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UncategorizedHey, Your Mod Got Portal In My Team Fortress …
Don’t want to wait for multiplayer in Portal 2? Some modders are privately testing out Team Fortress 2 equipped with portal guns, and released this video to show how far they’ve come with the concept. While anyone on the board can pass through a portal, whether they laid it down or not, the portals can…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Hell Is For Koopas
Did you ever wonder what happened to that unfortunate Koopa Trooper you left bouncing between those two pipes in Super Mario Bros.? Of course you didn’t, you heartless cad. Thankfully College Humor has its ever-bouncing back. The Koopa is sentenced to a life of hell, sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Human Sexuality, Online Achievements, The Super Show, And Ostracism
It’s a whole new line-up in this week’s Speak-Up, as Ubikblack, Pointy, Anenemy, and Yantelope discuss the finer points of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, human sexuality, online achievements, and returning to the good old days of gamer ostracism. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up…
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Massive World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Leak Gets Plugged
Remember that giant compilation of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha test info and screens MMO Champion released last week? It’s gone now, but certainly not forgotten. Let’s have a moment of silence for the staggering amount of work MMO Champion put into collecting, hosting, and posting images from the alpha build of World of Warcraft’s…
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Someone Needs To Make A Cube Video Game, Right Now
Speaking to MTV about his upcoming film Splice, director Vincenzo Natali expressed his desire to create a video game based on Cube, one of the greatest science fiction films ever created. This needs to be done. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, Cube is the story of a group of ordinary people who…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Monster Runaway Star Rampages Through Universe
30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science fiction video game? Alien invasion? Please. Exploring strange new worlds? So overdone. If you want to inject real drama…
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Guild Wars 2 Does Away With Flawed Quest Systems
In the latest Guild Wars 2 update, lead content designer Colin Johanson talks about how the game’s dynamic event system is doing away with the traditional question-mark driven MMO quest systems in favor of world-changing events with lasting results. The standard quest system sucks. Mechanically it works fine, but in terms of immersion, it leaves…
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Someone Had The Balls To Release An Iron Man 2 Demo
The last thing you want to do when critics are calling your movie tie-in game one of the worst titles of 2010 is release a playable demo for the Xbox 360, yet here we are. When you’ve got a completely ass-tastic video game on your hands that could possibly still generate sales from movie fans…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Is That A Cracked Version Of Max Payne 2 On Steam?
The Steam executable for Rockstar’s Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne bears a striking resemblance to a no-CD hack released by now defunct piracy group Myth. Could it just be a coincidence? Several Kotaku readers have pointed us towards a post on the Max Payne Steam forums, in which Steam user Liamaj points…
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Guess Who Is The World’s Most Successful Game Studio
Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo. I really suck at this whole hint thing. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard may have kicked the house of Mario from…
By Mike Fahey