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Skylanders Wave Four Brings Fresh Life, Air, and Fire to Retail
The hunt begins anew as three more Skylanders figures make their way to retail shelves, filling out the Fire element and adding one each to Life and Air. The checklist nears completion! Electricity-hurling Lightning Rod and bazooka-wielding Zook are a pair of single-packed Skylanders bringing the grand total of Air and Life creatures available to…
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UncategorizedThe Kinect Star Wars Dancing Mingame is Even More Horrifying Than I Imagined
Ignore the podracing and dueling portions of this Kinect Star Wars video and jump directly to around :50 in the video. I probably should have apologized first. Too late now. Whatever reasons I might have had to purchase Kinect Star Wars, this negates each and every one of them. I had heard of this dancing game.…
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ReviewsStreet Fighter X Tekken: The Kotaku Review
Worlds collide, battles erupt, and pink-haired transgendered beauties fight tooth-and-nail with freaking bears; Street Fighter X Tekken has arrived, pitting two of the fighting game scene’s favorite franchises into one sexy, riding-crop wielding package. Perhaps I’m a little obsessed with Capcom’s Poison, or maybe she/he merely represents the best of both worlds with a little…
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UncategorizedFun, Pointless Things To Do With a Portal Gun and a Plumber
We recently reported that Mari0, the Super Mario Brothers-meets-Portal mash-up-game, had launched. Does Mario need a Portal gun? Well, no. Not really. He managed just fine in his 1985 adventure with only basic jumps and fireballs at his disposal. He can squash goombas and rescue princesses just fine without Aperture Science’s latest, greatest device. But…
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UncategorizedHow Stretching Your Thumbs Could Make Your Games Feel Better
The University of Utah News Center reported today that their engineers are hard at work developing a new video game peripheral that stretches the skin on your thumbs. But why, you ask me, would I want little red tactors located on the center of the controller’s joystick to awkwardly move my thumb skin around? Because…
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Roger Ebert Not-So-Subtly Reminds Us What He Thinks of Video Games
Roger Ebert is a very smart man and a very sharp and entertaining writer who just happens to think very, very poorly of video games. Sometimes our gamer discussions leak out into the mainstream, as recently happened with Michael Thomsen’s piece in Slate. In his article, as we reported, Thomsen challenged the idea that a…
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Femshep Takes a Stab at Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” Trailer
Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” trailer was lovely and all, but for many fans of the franchise it featured the wrong main character. Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch has an exclusive trailer that fixes that oversight. Go look! [EW.com]
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Show Some Respect, This is a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist
Meet Wrench, the first fighter revealed for Kung Fu Factory’s upcoming downloadable fighting game Girl Fight. You know, like Bum Fight, only with girls. Now before anyone gets angry, keep in mind that this post is running during Kotaku‘s Off-Kilter humor block, which is quite frankly the only place I could imagine putting it on…
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Cloud Strife is a Hero, a Lover, a Woman, a Rabbit; He is All This and More
One of the most iconic figures in modern role-playing, Final Fantasy‘s Cloud Strife cuts a very distinctive figure, largely due to a combination of spiky blond hair and his ridiculously huge Buster sword. These features set him apart. They also make him ridiculously easy to twist into whatever form the fan artist so desires. Like…
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UncategorizedGreat Moments in Video Game Humor: Now With More Horse Penis
Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they’re everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you’d more likely hug it than run screaming. At least until you saw the…
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The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode to Mortal Kombat‘s Crappiest Character
Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass. Okay, so officer Kurtis Stryker wasn’t a mall cop. He might…
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In 1985 “Real Gamers” Were a Completely Different Animal
When you hear the term ‘gamer’ these days it’s safe to assume that it refers to a person that regularly plays video games. Way back in 1985, however, “real gamers” carried leather dice bags, sat around paper-cluttered tables for hours on end and rarely possessed a pair of X chromosomes to rub together. At least…
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Motorstorm RC Races Onto North American Vitas for Free
Games are a commercial endeavor, complete with cross-promotional marketing. Sometimes the messages have questionable ties, but other times, the match is too good to miss. So it is with Scion’s (a Toyota company) promotion of the Vita version of Motorstorm RC. According to an announcement on the PlayStation blog, not only is Motorstorm RC launching…
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