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  The First Killzone 3 Trailer Is A Real Kick In The Face

  Celebrating the relaunch of the official Killzone website, Sony delivers the first trailer for Killzone 3, showing off the game’s brutal new melee system. Looks painful! Michael McWhertor got his hands on Killzone 3’s new melee attack system last month, and wasn’t particularly impressed. Perhaps if Sony had shown him this rendered trailer, with its…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010
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  Dungeon and Dragons Online Gets Airships, Crazy Carnival

  Dungeon and Dragons Online’s next update,Update 5: Rise of the Guilds, amplifies the guild experience for players by adding such elements as Guild Levels and Special Guild Trophies, even enticing players with an airship as a possible guild headquarters. The update also adds a Carnival of Shadow adventure pack which looks to deliver an intriguing…

  By Amber Nichols Published June 3, 2010
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  A Massively Multiplayer Mummy? Madness!

  Why does it always have to be mummies? Bigpoint is bringing Brendan Fraser-powered film franchise The Mummy online, with a massively multiplayer online game due out in winter 2010. Developed by Pittsburgh-based Schell Games in partnership with Universal Partnerships and Licensing, The Mummy Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer action RPG set in the 1930’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010
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  Games Convention Online Shuts Its Doors to the Public

  You’re not welcome at this year’s Games Convention Online. No, the former GamesCon, which runs from July 8 to July 10, is open to industry folk only due to a lack of interest from the public. It sounds like GamesCom killed the GamesCon.

  By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010
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  First Batch Of BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Hit eBay

  Blizzard’s first batch of tickets to BlizzCon 2010 sold out quickly yesterday. As expected, a nice chunk of them are now available on eBay for more than double the price. Now how much would you pay? BlizzCon tickets went on sale yesterday at 7 PM Pacific, and sold out moments later, which should come as…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010
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  Egyptian Assassins And Other UbiWorkshop Teases

  The UbiWorkshop Twitter account sprung to life today, delivering this teasing glimpse of an Egyptian assassin from Polish artist Gabz, along with news of a secret project from acclaimed comic book artists Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. “Oh, and before you ask, this has nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood,” Tweets UbiWorkshop, in response…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010
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  Why Can’t We Make Another Shadow of the Colossus?

  I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year. Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here)…

  By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010
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  One Year Later, Did These PS3 and PSP Promises Come True?

  The PlayStation people promise a lot of things. They did one year ago. Now those promises and plans are being checked, by me, to see which elements of their E3 2009 Sony hype came true and which did not. Sony is the third victim this week, following the Kotaku promise-checking of Microsoft’s E3 2009 festivities…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Time to talk about video games. You can do it here! Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010
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  Company of Heroes Online in Glorious Motion

  Company of Heroes Online isn’t just a straight remake of the original, addictive real-time strategy game, it takes that experience and fixes almost everything wrong with it. Not that Company of Heroes mulitplayer gaming was tragically broken. But as Tim Holman, Relic’s director of Company of Heroes Online said at a recent event for the…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010
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  We’re giving away Call of Duty Codes Later Today

  Remember when I said we’d be giving away codes for Armored Core Last Raven Portable on Facebook today? Well, we’re also going to be giving away ten codes for the Xbox 360 version of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence DLC on Facebook as well today.

  By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010
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  Do You Live In Dallas? You Busy This Week?

  To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Quincy Not you Crecente. I know where you live. You live in Denver. Or so you say. Dun dun dun I live in Osaka, but I’m from Dallas. Got pinged today with word that at the A-Kon 21 convention in Dallas Japanese gaming circle Zero Zigen will be doing a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010
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  If Katamari Damacy Was Art Nouveau

  It would look like this. Artist Kate Elizabeth, an New Orleans-based illustrator, created this stunning piece. As website Boing Boing points out, here is the original sketch, and here is her animation process Impressive stuff. Bravo! [Alex Litel via Boing Boing]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010
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  Yes, This Is A Ferrari

  A Prism Magical itasha sports car as seen by AkibaOS

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010
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  Rapstar Out In October, Is On The Right Track

  Def Jam Rapstar, the hip hop karaoke title from 4mm Games, will be out on October 5 for the 360, PS3 and Wii. And it’ll live and die on the strength of its tracklist, which at the moment, looks…decent! In addition to the tracks we already know about, 4mm this morning revealed seven more, and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2010
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  If Halo: Reach Was 3D, It Would Look, Well, Like This

  Killzone 3 is in 3D. Xbox counterpart Halo: Reach is not. But if it was? It’d look a little something like this. This clip is a fan-made job, taking some of Reach’s 3D screenshots (like, the rotating 3D kind) and making them..the other 3D. Like, the “has depth in front of your face” kind. God,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2010
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  Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Is Part Pokemon. Wait, What?

  Originally, PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was going to be named Metal Gear Solid 5. But it’s not. That doesn’t mean it is like the other Metal Gear games. According to Hideo Kojima, “nearly everything you can do with a portable system is in this game”. The game designer told game magazine PSM3…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010
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  Somebody’s Happy About Steam On Mac

  Reader Michael is so happy about Portal and Half-Life 2 coming to the Mac he sent us this picture. Seems Michael isn’t the only one happy about it! (Update – now available as a t-shirt!)

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2010
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  PlayStation 2 Connection For Kylie’s Street Orgy?

  Popstar Kylie Minogue’s latest music video features a bevy of young, attractive people taking their clothes off and fondling each other. I remember the first time I saw it, back before it was a music video packed with underwear. And when it was a 2004 Cannes Festival winning PlayStation 2 ad. The ad was written…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010
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  This Wii Gun Might Not Be A Great Idea

  We’ve seen our fair share of Wii peripherals that are bad ideas. Saw one this week! Now let’s see another one. Look at it! You could rob a gas station with that thing, and nobody would bat an eye. “Inspired” by the famous Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun, it’s got a built-in speaker and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2010