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One Week Left Get in to Uncharted Beta, Cheaply
So, pre-ordering inFamous gets you in the Uncharted: Among Thieves multiplayer beta. Don’t want to do that? Be a Qore subscriber, or sign up before Friday. A few readers sent us a note that SCEA sent out recently, congratulating them on signing up for Qore and giving them their multiplayer beta code (which is good…
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Pokémon Gold, Silver Debut Footage from Japan
Full disclosure: I do not speak or read Japanese, and I don’t know a thing about Pokémon. Commenters, I’m looking to you to provide context. Here is 16 seconds of gameplay from Heart Gold and Soul Silver which, if you are in my position, is two characters in a top-down adventure game walking in a…
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Just What You’ve Always Wanted: a Playboy MMO
Actually, “Playboy Manager” wants to be called a MCOG (Massively Casual Online Game). I’ll call it a FaPS. It arrives this summer and is free and browser-based, so you can play it one-handed. In Playboy Manager, you’ll play a talent agent managing the careers of Playboy’s hottest (and nudest) up and coming models. The objective…
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Dragon Age Origins is, Apparently, the ‘New Shit’
BioWare’s official Dragon Age twitter announced this new trailer – “Violence” – which sets all sorts of slashing and steeling and sexing to the sonorous crooning of Marilyn Manson’s “This is the New Shit.” Doesn’t look like much, if any gameplay in the trailer – and the dialogue doesn’t seem matched in the closeups. BioWare’s…
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LinkedIn Profile Says Dead Space 2 Underway?
Pratik Patel, technical director for Electronic Arts updated his page on LinkedIn (like Facebook, just more corporate!) to include “Dead Space 2/Project ETA.” A sequel’s hardly surprising, but the fact it’s underway might be news. Superannuation (or Superogatory, its tumblr URL), which devotes itself to monitoring this sort of thing, found the update and noted…
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Army Game Protester Did It for the Kids
Last week, GamePolitics brought you the live coverage of a demonstration against the Army Experience Center, a video game recruiting expo in Philadelphia. Seven were arrested. One has now written about it, and why. Elaine Brower breaks down the group’s disagreement and explains the march. Its intent was to deliver a “private criminal complaint,” to…
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SF Flowchart: All Roads Lead to Shoryuken
This incredibly deep flowchart nails the entire spectrum of decision-making Ken presents to 98.7 percent of those who play Street Fighter – especially jump backwards-Hadouken! Of course the best part is, no, you never learn anything. Even if you do manage to land the jumping kick to a shoryuken, it was probably just dumb luck…
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Gears Screenwriter Wants the Rock
Chris Morgan just finished the Gears screenplay and knows who’d be a perfect Marcus Fenix. “A really f’ing good actor” who can blend silent toughness with humanity. AKA Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson! Talking (again) to the MTV Movies Blog, Morgan calls The Rock “a genuine actor. Not only can he play the tough guy, but…
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Gametap Partners Up with Microsoft
Age of Empires 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Mech Warrior 4 are on the way to the game portal GameTap, following an agreement reached with Microsoft Game Studios, announced last week. The full catalog was not specified in the GameTap news release of Thursday. GameTap said only that its users “will have access to…
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Scout-Chop: You’re Gonna Love His Ball
YouTube user CastingOutTheSelf mined the Scout soundfile and came up with, lo and behold, a dead-ringer script for everyone’s favorite hooker-beating pitchman. How the hell did we go a week before seeing this? So very well played. But wait, there’s more! Hang on for the testimonials at the end. Audio possibly NSFW. Just more proof…
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PlayStation Home Offers Affordable Housing
What’s more affordable than free, anyway? Beginning Thursday (May 14) you can get some new digs in PlayStation Home if you’re tired of the standard-issue harborside apartment. “Chamber Apartment” is free, but only for a week. After that, you can expect to cough up some dough. The new pad features fantasy-inspired architecture, and a courtyard…
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Eidos: Sequels, and Sequels to Sequels
Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed. Speaking to Gaming Indians, Livingstone says IO Interactive is working on a new Hitman title; Kane and Lynch 2 has a hoped-for release…
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Mod Makes L4D Survival into Versus Mode
Playing survival mode as special infected kind of defeats the purpose, IMHO. But some guys at Left 4 Dead mods say they’ll drop configs for that soon – if Valve doesn’t spoil the fun first In the video above, posted Wednesday, you see human controlled infected, plus 8 bots versus human survivors, playing on The…
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Sackboy is the Law
No, that’s not fan art. Media Molecule’s announced that stickers and costumes for Judge Dredd – and others from the 2000 AD comic universe – will arrive May 28. Much as I’d like to flesh that out, that is all the information contained in a movie poster Media Molecule put up on its site sometime…
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Weekend Coupons: A Bad Mutha
Perhaps because of Mother’s Day, there seem to be few sales bonanzas and so there ain’t much to talk about this weekend. Especially since Steam’s big weekend sale is for Universe at War: Earth Assault. Nothing against this RTS, which comes from Petroglyph, and they do that genre right. But I can tell it’s a…
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Announced, This New Clone Wars Game Is
If you can stomach any more of Yoda’s by-now insufferably clichéd inverted predicate/subject bullshit, here’s the trailer for The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which is announced for Sept. 15 across all major platforms. Posted this video, did Entertainment Weekly. Embedded it is not. Visit their page to see it, you must. Wii and DS, the…
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Rumor: Jaffe Tease Means Twisted Metal at E3?
David Jaffe‘s already said Twisted Metal is coming to PS3. And sure, lots of games involve cars and humans. But a sloppily posted screenshot of an email may tease the game’s unveiling at E3. This week on his blog, David Jaffe – the series’ co-creator – posted a screenshot that seemed to discuss the development…
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Kotaku Originals: Two Turntables and a Microphone
DJ Hero’s turntable controller twittered out this week, later confirmed by Activision and compared (by your humble editors) with the Scratch controller. We also turned Stephen Totilo loose on a terrorized games industry. Stephen’s presence on staff should boost the headline count in this here roundup quite nicely. He accounted for 12 in the first…
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Quote/Unquote
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Big 8 Twenty years ago this month, my father’s newspaper back in my hometown decided to try something to gin up reader interest and participation. “Quote/Unquote” it was called; it ran on Mondays down the left side of the front page. Anyone could call in to an answering machine,…
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Week in Games: Steel Drums
Fallout 3’s latest round of DLC deploys this week for 360 and PC; it’s joined by Patapon 2 on the PSP, and Crysis: Maximum Edition for the PC. Otherwise, May comes in like a lamb, which is fine. Don’t you have enough games already? This week’s count: Five for Wii and DS, four for PC,…
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