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  Last Xbox Creator Leaves Microsoft (and Why That’s Depressing)

  Entertainment & Devices is the division of Microsoft that makes the cool shit. Xbox, Zune, Windows Phone. Courier. J. Allard was its figurehead for years. He left. And now Otto Berkes, the last original Xbox founder, is gone too As the Seattle Times reports, Berkes didn’t just help create the Xbox, along with Ted Hase…

  By Matt buchanan Published May 25, 2011
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  Before They Were Famous: Bungie

  Today is the first in a new “Before They Were Famous” series here on Total Recall, where we look at the games some of the world’s biggest developers worked on before they became some of the world’s biggest developers. First up is Bungie, creators of the Halo series. While most got their introduction to Bungie…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 25, 2011
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  What Have You Been Watching?

  Kotaku readers, it’s Tuesday. So, tell us dammit, for lack of a better phrase, about what you’ve been taking in through the eyes and ears. And it doesn’t just have to be about video games, for this is an open thread. As mentioned recently, I partook in the viewing of The Kids Are Alright, The…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  10,000 People Will Get Their Hands On Ms. Splosion Man Early

  Ms. Splosion Man is full of surprises. First, it’s called Ms. Splosion Man. Second, you can control two Ms. Splosion Mans at the same time with its “2 Girls 1 Controller” mode. And now there’s an early access beta? It would appear so! In order to test the multiplayer side of Twisted Pixel’s Splosion Man…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  Looks Like The Witcher 2 is Also Coming to the Xbox 360

  Developer CD Projekt has teased console versions of The Witcher games before, but it looks like it might actually happen for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The game’s producer talked around it to Eurogamer and the ESRB now has a rating for an Xbox 360 version. Maybe at E3, then?

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  BioShock Infinite‘s Creator on Being A Big Daddy to BioShock, New Story Beats and Low Calorie Hot Cocoa

  Please, don’t write off the dazzling BioShock Infinite as simply BioShock in the sky. Yes, it has plasmid-like superpowers (“vigors”) and an impossible retro sci-fi dystopia, but this is a BioShock that greatly contrasts with the one Ken Levine and Irrational Games created four years ago. BioShock Infinite is more of a rollercoaster-powered thrill ride…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  Sega’s Shinobi and Sonic Generations Outed for Nintendo 3DS

  It would appear that the Sonic game with double the Sonic is, in fact, coming to Nintendo 3DS, as already semi-announced by, well, Sega itself. But Shinobi? Well, that’s good news too. Thanks, Nintendo Power magazine! Sonic Generations for 3DS is the cover story for (what is allegedly) the next issue of Nintendo Power. That…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  We Got Microsoft to Promote The Red Ring of Death and Our Other Xbox Live Indie Favorites

  Every couple of weeks we deliver a list of our favorite (mostly) new Xbox Live Indie games to officials involved with the Xbox 360. We pick our favorite indie games; they list them in a corner of the Xbox Live Games Marketplace called Kotaku’s Favorites (it’s in the Indie channel). They don’t give us any…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 24, 2011
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  Rez Creator Talks About Positive Power of Games, Plays Child of Eden at TED

  Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the developer behind Space Channel 5, Lumines, and Rez—and its upcoming spiritual sequel Child of Eden—joined the long list of smart, creative types who can boast of having their own TED talk. What does Mizuguchi think is an “idea worth spreading”? How about the positive power of video games, which Mizuguchi says can…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  A Little Photog..raphy

  NUDGENUDGE, WINKWINK | Dead or Alive Dimensions compelling photography mode. (Photo by Crecente) Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Goes Free and Online Only This Summer This isn’t Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but it may be better, delivering tactical action and fast-paced play in an online only, free-to-play computer game. Ghost Recon Online goes into beta this…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 24, 2011
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  Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 and Agent ‘Still In Development’

  Two announced Rockstar Games efforts, Max Payne 3 and Agent, were nowhere to be seen on publisher Take-Two’s most recent release list. So where are these games, one of which was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive almost two years ago? They’re still in development, according to Take-Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick who offered the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  The Beast Arrives in Infamous 2, and You Will Not Be Ready

  Towards the end of inFamous, Cole MacGrath is given a vision of The Beast, an all-powerful world destroyer that only he has the power to stop. At the beginning of Infamous 2, he fails. Infamous lovingly sets Cole up for a fall in Infamous 2. As the game begins The Beast arrives in Empire City,…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 24, 2011
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  Don’t Mess with the Angry Ass Birds

  The Angry Ass Birds are ready to lay down some serious firepower in Anthony Jones’ hilarious fan art redesign. “Get to da slingshot!!!” Related Rampages: Mega Man the Movie | Smash Bros (More) ANGRY ASS BIRDS by Anthony Jones / Robotpencil (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  Sounds Like L.A. Noire‘s Publisher Wants L.A. Noire 2 and L.A. Noire 3

  L.A. Noire just came out and no one behind the game has made any official announcements about an L.A. Noire sequel, but this is what Strauss Zelnick, head of Take Two, had to say about L.A. Noire on a call with investors today: “We have every reason to believe that L.A. Noire is another strong…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 24, 2011
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  Spec Ops: The Line Delayed Again, Won’t Make 2011

  The last time publisher Take-Two talked about Spec Ops: The Line, the sandy, Dubai-based shooter, it was due no later than March 31, 2012. The new Spec Ops now has another new release date drawn in the sand. Take-Two updated the release window for Spec Ops: The Line today from fiscal year 2012 to first…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  The PlayStation Store Will Not Be Open for Business Today

  Contrary to previous reports, the PlayStation Store will not open its digital doors today in North America. Sony Computer Entertainment America reps confirm that we’ll have to wait a little longer while the PlayStation Network deals with scheduled maintenance. Sony’s Jeff Rubenstein writes on the official PlayStation blog that “we’re still targeting restoration of all…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 24, 2011
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  The LEGO Video Game Conundrum

  It’s a mistake, in light of Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean, to accuse Traveller’s Tales of diminishing returns with their Lego series. I keep seeing that happening. It’s wrong. If anything the problem is the stability of their consistency. I’ve had a think about why. These games are coming thick and fast, this year already…

  John Walker, Rock Paper Shotgun Published May 24, 2011
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  Minecraft Mobile Getting E3 Outing?

  What’s that I spy in this email from Sony Ericsson? Could it be Minecraft? Packed with imagery and references to Minecraft, it seems a safe bet to assume that the Sony Ericsson E3 party for their Xperia Play phone has got to be, at least in part, about the popular indie computer game. The party…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 24, 2011
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  Fear the Positron Blades of Anarchy Reigns‘ Leo

  Amidst all of the bizarre characters introduced thus far for Platinum Games’ online beat ’em Anarchy Reigns, Leo is by far the most human-looking. So it makes sense that he’s a cyborg. Standing at six feet, seven inches and weighing in at 362 pounds, Leo is a state-of-the-art cyborg with four limb-mounted “Positron Blades”, perfect…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 24, 2011
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  Klingon for Beginners: A Video Tutorial!

  Speaking Klingon means never having to say you’re sorry. And there are many other benefits to learning this most noble of languages. So we’re proud to be able to bring you this Klingon language tutorial from Star Trek: Infinite Space Star Trek: Infinite Space, of course, is the new free browser game set in the…

  By Charlie Jane Anders Published May 24, 2011