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The Guild Wars 2 Charr Character Intro, Unintentional Commentary Edition

Once I finished recording the voice over character creation video for my Guild Wars 2 beta article that ran this morning, I turned off my microphone to capture the story the game generated based on the decisions I made while building my Charr thief. Or I thought I turned off my microphone. I stopped the…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

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Kotaku Off-Kilter Welcomes Careful Gamers

It’s beginning to look a lot like an hour and a half of insanity. Might wanna wear a helmet.

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

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Why I’m Not Okay With Sony Ditching PSP Discs

Last summer, I bought a copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable for the PSP. I’d heard nothing but fantastic things about Atlus’s role-playing game slash high school simulator, and I figured it’d be a good opportunity to bolster my RPG street cred. A few months later, when I finally opened the game, it…

By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012

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Capcom Teases Intra-Company Crossover With Asura vs. Ryu Image

You’ve got to hand it to Capcom: they’re not above crossing the streams to see what happens when their franchise characters meet up with other brawlers. Whether it’s the Marvel vs. Capcom series, X-Men vs. Street Fighter or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, the powers-that-be at the Oska-based publisher will pit Ryu and crew against anybody if…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012

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Just Cause 2 is Just $5 Today on Steam

Yes, Steam has daily deals every… day, but today their daily deal is the rocking Just Cause 2, marked down from $14.99 to just $5.09. This game is worth a fiver, if only for the skydiving.

By Kirk Hamilton Published February 20, 2012

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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare: The Kotaku Review

Going into Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, I’d worried that I hadn’t played the DLC that followed the 2010 game that introduced Remedy’s literary action hero. I loved the long-brewing Xbox 360 exclusive but, after months of never being able to slot in The Signal and The Writer add-ons, I’d decided to skip them after repeatedly…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012

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Starscream, Grimlock and More of this Fall’s Fall of Cybertron Transformers

Here are 19 shots of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, a game I think has a good shot at being very good

By Stephen Totilo Published February 20, 2012

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Alan Wake‘s PC Version Pays For Itself in 48 Hours

The PC version of the 2010 Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake has broken even in just two days, said a Remedy producer on the game’s official forums. “We are very happy with the sales and hitting #1 on Steam at launch was nothing short of amazing,” wrote Remedy’s Aki Järvilehto. “We recouped our development and…

By Kirk Hamilton Published February 20, 2012

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Lumines Electronic Symphony: The Kotaku Review

Every time I fire up a Lumines game and am not instantly greeted by the mellow beats of Mondo Grosso’s “Shinin” from the franchise’s 2004 PSP debut, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed. That song will forever be linked with the magical feeling of the first game, when Q Entertainment’s simple and sublime…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

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WTPT: Try Not To Spend Your Monday Replicating This Epic Battlefield 3 Jet Swap

Are we seriously nearing the end of February already? Where does the time go? It’s not like I spent the entire weekend playing Syndicate (except, oh wait, I did). We may as well spend a little more time trying to get through today quickly, because no one likes Mondays anyway. WATCH: In today’s “holy crap,…

By Tina Amini Published February 20, 2012

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How To Turn A Bunch Of Beige Blocks Into The Legend of Zelda‘s Link

This time-lapsed video of YouTube user thorkon’s Zelda-themed building blocks is truly awesome, the type of intricate creation that must have taken many, many hours to put together. But now we can add Link to the ever-growing list of game-themed computer cases that thorkon, aka 8-Bit Builder, has been modding and constructing for a while…

By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012

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I’ve got a Ticket to Ride, and I Care, Very Much

If you’ve never played the board game Ticket to Ride, boy, are you missing out. It’s almost the perfect game. There are enough cards and rules to keep serious board gamers thinking, but the basic gist is simple enough you can be up and playing in only a few minutes. As with many other great…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

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Can You Catch All the Puns in This Adorable Pokémon Love Song?

“I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns,” reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica’s pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo. Oh god, it’s infectious! Sure it’s incredibly corny, but there’s…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

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Watch This, Play This Begins Now

Stuff to play, stuff to see, here comes Watch This, Play This. Confused? Read this

By Tina Amini Published February 20, 2012

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Metal Man, Air Man, Flash Man… Lego Man?

I love creative fan works. I never cease to be amazed at the brilliant drawings, sculptures, songs, videos, and more that devoted fans with artistic talent create and share. Today, reader Gavin sent us a tip about this Mega Man mural. Measuring an impressive five feet on every side, this wall art depicting Mega Man…

By Kate Cox Published February 20, 2012

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Rift Breaks World Record For Virtual Love

Love was in the air in the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift last week, where players set a Guinness World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Rift tallied 21,879 marriages between 9am PST on February 14 and 9am PST on February 15. Assuming nobody decided to shack up with…

By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012

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Who Cries for the Non-Player Characters?

We see them every day, but do we really look at them? When a nameless, faceless non-player character stumbles into your line of fire, who sheds a single tear? Commenter Sol does, and he wonders if you do as well in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Does anyone else feel sorry for NPCs? Strange question,…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

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Uncharted 3 Runs Away With Writing Award

The Writers Guild of America is a slight misnomer. In fact, there are two separate unions, WGA West and WGA East. But they work in tandem, and once a year they come together to celebrate the past year’s achievements in writing. The 2011 awards were presented on Sunday, February 19, in a simultaneous, shared event…

By Kate Cox Published February 20, 2012

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Talk Amongst Yourselves

Praise be [Higher_Power_Of_Choice]! This is Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. Pit hasn’t yet made his return to a starring role in the upcoming 3DS title Kid Icarus: Uprising Apparently, Pan1da7—there’s no…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012

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MechAssault Creator Playing With Robots Once More

Day 1 Studios, the development studio behind MechAssault and F.E.A.R. 3, will release a new mech game called Reign of Thunder, it said today. There’s no info on platforms or a release date for the game, which sure looks a lot like MechAssault. All we know is that it stars giant robots attacking one another…

By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012