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World of Warcraft Turns 5: How Blizzard Built A Nation
World of Warcraft was launched five years ago today, and Kotaku is celebrating all week long, starting with a look at the Warcraft franchise’s fifteen-year history with key members of Blizzard’s development team. World of Warcaft is important. The developers tell Kotaku they even dared to dream that they’d some day get a million subscribers.…
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Atari Adds An Arcade To Its Web Page
Why sit at your computer working all day long when you can head over to the new Atari.com and play Yars Revenge all day long? The new Atari.com represents phase one of the company’s internet re-launch, allows fans of the company’s works to browse the latest Atari titles, buy games from the Atari Store, enter…
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Two Remaining Old Republic Classes Revealed
The latest issue of German magazine PC Games spills the beans on the two final classes for Star Wars: The Old Republic – the Jedi Consular and the Sith Inquisitor. Well that’s certainly a novel way to make sure you don’t have a huge overpopulation of Jedi Knights and Sith Warriors. The Jedi Consular and…
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IBM: We’ll Keep Making Cell Processors As Long As Sony Needs Them
Rumors are circulating today about the death of IBM’s Cell processor, which powers Sony’s PlayStation 3. Kotaku spoke to IBM about the fate of the Cell and its commitment to the PlayStation 3. The rumor sprang from an article on German website Heise Online, which posted a story about an interview with IBM’s vice president…
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Undead Labs Crafting Console-Based Zombie MMO
Founded by MMO industry veteran Jeff Strain, Undead Studios has only one goal – to create the definitive massively multiplayer zombie game for console gamers. There’s been post-apocalyptic MMO games in the past, but the apocalypse in those games has never been of an undead nature. Undead Labs is looking to fix that with the…
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Dress Your 360 Avatar In Fallout 3
The Fallout 3 t-shirt is nice. The Vault 101 Suit is even better. The Vault Boy head? Possibly the best use of 80 Microsoft points in the history of fake money. Bethesda is bringing out a line of Fallout-themed avatar wear to the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace on Thanksgiving day, giving players six new ways…
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The iPhone Gamer’s Gift Guide
It’s been an amazing year for the iPhone and gaming. Not only have a slew of new, blockbuster titles come out for the emerging platform, Apple finally realized that maybe they should wake up and start touting the gaming benefits of their smartphone and media player. This is by no means all of the iPhone…
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The Nintendo Download: Bits, Trips, Karts, And Blobs
It’s a jam-packed Thanksgiving edition of the Nintendo Download, with enough games to leave you comatose on the couch for hours. Where to start? This week is pretty packed, especially in the DSiWare department, with five more Electroplanton to play with at 200 points a pop. There’s also a notepad application called myNotenook Blue from…
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