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  Thirty Years of IBM PCs Means 29.9 Years of PC Gaming

  Today’s a special day: The 30-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM PC, a machine created for business that many of us soon discovered made a perfectly wonderful gaming machine. The PC wasn’t my first gaming computer (that was a Radio Shack TRS-80), but it was certainly the one that turned me into a…

  By Joel Johnson Published August 12, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s a beautiful day at the Kotaku compound, why not talk about video games? What’s got you through the typical summer game drought? Going through games you’ve meant to play forever? Picked up a price dropped 3ds yet? Talk it up! Thanks to reader Brian H May for today’s TAYpic We could always use some…

  By Max Abrams Published August 12, 2011
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  Child of Eden Hits PS3 with Move, 3D Support in Sept. 27

  After some delays, and some uncertainty about Move support, developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi himself takes to YouTube to confirm the game’s release and show us how it will work with Move. Oh! One more thing. It’s also going to work in 3D. Expect your mind to be blown on Sept. 27. Of course, you can still…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011
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  A Side-By-Side Look At The Glories of Remastered PSP God of War Games Running on a PS3

  The PS3 God of War: Origins Collection brings Ready at Dawns two wonderful Playstation Portable games to the PS3. But you can’t just dump them over from portable to console and expect them to look good. These games have been remastered in full HD. That means both games went from 480 x 272 resolution and…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011
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  The Alienware M18x Is a Gaming “Laptop” for the Gods

  I just got to spend the last two weeks writing, browsing the web and playing all kinds of video games on this. The Alienware M18x. I have never had more fun with a laptop computer in my life. I know Alienware has a certain reputation amongst PC gamers. That for the most part their flashy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Tentacles Can Invade My Pleasure Centers Anytime

  See those adorable little pink blobs floating on the right side of the screenshot above? They’re about to have their eyeballs torn out and eaten. Just one of the many reasons Tentacles is the best Windows Phone 7 game I’ve played so far. Proof positive that Kotaku is listening to your app review requests, I…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011
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  Auf Wiedersehen, Australia!

  Gamescom 2011 – The world’s biggest public games show kicks off next week. It’s so big even Luke is going. Right now, in fact. Bye Luke! Is Valve Releasing a New Counter-Strike Game? Out of nowhere, there’s rumours flying around tonight that Valve is on the cusp of revealing a new game. It’s not Episode…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  The Cold War Heats Up In This new PC Strategy Game

  Eugen Systems’ last game, RUSE, had a neat gimmick that in the end fell a little flat. Their next title, Wargame, doesn’t look like a gimmick at all. It looks exactly the sort of thing we’re looking for in a PC strategy game. Its full name is Wargame: European Escalation, and is set in the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Adventure Games Give us a Lesson In Fine Art

  Some of the world’s greatest paintings collide with some of the world’s greatest adventure games in this collection by Aled Lewis The Indiana Jones/Dali is great, but the Last Supper one is amazing. If only Jesus had Sonny Bonds on his side, he might have avoided that whole crucifixion mess all together! As with everything…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Bungie Staffer Pulls Gun On Shooting Suspect, Makes Citizen’s Arrest

  Jeff Fletcher, an IT guy from Halo creators Bungie, pulled into the parking lot of a US Bank branch in Skyway, Seattle last week. He then saw two guys start shooting each other. What happens next is awesome. A former security guard whose father used to be a Seattle cop, Fletcher saw a fight between…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Game Movie Director’s Theory On why Game Movies Stink

  Some video game movies are…OK. Most are terrible. Why is that? Allow a guy who makes video game movies for a living (try and) explain. Paul W.S. Anderson has been involved with every Resident Evil movie since the first one all the way back in 2002, and thinks the reason most game adaptations suck is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  What’s Wrong With Video Game Trailers

  I love video game trailers, but I love them for the same reason I love concept work: I see them as entirely separate art forms from an actual video game. I enjoy them and appreciate them for what they are, not what they’re trying to represent. And that generally leaves me a pretty happy guy!…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Is Valve Releasing a New Counter-Strike Game?

  Out of nowhere, there’s rumours flying around tonight that Valve is on the cusp of revealing a new game. It’s not Episode 3, but for many, it will be the next best thing: a new Counter-Strike game. Most of the chit-chat so far is based around testers (and eSports commentators) having very recently got some…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Total War Goes Back to Japan With New Expansion

  After a range of teeny little downloadable content packs, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 will next month be getting its first serious expansion, called Rise of the Samurai. It sends the game back in time (well, further back in time), and kicks off 400 years before the events of Shogun 2. As such, while…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  Six Shots of Pinball FX 2‘s Next Table, Ms. ‘Splosion Man

  Back in July, FX Pinball 2 creator Zen Studios revealed that Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man would supply the theme for the next table for the pinball simulator. Six fresh screens of that went out today. No release date or trailer yet, but Zen says both are coming soon enough. Zen’s next project is the…

  By Owen Good Published August 12, 2011
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  This Battlefield 3 Computer Could Stop a Bullet or Two

  Put aside the platform pissing match between EA and Valve over Battlefield 3 for a moment, PC fans, and let’s all enjoy a nice custom PC casemod based on DICE’s upcoming shooter. Marketing team SeeBark Media built this wonderful custom PC in honour of Battlefield 3, emblazoning the side with labels honouring the game’s engine…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  What do Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings Have In Common?

  Rockstar North is a video game developer known and respected the world over as the creators and continued custodians of the core Grand Theft Auto series. That’s earned it a reputation as a specialist in the field of mature, cinematic video games. Games where drugs are dealt, prostitutes killed and people say fuck with a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011
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  To No One’s Surprise, All PC Installs of Battlefield 3 will Require Origin

  Just for the record, if you’re going to play Battlefield 3 on the PC, you’re going to create and use an Electronic Arts Origin account. Period. Developer DICE has confirmed what, really, shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, a couple days ago on Twitter. This covers retail copies on DVD, but we can assume it…

  By Owen Good Published August 11, 2011
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  Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft of Double-Billing Xbox Live Subscriptions

  Microsoft must defend its Xbox Live billing policies in a class action lawsuit filed this week in Indiana. Plaintiff Ryan Graves says he was double-charged for a subscription under “vague and onerous terms of use” for the console service membership. Graves says that his Xbox Live subscription lapsed when he didn’t update his credit card…

  By Owen Good Published August 11, 2011
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  Octorok Roomba Party

  Good evening, Kotaku readers. As you read this post, I am most likely once again visiting the SUPER iam8bit show in Los Angeles. Since I’m indisposed, would you mind keep an eye on tonight’s open thread post, please? Thanks! I’ll leave the off-topic discussion in your capable hands. And since I didn’t find too many…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 11, 2011