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The Latest Ace Combat Gets to the Choppah (and the Bombah)
The aircraft of the venerable Ace Combat series all have been of the fixed-wing variety. The most notable variance in the latest installment Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the inclusion of helicopters, as many saw when the game’s first trailer showed an Apache Longbow used in gameplay. “If we just wanted to make a jet…
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UncategorizedLeaving Los Angeles, and E3 2011
If you’ve never experienced E3 before, right as you feel like you’ve caught up with the breakneck pace of announcements, presentations and demonstrations, the show is over. It’s one of those weeks that seems to pass in the blink of an eye. Here then, are 3,444 such blinks, glimpses of E3 from start to finish,…
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UncategorizedTake a Tour of BioShock Infinite‘s Thrill Ride in the Sky
Watching the BioShock Infinite demonstration at E3, I formed the mistaken impression that the thrill-ride skylines of Columbia had, within the game’s story, always been intended as a primary mode of personal transportation. They aren’t, as Irrational Games’ Ken Levine explains in this four-minute video featuring lots of gameplay. Originally the skylines were a means…
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The More They Keep Telling Me Star Wars: The Old Republic Isn’t Like World of Warcraft, the Less I Want to Play
I just had a hands-on demo with the hugely anticipated massively multiplayer role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic, but after an hour of watching self-described sizzle reels of prerendered and in-game footage, showing casually pirouetting Jedi and environments full of foxfire and crepitating tails of energy, I couldn’t actually make myself actually play the…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves! E3 is officially over. A lot of has happened this week, so I’m guessing you have plenty to talk about. That said, feel free to talk about any video games that are on your mind. Special thanks to Incursor for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your…
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UncategorizedHere is Star Fox 64 on the 3DS
Remember what a delightful surprise Star Fox 64 was when it first showed up in ’97, bundled in its enticing oversize box with the Rumble Pak? I do. So it was like saying “hello” to an old friend today when I saw it at Nintendo’s E3 complex; an old friend tripped out with some motion…
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