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  Let’s Admire This Month’s Most Insane Video Game Trailer

  As a method for telling me how the video game Time Ducks plays, the Time Ducks trailer is a failure. In all other ways, it is a success. Time Ducks is a real game (available on iTunes). I cannot yet tell you if it is as good as its trailer. UPDATE: Yes, yes, good friends,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2011
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  Resistance 3’s Brutality DLC Brings Co-Op Survival and Heavy Metal Soundtrack by Mastodon to PS3 Today

  Starting today, you’ll be able to rampage your way through one of the PS3’s best first-person shooters with a friend as Resistance 3 adds the all-new Brutality DLC pack. The add-on introduces a co-operative mode where two players face down wave after wave of Chimera aliens. For $3.99, you’ll also get a special Mick Cutler…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 6, 2011
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  Fortune Street‘s Review Scores Are All Over the Board

  Fans have been clamoring for the popular Japanese financial board game series Itadaki Street to make it to North America since the original was released back in 1991. Fortune Street for the Wii scratches that itch bloody. Featuring charming characters from the Mario and Dragon Quest series, Fortune Street seems like the perfect family party…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011
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  Study: Board Games Started as a Pastime for the Elite

  Competitive board games started as a pastime for the elite, spreading to Europe during Roman conquest, according to a new study published in Antiquity Board games likely originated in Egypt around 3500 B.C., spreading around the Mediterranean before reaching the Roman Empire. It was Rome that brought games, along with literacy and wine, to the…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2011
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  Home Invasion Robbery Happens During Xbox Live Match

  At 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, two criminals kicked in the door of an unidentified Pittsburgh man’s home while he was playing an Xbox 360 game online. They then pistol-whipped the homeowner and threatened a woman who was also in the house at gunpoint. However, the victim was able to alert the person he was playing…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 6, 2011
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  The Problem With Pathological Gaming Studies

  Is gaming addiction a real psychological affliction that should be recognized by the American Psychiatric Association? According to some studies as many as ten percent of all gamers could be considered gaming addicts. A new study from Texas A&M’s Christopher J. Ferguson explains how those studies are doing it wrong. Christopher J. Ferguson isn’t a…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011
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  You’ll Need to Wait a Little Longer for the “Future of TV” Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

  The much-ballyhooed firmware upgrade that’s supposed to make Microsoft’s gaming console a hotspot for all sorts of TV content is facing unexpected delays, according to the company’s chief Xbox Live representative. The update was scheduled to start rolling out this morning but Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb indicated on Twitter that it may not be live…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 6, 2011
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  Survival Mode is Coming to the Portable Version of Minecraft

  The experience that many people were hoping would be on the portable versions of Mojang’s hit construction/adventure game should be finally coming to iOS and Android. The biggest complaint about Minecraft Pocket Edition has been that it only delivers the PC game’s Creation mode, the part of the game that lets players build outlandishly detailed…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 6, 2011
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  Pick up Android Minecraft Pocket Edition for a Dime

  Seriously, ten cents. Pick it up.

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2011
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  $5 Grand Theft Auto III Hits Android and iOS (Yes, iPhone 4 Too) Next Week

  Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition hits the iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and a variety of Android devices next week for $4.99, Rockstar said today. Here’s a complete run down of the Android devices you will be able to play the game on: Android Phones: HTC Rezound, LG Optimus 2x,…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2011
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  Mind-Bending Flash Favorite Shift Gains a 3D Twist in Shifting World

  More than 16 million players have enjoyed Armor Games’ flash-based Shift series of puzzle platformers. Now Akysys Games seeks to capture some of that magic on Nintendo’s 3D handheld with Shifting World First off, if you haven’t played Armor Games’ Shift yet, go do that right now. I’ll wait. Shift is a simple platforming game…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011
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  The Resurgence of My Nintendo 3DS, According to the Only Stats that Matter

  Nintendo would like you to think that the 3DS, once ballyhooed and then dismissed for a dud, is making a comeback. They’ll show you the numbers. Their numbers don’t matter. Mine do. And my 3DS numbers—the numbers that show how much time I used Nintendo’s newest handheld day-by-day, month-by-month, throughout 2011 since the system launched—tell…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2011
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  Take That, MTV: More than 240,000 People Watched Pro Video Game Players Compete to Be the Best

  Some people like eSports. Others think the idea of broadcasting competitions of people going at it in Starcraft 2, Black Ops or Halo: Reach won’t ever get mainstream media attention. But it turns out that it may not be necessary, if the new numbers released by the Major League Gaming promotion are any indication. MLG…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 6, 2011
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  You Should Definitely Buy Your Child a Nintendo DS3, the 3D Version of the DS

  Demonstrating that sometimes Speak Up on Kotaku only needs to be a single link with a little color commentary, colorful commenter Killer Toilet shares with us a little holiday gift buying tip courtesy of Fox News’ Kim Kommando Fox be trolling the 3DS. It’s apparently for children “too young for smartphones”. They call it a…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011
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  The Xbox Kinect Can Teach You How to Kick a Mugger in the Groin

  Would you trust a video game to teach you how to get out of a choke hold and fend off a mugger? Self Defense Training Camp is a new Kinect controlled fitness game for the Xbox 360 that is designed to teach you to defend yourself. I was skeptical that it could work. The Kinect…

  By Chris Carolan Published December 6, 2011
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  Battlefield 3’s Back to Karkand Live Now, But Not Without Problems

  Battlefield 3’s Back to Karkand expansion pack is live in Europe and hits the rest of the world this afternoon, if you own the Playstation 3. PC and Xbox 360 owners will need to wait until Dec. 13. The worldwide roll-out, Electronic Arts warns, is experiencing some minor issues: “Please use the Quick Match filter…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Has anybody heard about the rumors of an upcoming Rampage movie? I have always had a soft spot for terrible video game movies. Hell, I even enjoy the Super Mario Brothers movie. What are your favorite video game movies? And, if I can admit to loving the Mario movie, someone must love the Double Dragon…

  By Chris Carolan Published December 6, 2011
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  Vietnam Makes Its Call of Duty

  It was France’s “dirty war”, an unpopular struggle in Vietnam against the French authority governing the colonies of French Indochina. The eight-year First Indochina War ended in 1954 with the historic battle of Dien Bien Phu, a fight that some historians say marks one of the first times a colonial independence movement managed to grow…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2011
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  Inertia Catapults From Xbox Live Indie Darling to Android Excellence

  If you’re not moving forward you’re doing it wrong. That’s the philosophy that launched Inertia: Escape Velocity from its humble beginnings as an Xbox Indie student project to a full-featured mobile game for Android and iOS devices. It’s also the strategy you’ll need to employ to advance through the games 35 plus levels of off-the-wall…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011
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  Square Enix Browser Game. Yay?

  Squared | TOKYO, JAPAN: Square Enix has a new browser game and roped in Japanese celebs to promote it. (Photo: 4Gamer) The Darkness II’s Multiplayer Is Co-op Only. Introduces Four New Characters The Darkness II doesn’t have traditional multiplayer. There are no multiples of Jackie Estacado using their powers over The Darkness to fight it…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011