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Trust Us, Install The Witcher 2 to the 360’s Hard Drive, Says Studio
It sounds like the console port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, one of the top-role playing games as a PC-only release in 2011, will need a hard drive installation. Otherwise, well, enjoy the slow loading times and janky visuals, says the game’s studio. “If it’s possible to install the game [then do so],…
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Uncategorized‘We Can Bring Back the Best’ of Tony Hawk, says, uh, Tony Hawk
We caught up with Tony Hawk, pro skater, to ask him about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the high-definition update of everyone’s favorite levels from the first two Pro Skater games. Here the skateboarding legend tells us his favorite levels, and why they deserve a remake in the first place.
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No. 18 Leaves TEAM_ID 10
Of all the things written, posted, tweeted, shouted or cried about the end of Peyton Manning’s tenure in Indianapolis, I thought one of the most poignant came from a guy who has gotten to know him very well over the past decade. “Going to be weird taking Peyton Manning off of TEAM_ID 10 tomorrow,” Donny…
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ReviewsMLB 2K12: The Kotaku Review
This could be the last dance for Major League Baseball 2K. For more than a year, all signs have pointed to Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, leaving a licensing deal many have ridiculed from the day it was signed in 2005. 2K Sports has ended three team sports series in the past…
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UncategorizedMove Carefully or Get Caught In The Act
Fresh from this year’s Game Developers Conference, we have video from Kotaku‘s Stephen Totilo showing upcoming iOS title The Act The lush, cinematically animated 2D game is a comic cartoon in which players control Edgar, a hapless window washer in pursuit of Sylvia, the woman of his dreams. As the video demonstrates better than a…
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Tell Kotaku Game Club About Your Mass Effect 3 Saga!
Welcome to the first Kotaku Game Club discussion of Mass Effect 3. Since I hadn’t determined a stopping point ahead of time, we’re going to say that today’s discussion will cover everything through the mission on Menae. I imagine that some of you are already past that point, but I don’t want too many people…
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Software Designs Its Own Video Games For Humans to Play
Prototype game Space Station Invaders doesn’t look like anything special. It’s blocky, a bit clumsy, and derivative. Far from groundbreaking to look at or to play. However, its design is anything but ordinary. The point of Space Station Invaders isn’t so much the game itself, but its designer: an AI program called Angelina The New…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Evil Ryu Emerges in this Street Fighter X Tekken Short Film
Thousand Pounds Action Company is known for their martial arts choreography and film productions. Much of their work is inspired by anime and video games. Their latest production, “Street Fighter: The Devil Within,” is a short film where Ryu struggles with Satsui no Hadou, or “surge of murderous intent.” You can tell because there’s a…
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UncategorizedAnimated Star Wars: The Old Republic Makes Hilarious Light of Unpredictable Dialogue
Have you ever played a BioWare game where a dialogue option you chose resulted in a completely unexpected response? I certainly have. In fact, I distinctly recall cursing into the night, “Dammit, that’s not what I meant to say!” So has Redditor TerminalMontage, who made this hilarious and cute video on his experiences playing through…
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