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The Lazy Security Patrolling Apple’s Shopping Mall
This past weekend, readers alerted us to an absolutely contemptible ripoff on the iTunes App Store. Someone had submitted a straight-up copy of the Canabalt flash game, called it Canabalt HD—which doesn’t exist on the iOS. Once again, some unscrupulous dick managed to slide Adam Saltsman’s game past Apple’s mall security. The fact it happened…
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Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Bad Gears of Ghostduty‘
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Released: May 22 Critic: Error_317002 (Metacritic) • “Feels more like Gears of Duty: Future Ops.” Score: 4 Critic: tigger (Metacritic) • “I can best describe it…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. We haven’t had a look in a long while at the extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar money from you or direct you to spend it at a retailer you wouldn’t otherwise. Can you still respect yourself if you go along with it? MLB 12 The…
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UncategorizedWatch The New Tomb Raider Trailer Broken Down, While It Breaks Lara Down
We got a look at Lara last night from publisher Square Enix’s upcoming Tomb Raider, in which she gets quite the beating. Now, thanks to Foxy Foxy, you can rewatch the special parts, broken down into looping seconds of her struggle for survival. It’s just too bad they’re so small. Tomb Raider “Crossroads” trailer [Foxy…
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SOE’s E3 Line-Up Includes That Interesting Piece of EverQuest II Technology
Publishers are rolling out their E3 line-ups just as the big convention rears its massive head. We’ve even had some somewhat-surprising, but really-not-that-surprising reveals come of these announcements, too. Today SOE announced their stock of games to be shown on the showfloor, including the expected suspects like PlanetSide 2, updates to released titles, and several…
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Who Needs E3 When They’ve Got a Week’s Worth of Amazing Gaming Apps
Big name console title announcements and new hardware debuts are nice and all, but those are fleeting and unpredictable. Kotaku‘s Gaming Apps of the Day, on the other hand, are timeless. Oh yeah, there’ll be no gaming apps next week due to E3 2012. Oh don’t be upset, I’m sure we’ll see plenty of exciting…
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Ask a Game Developer Anything: DLC, Bad Video Game Writing, And More
Hey Kotaku readers it’s almost E3 time! I’m super busy preparing for E3 right now and it’s madness over at the studio. But hey, I always have time to answer your questions about game development. In case you haven’t been following this series, I’m the CEO and Creative Director at 5TH Cell; we’re the people…
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Former Call of Duty Dev Plans to Bring the Human Element to Survival Stories
Robert Bowling, the former public face of Call of Duty, left his role earlier this spring to become president of Robotoki Studios. And now, he’s revealing Robotoki’s first game. The July issue of Game Informer reports that the new game is called Human Element, and that the human element of survival stories is indeed what…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
There’s a PC Version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron After All
Earlier this year High Moon Studio’s game director Matt Tieger told me his team couldn’t handle making a PC version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and PC gamers were a little upset. High Moon still can’t handle creating a PC version, but High Moon Studios and developer Mercenary Games working together are getting the job…
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