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  Fez, Johann Sebastian Joust Grab Awards at IndieCade 2011

  Every year, at about this time, the indie-est of game gatherings takes over sunny Culver City, California. Independent game developers gather in the southern California burg to talk design, process and inspiration, while showing off their latest wares. As is the custom, awards get handed out at this kind of thing, too, and Joystiq’s got…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011
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  NBA 2K12‘s AI Has Short Attention Span

  This glitch is priceless. Youtube user mikeyjur123 was going about his business, playing a match in NBA 2K12 as normal. He makes a steal, and takes it down the court for a satisfying windmill dunk. So far so good, right? Don’t feel too bad, I didn’t notice what happened the first time either. The AI…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 7, 2011
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  Battlefield 3‘s PC Multiplayer Is Fun—When It Works

  I’m rolling in the back of an armored jeep, manning the .50 cal doing 40 MPH over a wide swath of grassland, heading straight for a contested jumble of buildings in the middle of a huge map. A jet roars overhead, inbound to the same location. It’s all very exciting, and… bam. I’m dropped from…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 7, 2011
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  id Explains How to Tweak the Most Out of PC Rage, More Official Settings Coming Soon

  The PC version of Rage will soon have a bevy of new ways for gamers to tweak the way the game behaves and looks on their system, id Software tells Kotaku “Rage has fewer tunable settings than games we’ve released in the past,” Robert Duffy, Rage programming director, told Kotaku. “We’ve added a few more…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011
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  These Battlefield 3 T-Shirts Promote Class Warfare

  The world is a dangerous place, especially with all of these Battlefield 3 players running about. What if you run into one in an alley? Will he charge? Will he hang back and snipe? Will he repair your car? There’s only one sure way to know: The official Battlefield 3 class t-shirts. Now available for…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2011
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  EA Says the Wii U Is On Track

  The Wii U debuted at the E3 gaming expo this past June. Since then, there hasn’t been much info about the upcoming Nintendo console. Fret not! EA’s Peter Moore is here to tell you everything is a-okay. “There are no indications that there’s anything that feels like it’s off target,” Moore told Reuters According to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 7, 2011
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  Another All-Time Great Sues EA Sports Over Its College Games

  Another hall-of-fame sports star—Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great—has sued Electronic Arts over what he calls the unauthorized use of his likeness from his college career more than 50 years ago. Russell, who is plainly “Center #06” of the University of San Francisco’s 1956 team in NCAA Basketball 09, is one of the biggest names…

  By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011
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  Game Reviewers Redline Forza Motorsports 4

  As the proud owner of a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder in dire need of a new manifold, I feel unqualified to say much more about Forza Motorsport 4 than the reviewers seem quite taken with it. You will not find the 95 Nissan Pathfinder on Forza 4‘s expansive roster of high-performance machines. What you will find…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2011
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  UFC Pay-Per-View Launching on Xbox Live in December

  If you like watching people faces get smashed in but don’t want all the sweaty effort of pushing buttons, then your prayers have been answered. After announcing it back at E3, Microsoft’s finally set a date for when you’ll be able to watch UFC via Xbox Live. UFC on Xbox Live launches on Dec. 1.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011
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  Reduce Your Gaming Withdrawal with a Free Nintendo DSi

  Your hands get twitchy the second you put down your controller or step away from your computer. Your eyes roll into the back of your head and you groan “Gaaaaammmmeesss” with your arms straight out in front of you while stumbling around, searching for your next fix. Sounds like the chance to win a portable…

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  Crytek Is Looking at Flash Support

  Here’s the beauty of competition. Earlier this week, Epic Games showed off the Unreal Engine 3 supporting Adobe’s Flash. Meanwhile, rival game engine maker Crytek is seeing what flash magic it can unleash. “It is an interesting approach we’ve been investigating as well,” Crytek’s Carl Jones told Edge. “We’re developing a unifying technology to create…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 7, 2011
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  New Battlefield 3 Screens Put the Campaign in Perspective

  While you’re all busy running all over the place shooting each other, Battlefield 3‘s campaign mode sits quietly in the corner, dark, lovely, and full of secrets. You can keep your competitive multiplayer; I’ve not had a braggable online showing since Unreal Tournament first came out. I’m all about the single player experience, and that’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2011
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  Create Your Own Musical Villages With the Lovely Isle of Tune HD

  Take one part Sim City, one part Rock Band, and one part music sequencer and you’ve pretty much got Isle of Tune, which was released today for the iPad. It’s not quite a “game,” but it’s still totally cool enough to merit consideration for our Gaming App of the Day. Created for PC earlier in…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 7, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Hello Kotaku! It’s Friday once again. And for most of us here in the United States, and elsewhere, this weekend is an extended one thanks to Columbus Day! I will be spending the weekend with family, so my gaming time will be at an unfortunate minimum. I hope a lot of you, though, get to…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 7, 2011
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  Apple + Aperture Science = GLaDOSiri, a Mash-Up Triumph

  Once Apple introduced the Siri AI personal assistant, it was only a matter of time until someone mashed up the introductory video so that it was GLaDOS living inside of Cupertino’s new smartphone. That someone is YouTuber bamfer23, a.ka. filmmaker Jeff Heimbuch, and he achieves a high level of hilarity by having GLaDOS be the…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011
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  My Goodness, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Deserves to be Called an RPG

  November’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword looks almost nothing like the old Nintendo Entertainment System Zelda II, but now that I’ve finished the new Wii game’s first dungeon, I can say that, folks, after more than 20 years, the wait is over. We can finally call a Zelda a role-playing game again. The last…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 7, 2011
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  Battlefield 3’s Caspian Border Opens to PC Beta Testers Starting Today

  Battlefield 3’s Caspian Border, packed with vehicles and jets, is getting one last test before the open beta shuts down. Developers DICE writes on the Battlelog blog that they’re opening up the map this weekend to do some load testing using 64-player matches. Do keep in mind that this is a beta and a stress…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011
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  Slime Cake

  Not A Lie | TOKYO, JAPAN: A Slime cake at an event for the iconic role-playing game series (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Under the Pale Blue Sky of Faron Woods, Inside the Mushroom-Lit Skyview Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as Totilo will explain a bit later…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 7, 2011
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  Under the Pale Blue Sky of Faron Woods, Inside the Mushroom-Lit Skyview Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

  The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as Totilo will explain a bit later today in his full impressions of the game’s initial dungeon, is the sort of Zelda that fans have been waiting for, for two decades. Glimpsed here in a clutch of new screenshots, readers get a chance to examine the Faron Woods that…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011
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  A Visit to the Skyview Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

  In this short, beautiful video, we see Link’s visit to the Skyview Temple, the first temple of the Wii’s upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Stay tuned for more coverage this morning including a batch of new screens and Totilo’s write-up of his time spent playing through an early chunk of the game. You…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011