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  Spec Ops: The Line: The Kotaku Review

  Spec Ops: The Line takes place beneath a sea of sand, deep within the Arabian Desert. In the game’s fiction, the once-opulent city of Dubai lays in ruins, stripped and wrecked by the wrath of nature. (And I mean: The hubris of this place! Maybe Dubai kind of had it coming.) This evocative, provocative setting…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 26, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! You’re missing your funny bone if you don’t…

  By Tina Amini Published June 26, 2012
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  Here Are the New Mass Effect 3 Endings You Requested

  My copy of Mass Effect 3, well-loved and much-played, is on PC. As I look right now, Origin hasn’t updated with the Extended Cut DLC yet, so I haven’t been able to experience any of the new content for myself. My Shepards — Eve Shepard, who shall we say, chose to be controlling, and Kate…

  By Kate Cox Published June 26, 2012
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  DUST 514 Gives PlayStation 3 Owners an Exciting New Way to Pay for Beta Access

  The first beta event for CCP’s free-to-play EVE Online tie-in for the PlayStation 3 kicks off this weekend. Players can enter for a chance to play in the beta event at the game’s official website, or they can just drop $20 in the PlayStation Store. Today (tomorrow in Europe) CCP launches the Mercenary Pack, a…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 26, 2012
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  Playing A Vampire In Skyrim: Dawnguard

  Crossbows, mysterious pale women, and a castle packed with nasty vampires: although the first few hours of Skyrim‘s first downloadable content start off a little slow, they’ve got some awesome things to offer—and they hint at even more to come. Dawnguard, the expansion pack-sized DLC that developer Bethesda releases today for Xbox 360 (and later…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 26, 2012
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  Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Adds A New Ending Option. Watch It Now.

  Spoilers, folks… So much for the extended cut of Mass Effect 3 just adding a slideshow to the end of the game’s many possible endings. It appears that development studio BioWare has given players a new option at the game’s final junction. Instead of choosing to synthesize with the Reapers, destroy the Reapers (and Geth)…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 26, 2012
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  Four Games, One Cartridge. See Guild01 in Action

  Level-5’s newest title, Guild01, is four games in one. Each of the four was made by a famous game creator (or in one case a comedian) and are completely unrelated in every way. The first is Liberation Girl (Kaiho Shojou), a 3D shooter designed by Suda51 that falls along the same lines of Kid Icarus…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 26, 2012
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  Here’s How You Start Skyrim‘s Brand New Dawnguard Quest [UPDATE]

  Today, a new quest hit The Elder’s Scrolls: Skyrim called Dawnguard. This video provides a helpful walkthrough on how to start the Dawnguard quest. Have a look. UPDATE: It helps if you’re Level 10, according to this helpful note from the folks promoting the game: “Once Dawnguard is installed, if you’re level 10 or higher…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  Xbox 360 People, You Can Download Mass Effect 3‘s Extended Ending Right Now

  If you have Mass Effect 3 for the Xbxo 360, you can start downloading the game/s 1.85 GB “extended cut” ending right now. Boot up the game, click the downloadable content option from the main menu, and you’ll find the screen shown above. I’m checking the PS3 next, though I don’t have a copy of…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 26, 2012
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  Three of a Kind: NBA 2K13 Sees a Winning Hand in Durant, Rose and Griffin

  After a three-year arms race, mostly against themselves, NBA 2K‘s cover kingmakers seem to have de-escalated the situation while still communicating the greatest-ever reputation the game has worked so hard to earn. NBA 2K13, as was rumored, will feature Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers, Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City’s…

  By Owen Good Published June 26, 2012
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  How Apple Is More Japanese Than Japan

  Apple and its late co-founder Steve Jobs are American success stories. Yet, there isn’t much that’s baseball and apple pie about them. Instead, there is something very Japanese about both. At times, Apple is more Japanese than Japan. Here’s why. When I say Apple is more Japanese than Japan, I’m not talking about the company’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  Report: How Nintendo Might Block Used Dragon Quest X Sales

  According to a Japanese game retailer, DQX‘s packaging contains a registration code, which made the retailer speculate that it would be impossible to resale the game. This isn’t confirmation, so stay tuned. [Game Shop 1983]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  This Guy’s Rebel Score Is 99

  One of the most iconic images of the last century gets a video game homage. For more info on Tank Man, check out Frontline‘s excellent documentary. The image was created by Cody Walton, who’s an Associate Creative Director for an advertising & PR firm. The name of this work is “The Unknown Rebel”. The Unknown…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  The Three Game Creators (And One Comedian) Behind Guild01

  Level-5’s newest game, Guild01, isn’t really one game, but rather four games in one. Each of these games was created by a different director and have nothing in common other than the cartridge they come on. But what is most interesting about these games are the men behind them. Three of them are famous developers…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 26, 2012
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  The Wii U’s Price Won’t Be Expensive Like the 3DS’s Was

  When the 3DS went on sale, people said it was expensive. And they were right. For a Nintendo handheld, it seemed pricey, leading to sluggish initial sales. That’s why Nintendo cut the handheld’s price shortly after its release. Nintendo doesn’t want to repeat that same mistake again—because that mistake ended up being costly (and sucky)…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  You’ll Never Be as Happy as He Is While Shaving

  Schick, the famous shaving brand, has collaborated with Evangelion in Japan to promote the upcoming film Evangelion 3.0… and well, shaving. The campaign started this April, with keychains, razor stands, and original shaving cream containers of Evangelion characters for customers who bought specific Schick products. Original videos of the anime characters making obscure references to…

  By Toshitaka Tachibana Published June 26, 2012
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  If There Were a Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy Would Be Finished

  Another day, another request for a Final Fantasy VII remake. The game was released in early 1997, and there are still calls for a remake. Endless calls. At a Square Enix meeting today in Tokyo, honcho Yoichi Wada was asked about, wait for it, the possibility of a FFVII remake. He replied that even within…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  Japanese Politicians Are Thinking about Building Gundam. Like, Real, Working Gundam.

  Politicians everywhere are crap—even the ones who are thinking about building a giant, working mecha. In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party are apparently going to discuss the idea of building a real life Gundam. The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for over fifty…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  Check Out My 12″ Boba Fett

  Um. Here he is. Part of Sideshow’s line of sixth-scale Star Wars figures, this Boba Fett piece arrived at my house this morning. He really is quite lovely. While loaded with around a billion accessories and display stands, this is a large-format (12″) “figure”, and not a “statue”. Much of his arsenal is interchangeable, and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012