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UncategorizedThe New Fullmetal Alchemist Game Won’t Cost You an Arm and a Leg
There’s good news and bad news, Fullmetal Alchemist fans. The good news? There’s a new game coming based on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The bad news? It looks to be some sort of turn-based card battling game for iOS, Android, and Facebook. Developed by Good Game Productions, Fullmetal Battle allows fans of the anime and manga…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting Hits iPhones Everywhere Next Month
Yesterday we reported that the first iPhone installment of Monster Hunter was hitting in Japan in June. Today Capcom reveals that Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting is releasing worldwide next month. Finger-swiping monster hunting for everybody!
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Look Out Naughty Bear, Here Comes Chucky
A2M’s Naughty Bear, a video game about a deranged child’s toy with murder in its heart, wasn’t the blockbuster success I hoped it would be. Perhaps the concept just needed to be powered by a familiar face. After that it’s all Child’s Play As far as children’s toys go, they don’t come much more frighteningly…
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UncategorizedIf You Took Drugs and Played Minecraft It Would Look Like This
The unpoetically named “GLSL Shader Mod” doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would create such lysergic effects, but watching the Minecraft world bend and warp back so that the horizon touches its own toes is enough to make my spine crawl with sympathetic memory. [via Rock Blotter Shotgun]
By Joel Johnson - Uncategorized
There you are, LEGO Portal Turret!
Here’s a lovely little Instructable that shows how to make a Portal turret out of our favorite plastic building bricks suitable for desk or headboard. Now you’re thinking with elements. LEGO Portal Turret Instructions [Instructables.com (Thanks, Kyle!)]
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UncategorizedEnlarge Your Johnson with Shadows of the Damned
In Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned, hero Garcia Hotspur has a demonic pal named Johnson that can transform into various weapons, tools, and even vehicles. Why? So they could release an ‘Enlarge your Johnson’ video. Part of me wants to believe this entire game was developed and funded specifically to make this video. It…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Stay In School, Buy a Windows PC, and Get a Free Xbox 360
Microsoft wants U.S. high school, college, and university students to be productive, but not too productive. That’s why they’re giving away a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students purchasing a Windows 7 PC priced at $699 or higher. Play is just as important as work when it comes to your education. Some might even say…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
The Hellgate Reopens over North America in June
Korean publisher HanbitSoft is finally ready to reopen Hellgate, Flagship Studios’ online multiplayer tale of demonic invasion, in North America. Closed beta for the free-to-play game launches in early June, with a full release coming later this year.
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
A Plea For Scene Selection in Video Games
You can skip to your favorite scene in a movie, flip to an exciting chapter in a book you’ve read, but you can’t just drop into a video game you’ve finished at any given point. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Smorlock wonders why. So you’re sitting at home, and you’ve got maybe 20…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Guns, Gadgets, and Gear Define Guild Wars 2‘s Engineer
In some fantasy role-playing games, engineering bombs, guns, and useful gadgets is nothing more than a novel crafting skill. In Guild Wars 2, it’s a way of life. Let’s meet the game’s newly-revealed Engineer. While other classes rely on their magic or physical prowess to survive the harsh environs of Tyria some 250 years after…
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Uncategorizedengineer gallery
Engineer Skills in Action The Bomb Pack is a backpack filled with bombs. Yum. The Flame Pack gives the Engineer access to a flamethrower, which is all anyone really ever needs. The most elaborate Health Pack we’ve ever seen. A Health Turret, which kills you with health. Mine Pack is not Your Pack. A Rifle…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to the Kotaku water cooler. If you’ve got something to say, don’t keep it to yourselfā€”share it here! My special thanks to Hisilarn for selecting one of my favorite games for today’s choice TAYpic. Think you’ve got a flare for good ol’ Photoshop splicing? Please deliver the fruit of your labors here:#TAYpics (Read this…
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UncategorizedMetalStorm Online Brings Exhilarating Two-Minute Bathroom Dogfights to Life
I’ve almost got target lock when the enemy banks sharply to the left. “Sonofabitch!” I shout, pouring on the speed and rolling my plane, leaning hard to the side, as if my body movements will make the craft more responsive. The toilet seat creaks in protest. Its protests go unheard. There’s 30 seconds left on…
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