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  The Battle of Hoth Recreated in Minecraft, as an Incredible Animated Short

  In December, reader Grahame made one of the coolest Minecraft videos I’ve ever seen, recreating Star Wars’ famous “trench run”. He’s outdone himself now, though, with this animated rendition of Empire Strikes Back’s Battle of Hoth. It took him two months just to build the “set”, and six days to film it and get it…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012
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  Ambitious Homeworld Mod Might Just be The Most Perfect Space Game Ever

  Ask anyone who likes strategy video games and spaceships what their favourite title of all time is and, if they don’t say Homeworld, they’re either lying or are seven years old. So! For the grown-ups and truth-tellers among you, take a look at this. It’s the latest update for Complex, an ambitious Homeworld 2 mod…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012
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  This is Quite a Trailer You’ve Got Here, Resident Evil 6

  I’m not going to get excited about this game. The sad faces I make every time I think of Resident Evil 5 have made sure of that. But “surprisingly enthused”? I can do that.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012
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  Your PC Needs to be *This* Tall to Play Assassin’s Creed III

  Ubisoft just released the specs for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III. Note they’ve only released the minimum specs…anyone looking for recommended, you’ll just have to compare your system to these in your head and make an educated guess! Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8 Processor: 2.66 GHz…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012
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  Some of The Concept Art Behind Borderlands 2

  Lorin Wood works at Gearbox. Last week, Gearbox released Borderlands 2. This is Kotaku’s concept art showcase feature. You can see where this is going. Aside from his Borderlands stuff, Wood has also worked on Colonial Marines, while outside of Gearbox, he’s worked for companies like Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. You can see…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012
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  League of Legends Attacked By Small Group of Jerk Players

  League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. Which means it also attracts some of the biggest assholes in the world as well, who despite being active players of the game, have banded together to try and bring it down. Developers Riot Games have caught ” a handful of players…attacking our…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2012
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  Read EA’s Aggressive Warning Letter to a Former Employee [UPDATE]

  Like any other big company, there are probably good sides to working at EA, and there are probably bad sides. Here’s one of the bad sides: the publisher keeps track of former employees, and sends them threatening letters when it’s worried those former employees will start spilling company secrets. Below you’ll see correspondence sent by…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2012
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  When Liquid Nitrogen Meets 1,500 Ping Pong Balls

  If you’ve ever wanted to see more than a thousand ping pong balls detonated by a bottle of liquid nitrogen, have I got a surprise for you! This video of Plymouth University’s professor Roy Lowry uploaded by Techietickets shows just what happens when a garbage can full of ping pong balls gets… angry. Update: Well…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012
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  Turns Out Bayonetta on PS3 Was a Massive Failure

  I quite enjoyed Bayonetta, but then, I played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version on the other hand had more than a few problems. So many, in fact, that creators Platinum Games say the game was the studio’s “biggest failure”. “The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2012
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  Whoah, System Shock 2 and Thief 2 Just got Surprise Patches

  Surprise! Out of almost thin air, a pair of unofficial patches have been released for PC classics System Shock 2 and Thief 2 that not only allow the games to be safely played on modern hardware (and operating systems), but look great while they’re doing it. Their origins are a bit of a mystery; they…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2012
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  Your Cable Company Wants To Try To Be Your Next Console

  Despite the rather dramatic meltdown of OnLive earlier this year, “cloud gaming” remains one of the go-to buzzwords for the future of game delivery. With so many American internet service providers capping data or providing slow and/or unreliable bandwidth, a fully-streaming future has seemed likely to take a while to catch on. A recent Bloomberg…

  By Kate Cox Published September 25, 2012
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  The Latest Humble Bundle Keeps On Getting Bigger

  Just because there’ve been a lot of humble indie bundles over the last few years doesn’t mean they’re any less of a good deal. The latest humble bundle offers a crapload of good games, all for whatever price you want to pay. For as little as you want, you’ll get EFF, (Wait, that’s not a…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012
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  These Lovely Fan Made Posters Are For Mass Effect Movies I’d Actually Love To See

  We keep hearing rumors here and there about a Mass Effect movie in the works. As much as I love the franchise, I’m not sure I ever really want to see one. My Shepard is, well, my Shepard, and any movie starring someone of that name is unlikely to tell the story I preferred having…

  By Kate Cox Published September 25, 2012
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  Solve The Mystery Of A Composer’s Life Through Hidden Clues And Music

  There’s something very cool about a game that lets you explore a house and learn about its inhabitants. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor cast players as a spider who, by casting webs and moving through an abandoned house, learned the story of its inhabitants and what transpired there. In The Fullbright Company’s upcoming PC…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012
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  Turns Out Kirby Is Not Very Good At Playing Piano

  Kirby must not be very smart, either, or he would go inhale Elton John instead of just trying to slam his body against a keyboard. Poor Kirby. Other things Kirby is not good at: chores, modeling:

  By Jason Schreier Published September 25, 2012
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  Gameloft’s Mobile Call of Duty Goes Up a Number in This Spectacular Trailer

  If I didn’t know this was a trailer for a game coming to iPhone, iPad and Android this fall, I would have complained about how we already have too many modern combat games on consoles. This is just gorgeous. The Modern Combat gets prettier and prettier with each new installment. Gameloft might be making copies…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 25, 2012
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  LittleBigPlanet Vita: The Kotaku Review

  Few games beg for physical contact like LittleBigPlanet does. The series is known for its miniaturized, Gondryesque diorama worlds, where fuzzy Beanie Baby-like characters carom off of cloth-covered wheels and cubes like so much bric-a-brac in a shoebox. Any sane player would immediately want to reach out and touch the screen. So it feels only…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012
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  Season or No Season, NHL 13‘s ‘Hercules Check’ is Hockey’s Greatest Hit Ever

  This is a glitch video to end all glitch videos, and not just because that’s a player getting checked over the glass and into the fourth row of a hockey arena. It’s also Sidney Freaking Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins superstar who has lost, like, an entire season’s worth of games due to concussions, going back…

  By Owen Good Published September 25, 2012
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  Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Sort Of Like A Video Game Because Of Reset Buttons Or Something

  Here’s Rachel Maddow with one of the most ham-fisted video game references so far this election season. Hopefully we’ll get more and more Atari references as we get closer to November. Something something Obama something something Commodore-64 something something health-care mandate.

  By Jason Schreier Published September 25, 2012
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  Turn Your Face Into A Portal Turret With This Badass Mask

  We’ve seen artist TwoHornsUnited come up with some Portal referencing gas masks before, but this one is even more creepily awesome. I also get the impression that I would look like a Valve-inspired Transformer if I wore that, and then my brain goes on from there to invent wild action sequences where I’m flying through…

  By Tina Amini Published September 25, 2012