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D.C. Universe Online MMO Log Part One: Making A Name For Myself — And Another
As a boy my paper route money went to comic books, stories of people coming to terms with their strange powers and their place in the world. With D.C. Universe Online, I now take that journey for myself. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay,…
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Video’s Takedown Jolts “World of Starcraft” Makers
YouTube’s takedown of a video showing “World of Starcraft” sent tremors through the mod community that Starcraft’s publisher was out to shut down the fan-made MMO. Activision Blizzard has yet to comment officially, leaving the project in an uncomfortable limbo. Stirring the pot further is the fact that the MMO was developed with Starcraft II’s…
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Throw Hadoukens In Your Living Room With Street Fighter On Kinect
The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU. Modder demize2010 wrote the scripts to work with FAAST, the open-source Kinect driver, and another to enable…
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Here Is A Dog In A Tron Costume Playing Donkey Kong
And Excitebike! In Episode 1 of “Tron Dog,” the canine protagonist gets sucked into the game grid to dodge barrels and flip a motorbike. I mean, it’s Tron Dog, the title sort of speaks for itself, right? The video stars Sauce, the four-year-old pomeranian owned by Stephanie Farah, who shot the video with William Voermann.…
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iPhone Dead Space Puts Monsters In Your Pants
Dead Space 2 arrives next week. Sometime soon we’ll be getting Dead Space on the iPhone, in a game whose story bridges that of the two console versions. Here’s how the iPhone’s gameplay will look. Like the original game, Isaac himself is the HUD in the iPhone version (holograms over him show ammo, health, etc),…
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ReviewsPS3 Assault Rifle Misfires Even With Move
In multiplayer shooters, I’m the worst, and peripherals offer the seductive idea of an advantage. CTA Digital’s Assault Rifle Controller, for PlayStation Move, looks like something that could point-and-shoot me to pwnage, or at least not sucking. Specs Price: US$59.99 Platform: PS3 What’s in the box: Assault rifle controller, PlayStation Move controller cradle, two AA…
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2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: NBA 2K11
Sports titles just aren’t supposed to be game-of-the-year contenders. Their annualized nature sends the message that this year’s game, no matter how great, won’t be worth owning in 365 days. If anything could rise above that, it is NBA 2K11. Michael Jordan is as timeless a figure in sports as they come. People still think…
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Weak Signal
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Edgar Allan Poe Is Not Impressed An MMA Challenger Walks The Line Of Violence – And Reality For Electronic Arts, It Means ‘Mothers I’d Like to Frighten’ Kinect Boxing Match Ends In Tactical Knock-Out Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Backstage at Nintendo World Winners Fight In The Shade Of 600 Arrows Launched…
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In Video Games, What’s Worth A Wiki Entry?
The amount of video-games related content on Wikipedia is staggering; I can’t recall the last time I entered a title into its search and could not find a complete entry. As Wired writes, however, not everything passes moderation. Should it? Mark Brown, writing for Wired UK, brings up the matter of MUDs – multi-user dungeons,…
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OK. What Would You Do About It?
Rep. Tim Murphy discussing the Tucson shootings. We have a Constitution that prohibits government restraint of most creative works, and guarantees a right to own firearms. Both can be called problems as well as values. Thanks truthtellah for the pullquote.
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The Week in Games: LittleBigWeek
Two heavily anticipated PS3-only releases arrive this week: Mass Effect 2 comes to that console, and LittleBigPlanet 2 hits the shelves. Monday (Jan. 17) Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time (WiiWare) Glory Days – Tactical Defense (DSiWare) Tuesday (Jan. 18) LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3) – The sequel to Media Molecule’s PS3-exclusive platformer will add in…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Fighting Games’ 25 Hottest Women [UGO] Chun Li’s the obvious No. 1, Cammy’s No. 2, Sophitia’s No. 12 and Ivy Valentine is No. 18. Totally…
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An MMA Challenger Walks The Line Of Violence — And Reality
Supremacy MMA touts a motto of “unlicensed, unrestricted and uncompromising,” meaning brutal combat and graphic content is part of the game’s no-holds barred presentation. But with gameplay rooted more in arcade fighters than sports, should it also add “unrealistic”? Supremacy MMA, under development by Kung Fu Factory and due in late spring, volunteers that its…
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For Electronic Arts, It Means ‘Mothers I’d Like to Frighten’
A Dead Space 2 viral campaign launching this weekend took plenty of chutzpah, I’ll give it that. Electronic Arts brought in 200 middle-aged mothers under the auspices of a focus group looking at a new game. They were, aptly, horrified. Four videos that released yesterday show moms walking into a conference room where they’re greeted…
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Kinect Boxing Match Ends In Tactical Knock-Out
In Sweden, a team of cops stormed a couple’s home after a neighbor reported that five people were beating the crap out of a woman. Turns out they were all playing boxing on Kinect Sports. At least I hope that’s what Robert Johansson and his five friends were playing; otherwise they should have been arrested…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Facebook Games From Hell
It’s pretty clear, whenever we write about them, that many of you don’t care for Facebook games, certainly some of the more popular ones. Today’s your chance for revenge. Our mission today: Create your worst Facebook game imaginable. The sky is the limit, but I want to see total caricatures. At their worst, Facebook games…
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