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  BioWare Confirms Spring 2011 Release Window For The Old Republic

  BioWare today confirmed the spring 2011 release window for Star Wars: The Old Republic that EA CEO John Ricitiello mentioned yesterday, promising exciting updates and reveals throughout 2010. Ricitiello spoke about the release window yesterday during an EA financial update conference call. Now BioWare’s Sean Dahlberg confirms the news via a message posted this morning…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2010
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  Mass Effect 2 Sets Its Sights on the Modern Warfare Crowd

  Famed role-playing game developers Bioware are going after a surprising audience with their upcoming RPG, Mass Effect 2: Fans of first-person shooters. While Mass Effect 2 will remain very solidly in the realm of role-playing game, the combat has been reworked specifically to try and attract the same sort of gamer who plays Modern Warfare…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2010
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  Naughty Bear Is Slightly Disturbing

  A disheveled teddy bear casually wielding a machete is exactly the sort of thing I used to have nightmares about as a small child. When AJ previewed Artificial Mind & Movement’s Naughty Bear for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, she neglected to mention the machete. What kind of nightmare world do we live in where…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2010
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  Ace Combat Returns To The PSP

  Project Aces returns to the PlayStation Portable this summer in Ace Combat Joint Assault, bringing fierce aerial battles to the skies of London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Those are just three of the locations you’ll be swapping missiles over in Ace Combat Joint Assault, the second game in the venerable flight combat series for the…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2010
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  iPhone Chart Toppers: Trenches Hits the Charts

  Zombies still cling to the top spot and only one new game managed to break into the list: Trenches. Have any of your played it yet? Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Call…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2010
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  TVs Getting More Natal-y This Fall

  Late 2010 will improve our ability to play video games without a controller in our hands. But even if you skip getting a Project Natal, there will be ways for you to motion-control your TV with a hand wave. The New York Times reports that the Xbox 360’s Project Natal is just one of many…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 12, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  This is the place to comment about video games. Ready? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 12, 2010
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  Mad Catz Wants to Take on Fight Stick King Hori in Japan

  Hot off the success of their licensed Street Fighter tournament edition fight sticks in the U.S., Mad Catz is hoping to expand their reach into the land of Street Fighter: Japan. Currently popular fight-stick manufacturer Hori has the licensing rights to Street Fighter in Japan, said Alex Verrey, the Mad Catz’ spokesman. But they’d like…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2010
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  What’s Your Opinion Of 3D?

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Kotaku’s Newest Day Note Slated For Release January 11 Welcome back from CES. Wanted to ask you our thoughts on 3D? The jury is still out for me — I actually like the flatness of, you know, regular HD TV. Remember when that was a big deal? What you missed…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  Nintendo, Beyonce Can’t Quit You

  Pop diva Beyoncé has renewed her partnership with Nintendo of America, but this time she’s back to shill more than Nintendo products: She’ll be shilling her own, too. Through Nintendo, she’s promoting her own fashion line, Deréon, which was co-created by Beyoncé and her mother, designer Tina Knowles. Last year, the singer appeared in ads…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  Another Perfectly Good Piece Of Box Art, Ruined By Americans

  What is it with American publishers – Sony Computer Entertainment in particular – and ruining nice pieces of foreign box art that should otherwise have been left untouched? Take Heavy Rain, for example. Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It’s dark, it’s mysterious, it’s slightly menacing. Exactly…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2010
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  Let’s Watch This No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise Spot

  Action title No More Heroes, a game supposedly intended for the Xbox 360 originally and then moved to the Nintendo Wii, is finally coming to the Xbox 360. And the PS3. With No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the series is making the leap to hi-def. According to a Famitsu article from last fall, the game…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  More Fable III Concept Art

  Still want some Fable III screens? Once again, there are no Fable III screens. Sorry. There are images of , a queen, a king and his family and chimney sweeps. The action role playing game, which allows players to choose between good and evil, moving on from a stylised renaissance and is, Dickens novels in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  One Earth, The MMO That’s Also A TV Show

  Well, this is different. Thanks to a massive injection of capital from General Electric, the SyFy network and a games developer are building a project in which an MMO and a TV show interact and “co-evolve”. The project has the name “One Earth“, and the game is being worked on by Trion World Network, who…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2010
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  This Lady Would Like To Be In Warcraft Movie

  Horror scream queen Michele Morrow has professed her desire to be in the upcoming Sam Raimi Warcraft film. Get in line, sister! As with Sean Young and the role of Catwoman or Freddie Prinz, Jr. and the role of Spider-Man, Morrow has announced that she would like to be in a big budget property. Morrow,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  Tiger Wood’s New Game Has A Catchy Title

  There have been many jokes made in the entertainment media about Tiger Woods‘ love life, but not so many about Tiger Woods’ video game franchises. So thank you, The Soup’s Joel McHale, for rectifying the situation.

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2010
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  Shining Wind Figure Might Need To Cover Up

  In the two years since we last saw a figure from PlayStation 2 RPG Shining Wind, things have taken a turn for the worse for lovers of fully-clothed video game heroines. This figure, again from the Japanese master craftsmen at Kotobukiya, is of the Forest Goddess Elwyn. It’ll be out in April, and will cost…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2010
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  Dragon Quest IX Goes Budget Price In Japan

  Released in Japan on July 11, 2009, DS role playing game Dragon Quest IX went on to sell 4 million copies in its native Japan. The game is out this year in the West, but before that… Square Enix will be releasing the game this March in Japan at a budget price. On March 4,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010
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  Yeah, But What About The “Other” Irrational Games?

  So 2K Boston have reverted to their original name, Irrational Games. Good news for nostalgic PC fans. But what of the fate of the “other half” of Irrational, 2K Australia? After all, the Canberra-based developers were once Irrational’s second studio, shared the same name (before being renamed “2K Australia”), and worked alongside Ken Levine’s Boston…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2010
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  Microsoft: No Need to Launch New Console

  The Xbox 360 launched in November 2005. The original Xbox launched in November 2001. It is now 2010. About time for a new Xbox, right? Not necessarily, Microsoft says. “I think it’s important to say that the Xbox 360 is the console of the long future for us,” David Hufford, senior director of Xbox product…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2010