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  Apple Tried To Buy Halo’s Creators

  Guess Apple boss Steve Jobs had a very good reason for being upset at Microsoft’s purchase of Halo creators Bungie: according to a former Bungie staffer, Apple had itself been on the verge of buying the now-famous developer. Former project lead Tuncer Deniz has told Develop that Bungie’s big cheese had, around the turn of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010
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  Review: Costume Quest

  Costume Quest is a short, easy game that plays like Final Fantasy on training wheels. And it’s the best game Double Fine has ever made. Costume Quest is a role-playing game in which you take control of a group of kids out on a Halloween rescue mission. They may be small, but the game’s hook…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010
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  Fear This Creeper Costume On Halloween

  To gamers of all sizes, well computer gamers of all sizes, there is nothing more frightening to behold than an unexpected Creeper. When I opened the email from reader Supermarioman with a this picture of the Creeper he made of cardboard and tissue paper I nearly flipped out of my chair. Imagine the unsuspecting parent…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  Night Of The Lepus

  Great. Now the nightly off-topic thread is infested with zombies. *And* it’s a trap. Guess you better get in here and help talk the rest of us through it. Speaking of zombies, Robert “Doom CMYK” Mangaoang frequently points me to his zombified creations on Twitter, which are gory and good, like this undead Admiral Ackbar.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010
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  PlayStation Store Update: We’ve Got A Tango Down

  Blacklight: Tango Down and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare may be the most exciting new additions to the North American PlayStation Store, but no other piece of content has a name as great as Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman. New demos abound this week, with small samples of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Majin…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010
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  Meet The PlayStation Phone

  Sony has finally done it. They’ve mated a Sony Ericsson cell phone with a PSP, spawning this… the PlayStation Phone. Don’t call it the PSP2, please. That’s something else entirely. Engadget has first pics of the PlayStation Phone prototype, hopefully just its ugly duckling stage, with the gadget blog saying it’s “headed into the market…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010
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  Get ‘Derezzed’ With Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy Music

  Robotic French duo Daft Punk will be spinning the deadly discs of Tron: Legacy‘s digital soundtrack. They’ll also be making a cameo in Disney’s sequel to the original Tron. Get a sneak peek at both, right now.

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010
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  No More Heroes Finds Paradise ‘Exclusively’ On PS3

  The further adventures of Travis Touchdown are coming to the PlayStation 3. No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise is coming to the PS3 in North America, bringing PlayStation Move support along with it. This time, it will be Konami who’s responsible for publishing Grasshopper Manufacture’s high-res port of the Wii original. They’ll do so in North…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010
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  The Many, Many Deaths Of PC Gaming

  Join us for a nostalgic look back at a decade of waiting for PC gaming to die. PC gaming isn’t dying. It’s just that over the past decade the industry has changed, and those changes haven’t always been easy for traditional PC game producers and players to understand. We used to go to computer stores…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2010
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  Can A Vacuum Cleaner Have A Zero Suit?

  This Philips vacuum cleaner looks very familiar. As seen on Wii Nintendo

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2010
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  Halloween Approaches

  To: Ash From: Crecente Do you dress up for Halloween? Do your kids? Does your wife? Nowadays just Tristan dresses up for Halloween in our house, which makes me a bit sad. I really should get back into the habit, it’s fun. We had some neat PC-themed stories today for our PC Gaming Week, including…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  F.E.A.R. 3’s Bullet Hole Cookies!

  This plate of cookies, complete with bloody bullet holes, was spotted at the offices for the game developer behind F.E.A.R. 3, Day 1 Studios. We’re told these iced delights were created by “the girlfriend of one of the designers.” Fettell never looked so happy.

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  PC Gaming Week Confessional, Crecente Edition

  We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Totilo’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? Yes? Deep down I am a computer gamer, but…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  Red Dead Minifig

  Custom minifig creator Jaimie tells Kotaku he whipped up this little scarred beauty to celebrate the release of Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare today. Next up, Assassin’s Creed’s Ezio. John Marston – Red Dead Redemption [4Bricks]

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  Here, Have Some Costume Quest Codes

  How would you like to play DoubleFine’s Costume Quest for free? Codes are all gone. If you enter a used PSN code it gives you the demo, sorry for any confusion. Then you may be in luck, we’ve got five codes each for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the trick-or-treating role-playing game. But…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010
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  The 3DS Makes For A Great Periscope

  I want 3DS games like Steel Diver, games that aren’t from familiar franchises and aren’t just the side-scrolling submarine adventures I thought they were. Watch as the game turns the 3DS into a motion-sensitive virtual periscope. The system seems to be using the 3DS’ motion sensors to allow the user to rotate where they stand,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010
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  I Can Explain This

  Uh. Well. That’s me on the right in the crown. Standing next to my virtual wife. On the other side of the bed, that’s MTV Multiplayer writer Russ Frushtick. We’re testing … co-op, yes, co-op in Fable III. The affair ended poorly (scroll to the italicized part).

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010
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  Translating Final Fantasy XI To Life (or “Why I don’t have a butterfly collection”)

  The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (“MMORPGs”) for one of my game design jobs. I said that it was especially difficult to understand what people were talking about on online forums, given that I’d never played an MMORPG for…

  Tim Rogers Published October 26, 2010
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  First Look At Dynasty Warriors 7

  Swords out! Tecmo Koei is working on a new Dynasty Warriors game. So far it’s a PS3 exclusive. Here’s a first peak at what’s in store, including the new characters. The game is dated for a March 2011 release in Japan. 『真・三國無双6』新キャラクター、鮑三娘＆司馬兄弟（ギャラリー） [Kotaku Japan]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2010
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  Why Dead Rising’s Producer Made A Zombie Game

  Keiji Inafune produced Dead Rising, which is influenced by George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. It wasn’t just that classic horror flick that inspired the creation of Dead Rising. In a recent interview with Dengeki Online, Inafune says that it was Resident Evil 4 that sparked his desire to make a zombie game. During the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2010