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  Get Your World War II On With Call of Duty: The War Collection

  Stop! Do not buy that copy of Call of Duty: World At War! If you really need a fix of World War II era shoot ‘em up action, cool your jets for this summer’s Call of Duty: The War Collection. Activision appears to be exploiting three of the Call of Duty franchise’s WWII-iest first-person shooters,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2010
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  Real Racing HD Micro-Review: Relief For The Driving Impaired

  After watching Firemint’s Real Racing HD idle at the top end of the iPad gaming charts every week since the device’s early April release, we put the racer through its paces to see why it’s getting so much love. I hate racing games. It’s not because I hate driving, or a racing video game killed…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  First LittleBigPlanet 2 Details: It’s A Whole New Game

  PlayStation 3 do-it-yourself platformer LittleBigPlanet is getting a sequel, a fact confirmed by the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, which spills a sackful of new and fascinating details on developer Media Molecule’s next game. According to early details from the magazine from a NeoGAF forum member, LittleBigPlanet 2 is much more than just a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2010
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  It’s Not The Size Of The Game World, But How You Use It

  Does size matter? Compare the size of these seven video game words to the amount of enjoyment you got out of playing the game. Found via Digg

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  This Week In Comics

  I don’t read many Wolverine comics. My leeriness of Marvel’s most famous X-Man is equal to my apprehension for video game’s Tony Hawk: Great in the past, but so over-exposed that maybe there’s no new greatness to come? Wolverine’s done it all, hasn’t he? He’s fought everyone. He’s healed from every kind of wound inflicted…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2010
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  Metal Gear Solid Helps PSP Score A Big ‘Peace’ Of The Pie

  Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker may not have been the bestselling game in Japan this week, but its strong debut sales helped propel the PSP to the top of the charts (once again), doubling the portable’s sales. Consider the console war stalemate in Japan broken, thanks to Peace Walker’s debut. And, if you’re Microsoft, thank…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2010
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  Another Aerialbot Joins The War For Cybertron Cast

  Activision reveals two new playable characters for Transformers: War for Cybertron, with weasely Combaticon Brawl joined by Aerialbot leader Silverbolt, the second playable Aerialbot in the game. That’s two of five pieces of Superion! Activision hasn’t said anything about Autobot or Decepticon combiners being included in War for Cybertron, but now that two Aerialbots, one…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  The Lag and Fun of Halo Reach’s Invasion

  Gameplay mode Invasion went live today for Bungie’s Halo Reach beta bringing with it multi-objective team gameplay with a few interesting twists and lots of lag. I spent about an hour messing around with Invasion’s new gamemodes and while they’re quickly becoming my favorites the experience as a whole was marred by some absurdly bad…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 7, 2010
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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  Happy Iron Man 2 opening weekend, Kotakus. While my own gaming plans may be up in the air for the weekend, I have at least one pop culture appointment already on the calendar. I won’t be playing Iron Man 2: The Video Game—Fahey will!—but I’ll be at the theater at some point this weekend to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2010
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  Experience Tron’s Legacy With Space Paranoids Online

  If Tron lead character Kevin Flynn were around today, surely he’d be proud of the fact that you can now play his arcade classic Space Paranoids directly in your browser window. Ah, how times have changed since the first Tron movie came out. Back then you’d have to pay a quarter to play Space Paranoids,…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  The WarioWare Winnings Have Arrived

  The skilled and/or lucky winners of our Nintendo D.I.Y. contest get prizes, courtesy of Nintendo. Those prizes pass through Kotaku’s NYC office, where I can confirm that the best WarioWare game is among them. Prizes to be mailed soon!

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2010
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  Are Video Games Doing Outer Space Justice?

  This is no video game. This is an image of a gigantic baby star inside a galactic bubble 4,300 light-years from Earth, captured by Europe’s Herschel space telescope. Has video game space ever been so beautiful? The small white spot on the bottom edge of the ethereal-looking galactic bubble RCW 120 is actually an infant…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  Human Beings At Play

  Here are people playing the camera-based game Recurse at New York University’s No Quarter gaming exhibition last night. The game is simple. Stand in front of a camera, see a projection of yourself on a TV, use your body to agitate blotches of green and avoid agitating blotches of red. See it played here from…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2010
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  Another View Of Video Game Piracy

  Maybe we’re thinking about video game piracy wrong? David Rosen, whose Wolfire Games is presenting a copy-protection-free/you-name-the-price Humble Indie Bundle of stellar computer games this week, makes his case. The problem, he argues, is wildly misunderstood. We’ve been hearing a lot about game piracy recently, with big developers inflicting draconian online-only DRM systems on their…

  David Rosen Published May 7, 2010
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  Red Dead Redemption Revolution: Viva La Revolution!

  Rockstar celebrates Cinco de Mayo a couple of days late, as Red Dead Redemption hero John Marston heads to Mexico for a little south of the border action. In Old West movies, Mexico is traditionally where you go when you need to escape the authorities, as well as a nice place to retire. Countless silver…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  Why APB Uses Your Phone’s Pricing Plan Instead of World of Warcraft’s

  When the open-world, cops versus robbers game APB hits computers this summer it will include an unusual pricing option that charges per a minute rather than a month. That’s because all but the most hardcore online computer gamers are typically paying for more game then they need, E.J. Moreland, design lead for Realtime Worlds, told…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 7, 2010
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  Final Fantasy IX Coming Soon To North American PSN

  With a May 20 release date already revealed for Japan, Square Enix confirms a North American release for Final Fantasy IX, the second-highest rated game in the Final Fantasy franchise, on the PlayStation Network. I’ve made no secret that Final Fantasy IX is my favorite game in the series, and aside from Final Fantasy III…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  PETA Beats Mafia Wars At its Own Game

  After receiving a plea from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to cease using the often-abused Pit Bull as a weapon in popular social game Mafia Wars, Zynga has decided to let sleeping dogs lie. Last month Mafia Wars developer Zynga introduced animal-based weapons and vehicles to Mafia Wars, allowing dons to purchase ferocious…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010
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  The Military and the Art of War Gaming As Explained By The Creator of SimCity

  Earlier this year, Will Wright spoke to a gathering of military and Department of Defense personnel about the intersection of commercial gaming and military gaming at Gametech 2010. While some of this talk touches on the ideas he brought up during his Game Developers Conference in March, there’s plenty of new material here that crosses…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 7, 2010
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  So That’s What A Living 3D Monopoly Game Looks Like

  Yesterday I wondered if EA’s new 3D board game Monopoly Streets might be the Grand Theft Auto III of Monopoly games. As these first two screens show, there’s at least one car and some pedestrians. Now we need guns. Of course we won’t get guns in Monopoly Streets when it ships this fall for the…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2010