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  Be Your Own Game Producer with Kotaku’s Kickstarter Picks

  Ever want to support indie gaming with your spare cash? How bout getting a little something in return for your support? Then there’s probably a Kickstarter out there with your name on it. Kotaku will be regularly updating its new Kickstarter landing page with a selection of pitches from hopeful developers. Kickstarter is a website…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2011
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  Get 10 Great Indie Game Soundtracks for $1

  Following in the footsteps of the Humble Indie Bundle, today only you can buy the Game Music Bundle for as much as you’d like to pay, from $1 to $10,000. (Yes, there is actually an option to pay ten grand.) The soundtracks include most of the best indie game tracks from the past couple of…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 25, 2011
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  Giant, Life-Sized Gundam Is Returning!

  Many a Tokyo visitor has asked me, “Brian, where can I see the giant Gundam?” I always tell them, “Random person, you cannot see it anymore. It’s gone.” Next spring, that will change. The giant Gundam is coming back. The original statue was first erected in Odaiba in July 2009, and then it was erected…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011
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  The Bewildered New Father

  He used to be so well-groomed, full of life, and laid back. Now he hasn’t shaved for days, his clothes are covered with milky-white vomit, and he is constantly shifting between half-dead and high alert. He’s a bewildered new father, and he doesn’t even know what he wants anymore. Being a new father slightly more…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 25, 2011
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  Should You Buy Minecraft? Yes.

  It’s been playable for years, and has captured the imagination of millions of gamers around the world, but it’s only now, in November 2011, that indie world-building sensation Minecraft has been officially “released”. So it’s only now, with a v1.0 after its name, that we feel safe enough to have this informal little pow-wow. A…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2011
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  Fund ForgeQuest, For Fans Of Zelda / Minecraft Mashups

  At first glance, ForgeQuest looks like yet another game cashing in on the Minecraft craze. However ForgeQuest stands out among the crowd of clones by focusing on adventuring, using environmental manipulation as an intriguing way to solve puzzles and navigate dungeons. I think that ForgeQuest will be able to carve out its own niche in…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 25, 2011
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  A Half Dozen People Petition White House to Round Up All Copies of Skyrim, Outlaw and Burn Them

  A Tennessee man kicked off a White House petition on Thanksgiving urging the President of the United States to ban The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for “the safety of America’s youths.” So far he has five backers, and only 24,994 more digital signatures to go to meet his goal. Confused? Let me explain. The official…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2011
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  Your Eight-Year-Old Niece Who Loves Her iPod Touch

  The child who inherits an old iPod Touch, begins a lifelong relationship with the joys—and, let’s be real, frustrations—of technology. Still, pre-teens today have it pretty good. Nearly every handheld gadget around—from most low-end cell phones to Kindles and iPod Touches—rivals the computers and consoles of yore in terms of the speed and multitasking they…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 25, 2011
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  Let’s Eat More Video Games, For Breakfast!

  I know what you’re thinking, and stop it. “Hey, Lisa, what makes you think you are an authority on such a hard-hitting journalistic subject like breakfast cereal? Redheads are unreliable sources 65% of the time, plus they make up statistics.” Well, let me quell your fears by opening with this: I have, in my lifetime,…

  Lisa Foiles Published November 25, 2011
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  How To Cheat Your Way to Level 50 Archery in Skyrim

  Maybe it’s not cheating, not entirely. It’s really just finding a way to take advantage in a world with endless possibilities. In this video QuebecGaming1 walks us through a fairly easy way to level up your archery to 50 without having to spend a single septim. It involves recruiting a specific non-player character in Riverwood.…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2011
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  Children Too Young to Know They’re Killing People

  He or she is still a kid. Free to take naps, play in the sandbox, and sometimes, have a crack at video games. But video games are often violent. You’ve got a gun, you’re beating the crap out of people, you’re snapping necks. Not exactly age appropriate when you’re still enthralled by Goodnight Moon. There’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011
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  Xotic Is The Strangest Game I’ve Played This Year

  Xotic is trying to do an awful lot within the confines of a downloadable title. After playing five or six levels I was still trying to figure out if I was “doing it right”. It doesn’t seem hard at all, yet each level I feel like I could of done boatloads better. Everything about this…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 25, 2011
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  10 Things I Hate About Skyrim

  A gambling man once bet me a hundred dollars he could think of something I couldn’t convincingly pretend to dislike immensely. Fifteen minutes later, he was crying, and I was on my way to buy a new pair of shoes. Go ahead, traveler: dare me to pretend to dislike a particular thing you find objectively…

  Tim Rogers Published November 25, 2011
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  The Vicious, Man-Killing Sand of Spec Ops: The Line

  Spec Ops: The Line isn’t just a game with neat sand physics and interplay, it has a lot going for it. Here’s a little action video montage that shows you some bits and pieces of how the game plays, what it looks like and some of that sand. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2011
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  Fund Molecat Twist, For People Who Like Moles or Cats.

  The premise behind the adorable Molecat Twist is simple. Molecats move forward. By twisting parts of each level, you help them avoid traps, pick up items and get to the finish! Wonderfully presented, the game even has a flash prototype for non believers to check out. Goal: $22,000 Notable Reward: $200 – Magnet set, exclusive…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 25, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Hope everybody had a Thanksgiving of epic proportions. Every year I end up going to a friends house to play Tekken 3 into the wee hours of the morning. Do you have any gaming holiday traditions? Talk Amongst Yourselves Thanks to reader pan1da7 for today’s image. Take a crack at being featured atop TAY some…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 25, 2011
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  “Fans say ‘I want something new,’ but clearly they want the same thing with less suck.”

  The lead designer behind The Elder Scrolls III and IV, the creator of Morrowind and Oblivion wants nothing to do with the latest entry in the storied franchise. At least not yet. Ken Rolston is saving The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for a moment when he has the time to play it the way he…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 25, 2011
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  I Went to the GameStop Black Friday Midnight Launch So You Didn’t Have To

  Having never attended any sort of Black Friday sale and finding myself with a plethora of free on Thanksgiving evening, I decided to see what GameStop is like when the deals go live. Behold my tale of giddy triumph and tragic line-standing. I spent most of my nearly three hour wait in line outside the…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 25, 2011
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  Were You Up All Night?

  Waiting Game | BURBANK, CA: Shoppers lined up for Black Friday. (Photo: Jae C. Hong | AP) I’ve Spent Two Months Screaming Into these Turtle Beach PX3 Headphones A couple of months ago, a box arrived from headphone specialists Turtle Beach containing a set of PX3 headphones. Just in time for my family to go…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011
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  Get an Xbox 360, Three Games, and 3-Month Xbox Live Card for $319

  Starting Nov. 27, “Cyber Week” gets underway at Walmart. So before you rush out to the stores, you might want to look at the deals Walmart is offering. Namely, the Xbox 360 “Gamer Bundle”. According to Walmart, the bundle comes with a “choice of select game plus bonus Halo: Reach, Fable 3, and a 3-month…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011