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  Three Capcom 360 Platinum Hits, One Box

  What would you do if Capcom bundled together Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4, and Dead Rising into one release at a lower price? Capcom is hoping you’d buy it. Coming September 8th, the Platinum Hits Triple Pack takes the three Platinum Hits titles and squishes them together into one piece of confused game box…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009
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  Dementium II Wins Most Frightening Box Art Of 2009

  Renegade Kid‘s follow up to Dementium: The Ward is going to have a hard time getting people to pick up the box, especially the shoppers who browse the Nintendo DS section for Imagine Babyz and Pony Friends type fare. But the first-person survival horror adventure crowd is probably going to adore Dementium II‘s box art,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  Snakes? Frogs?

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Step Into My Parlor Tristan and I were walking the dogs early this morning when we got into the sort of hypothetical, nonsensical conversation that only a father and his young son can get into. Tristan pointed to the creek by the trail and noted that one of his forts…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2009
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  Guitar Hero 5 Trailer Gives My Parents Four Good Reasons To Play

  If Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower, The Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, Santana’s No One to Depend On and Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire can’t convince my hippie parents to play Guitar Hero 5, nothing will. This trailer also shows off Face to Face’s Disconnect, but I’m pretty sure my parents won’t care…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 10, 2009
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  Who’s Leaking PS3 Slim Info Now?

  Allegedly, the French, as a purported screen shot from retailer Micromania’s product database shows the oft-rumored PlayStation 3 “Slim” redesign. If this listing is the real deal—it’s not reflected on Micromania’s web site—it would confirm a long-standing rumor. That shot, hosted by Total Manga and via NeoGAF’s marathon thread of PS3 Slim speculation, could be…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  ESRB Assures Us Puzzle League Express Coming To DSiWare

  The existence of a whittled down version of Planet Puzzle League for Nintendo’s DSiWare download service shouldn’t come as a surprise—unless you forgot Nintendo already released that miniature version of the game in other territories, as I did. Thankfully, the ESRB is here to remind us that Nintendo of America will bring the game formerly…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  “Future Of Play” Revealed Soon, Maybe Tonight

  Conflicting schedules indicate that Popular Science and The Science Channel will reveal the future of gaming tonight or a week from now. The future of human bodies takes the other slot. Here’s the description of the Future of Play, possibly premiering tonight: Mixed reality lets you reach into the computer game and control it with…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2009
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  Namco Bandai Brings Games, “Major” Announcements To Gamescom

  Publisher Namco Bandai has big things planned for next week’s Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany. It’s bringing eight games, from Tekken to Katamari to Dragon Ball, plus “major exclusive new announcements” to be unveiled at the show. Namco pledges to drop said “major exclusive new announcements” at its Gamescom press conference, currently penciled in for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  Yu-Gi-Oh Tagforce 4 Has More Cards Than Ever Before

  Konami Digital Entertainment is packing more than 3.500 cards into Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s Tagforce 4, the next version of the popular card battling series for the PlayStation Portable. I’ve been following the cartoon series on and off for a few years now, but Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s is where I stopped. The latest series hasn’t so much jumped…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009
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  Who Tweeted This?

  People always complain that there aren’t enough games on Kotaku. (Actually, they don’t, but just pretend that they do.) So here’s a Twitter-based, gaming-centric quiz for you starring, well, that’s the mystery! Each of the following video-game-related Tweets were added to the omnibus of important Internet conversation that is Twitter.com some time in the last…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2009
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  Hot Flashes: This Is The Only Level

  May want to get familiar with this level, because in This Is The Only Level this is the only level you’ll ever play. But it’s one of the best you’ll play dozens of times. If that elephant looks familiar, that’s because This Is The Only Level‘s pachyderm protagonist is the same from the similarly excellent…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  The New World Of Warcraft Race Speculation Continues

  Internet rumors regarding two new playable races in World of Warcraft’s unannounced new expansion continue to stir, as sources close to one website point further towards the addition of Worgen and Goblins. WoW.com reports that “multiple sources close to the situation” have laid out the two new playable races in World of Warcraft’s “Cataclysm” expansion…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009
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  QuakeCon Has A Schedule This Week, And So Do We

  Rage showcase? Check. Non-alcoholic drinking contest? Confirmed. Bethesda crashing the party? Uh-huh. This site finally showing up at a QuakeCon? Yep. It’s all set for later this week. The official QuakeCon schedule is now available for public perusal and my personal calendar has been updated. The event happens at the Gaylord Texan just next to…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2009
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  Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List

  The current cap on your Xbox Live friends list is—and always has been—set to 100, a paltry figure for some Live social butterflies. The reason that number hasn’t budged in four years is reportedly due to one game. According to G4, that game is Halo 2, built on the old Xbox Live architecture and a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  The Lost And Damned Loses $5 From Price

  If 1600 Microsoft points was a small price to pay Grand Theft Auto IV‘s The Lost and Damned, 1200 is an absolute steal. The Lost and Damned is this week’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week, shaving $5 off the price of a new storyline and new multiplayer features for the already excellent Grand Theft…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009
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  Red and Blue PS3 Controllers Hitting Next Month?

  It looks like those red and blue Playstation 3 controllers may be arriving a bit earlier than expected. The two controllers were said to be arriving sometime in October when we caught a gander at them, but a photo from Gamestop seems to show that the two will be hitting on Sept. 22. And just…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 10, 2009
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  Now Someone Wants To Make A Just Cause Movie

  Just Cause: The Movie may be overthrowing a theater near you soon, as the Eidos action adventure game heavy on the BASE jumping is being worked into a feature film. According to Variety, producer Adrian Askarieh is working to bring Just Cause to the silver screen, securing some $30 million in financing and still shopping…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 10, 2009
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  G.I. Joe Review: Now We Know

  They’ll fight for freedom, wherever there’s trouble, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is there, riding the wave of live-action movie hype to a console near you. G.I. Joe is the code name for America’s daring, highly trained special mission force. Its purpose, to defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2009
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  Lost’s Semi-Lost Galaga Connection

  Proving that you can never know everything about Lost, some of us may have just learned that Galaga is/was/could-be part of ABC’s convoluted hit. As I was listening to the summer edition of the official Lost podcast and trying to not count the months until the show’s final season, I caught this video-game-related snippet. It’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2009
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  Gaming Before Chemo, A Child’s Escape

  His parents can recite the days from memory. What parent couldn’t, for such watershed trauma in the life of a boy and his family. On September 4, 2008, they found out he had a tumor in his brain. He was in the intensive care unit, often screaming in pain, until September 13, when he was…

  By Owen Good Published August 10, 2009