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  Second Thoughts About Gaming’s Most Hated Company

  The bubble bursts. The blood is in the water. The knives sharpen. Pick your favorite cliché to commemorate the beating that Zynga took last week after posting some numbers that Wall Street hated and lowering their forecasts for the rest of the year. Their stock plummeted 40% and some people are rooting for the creators…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2012
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  E3 is Staying in Los Angeles Through 2015, Dammit

  After filling the heads of game journalists everywhere with dreams of an Electronic Entertainment Expo taking place somewhere else for a change, the Entertainment Software Association crushes our hopes and dreams for three more years. Having teased E3-centric news on Friday, I spent the better part of the weekend dreaming up where next year’s E3…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2012
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  Terraria Meets Borderlands in FortressCraft2d

  ProjectorGames, creators of one of the best-selling Xbox Live Indie MineCraft clone FortressCraft, are going in a different direction with FortressCraft2D: sideways. A far cry from the 3D building game that sold like gangbusters in the XBLIG channel, FortressCraft2d is a 2D zombie survival game that leans heavily on procedural generation of worlds and weapons…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2012
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  Grand Theft Auto III is Being Remade (By Fans), and it Looks Great

  Later this week, Grand Theft Auto III is being released on the PlayStation Network. It’s going to be hard to get very excited about it when you look how well this little project is coming along. GTA III Rage is an attempt to recreate Grand Theft Auto III using Grand Theft Auto IV’s newer, fancier…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  Orcs Must Die 2: The Kotaku Review

  No, you haven’t woken from a coma to find yourself in the year 2013. It’s only been nine months since the first Orcs Must Die was released, and yet here we are, talking about Orcs Must Die 2. That means we’re dealing with one of two things: a horribly rushed game, or something that’s a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  From Making Star Wars Scenes to Making His Own Animated Movie

  Lance Myers has been working in the games industry for well over a decade now, mostly in the field of animation. While he’s currently at Spacetime helping on the upcoming Arcane Legends, his last role was at BioWare, where he worked as a storyboard artist for Old Republic’s cinematic sequences. Before that, though, he worked…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  No Kotaku East This Morning, Sorry!

  Sorry guys! Brian’s out today, so there’ll be no Kotaku East. It’ll be back same time tomorrow though!

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  For $1 Million, This Company Will Build You an Actual Giant Mech. That You Can Drive.

  The future is now. Or at least, it’s soon, and over $1 million dollars away for those interested, as Japanese company Suidobashi has announced plans to build custom, actual, operational mechs. Named the “KURATAS”, the vehicles will come at a standard price of USD$1.3 million, with additional accessories like shields and weapons available for around…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  The 1980’s Shooter We’re Not Getting Until December 2012

  In April, we showed you a game called Vektropolis, which caught my eye because it looked a lot like those awesome “future graphics” sequences from flicks like Running Man and Escape From New York It looked great, but then, there wasn’t much to it, either. So it’s lovely to hear the game has a release…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  OK, Yes, the New Need for Speed Game is Basically Burnout

  A few years back, when EA bought Criterion, the developers of Burnout, people got worried. Worried that the team would be wasted churning out Need for Speed games. What a stupid worry that turns out to have been. Criterion’s first Need for Speed game, Hot Pursuit, was brilliant, and their second – the upcoming Most…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  Link Ponders the Mystery of Gerudo Sex

  Funny, if only because he’s saying what most teenagers were wondering at the time. link ponders life [OMOCAT]

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2012
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  Two Grumpy, Weird Cats Dressed as Super Heroes

  By the time you read this, it’s likely Monday morning, and you’re about to get started on a week of work/school. You’ll be a little down. If that’s you, here. Two cats dressed as Batman and Superman. [via Fashionably Geek]

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2012
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  Crazy Man Recreates 300’s Epic Final Battle in Skyrim

  Reader Tyrannicon sent us this video he made, which is a shot-by-shot recreation of the iconic final battle of the film 300, made using nothing but some console commands and Skyrim’s Creation Kit.

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2012
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  Start Your Week With Cosplay From Star Wars, Diablo, The Witcher and…Ponyo

  This is one of the best cosplay gallery’s we’ve started the week with in a long time. I mean, we have someone cosplaying as The Witcher 2’s Triss. There’s someone doing an awfully good interpretation of Fujimoto, the slightly creepy underwater dad from Ponyo. There is also someone dressed up not only as Crisis Core’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2012
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  Castle Story Might Make Some Childhood Dreams Come True

  When we first saw it in January, indie game Castle Story looked like a game to keep an eye on. A few months later, and one proper trailer later, and little has changed. Its promised blend of building and strategy looks great, the kind of thing to rekindle the very fondest of childhood memories that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2012
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  The Week in Games: Say It Three Times Fast

  Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance on the 3DS headlines another light midsummer week. Other names arriving Tuesday include the Risen and Orcs Must Die! sequels. On Wednesday, Awesomenauts comes to Steam and Deadlight continues the Summer of Arcade on Xbox Live. Tuesday • Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (3DS) • Risen 2: Dark Waters (PS3,…

  By Owen Good Published July 29, 2012
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  Capping Off the Rampaging Tour of Liberty City, It’s Sonic

  Promise, last one. We’ve had our fun. From R2-D2 (to his Skyrim-themed friend) to the Portal 2 multiplayer robots, we can only take so much of seeing cartoon or comic-relief characters going on a mass-murder rampage in Liberty City. For Sonic the Hedgehog—even if he looks like a little more like a blue Shadow the…

  By Owen Good Published July 29, 2012
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  Ubisoft’s Free-to-Play Plans Might Include Might & Magic

  Another registration points to Heroes of Might & Magic as a potential free-to-play online game. Ubisoft has said it plans to reveal new free-to-play titles in August. It filed for mightandmagicheroesonline.com on Friday. Domain watchdawg Fusible has all the details.

  By Owen Good Published July 29, 2012
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  Sounds Like the Dead Island Folks are Working on a Mobile Version

  A trademark filing for something called Dead Stop specifically mentions mobile phones. Techland, publisher of 2011’s Dead Island, just applied for the mark. [Siliconera]

  By Owen Good Published July 29, 2012
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  No Game Save for My Backup

  Three days home, sick, with the complete understanding and sympathy of my employer. Fully conscious and ambulatory, with some grade-A camaro-drivin’, country-music-songwritin’, shirtless-guy-on-COPS prescription narcotics on the bathroom sink. Can’t go outside and enjoy this nice day, cause I’m sick. Can’t work, I’m sick. Can’t brush my teeth, put on deodorant or underpants or mow…

  By Owen Good Published July 29, 2012