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UncategorizedHow Fifteen Seconds of Music Hooked Me for Five Years
It was a crappy, gray, rainy day in January, 2005. I was in New York visiting my then-boyfriend, on my the week of break left before my final semester of grad school started back home in Boston. Although I had the luxury of a student schedule, he had to go to work, leaving me to…
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UncategorizedThe Kotaku Mixtape Vol. 3: Jazz in Games
Bombastic, orchestral soundtracks are great and all, but they’re not always what’s called for in a game. Sometimes you need something a bit more laid back – a bit more cool. Sometimes you just need a little jazz. Today on the Kotaku Mix Tape, we’re listening to some of the best jazz that gaming has…
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See Six More Gorgeous Views of Assassin’s Creed III
Another six screenshots for Assassin’s Creed III have hit the Internet. The screenshots depict Connor on his American adventures and while it’s tough to tell which of these are pre-renders and which (if any) are gameplay, the visual clues they offer tip off what you should expect from the game. In two of them, Connor…
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UncategorizedIt Takes a Pretty Big Boss Monster to Face Down Darksiders II‘s Death
In this adorably gory trailer for THQ’s Darksiders II, our hero Death finally runs into a creature he can’t take out with a single savage slash. We’re going to need a bigger scythe. Ah springtime, when young men and women’s hearts are filled with Death and dismemberment. Darksiders II hits retail on June 26. Shortly…
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UncategorizedBarry Sanders Advances in the NIT of Cover Contests
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • If the Madden cover contest is like the NCAA Tournament, does that make the vote-off for NCAA Football 13 the NIT? Oh, yeah, that’s going on, too …. In the vote-off, Desmond Howard has advanced to face Herschel Walker, and Doug Flutie advanced…
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Like the Rest of Us, Madden Submits a Bracket—and Prays It Gets a Winner
Indianapolis. St. Louis. Griffin. Flynn. Washington. Seattle. Smith. San Francisco. Denver. Tebow. And now, Madden. The dominoes that fell in Peyton Manning’s release, free agency, and his signing on Tuesday with the Broncos tumbled all the way to the cover of the NFL’s signature video game. In addition to displacing Tim Tebow, the Bronco fan…
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UncategorizedThe First Five Levels of a World of Warcraft Panda Monk
This morning I shared with you the creation of Susan, my first female Pandaren Monk in the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta test. Unfortunately she died. But don’t fret, she can and has been replaced with Stacy, a much better Pandaren Monk. Join Stacy and I as we roll our way through the…
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Mass Effect Anime, Starring James Vega, Will be Released This Fall
BioWare has been expanding their Dragon Age and Mass Effect story universes through comics and novels for several years. Now they’re branching out into animation projects, working with FUNimation to create a pair of anime features for later this year, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker and Mass Effect: Paragon Lost In this Dailymotion video…
By Kate Cox
