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Reviews
Mass Effect 3: Omega: The Kotaku Review
There was something missing, in Mass Effect 3. The game was filled with a hundred tiny details that paid homage to all the choices and deliberations I’d made in two previous games, and yet one thing sat unfinished. Aria T’Loak sat on the Citadel for all of Shepard’s last crusade, riding out the end of…
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Wii U: The Frankenreviiu
It’s a new console! These are momentous events in gaming, and yet nobody seems quite sure how to react to Nintendo’s new entrant, the Wii U. To some, it feels like the last of a generation that launched with the Xbox 360 many years ago. To Nintendo, it’s the first of the next generation, well…
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The Roccat Savu Is Definitely the Best Mouse I’ve Ever Hated Using
It’s hard to describe the benefits and drawbacks of a specific gaming mouse, in many ways. Certainly, I can discuss whether the drivers work, whether the buttons work, whether any programming is intuitive and whether the product works as advertised—and in a moment, I will. The biggest problem with describing a mouse, though, is that…
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Cat Pirates: For All Your Adorable Cat and Pirate Needs
A smart game knows its audience. So let’s take a moment to understand what kind of audience I am. My actual cat is named Guybrush. I have this print in my living room. I think cats and pirates are probably the best things ever except for, maybe, pirate cats. So when a game called Cat…
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From Pong to Mass Effect 3: Time Names 100 Best Games of All Time
In what is ultimately sure to be a fool’s errand, Time magazine has compiled a list of the 100 best video games of all time. Coming up with lists of the bests is harder than it looks, and any set of criteria used will have flaws in it. Curation is hard, and lists change all…
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The Walking Dead‘s Episode Four Stats Lead Up To Final Episode, Coming Next Week for All Platforms
If you, like me, are an episode or two behind in Telltale’s remarkable Walking Dead series, don’t watch this video. If you, unlike me, have caught up on episodes three and four of the five-part series, then by all means, go to town. In addition to releasing the player stats video for episode four, Telltale…
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Splinter Cell Movie Is Happening, Tom Hardy Starring as Sam Fisher
Assassin’s Creed isn’t the only movie that Ubisoft wants to get to the silver screen as soon as possible. Rumors from earlier this year that Ubisoft was looking at making a Splinter Cell movie appear to have been well-founded, according to Variety. And what’s more, the movie’s got a star. British actor Tom Hardy is…
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Origin Users are Suddenly Getting Hacked a Lot [Update]
Origin users—which means anyone who’s played Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3, among other games—should keep a close eye on their accounts. Some users are reporting a wave of hacked and stolen accounts. It appears that a hacker or hackers are managing to log in to Origin accounts and then change the e-mail address and…
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Fans Waiting for the Beyond Good & Evil Sequel Just Have to Keep Waiting, Ubisoft Head Confirms
Fans of Beyond Good & Evil have been waiting a very long time for a sequel. The game, which came out in 2003, was envisioned as part of a trilogy but as the years have gone by, fans have let their expectations wane. A 2011 HD re-release seemed to be it for a while, until…
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Reviewers Love the Shooting, the Killing, and the Choices in Call of Duty: Black Ops II
It’s November, and that means three things. The days are getting shorter, holiday advertising is ramping up, and there’s a new Call of Duty game. Last year’s entry, Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 3, shattered all kinds of sales records in its first day and first weeks on store shelves, launching into the stratospheric billion-dollar sales…
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New LEGO Lord of the Rings Game Needs a Recall Thanks to Printing Error
Today is becoming something of a comedy of errors as far as game discs are concerned, it seems. As Game Informer first reported, Warner Brothers is recalling Xbox 360 copies of Lego Lord of the Rings after they were mistakenly shipped containing a demo disc instead of the final product. Game Informer editor Andrew Reiner…
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Mysterious 24-Hour Call of Duty Flu Keeping Gamers Home “Sick”
Let’s be honest for a moment here: pretty much everyone around the world has at the very least thought about calling in “sick” to work or school while their health was perfectly fine, for one reason or another. For some folks, it’s a beach day; for others, just a chance to sleep for an extra…
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PC Version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II Comes With… Mass Effect 2?!
Some PC players of Call of Duty: Black Ops II report that disc 2 of their recently-purchased game is the wrong sequel entirely. Players on the Call of Duty forums, the Steam forums, and Reddit are reporting that when they insert disc 2 as prompted, they receive a Mass Effect 2 read error. The video…
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ReviewsNatural Selection 2: The Kotaku Review
Natural Selection 2 is the first ever game I’ve enjoyed watching more than I’ve enjoyed playing. If that sounds like an insult, it’s certainly not intended as one. Rather, read it as perhaps one of the highest compliments I could give. Natural Selection 2 is good stuff—but playing it is only half its purpose. First,…
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Newest DirectX Upgrade Only For Windows 8 Systems
And so the inevitable march of Windows moves onward: DirectX, the software that Windows computers rely on to make games run, is getting an upgrade—but only for Windows 8. A Microsoft employee confirmed in a (tech-heavy) post to developers that “there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7.” Windows…
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Huge New Live Event This Weekend Kicks Off Guild Wars 2‘s November Update
Lion’s Arch is under attack! Or, well, make that, Lion’s Arch is under attack—again. The poor city just can’t seem to catch a break. Just as the Mad King himself burst into Lion’s Arch rather destructively on October 28, so too is something coming to the coastal city next weekend. And it’s not a nice…
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How Not To Get Banned From Call of Duty: Black Ops II
The next installment in the Call of Duty juggernaut, Black Ops II, launches tomorrow. In preparation for the legions of players who will no doubt soon be shooting each other, exploiting every glitch, and saying very rude things on voice chat—as well as the millions of folks who just want to play, and have to…
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Virtual Tourism Has Never Felt More Real
There’s this small problem I’m having with Assassin’s Creed III. It’s nothing to do with the game itself, actually, and everything to do with me. The problem is this: Assassin’s Creed III is turning me into a kind of obnoxious person. I’ve developed this running commentary while the game goes on. It has nothing to…
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Bad Hotel Studio Making Another Cool-Looking Music Game
The studio behind Bad Hotel is back. They’ve just released the teaser above for their next title, Wave Trip Like Bad Hotel, Wave Trip is as much about sound as about graphics. Unlike its predecessor, however, Wave Trip looks to be more about side-scrolling motion than about defense. Additionally, it promises the ability for users…
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Computer Security Research Team Finds Vulnerabilities in Modern Warfare 3
The same security company that found a security flaw in Steam earlier this year has found security holes in Modern Warfare 3 and CryEngine 3. As ComputerWorld reports, researchers from security company ReVuln announced their findings at a security conference in Seoul today. They demonstrated two major issues. The first was with Call of Duty:…
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