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Just to Rub It In, Here’s More Video of That Aliens Game You Never Got to Play
Canceled four years ago, Aliens: Crucible was supposed to be an Aliens role-playing game, which always struck me as kind of weird. The film didn’t seem like it would translate well to an RPG; hell, it didn’t translate well to a shooter. Hey-oooooo … But material from Obsidian’s development of the game, which ended in…
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Modders At Last Launch the “StarCraft MMO” Over Battle.Net [Updated]
Remember StarCraft Universe? The mod was called the “Starcraft MMO” that kicked up a brief fuss in 2011 but was smoothed out, eventually, with Blizzard’s blessings. Ryan Winzen, the project’s creative director, is happy to share news that SCU: Chronicles of Fate is now available, and will be going out over Battle.net. Originally called World…
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The Pirate Bay Threatens to Sue for—Get This—Copyright Infringement
Yeah, I had to rub my eyeballs when I saw this report on TorrentFreak, too. Evidently a Finnish group set up an antipiracy site (above) by ripping off The Pirate Bay’s symbols and site code. TPB took the bait, threatening to sue if the site didn’t stop using its symbols. The Pirate Bay is the…
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Bungie’s New Destiny is Coming Soon. This is What We Know So Far.
Bungie lifted the curtain yesterday on its new game, Destiny, a sci-fi “shared-world shooter” that once again pits humanity against a grave extraterrestrial threat. It’s coming later this next year for PS3 and Xbox 360. Kotaku‘s Tina Amini traveled to Seattle to see what the studio had to say about its new Destiny with Activision.…
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The Rarest PSP Game Ever Might Be This Hilton Hotel Employee Trainer
It’s real, and it’s… boring. Back in 2009, we reported that some 500 Hilton hotels created a training video game, and it wasn’t some PC game played on an HR computer. It was a PSP game with its own UMD disc. Well, now someone has gotten a look at its contents. The video above is…
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Aliens: Colonial Marines Should Have Followed the Example of Sports’ Gaming’s Elite
Inside a publisher or a studio, there are few surprises when a video game bombs in its reviews. Before it goes from gold master to warehouse to retailer, the focus groups are empaneled, the “mock reviewers” are contracted, and their verdicts are in. Everyone knows roughly where the game will land in the all-controlling 100-point…
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Bungie Reveals its Destiny in This Documentary
Bungie, the studio behind Halo is today revealing its next saga, Destiny, to be published by Activision. This is the first documentary describing the new sci-fi world the studio is creating. In Destiny, coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, players will be thrust into the role of defending Earth, setting off on adventures on…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Diggin’ in the Desert
Yesterday, I said to myself, “Self, this image of Nolan Bushnell, the man who founded Atari, digging a hole in the desert outside of Dubai, looks like an A-list exploitable for the next Kotaku “Shop Contest.” Now, if my self concurs (or disagrees), should it address me as “Owen,” or also as “self”? While I…
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Here’s a Peek at Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack—Before Bungie’s Date with Destiny
Today’s the big day for Halo‘s ex, Bungie, which will soon tell all about its new affair, Destiny. That makes the discovery of these four images for Halo 4‘s forthcoming Majestic Map Pack quite a coincidence, indeed. It’s probably not as nefarious as it sounds, actually. NeoGAF user Wifiplayer13 found them by altering the URL…
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Sunday Comics: This Situation is Butt
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Feb. 13. Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Feb. 11. Read more of…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let Me Google Iwata For You: The Winners
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata strapped on a Google Street camera to promote a new Wii U feature, providing us with the juice for our latest ‘Shop Contest throwdown. Many of these are .gifs, so take your time and let them load. When you hear a crunch, you’re there, and you’ll pull out 20 finalists, plus…
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The Latest Celebrity Golfer in Tiger Woods PGA Tour is Satan, Apparently
This image went out earlier in the week from the official Twitter feed for EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series. “Night golf” is among a slew of features arriving in this year’s edition (along with an LPGA Tour mode, throwback equipment, and historic course layouts). Who better to advertise that than the Prince of…
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In Injustice, There Can Be Only One (Guy in a Red Suit With a Lightning Bolt on His Chest)
Really now. Considering the history these two have, you didn’t think there was any way Flash was going to lose to Captain Marvel Shazam in the latest hype video from Injustice: Gods Among Us, did you? Let’s recap. Captain Marvel began life as “Captain Thunder” in Flash Comics, an ashcan edition published by Fawcett more…
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Atari’s Founder Goes Digging in the Desert, but not for E.T.
Everyone’s familiar with the great video game burial of 1983, a disposal of Atari 2600 cartridges so bizarre it’s often taken to be urban myth. No, that’s really how they got rid of colossal flops like E.T. and the Pac-Man port, 30 years ago this September. Here, Video Games Live thought it’d be funny to…
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See the Star Wars Lightsaber-Fighting Game That Never Made It
It never went anywhere, and maybe that’s a good thing, but this is a demonstration Studio Gigante put together for a Star Wars fighting game on the original Xbox. Josh Tsui, currently of Robomodo, co-founded the studio and for some reason tweeted out this video on Valentine’s Day It’s somewhat better than the trainwreck that…
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God of War: Ascension‘s Demo is Feb. 26, but There’s a Way to Get It Early
Everyone will get their hands on the demo for God of War: Ascension on Feb. 26, but some will get access to it on Feb. 20, provided they prevail in some kind of social media sign-up challenge that’s been going on for the past 10 days. The “Rise of the Warrior social challenge,” as it’s…
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