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  Stardrift Empires, the Sequel to the Best Facebook Game You Never Played

  There’s only been one Facebook game I’ve ever set an alarm for in real life: Starfleet Commander made me get up in the middle of the night to check my fleets and send out new attacks. What made the space fleet combat game—sort of a combination of EVE Online and Trade Wars 2002—so compelling? For…

  Michael Schulte Published August 10, 2011
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  Fallout: New Vegas’ Lonesome Road Delayed

  The Lonesome Road add on won’t be hitting this month as originally planned, Bethesda says on their blog. We don’t know why exactly it’s being delayed, but we do know that they hope to get it out as quickly as possible.

  By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2011
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  iPhone Games Just Aren’t Any Fun

  Commenter St.McDuck is done downloading games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and he’ll tell us why in today’s installment of Speak Up on Kotaku. Why I’m Done with iPhone Games I can’t count how many demos or $1 games I’ve bought since I got an iPod Touch back in 2008. Every day I was…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2011
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  Inversion‘s Co-Op Trailer Shows That if You Plan To Screw With Gravity, You’d Better Bring a Friend.

  Third-person shooter Inversion invites a lot of comparison to Gears of War, another third person shooter that you may have played. Outside of camera perspective, the two also share an affinity for co-op gameplay, which is something you’re probably familiar with. You might not be as familiar with defying the laws of physics. In that…

  By Joshua Rivera Published August 10, 2011
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  Finally! New App Will Turn Your iPad or iPhone Into a Real-Life, Interactive Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, not the book about the guide and the people who use it, but the guide itself, is coming to iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads this fall, Hothead Games tells Kotaku The free-to-download app will hit this fall as what is meant to be a replica of the interactive guide…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s a hot August. You don’t want to go outside. Better talk about video games. Thanks to reader kyosen for today’s TAYpic. We could always use some new TAYpics, so if you think you’ve got what it takes, here’s what to do: submit your images to #TAYpics, and please keep submitting until you’re out of…

  By Max Abrams Published August 10, 2011
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  Gamification is Bullshit

  In his short treatise On Bullshit, the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt gives us a useful theory of bullshit. We normally think of bullshit as a synonym-albeit a somewhat vulgar one-for lies or deceit. But Frankfurt argues that bullshit has nothing to do with truth. Rather, bullshit is used to conceal, to impress or to coerce.…

  Ian Bogost Published August 10, 2011
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  An Angry Birds Alternative for those who Would Prefer to Aim Up

  I’ve only needed to play 14 levels of Amazing Breaker to tell you it is worth your 99 cents. I’ve only needed to use the game’s slingshot to launch helicopter bombs onto a massive glass mug of beer to know that playing this game is a proper way to use an iPhone. Amazing Breaker, recommended…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2011
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  Here, Have a Snack

  Fed | TOKYO, JAPAN: 3DS Game idol G-Feed unit visits website 4Gamer. (Photo: 4Gamer) Don’t Blame Grand Theft Auto for the London Riots So, a London cop says something about Grand Theft Auto and suddenly a British newspaper sees fit to blame the series for the riots that have plagued the English city all week…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  Want To Be in Prototype 2?

  Well, you could be! Maybe not, though, but you might as well try. Radical Entertainment and GameStop are running a promotion with the grand prize of winning a trip for two to Vancouver and appearing in Prototype 2 Customers who pre-order the game at GameStops in the U.S. or Canada between now and September can…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  Milla Jovovich Returning to Resident Evil

  Actress Milla Jovovich is starring in the fifth RE flick, Resident Evil: Retribution. Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing. The film is slated for September 2012 and will take place in Toronto and Tokyo. [Bloody Disgusting]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  This 3DS Price Cut Just Might Work

  Nintendo’s decision to slash the 3DS’s price tag was sudden and desperate. Who cares, because from the sound of it, Japanese gamers are becoming keen. According to The Mainichi Newspaper, when the price was dropped, online reservations at Japanese retailer Bic Camera spiked. “It’s going better than we thought,” a Bic Camera spokesperson told the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  Living Life with Multiple Sets of Plastic Hair

  Figures often have extra hands or arms for collectors to switch out for new poses. Sometimes figures have extra hair, and alternate hairdos are exciting! Take this statue of Rinko Kobayakawa from Konami’s hit love simulator Love Plus. She comes with two different hairstyles—one is her default ‘do, and the other one, the clumpy bangs,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  You Can Thank This Man for the Look of Gears of War

  Epic Games has a common visual style running through all its games. Gears of War looks like Unreal Tournament which looks like Bulletstorm. If you’ve ever wondered why that is, well, wonder no more. It’s because of artist James “Hawkprey” Hawkins. Hawkins is a concept artist employed at Epic who is responsible for that trademark…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2011
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  Here’s a Ton of Gameplay Footage From Ico, Shadow of the Colossus HD

  The HD versions of PS2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are almost upon us. If you can’t wait, though, here’s what the first few minutes of each look like running on a PS3. And if that’s not enough, here are montages from both games, featuring even more footage, all courtesy of IGN Watch…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2011
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  Square Enix Gets Chun-Li’s Thighs Right (But Not the Knees)

  First spotted at Comic-Con, we now have the first official shots of Square Enix’s line of upcoming Street Fighter figures. As with many other figures in the company’s “Play Arts” line, there’s a stylised edge to the World Warriors, which in Ryu’s case means basketball biceps and in Chun-Li’s case means giant man thighs (yes!)…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2011
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  The World Does Not Need This Camera

  The world really doesn’t. But Capcom didn’t ask the world. It looked at the Japanese sales for its wildly popular Monster Hunter games and crapped out this camera. It may sound like I hate this 3 megapixel camera. I don’t! It so ridiculous that I cannot help but like it. The camera features a Felyne,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  A Shoot-em-up? No, This Is a Chase-em-up

  As can happen on a service that’s normally home to so much shovelware and so many bite-sized games, it’s easy to lose sight of the hidden gems that surface on DSiWare from time to time. Like Go! Go! Kokopolo, out this week. It’s a game with a neat premise: you’re a cat (well, a wildcat)…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2011
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  Zelda Designer Dreams of Zelda Movie

  Nintendo made one live action movie, the Super Mario Bros. flick. It sucked. That isn’t stopping Zelda designer Eiji Aonuma from fantasizing about making an epic motion picture with everyone’s favorite green-hatted hero. In the August edition of Nintendo Power, Aonuma confessed that he was personally interested in doing a Zelda movie. “I always thought…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011
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  Building the Perfect Super Nintendo (on a PC)

  We’ve all used an emulator at one stage in our lives. Whether to replay some classic old arcade games or play an obscure console title you missed first time around, they’re a dime a dozen. But have you ever considered how accurate they are? While emulators exist to, well, emulate the experience of playing a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2011