The iOS app…
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Call of Duty and Guitar Hero Servers Face Storm-Related Troubles
We here at Kotaku aren’t the only ones with servers in storm-beset New York City. Activision, too, has servers in the zone affected by wind, water, and power outages, and those servers are having a rough time of things right now. Actvision community manager Dan Amrich announced on his blog, One of Swords, that servers…
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Dead Island Riptide Will Be Released April 23, Special Edition Announced
Dead Island Riptide will be released on April 23, developer Deep Silver announced in a press release today. They also announced a special edition of the game, which includes “a pack of exclusive weapon mods (for more creative undead destruction!), a digital strategy map (for the best expert advice on how to own the approaching…
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Ghost Recon Facebook Game Canceled
The Ghost Recon Facebook game, Ghost Recon Commander, has been canceled. The game was designed by Loot Drop. Brenda Romero, Loot Drop co-founder, announced the cancellation, tweeting, “Sad news. Today, Ghost Recon Commander was cancelled. As a result, we laid off a team of kick-ass developers. If you have openings, ping me.” Ghost Recon Commander…
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Wreck-It Ralph‘s 8-Bit Animation Was a Downshift Disney Had Trouble Making
Wreck-It Ralph comes out this weekend. The film, Disney’s newest animated feature, seeks to do with video games what Toy Story did for toys of the non-digital sort, and tie into nostalgia for the 8-bit era. Pulling off a retro look seems simple but was deceptively difficult for the studio, the filmmakers explained to the…
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Save-Erasing Bug Hits Borderlands 2, Travels Through Xbox 360 Multiplayer
There’s a nasty bug going around among Xbox 360 players of Borderlands 2. The bug travels like a virus, and erases players’ save game data. Gearbox staff explained on their forums that the bug originates from certain players using “an external application to maliciously disrupt the experience and sabotage characters of legitimate Borderlands 2 players…
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Nintendo and “Bohemian Rhapsody” Go Together A Lot Better Than You’d Think
Did you love the NES era? Sure you did. And even if you didn’t, you do now, because that’s how nostalgia works. But do you love it enough to rock out to it Queen-style? Because on a day like this, we could all use more singing cartridges and reminders that actually, a bunch of the…
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Eight Reviewers Go To War Against Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Medal of Honor: Warfighter was supposed to be the big military shooter of the fall. Or at least, of the fall until that other big military shooter comes out in a few weeks. Comparisons between Medal of Honor: Warfighter and its competitors, Call of Duty and Battlefield, have proven inevitable—and Warfighter does not fare well…
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Conan O’Brien Knows How To Save Zynga
Zynga, beset by layoffs and financial losses, has been having a rough time lately. Such a rough time, in fact, that now it’s the butt of late-night talk show jokes. Comedian Conan O’Brien’s site suggests five games that the social mega-publisher can use to turn their fortunes around. And sure, Brony Wars would attract a…
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Gamer Gets Pumped to Pump Iron. His Motivation: EVE Online.
Video games are not widely known as a motivation for hitting the gym. Especially not online games, which are better known for metaphorically chaining their players to their desks. One EVE Online player, though, decided that instead of hiding behind a fitter avatar, he’d become that avatar. As CNN reports, EVE Online player Marcus Dickinson…
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Everything You Ever Needed To Know About The Lore of Uncharted, In One Minute
In the years between Uncharted and Uncharted 3 you, like me, may have forgotten quite how the whole backstory ties together, instead getting to distracted by shooting and stealing everything. Luckily, the Lore in a Minute team is on it! In sixty colorfully animated seconds, the history of Nathan Drake’s life all ties together and…
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Old Video Game In Family’s Attic Turns Out To Be Extremely Rare, Possibly Worth $30,000
Air Raid was a mediocre game released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. Very few copies were produced or sold, which means that thirty years later, it’s an extraordinarily valuable collector’s item. Polygon reports that a new copy of Air Raid has surfaced, complete with box and manual. It’s the manual that makes this particular…
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It’s Halloween Everywhere. Even in Minecraft.
Sure, creepers are, well, creepy on their own. But maybe they’re just not creepy enough The Xbox 360’s version of Minecraft is getting a new, Halloween-themed skin pack tomorrow, the Official Xbox Magazine reports. There are 55 new skins in the pack, contributed by a baker’s dozen of developers like Rare, Tequila Works, and Twisted…
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