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  Let’s Compare Crysis 2 Running On PC And Xbox 360

  While there will be PC gamers who feel that their version of Crysis 2 will have suffered from having to be “ported” to console, I’m taking a different approach. It may be a “glass half empty” thing, but instead of the hypothetical that the PC version could have looked better if it was PC-only, I’m…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  Tim Schafer’s Next Title Is A…Tower Defense Game?

  You just can’t stop Double-Fine from releasing games at the moment. Costume Quest, Stacking, Sesame Street, all out or coming out within a year of each other. You can now add Trenched to that list. Trenched is a tower defence game with a twist: instead of looking down on the batlefield from a safe distance,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  Okay, The Yakuza Zombie Game Is Just Kooky

  Ping pong with zombies? Fishing for zombies? S&M with zombies?! Parody Yakuza: Of The End brings its familiar zombies and dignified deaths to survival horror.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2011
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  This Game Could Have Been Worth A Million Bucks

  Former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling star Stevie Richards (aka Michael Manna) apparently scored a perfect game in baseball game MLB 2K11. If verified, he might be the first person to do that, putting him up for line for a million dollar payday. The game’s publisher is holding a contest that will award a cool mil…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2011
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  Bored Of Fighting Games, Man Destroys Windshield Wipers

  Thirty-one year-old Kenichi Moriai was unemployed. But after his fighting game-inspired rampage bent on destroying windshield wipers, he wasn’t just out of a job, he was arrested. Again. On January 28, in Yashio City in Saitama Prefecture, eight trucks in a freight company parking lot had their windshield wipers bent and mangled. According to the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2011
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  Gabe Newell vs The Israeli Taskmaster

  The man on the left in this video is Intel’s Shmuel “Mooly” Eden, a company vice president and Israeli beret-wearing champion. On the right? Valve boss Gabe Newell, who it seems doesn’t cope well with unexpected questions. If you’ve ever wondered why video games PR is so entrenched in the machinations of this business, this…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  Team Fortress 2 Makes A Great Batman Movie Greater

  The Dark Knight is one of the great movies of our time. It’s not perfect, though. Well, it wasn’t. It is now. (Warning: you’ll need to turn the sound up).

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  Watch Dragon Age II‘s Awful, Terrible Sex Scenes

  Video games can never do a decent sex scene. Know why? It’s all about the mouth. In the movies, people kiss. In video games – like Dragon Age II – it’s like two mailboxes clanging against each other. Sure, there’s narrative satisfaction to be gained from seeing your character and another knock boots, but that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  Fastball 2 Hopes You Like Rolling Balls

  Fastball 2 is a game for people who love Canabalt but can’t handle all that death and destruction. The game was actually first released last year, but a recent update has seen it catapult itself back near the top of the “free” section of the App Store’s “Games” chart. It’s as simple as games come:…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2011
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  What Are You Listening To?

  It’s been too long since we checked in with the Kotaku readership and asked, “Hey, what are you listening to?” Tonight’s open thread, a Themed Tuesday, will let us ask again. These days, I seem to listen to nothing but podcasts: This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, the Giant Bombcast, New York Times front page… and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gets Augmented With Fancy Extras (And A Release Date)

  North American gamers will get their hands on Deus Ex: Human Revolution on August 23—earlier than our Australian counterparts. We’ll also get a reasonably priced “Augmented Edition” for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC when the third Deus Ex game arrives. What’s in that $69.99 USD “Augmented Edition”? The following digital goods: a new…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Pokémon Black and White Has A Presidential Theme Song

  If you were in attendance at this weekend’s launch fiesta for Nintendo DS game Pokémon Black and White, you might have seen ’90s musical sensation The Presidents of the United States of America belting out their newest jam “Can’t Stop (Catchin’ ‘Em All).” If you weren’t fortunate enough to bask in that pop pap, please…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Going Crazy For Alice: Madness Returns

  A decade on from American McGee’s Alice, a stylishly gothic and twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, gamers are given the opportunity to return to this twisted world with Alice: Madness Returns. It’s not crazy to delight in that not much has changed over the past decade for Alice, is it? For those unfamiliar with…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  A Mega Man That’s More Than Meets The Eye

  Mega Man and the gang play a little game of King of the Hill in this killer entry for UDON’s Mega Man Tribute Contest created by Joe Ng and GENZOMAN More great Mega Man Tribute entries can be found HERE! Mega Man Tribute – Lines by Joe Ng (Twitter) | Colors by GENZOMAN Need your…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  The URL That’s Also A Game

  URL Hunter is lo-fi gaming at its finest/simplest/most clever. Control the letter ‘O’ in your browser’s address bar and try to kill as many ‘a’s as possible in 30 seconds. An impressive little experiment.

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Grumbly the Orc Says Hello

  I’ve been getting slightly, every so slightly, addicted to Dungeon Overlord. It’s a kinda fun, kinda interesting Facebook game that has enormous potential, which I worry won’t be realized. Uncharted 3 Has a Hard Target. Your Heart. Nathan Drake is a klutz. That’s why we care what happens to him. Back when Naughty Dog was…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2011
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  PlayStation Store Update: Mortal Kombat Plus

  That PlayStation Plus membership will feel like a much better investment today, now that the Mortal Kombat demo for PlayStation 3 is online and available only to PS+ subscribers. The rest of us can taken consolation in a huge flood of new PSone Classics. It’s a veritable feast of new old PlayStation games in this…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Blizzard Shuts Down NASDAQ

  Blizzard Entertainment co-founders Frank Pearce and Mike Morhaime play a little StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty on the big screen at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York City, just before ringing the closing bell on Monday, March 7. The ceremony was part of Blizzard Entertainment’s year-long 20th anniversary celebration. Gameface is a photographic celebration…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Tiger Blood Energy Potion Brings Out The Raving Lunatic Actor In You

  Watching a celebrity dissolve before your very eyes is entertaining, but Charlie Sheen’s reign as everybody’s favorite frothing-at-the-mouth WINNER can only last so long. Luckily for Blood Energy Potion creators Harcos Laboratories, printing out stickers doesn’t take long at all. Perhaps I’m only jealous because I’m not winning, but that could all change once I…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  Shadows of the Damned Is A Kick To The Nuts Of Convention

  It may be hard to take Shadows of the Damned‘s journey into the depths of Hell too seriously, when you have a disembodied ex-demon skull named Johnson—who can transform into a weapon dubbed the Boner—as your sidekick. When demonic pubic hair and eyeball-eating baby heads serve as key obstacles in this horror game, you’ll find…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011