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  Netflix On PS3 Getting Embedded Solution “Late Next Year”

  Sony and Netflix’s announcement that the movie rental company’s streaming service would be coming to the PlayStation 3 later this year left us with a few questions of our own. Fortunately, Netflix was nice enough to answer those questions. Netflix reps say the company will begin shipping out the Blu-ray discs that make streaming via…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  The Mark Of A DJ Hero Player: One Gamer Point

  1-point Xbox 360 Achievements have been done before, but they’re rare. (Forza 2 has a pair.) If you play DJ Hero, prepare to gain a single point. This is a warning or maybe it’s a helpful hint for those striving for just one … more… point. Me? I didn’t notice until someone sent me a…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2009
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  Dante’s Inferno PSP Screens Are Not Gluttonous

  EA and Visceral Games are being very frugal with their dissemination of screen shots for the PSP version of Dante’s Inferno. Though, we’re not angered by their decision, we just lust for more. A trio of new Dante’s Inferno screens, brightly lit and bigger than any PSP resolution you’ve ever seen, might turn you on…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Intro Has All The Hot Licks You Need

  Arc System Works’ incremental follow up to original 2D brawler BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger features a larger roster, thanks to the addition of a handful of new fighters, plus one flashy intro full of hot licks and cool riffs. Yes, there’s a little gameplay mixed in to the newly released trailer for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, but…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  10-Year-Old’s Video Game Reporting Featured On Today Show

  Some video game reporting can be conducted from a swing-set. Here’s fifth-grader Owen Migel who made it into the Today Show‘s semi-finals of their Kid Reporter contest. Migel appeared on the show a couple of days ago, along with the following clip. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Migel’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2009
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  Beware These Big Borderlands Bugs

  Gearbox Software’s Borderlands, while entertaining, is not perfect. From a technical standpoint anyway, things could go seriously wrong (and have) for some players, including the corrupting of character data and the resetting of hard-earned skill points. An ongoing list of the game’s technical shortcomings, ones that may reduce you to crying or controller throwing, is…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  DJ Hero Review: You Spin Me Right Round

  Into a genre that seems determined to turn our living rooms into plastic instrument wastelands comes DJ Hero, where one turntable is all you’ll ever need. While the Guitar Hero series is all about performing music, DJ Hero is all about perfecting it. Packed together with a plastic facsimile of a turntable, the DJ’s weapon…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009
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  Microsoft: Football Toss Is Not A Prototype For Xbox Live Adver-Gaming

  Speculation is dangerous, which is why so many companies don’t comment on it. (Nor on rumors.) Over the past 24 hours, Microsoft gently, and Kotaku readers not-so-gently, disabused me of my theories regarding a new Xbox Live game. To refresh you: Football Toss is a very, very simple, football-tossing game that can be accessed in…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2009
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  Rayman Adventuring To DSiWare

  Looks like Ubisoft is bringing more Rayman to the portable gaming arena, with a rating for Rayman for Nintendo’s DSiWare recently levied by Germany’s UnterhaltungssoftwareSelbstkontrolle ratings board. Man, that’s a long word. What else do we know about Rayman DSiWare? Nothing. But at least the listing indicates that Rayman, not those vile Rabbids, will be…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Gets A Cover

  Today Capcom reveals the cover art for the Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, featuring All-Stars exclusives Frank West, Zero, Tekkaman Blade, and Joe the Condor. That’s definitely some poster-worthy artwork right there. January 26th seems so far away right now, doesn’t it?

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009
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  BioWare Reveals Dragon Age’s “Massively Single-Player” Details

  Dragon Age: Origins won’t Tweet, but the new single-player game will network console and PC gamers in unusual ways. That’s because the games creators at BioWare believe that solo role-playing games should no longer be lonely experiences. “One of the things for us that was really important and we’re clearly seeing it on PC games…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2009
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  Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller

  Welcome to Bobby Kotick’s nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical demonstration of muscle-computer interfaces, as shown at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  God Of War Collection Dated And Trophied

  Sony has nailed down a November 17th release date for the God of War Collection for the PlayStation 3, revealing the full trophy listing for both remastered games in the process. Until now, all we knew was that the collection, which remasters God of War I & II in full HD on a single Blu-ray…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009
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  Hands On With Garters & Ghouls

  Garters & Ghouls is a fun little adventure game that puts you in control of recently deceased débutante Marie Dupois as she fights her way through the horrors of The Thrum on the hunt for her still living husband. I had a chance to play through a a hefty chunk of the Big Blue Bubble…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2009
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  3D Dot Game Heroes “Definitely” Coming To America

  Cool your importing jets, patient PlayStation 3 owners. Silicon Software and From Software‘s blocky retro adventure game 3D Dot Game Heroes is coming to North America, hopefully bringing the Best Loading Screens Ever with it. Says who? Says the official PlayStation Twitter account, writing today “No need to import – 3D Dot Game Heroes for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2009
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  Sega’s Make-A-Witch Foundation Tells You How To Be Bayonetta

  Halloween is just around the corner, but you’ve still got time to make a sweet Bayonetta costume to prance about in Saturday night. Sega’s Make-A-Witch Foundation website can help. The degree of help Sega’s website can give is relatively minimal, unfortunately. Suggestions include wearing a skin-tight cat suit, crafting butterfly wings so you can pretend…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009
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  New Xbox/PS3 Madden Was Born On The Wii

  What the Wii makes, the Xbox (and PlayStation 3) takes, at least in the case of some cartoon football. The EA representatives who recently showed Kotaku Madden NFL Arcade, a five-on-five simplified version of a pro football game, said that a mode that is fun on Nintendo’s platform just had to be shared with other…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2009
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  First Screen Of MMA’s Sweaty, Well-Muscled Men

  The first screenshot for EA Sports’ MMA appeared in Sports Illustrated this week, showing off the development teams’ firm grasp of men firmly grasping each other. This image was posted on the EA Sports MMA Facebook page, letting mixed martial arts fans get their first look at EA Sports’ take on the subject. We’ve yet…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009
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  The Porn of Borderlands

  In-game screencap by Stephen H.

  By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2009
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  Who’s Who In Halo: Evolutions

  Tor Books has released a list of the authors contributing to the Halo: Evolutions anthology novel, along with the cover art, featuring everyone’s favorite green suit of armor with a guy inside it. Halo: Evolutions, due out on November 24th, is an extended look at the Halo universe through the eyes of popular science fiction…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009