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Don’t Miss This Week’s Kotaku Trailers TV, Guest-Starring Geoff Keighley
Gawker’s New York City headquarters is on fire in this week’s episode of GameTrailers TV, as host Geoff Keighley shows the world how good three Kotaku editors look standing on a rooftop with the wind rustling their shirts. Aside from miss earthquakes, not working out of Gawker’s New York City office means I also don’t…
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UncategorizedBuilding Need For Speed Mega Blok by Mega Blok
Who would want to buy Need for Speed-branded Mega Bloks construction sets? That’s the question I asked myself when I first heard the LEGO competitor had taken on EA’s racing game license earlier this year. Now that the sets are hitting store shelves, I have an answer: Me. The Need for Speed Mega Bloks are…
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Midweek Deals: Refurbished Kinect, Wii & Mario Kart Bundle, and More
A batch of several good deals have come in since Saturday’s edition of The Moneysaver. See below for deals on refurbished Kinect sensors—$15 lower than in previous Moneysavers—and the lowest price ever for the Wii/Mario Kart bundle. Hardware • Refurbished Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor w/ Kinect Adventures game is $79.99 + $5 shipping Tuesday from…
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UncategorizedVoice Of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s Captain Titus as Strong as You’d Think
Mark Strong, the actor who voices Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s Captain Titus, is new to the Warhammer world. After getting a taste of Warhammer, he says he want to “take a big swim” in the universe. An actor mostly known for playing villains, he says it’s nice to play a many leveled hero this time.…
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UncategorizedDidn’t Feel the Earthquake? Here Are 5.9 Games That Let You Recreate It
Earthquakes are great and terrible forces, destroying homes, claiming lives, and reminding humanity as a whole that this planet we crawl across isn’t as solid as it seems. The east coast of the U.S. found that out today. For the rest of us, there are video games. While the rest of Kotaku‘s east coast crew…
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UncategorizedCreator Commentary Makes This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer a Learning Experience
You’ve seen this Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer before, but you’ve never seen it with informative commentary from a pair of Japanese gentlemen. Let’s see what producer Kitase Yoshinori and director Toriyama Motomu have to say! That is, of course, if you understand Japanese. Otherwise you’ll just have to sit here with us slow kids and…
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UncategorizedWatch This Gorgeous Portal Fan Film Right Now
If Chris Nolan directed the opening of a Portal film (and Hans Zimmer scored it), I suspect it would look a little something like “Portal: No Escape”, a gorgeous and intense fan film set in the world of Aperture Science. (It wasn’t Nolan, though. It was Dan Trachtenberg!) [via Superpunch]
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Ubisoft Breaks Their Own Record for Playable Games at PAX
Ubisoft is coming to PAX this week with nearly a dozen games and a slew of freebies. They say it will be their biggest line up for the annual show to date. Ubisoft will occupy four booths, all of which will be different from the last, showcasing eleven unreleased video games. The line-up consists of…
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East Coast Earthquake? QUICK! To Twitter!
An Earthquake hit Virginia today, and we felt tremors all up and down the east coast. Instead of seeking shelter or whatever you do when an earthquake hits, the games industry took to twitter to make jokes. Seems reasonable to us. Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games Pete Hines, Bethesda Michael Zenke, Sony Online Entertainment Eric Zimmerman,…
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These Gaming Glasses Have Modern Warfare 3 Written All Over Them
Modern Warfare 3 is going to sell millions of copies when it hits gaming retailers this November, and those millions of players are going to need quality gaming eyewear. Or at least that’s how gaming glasses maker Gunnar Optiks sees the world, and they’re prepared for those lens-craving gamers with the limited edition Call of…
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UncategorizedBastion‘s Narrator Has A History With Portal 2‘s Cave Johnson
Bastion‘s deep voiced narrator Rucks is a serious guy, full of insight and detailed information to help the Kid rebuild his world. Turns out he’s not the only technological maverick in this universe. In this video Rucks gives an account of his history with Aperture Science founder and lemon enthusiast Cave Johnson. At least their…
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Lawyer Blames Games Addiction For Case Flubs
A Pennsylvania lawyer is blaming an addiction to video games for his shoddy work on a multitude of cases, the York Dispatch reports. Matthew Eshelman, a 43-year-old now suspended-lawyer, was fired from his firm in 2007 because of multiple cases that he flubbed on because his attention was split between his job and his addiction…
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UncategorizedEveryone Can Hear You Scream at the Aliens: Colonial Marines Debut Trailer
When a handful of Colonial marines face-off against a never-ending swarm of acid-blooded xenomoprhs, the ending is never pretty, and rarely happy. Here’s the debut trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines The terror of the original films comes flooding right back as this trailer unfolds, lending creedence to Luke Plunkett’s observations from Gamescom last week. This…
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UncategorizedFirst Ever Dota 2 Championship Winner Revealed
Valve’s yet-to-be released Dota 2 has its first champion. The publisher held a tournament for the still-unreleased game at the Gamsecom video game conference last week. It wrapped up over the weekend. There are spoilers ahead, in case you haven’t looked up the winner yet. The 16 top-ranking Dota teams from around the world battled…
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