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  How To Unlock Call of Duty’s Robotron-esque Dead Ops on Your iPhone or iPad

  Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a fun, slick iPhone and iPad game in its own right, supporting both single player and multiplayer marathons sessions of first-person shooter survival against hordes of zombies. But the game’s Dead Ops Arcade mode is almost more fun. The weird thing is, you have to do a little…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011
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  Several Avengers Assemble for the Marvel Universe MMO

  As Gazillion offshoot Secret Identity continues to hammer away at the Marvel Universe MMO. the folks at the Marvel Massively Multiplayer Society have been slipping out glimpses of the iconic characters we’ll be playing when it goes live. Avengers assemble! Well, some assembly is required, at least. Over the past few months the MMMS has…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011
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  Batter Up! Check Out the First Screens for MLB 12 The Show

  There was a time when console manufacturers made a point of having first-party sports sims on their machines but that era’s long since passed. Sony’s The Show franchise carries on that legacy and, after a few pitches in the dirt at first, the PS3 exclusive baseball franchise is enjoying a run of acclaim for the…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 2, 2011
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  Countdown the Release of Star Wars: The Old Republic With Free Music

  Looking for a little intergalactic conflict music? Every day leading up to the game’s December 20 launch BioWare is passing out free tracks from Star Wars: The Old Republic, perfect for endlessly looping while you stare at your calendar. It’s terribly nice of BioWare to provide us with some appropriate music as we careen headlong…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011
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  One Could Easily Mistake This for The Week in Console Games

  They’re good enough for a console but made for a mobile; at least three out of this week’s five Gaming Apps of the Day could pass for at least previous generation console games. The other two…well they’re real pretty. What a Week in Gaming Apps it has been, what with the release of the eagerly…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011
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  Watch Our Own Kirk Hamilton Talk Saints Row: The Third on Revision3 TV

  Kotaku‘s Kirk Hamilton (a.k.a. me) made an appearance yesterday on the Revision3 TV show “New Challenger,” to chat with host Anthony Carboni about Saints Row: The Third. Give it a watch!

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  Cover Of Skyrim Theme Will Send A Chill Through Your Bones

  There are plenty of musical takes on Skyrim’s many beautiful songs, but this is my favorite of the week, sung by the talented, and bilingual, Malukah from Monterrey, Mexico. It’s a touch on the echoey side, but I’m still loving it and I bet you will too. If you do, you can even mod it…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011
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  Assassin’s Creed Gets the Floating Hair it Always Needed

  This YouTube video, comically titled “Misadventures of Eyes and Hair” shows us an Assassin’s Creed: Revelations cutscene featuring translucent bodies with floating eyes and hair. Be sure to have your sound on, because the dialogue makes it much more entertaining. “Look at me now!” he exclaims. I’d love to, sir, I really would if I…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published December 2, 2011
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  Nintendo Thinks Fans of Xenoblade Would also Like These Games

  It took Nintendo of America more than a year to commit to releasing Xenoblade Chronicles, a year probably spent analyzing the reaction to the game’s June 2010 release in Japan, a year weighing the costs of releasing the role-playing game in America… and, of course, a year spent making sure the Wii library was properly…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2011
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  Zynga to Start Playing StockMarketVille Next Week With Highly Probable IPO

  Those trying to deduce just how much they can pay for a piece of FarmVille giant Zynga will only have a little while longer to wait. The Facebook gaming juggernaut has filed an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which indicates that its per-share pricing will fall into the $8.50 to $10 range. Zynga’s…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 2, 2011
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  Celebrate Xenoblade Chronicles‘ Impending North American Release With a Trailer

  Are you ready to help Shulk and friends combat the mechanical Mechon using the power of the Monado blade? Perhaps this official trailer will help you prepare for the North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles this April. Or maybe the fact that you’ve already imported it (or worse) will help you prepare. Either way it’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011
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  The New Jurassic Park Video Game Makes Up for the Sega CD One

  In 1993, BlueSky Software created the Sega CD Jurassic Park game. It was a point and click adventure with bad art direction in it and the six year old me would spend hours trying to play it. The game was terrible and it took almost 20 years for the Jurassic Park series to make it…

  By Chris Carolan Published December 2, 2011
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  The Painful Irony of an Anti-Piracy Group Being Sued for Piracy

  Dutch copyright watchdog BREIN is being sued by a musician for more than $1 million after allegedly using his song in copyright warnings on DVDs without explicit permission. Oh my. Musician Melchior Rietveldt was asked by BREIN to compose the song for a local film festival, but the group went on to use the song…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published December 2, 2011
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  Half-Life 3 T-Shirt Confirmed, But That is All

  It’s not a Photoshop and it’s not a lie. Seattle-based game developer Chandana “Eka” Ekanayake really did see a Valve Software employee wearing a Half-Life 3 t-shirt at a local developer event last night. Eka is sure that the man wearing the shirt works for Valve, the great video game company that famously doesn’t want…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2011
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  Parents Who Want to Play With Their Adolescent Son

  The great things about playing video games is how it gives you a chance to spend a little time with your child in their environment. That doesn’t mean gaming should replace throwing a baseball, playing a little one-on-one basketball or building models, but sitting back and letting your child take charge in a fictional world…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011
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  Nintendo Changes its Tune, For Once

  I have asked Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime about a video game called Mother 3 so many times that, in recent years, he would bring it up before I did. He’d laugh about the question. If we were doing an interview and there were other people in the room, he’d jokingly predict to them…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2011
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  Are Your Defense Grid: The Awakening Towers Powerful Enough to Survive GLaDOS?

  What happens when one of the world’s best tower defense games meets one of gaming’s most beloved power-mad robotic villains? Fans line up to pay $4.99 or 400 Microsoft points for the Defense Grid: You Monster expansion, that’s what. Coming December 7 to Xbox Live Arcade and Steam, Defense Grid: You Monster is the first…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011
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  The Elder Scrolls Adventures Re-envisions Skyrim as a 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoon

  Raise your hands if you remember that weird Dungeons & Dragons cartoon that ran from 1985 to 1987. That show was clearly made to capitalize on the popularity of D&D, but I still tuned in every week with the hopes that it’d get better. It never did. That D&D series informs this spoofy video from…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 2, 2011
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  Did You Win This Week’s Best Buy Trade-in Contest?

  Recently we’ve been asking readers to send in proof that they’re been making the best of Best Buy’s killer trade-in program—you know, the one where you take your old games and exchange them for cold, hard Best Buy gift cards? In return, we promised to pick a few lucky entrants and double their returns. Well,…

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  High Score Is The Reality Show for Classic Arcade Games

  If you’re lucky or just old, you can remember the classic stand-up arcade era, where Pac-Man machines stood next to Defender and/or Donkey Kong and people lined up for the chance to play. Those same machines have become collector’s items now and there’s money—and stories—attached to each one. That premise is what drives High Score,…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 2, 2011