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Talk About Making the Tough Choices in Mass Effect 3 at Kotaku Game Club!
Welcome back to the Kotaku Game Club‘s discussion of Mass Effect 3. We’ll be covering the middle portion of the game’s campaign today, picking up where left off last week, after the mission on the Turian Moon of Menae, and looking at everything through the mission on Thessia. It’s a lot of material, but some…
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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Announced, Server Explodes [Update]
The mysterious Baldur’s Gate countdown has ended with the bang of servers exploding, but not before an email arrived announcing something called Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for release this summer. The servers at BaldursGate.comare down, but I think I’ve got a pretty good idea of what the upcoming release entails. Officially licensed by Wizards of…
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The Faces Behind the Voices of Mass Effect 3
Like radio, film, and theater companies going back hundreds of years, BioWare games often have a very familiar voice cast from one production to the next. A Dragon Age II player can’t help but hear Varric’s dry tones from the Male Trooper in Star Wars: The Old Republic, nor can a Mass Effect fan miss…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Who Would Win In A Live Action Fight, Jun or Vega?
In a follow up to last week’s Street Fighter X Tekken video is a new martial artist’s live-action take on the fighting game characters. This time we see Tekken‘s Jun up against Street Fighter‘s Vega. I was hoping for more of Vega’s, um, enthusiasm in the video, but it’s still well suited to the drama…
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UncategorizedFight Soot With Cuteness in Pebble Universe
I’m a sucker for cute games. The sounds, the characters, the music, the art. But a cute game coupled with thoughtful gameplay? We have a winner, folks. Pebble Universe is an iOS game (sorry Android users) with all of the above necessary ingredients. In Pebble Universe, the race of adorable pebble creatures is soon to…
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UncategorizedA Stunningly Cinematic Reason to Be Excited About Max Payne 3
Not having played a Max Payne game in years, I’d forgotten why I enjoyed the original entries in Rockstar’s third-person shooter series so much. Then this cinematic and special effects trailer for Max Payne 3 reminded me; it’s not about the story, but how the story is told. This unique mixture of Hollywood magic and…
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Even Mice Play in Virtual Worlds, For Science
A psychological study using mice, in place of humans or other mammals, is nothing new. Every high school or college student who has ever taken a low-level psych course knows that for ages, scientists have been running mice through mazes, teaching them to press levers for rewards, and having them perform countless other tiny tasks…
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A Bad (or Possibly Good) Case of Mass Effect 3 Decision Angst
In today’s spoiler-free episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Ducce discusses the anxiety that rises while making game-changing decisions in Mass Effect 3. Is this immersion, or is he slowly going insane? I have for the first time in my gaming life been exposed to pure decision-angst. I have been playing through (what I…
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