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Finally, Some Real Footage of Sleeping Dogs
Undercover cop and protagonist Wei Shen of Sleeping Dogs—previously known as True Crime: Hong Kong—is on assignment in Hong Kong as an undercover cop. Fronting as a deported man come at long last back to Hong Kong, Wei Shen is on a mission to take down the local triad organization by the name of Sun…
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WTPT: Adventure Time Intro Sequence Just Made My Heart Stop and Start Again
I’m a huge geek for Adventure Time. And like any true, dedicated geek, I want to see one of my favorite shows plastered everywhere. Even my iPhone background is of Jake. Feel free to steal it, because it is awesome. Reddit user ungivenglory is also a big fan of Adventure Time, and he also wants…
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Lawsuit Against Facebook, EA, Zynga May Be The Attack of a Patent Troll
GameTek LLC was originally the company that once operated as a video game publisher known for TV game show adaptations. But since the 90s wave of those games has washed over, and the company shut its doors in 1997 after hitting bankruptcy, it has since become the business license of an unknown company. What is…
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Check Out What’s New On Kotaku Melodic, Our Very Own Music Section
Brought to you every Thursday, from 7pm-9pm (EST), Kotaku introduces video game music from menu screens to entire soundtracks and everything in between. The most recent batch of stories include: When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song Hop on a Bicycle and Cause Some Mischief With…
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WTPT: This Halo: Reach Sneak Attack Is More Humiliating (and Hilarious) Than Teabagging
We all have our secret moves and special style to playing a particular first-person shooter (I like snipers, for instance), but have you ever tried the Bum Bait move? Rooster Teeth introduces this hilarious move in video form. I think we can admit that some of our actions in games are predictable. After all, seeing…
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Noobz Movie Trailer Promises Another Terrible Movie About Gamers
Featuring a once-funny Jason Mewes and a Michael Cera look-alike—and a special Adam Sessler appearance!—is this ghastly trailer that will apparently be an actual film at some point (this Summer). A crew of friends and gamers get together to travel to LA for a Gears of War 3 tournament, dead set on winning the thing.…
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WTPT: Battlefield 3 Is Beautiful With A Tilt-Shift Perspective
Battlefield 3 has never looked prettier than from this angle. Using a tilt-shift camera perspective, Independent Gamers Production managed to create this array of scenes from Battlefield 3 in a unique perspective. From the more distant angle and with a sharper look, the trees and water look even more realistic. That same effect that makes…
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Take Out Skeletons with Take-Out Pizza in this Ridiculous iPhone Platformer
More often than not, it seems that mobile game developers are encouraging you to not take their games too seriously. The art is fun, and the game mechanics are typically quirky. Pizza Vs. Skeletons is maybe the quirkiest of them all. As the name suggests, you’ll be controlling an animated pie of pizza against a…
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What Does an Academy Award Winning Director Have to Do with EA’s Next Game?
Have you seen EA’s Game Changer site? It’s slowly ticking down to a live event that will be unveiling a new game during the Game Developers Conference next week. Recently there’s been a new addition to the ticking clock: Two speakers have been revealed to be at the event. One of these speakers is Academy…
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Antichamber Will Confuse Your Brain
Antichamber, much like the premise of Portal, is a first-person puzzle game, and one that Stephen Totilo fell in love with at PAX 2011 Looking at this newly-released trailer, I know what you’re thinking: What the hell is going on in this game? What seems like a mesh of geometrical, randomly colored platforms, cubes and…
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WTPT: This is What Happens When You Get Too Competitive in Minecraft
Minecraft isn’t an inherently competitive game, but it can get quite competitive if you’re looking to one up the many impressive structures that have been built. I mean, entire game levels have been replicated using the basic building blocks in Minecraft. It’s easy to find competition and challenges. This particular video is inspired by the…
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OnLive Gains Cred With Free Indie Games Festival Nominees
While members of the video game industry and press are attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week and getting a chance to view the Independent Games Festival awards ceremony on the show floor, OnLive is giving you a chance to feel included, and this very fortunately involves playing games. As of today…
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Okami-Inspired Fan Art Will Be Your New Wallpaper
Foxified | Okami is not a fox, sure, but this is still awesome. (Sakimichan) Pokémon Black and White 2 Catch All the Western Gamers This Fall Announced this weekend for a June release in Japan, the first pair of main series Pokémon titles with the number two in the title will be hitting North America…
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WTPT: Seems Like F.E.A.R‘s Alma Is Haunting the Soldiers of Battlefield 3
These days it seems like the meaning of machinima has become convoluted. Is it those funny animated videos about Link? Is it a gaming site? Is it the video of your grandmother freaking out while watching Amnesia? No, it’s none of those things. It’s the original Red vs. Blue. It’s actually what you see above:…
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Grab Your Helmet and Strap On Your 9mm For A Sons of Anarchy Video Game
Kurt Sutter, creator of FX show Sons of Anarchy that centers on an outlaw motorcycle “club,” tweeted on Friday of the possibility of a game spin-off. SOA and the fictional town of Charming are the perfect setting for an open world game, where gun trafficking and fist fights against rival MCs run rampant. Think of…
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