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  Star Trek Online Couldn’t Resist The Borg

  Cryptic just couldn’t resist using the Borg as its first big content update for Star Trek Online. After all, nothing can move the Borg! Wait, that’s not right. The Borg are the best at what they do, and what they do isn’t pretty. Having recovered after the Voyager crew somehow dealt them a severe blow,…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Prototype Developer Radical Cut In Half

  Radical Entertainment, developer of Prototype and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, has been hit with substantial layoffs today, according to development sources close to the Vancouver-based studio. Approximately 90-plus employees have been let go, sources say. That’s about half the studio’s headcount, apparently, affecting two of the three development teams at the Activision Blizzard owned…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 11, 2010
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  We’re At X10, In The Shadow Of Apple?

  Fable III is at X10. Alan Wake is at X10. Bungie is at X10, presumably with you-know-what. And so too is Kotaku. Brian Crecente has just hustled himself into Microsoft’s big 2010 gaming showcase out in San Francisco. He shot me over some photos and notes that the event’s got some signage issues. Outside, you’ve…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  Blonde Dragon Age: Awakening Companions Don’t Have More Fun

  Velanna the Dalish Elf is the latest new character revealed for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins expansion Awakenings, and she’s got a bone to pick about how her people have been treated. In Dragon Age: Origins, elves are treated as second-class citizens, and that’s putting it gently. The humans took their lands, burned cities to…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Review: FanFic Comes to Life

  In Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Ultimate All -Stars, players select from among 26 characters plucked from the universes of Tatsunoko Productions and Capcom to create a tag team to brawl their way through waves of paired-off fighters. Much has been made of the fan-driven nature of this latest entry in the casual-meets-hardcore Versus fighter franchise. It…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010
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  This Time We Mean It: Top Bioshock 2 Dev Takes Your Calls Friday

  We at Kotaku now know what it’s like to have a release date slip. Tomorrow, thanks to the melting of yesterday’s New York blizzard, we’ll finally do our live weekly podcast. Bioshock 2’s creative director will take your calls. May I quote my own post from pre-blizzard Monday, back when everything was so much sunnier?…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  The Littlest Sister Of Them All

  BioShock 2 Big Daddy and Big Sister, complete with Little Sister, crafted by White Tiger Miniatures, commissioned by Kelly, who has more pics at her deviantART page.

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Key Bragging Stat: How Your Demo Did

  Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is “on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history.” It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. In the past week EA has also said that its Dante’s Inferno demo was downloaded three million…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  Scenes From Samurai Shodown Sen

  So Samurai Shodown Sen is coming to the North American Xbox 360 this spring, courtesy of XSEED. What’s that going to look like? Pretty lifeless, if you ask me. It’s a problem that crops up whenever classic 2D characters are rendered in 3D, though some companies have done a much better job of it recently.…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  How To Play The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo

  If you’re having trouble making any progress in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo, this tutorial video should help. Or you could just ignore it and keep sniping me for no reason. Did you know the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo had goals? You did? Well if I’ve played it with you on…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Married By Master Chief, One Year Later

  A year ago, I attended a Halo wedding. It was in Orlando. The bride entered to a live rendition of the Halo 3 menu music. A man dressed as Master Chief married bride and groom. Here’s what happened next. A year past their wedding, Desirai Labrada and John Henry have become an inspiration to the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  If All You Need Is Love, Then You’re In Luck

  The Beatles’ classic “All You Need is Love,” once exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of The Beatles: Rock Band, is finally making its way to the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with its charitable intentions intact. Released for the Xbox 360 in September of last year, “All You Need is Love,” quickly became the fastest…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Shockwave Cares Not For Your GameStop War On Cybertron Preorder

  Shockwave is confounded by your impulsive, irrational excitement at his appearance as a preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Shockwave is a cold, calculating machine that only cares for usurping Megatron as leader of the Decepticons, not because he holds any hatred for him, but because it is logical that he do…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010
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  Dev Eyes Call of Duty: World at War for iPhone

  Treyarch wasn’t really interested in the business of making cell phone games, at least not before the iPhone. But the tremendous success of Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies on the iPhone has the developer, best known for their hardcore console shooters, reconsidering. “We are very interested (in bringing more games to the iPhone),”…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010
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  Apparently, Playing Xbox Is Not An Infidelity Solution

  A person writes in to UK Daily Star sex advice columnist Just Jane. He’s got some problems. He’s dodging the consequences by playing Xbox. Jane says that’s no good. The problem: He was caught having sex with his boss’ secretary in the boardroom, was fired, can’t get the courage to confess any of this to…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Have you ever starred in a screenshot? Probably not. But you can appear in TAY, just by commenting about video games right here. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010
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  Mile Marker 28: Trauma

  Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Trauma. In A Sentence Trauma is the point-and-click love child of Kafkaesque confusion and Myst exploration. State Of Completion The PC game will…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010
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  This Is It

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: X10 Is it any good? Borrowing it from a friend. Enjoy the sixteen hour work day you have ahead of yourself, Crecente! 🙁 What you missed last night Imperial Hot Has Heard of Imperial Hot Most World Of Warcraft Players Don’t Go Past Level 10 Something’s Not Quite Right About…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010
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  PAL PlayStation Store: Premature Commercialisation

  Normally, I don’t write these until Friday Australian time. Yet here it is, Thursday night, and I’m writing up the PAL PlayStation Store update. What could possibly compel Sony to release it half a day early? Turns out, not much. The Heavy Rain demo is officially out, but then we told you how to get…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2010
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  No, Cliff Bleszinski Is Not Making A Horror Game

  Cliff Bleszinski, designer of the Gears of War series, was rumored to be doing a horror game. He is not doing a horror game. “I’m NOT doing a horror game,” the developer, known as Dude Huge, tweeted. “I don’t know how that rumor started.” Well, I’ll tell you! It started in EGM’s “Quartermann” rumor column,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010