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Uncover Your Guild Wars 2 Legacy In The Hall Of Monuments

What will your Guild Wars 2 persona inherit from your original Guild Wars characters? Kotaku talks to ArenaNet designer John Hargrove and lead designer Eric Flannum about the newly-launched Hall of Monuments Reward Calculator. The Hall of Monuments, introduced in 2007’s Eye of the North expansion pack, is a trophy vault commemorating each player’s accomplishments…

Infamous 2 Is A Car-Tossing Stunner

You may expect men of great brawn and muscle-thickness to instigate the massive spectacles in modern, action-packed video games. Infamous’ Cole, is a slender PlayStation 3 hero, but Infamous 2 already shows he could wreck Marcus Fenix, ruin the Hulk. On the eve of New York Comic-Con where more titanic super-heroes will be on display,…

Allaying Concerns, Amazon Will Ship World of Warcraft: Cataclysm In December

Before Blizzard revealed that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm would go on sale in December, retailer Amazon was informing customers that they would get the game in January. Have no fear. The retail giant tells Kotaku “we will be releasing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm on the official release date of December 7, 2010.”

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Let’s Talk About Medal of Honor

Danger Close’s reboot of the Medal of Honor series stirred up quite a bit of controversy because of its momentary inclusion of playable Taliban in the game’s multiplayer. But that has nothing to do with the game’s quality. I suspect that most of us don’t weigh the morality of a developer’s design choices when deciding…

Guild Wars Hall of Heroes Gallery

I Have A Half Day

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Left Dead 4 Modern Shooter Half of it was spent working. Now, the other half. Plans include building a model car with Mini-Bash, reading picture books to Micro-Bash and watching a movie with Mrs. Bashcraft. What you missed last night Watch Obama Bring The Rain In NBA Jam The 3DS’…

Review: Wii Party

This ain’t Mario Party, it’s Wii Party. Nintendo’s latest effort at a party game once again features mini-games. Did someone say “mini-games”? Wii Party sports over 80 mini-games and features Miis as the in-game characters. The Japanese version of the game — which I played — has 14 game modes, while the U.S. version has…

Night Of The Living Pokémon

Going to have to break this one up over two pages in the interests of Not Suitable For Work Safety. As seen on Game Informer

Kinect Does Not Need This, No Sir It Does Not

And you thought because it doesn’t use peripherals Kinect would be spared a bunch of ridiculous third-party add-ons. Well, you were wrong This is Atomic Accessories’ “Game Boat”. It’s for Kinect Adventures, a game which includes a rafting game. So you blow up the inflatable boat, and…look, I’m not going to dignify this with an…

Now This Is A Joystick

I once had a Thrustmaster “Top Gun” joystick. Best one I ever had. Got me through 2.5 X-Wing games after I’d broken four on the first one. This new one, though, is a lot nicer. It’s called the HOTAS WARTHOG (Thrustmaster’s caps, not ours), and is touted as a “full replica” of the flight stick…

Now You Can Be The Third, Taller Mario Brother

Reader JC has a design up for voting on T-shirt site Threadless, and we think it’s one worth voting for. Unless you hate plumbers. And who hates plumbers? Anyone can be a plumber in this shirt, which makes us wish Threadless was a store that also specialised in caps and hallucinogenic mushrooms. In case you…

A Very, Very Small Game Of Pac-Man

Like microscopic. Literally! Experimental artist Kotaro Tanaka has created this playable Pac-Man that requires players to use a microscope. The feed from an original Pac-Man arcade board is run through an XRGB-3 upscan converter and projected on a small mirror and seen through the scope. All of this is housed in a lab work bench.…

Xenosaga Action Figure Comes Out Guns Blazing

Couldn’t scrape together $550 for that sweet KOS-MOS statue, Xenosaga fans? Maybe this $50 figure is more to your liking. It’s a Figma figure, meaning that unlike the statue it’s got joints and lines everywhere. Those joints and lines are there for a reason, though, as it’s highly posable, the inclusion of a stand meaning…

A Visual Guide To Wii Party

Balance Ship was one of the standout mini-games in Wii Party. Hiding a Wii-Remote might seem gimmicky, and it might actually be. But I don’t care, it’s fun. This type of game is probably familiar to those who have played the Mario Party games. Match-Up is a classic matching game with a Mii spin. http://youtu.be/2XApWiHUuu…

Xbox 360’s AT&T TV Service Launches In November

Having first been revealed in, oh, 2007, it seems that the Xbox 360 is finally going to be able to play nice with AT&T’s U-Verse streaming TV service. Thing is, there’s a catch. Well, catches For one, you can’t just sign up and use the Xbox 360 on its own like you can with, say,…

What Is The Most Overrated Video Game?

Hello! It’s Friday! So let’s talk. You and me. And that other guy. Him Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know…

Watch Obama Bring The Rain In NBA Jam

US President Barack Obama is in the new NBA Jam, alongside a bunch of other prominent past and current politicians. Sounds like it’s worth a chuckle when you read it, but man, you have to see it. This is how elections should be fought. Not with votes, or advertising dollars, but with boomshakalakas.

A Left 4 Dead 2 Message Left 4 Japan

Found in The Sacrifice downloadable content. It reads: “Taki… I love you. Good-bye.”