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  Fund Mara’s Dream So You Can Fly A Fish

  A couple of friends got together to make Mara’s Dream, a game about a fish who wants to fly. The clean, cartoon aesthetic and single-touch play of this iOS and Android game is somehow appealing. Goal: $2,500 Notable Reward: $100 – Original hand drawn concept art +previous rewards. Chance: Great, There is no reason that…

  By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011
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  Blizzard Starts Teasing StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm‘s New Units

  Changes are coming to the multiplayer side of StarCraft II when the game’s next expansion, the Zerg-focused Heart of the Swarm, arrives sometime next year. Today, Blizzard offers us our first, unclear look at one of those changes—a new multiplayer unit. Pictured above in silhouette form is one of the new multiplayer units coming to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Princess of Power

  Good Tuesday to you, Kotaku. I bring you glad tidings and an open thread. You may use it as you see fit, to discuss video games or not to discuss video games. By the way, the above image of She-Ra and Hordak (and his various henchmen) was painted by Croatian artist Stjepan Sejic and seen…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Stop Playing Video Games! Get a Job! Get Married! Be a Man!

  Look, I’d just as soon avoid getting too het up about this latest mainstream diss on video games. But CNN’s William Bennett has forced my hand, penning a new article about the decline of the American male titled “Why men are in trouble.” Leading the article is a stock image of a gray-flecked adult holding…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 4, 2011
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  Zelda Lessons Learned: Never Bet Your Beard Against Zelda Williams

  Occasionally bearded actor Robin Williams named his daughter after the oft-kidnapped princess of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda. That naming choice seems to have imbued young Zelda Williams with preternatural Master Sword skills in the recently released downloadable version of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures Robin and Zelda continue to promote Zelda games…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Here’s Crysis, Lookin’ Mighty Fine On Xbox 360

  Today, Crytek’s landmark 2007 PC game Crysis was re-released as a downloadable game for both Xbox 360 and PS3. I’ve already had a chance to play the game and really liked it, in particular its improved controls, strong visuals, and directly-translated open gameplay. It’s a strong port of a good game. Now I’ve got my…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 4, 2011
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  Welcome to Dark Souls, Here’s What I Wish I’d Known From the Start

  I’ve played some 80 hours worth of Dark Souls on the PlayStation 3, but I still haven’t come to the end of this wonderfully bleak, beautiful and brutal game. There is much for me to uncover before I’m done—and when I play Dark Souls through for a second time. And while I’ve received an immersive…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Read The Prologue From The New Infinity Blade Novel

  Along with Epic’s announcement of Chair’s upcoming iOS sequel Infinity Blade 2 came the reveal that novelist Brandon Sanderson has published a novel based on the world of Infinity Blade. Epic was kind enough to send along a lengthy excerpt from the book—I’ve taken the prologue and reprinted it here. Several additional chapters is available…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 4, 2011
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  Felix the Gum, The Wonderful, Wonderful Gum

  Special Order –I ordered a case of Felix gum from Japan last month. Yes, it’s that good. This is Your First $10 Gears of War 3 DLC On November 1, you can buy $10 more of Gears of War 3 in the form of the Horde Command Pack. The pack adds three maps to the…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2011
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  Method Man is Rapping About Sour Patch Kids for a Video Game

  Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man is genuinely rapping about Sour Patch Kids in this video, “World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids).” Why would the man who played “Cheese” on The Wire and starred in Soul Plane rhyme about Sour Patch Kids? And why is there an ESRB warning in advance of this video? Seems Mr.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Crysis, NBA Jam, God Hand and Eufloria Are New on the PlayStation Store

  It’s true. You can finally download PlayStation 2 classic God Hand to your PlayStation 3, people. That’s the wonderfully wacky beat ’em up from the people who made Okami. IGN labeled it awful, while Kotaku contributor Tim Rogers likened it to “being a professional chainsaw-wielding glacier demolisher at a party where the penguins are going…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  The World’s Most Famous Dark Elf Carves a Path to Neverwinter

  Hoping to capture the attention of both traditional pen-and-paper role-players and video game RPG fans, Wizards of the Coast wants to put the city of Neverwinter on the minds of fantasy fans everywhere. That’s why they’ve called in the big guns: author R.A. Salvatore and his most famous creation, Drizzt Do’Urden. A conflicted dark elf…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2011
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  Double Fine Delivers Custom Pick-Me-Up Card to Gamer with Rare Brain Disease

  Psychonauts, arguably Double Fine Studios’s best and most well-known game, is all about memories and how they shape our lives. The PS2-era game impacted Chris Machado so much that he wrote into the dev collective founded by Tim Schafer, which led to a visit to their San Francisco offices. Years passed and Machado was diagnosed…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2011
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  How To Find Quake Inside Rage

  Earlier today we posted our walk-through video showing how you to find a little bit of Wolfenstein 3D inside id Software’s Rage. Here’s a look at how to find Quake in the game. This time around you don’t have to just bump into a wall, you need to track down four buttons, click em and…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2011
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  Every Night is Basketball Appreciation Night in NBA 2K12

  It is 2 a.m. and I’m going to score 60 points with Dell Curry. Having unlocked the 1992-1993 Charlotte Hornets—you had better believe it was the first thing I did in NBA 2K12—I’ve started Dell in place of Kendall Gill and he is, well, he’s beating his son. Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors have no…

  By Owen Good Published October 4, 2011
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  Tekken Hybrid Bulks Up Even More With Limited Edition Goodies

  The tasty blend of Tekken Tag Tournament HD, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue and Tekken Blood Vengeance 3D—we call it Tekken Hybrid—is getting its own limited edition on the PlayStation 3. What might convince you to drop sixty bucks on a handful of old and new Tekken games? The limited edition version of Tekken Hybrid…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  Portal 2‘s Free ‘Peer Review’ Add-on Goes Live, Portal 2 Gets Cheap

  The first downloadable add-on for Portal 2, the free cooperative missions known as “Peer Review” is now out for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (or will be any minute now). And if you don’t already own Portal 2… Steam is selling Portal 2 at the very reasonable asking price of $14.99 USD for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2011
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  In Praise of Tough Questions

  I heard yesterday that games journalist Brandon Sheffield gave a tough interview to some of the guys who made Rage, this week’s big new first-person shooter. “Hostile” was the word floating around in my Twitter feed. Pete Hines, marketing man for Rage publisher Bethesda and an overall good sport couched that. He described Sheffield’s role…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011
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  10 Questions Siri Should Be Able to Answer for Gamers

  Today at Apple’s live iPhone event, Apple’s Scott Forstall demoed a new iteration of the personal assistant “Siri,” an artificial intelligence that understands questions users ask and responds with helpful information. Siri itself isn’t new, but this latest version of the program is exclusive to the just-announced iPhone 4s It’s nice to be able to…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 4, 2011
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  Rage, ATI, and the Battlefield 3 Beta Don’t Mix

  Is your PC version of Rage crashing to the desktop? Do you have an ATI graphics card? Bethesda’s Pete Hines tweets that a conflict between ATI’s Battlefield 3 beta drivers and Rage might be the cause. Time for a rollback!

  By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2011