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UncategorizedWhy Can’t Every Game Let you Skip Long-Winded Cutscenes with Violence?
Asura’s Wrath is a game brimming with excellent ideas, most of them involving punching, and while complaints that it’s more cutscene than gameplay are valid, it also features what could be the greatest scene-skipping mechanic in gaming history. Video games (and popular fiction in general) are filled with villains all-too-eager to have a little chat…
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UncategorizedIt Wouldn’t Be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Without These High-Tech Toys
This isn’t modern warfare, kids. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings a whole new level of technology to the battlefield, giving players access to the sort of convoluted electronic goodies that would make your average Call of Duty soldier look like your grandmother trying to program a VCR. Hell, I’ve just dated myself by mentioning the…
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Help Us Say Something Nice About Fighting Gamers
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault As Kotaku has covered these stories, a number of readers in the comments and elsewhere online have questioned why it appears that only negative stories…
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Check Out What’s New On Kotaku Melodic, Our Very Own Music Section
Brought to you every Thursday, from 7pm-9pm (EST), Kotaku introduces video game music from menu screens to entire soundtracks and everything in between. The most recent batch of stories include: When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song Hop on a Bicycle and Cause Some Mischief With…
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SSX Carves the Slippery Slope of Mount Game Reviewer
Just like the fine sport of extreme snowboarding itself, SSX‘s review scores start off pretty high and then suddenly drop. Okay, so technically they start off low and then abruptly rise, but that doesn’t work as a snowboarding metaphor. Either way, the SSX series has triumphantly returned, making its big debut on current generation consoles…
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UncategorizedThe Original Prince of Persia Gets a Gorgeous HD iOS Makeover
Speaking of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, a beautiful high-definition remaster of his original masterpiece is now available for the iPhone and iPad, complete with new modes and animated cut scenes. Who’s up for a field trip to Persia?
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Kotaku Game Club is Back! We’re Playing Mass Effect 3
Hey Game Club, it’s been awhile. 2012 is already shaping to be a year of dramatic changes. We wanted to make sure our next Game Club was suitably epic, so we’re playing Mass Effect 3 One of the year’s biggest and most talked-about games, Mass Effect 3 is already a contextual powderkeg, inciting discussions across…
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UncategorizedWTPT: This Halo: Reach Sneak Attack Is More Humiliating (and Hilarious) Than Teabagging
We all have our secret moves and special style to playing a particular first-person shooter (I like snipers, for instance), but have you ever tried the Bum Bait move? Rooster Teeth introduces this hilarious move in video form. I think we can admit that some of our actions in games are predictable. After all, seeing…
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UncategorizedNoobz Movie Trailer Promises Another Terrible Movie About Gamers
Featuring a once-funny Jason Mewes and a Michael Cera look-alike—and a special Adam Sessler appearance!—is this ghastly trailer that will apparently be an actual film at some point (this Summer). A crew of friends and gamers get together to travel to LA for a Gears of War 3 tournament, dead set on winning the thing.…
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UncategorizedThink You’ve Got Problems? What About the Pokémon Trainers?
World hunger? War? Global warming? Nonsense! Too long have the beleaguered Pokémon trainers of the world suffered quietly under their own first world problems. With one video, Kotaku reader csanders984 has become the voice of millions. Trust a member of the Kotaku community to have his finger on the pulse of the problems facing the…
By Mike Fahey
