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Four Have Reached Level 100 on PlayStation Network
Hakoom, one of the more prolific and visible trophy hunters in the PlayStation Network, just broke through to level 100—a rank that requires a user to win some 30,000 trophies. Three others have also breached the 99 barrier, thought to be the limit when PSN instituted trophy support back in mid-2008. Hakoom gets the publicity…
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are being removed from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network stores—both their digital versions and their DLC. Tuesday is the last day PSN subscribers in North America can get DLC for the game; Thursday is the last day in Europe. Dec. 26 is the deadline,…
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Culture
The Week in Games: The Walking Dead Begins a New Season
Retail console releases may be done for this year but there still are marquee names waiting for their closeup as we finish off 2013. Chief among them is the next season of The Walking Dead, which arrives Tuesday along with Terraria on the PS Vita. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday, Dec. 17 The Walking…
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Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features
Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…
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EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game
Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…
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Battlefield 4 Stunts Are Becoming More And More Hardcore
Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it’s in Battlefield 4. Here’s YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it’s the easiest thing out there. That’s a…
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Adult Swim Shows Us What To Do With The PS4’s Share Button
No one wants to look bad in front of Kratos. According to this Robot Chicken animated spot for Killzone: Shadow Fall, God of War‘s heroic brute is very active on Facebook, so think before you hit that share button. This 60-second spot, airing Monday night on Adult Swim before the Robot Chicken Born Again Virgin…
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Intense Police Chase Shows Off How Cool GTA Online‘s Content Creator Is
While Grand Theft Auto Online‘s creator tools are still fresh out of the package, players like rechyyy—the YouTuber behind one of the best GTA V chase videos—are already filling up their custom maps with ramps, police vehicles and rockets. Not a bad start, and we’ll probably see a flood of awesome things made by this…
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It’s Like Amnesia And Aliens Had A Hideous Baby
Come wander the dark, flickering hallways of Upsilon, the first environment video from Soma, the sci-fi horror game from the makers of Amnesia For my money, creepy wanderings in space beat out creepy wanderings anywhere else. It’s a matter of expectations— if I am in a creepy old house, I expect monsters and ghosts and…
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Rayman Legends On PS4/Xbox One Will Be 10x More Awesome For One Reason
That reason is the Far Cry 3 “best villain ever” Vaas-skinned Globox that’s exclusive to the PS4 and Xbox One release on February 25th. And, yeah, an Assassin’s Ray costume is pretty neat, too. Along with the announcement of an official release date and two exclusive new costumes, Ubisoft promises improved graphics, fixed loading times,…
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Battlefield 4 Problems Have Shareholder Law Firm Thinking Lawsuit
A law firm that appears to specialize in suing publicly traded companies suffering publicly embarassing problems has turned its attention to Electronic Arts, specifically over Battlefield 4 The “investigation” that Atlanta firm Holzer Holzer & Fistel has begun concerns whether EA “complied with federal securities laws” when the company was making statements about Battlefield 4…
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Microtransactions don’t work exactly like this in NBA 2K14, but this parody video by GoodGameBro clearly communicates how ridiculous some find the practice when it intrudes on their favorite sports game. Actually, you can purchase dunks, they’re just signature animations for your created MyPlayer.
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Elder Scrolls Online Arrives April 4 for PC, June for PS4, Xbox One
The Elder Scrolls Online will release on April 4 for the PC and Mac, Bethesda Softworks revealed this morning in a new trailer for the MMO set in the Elder Scrolls continuity. PS4 and Xbox One gamers will have to wait until June. “War in Cyrodiil,” is the title of the gameplay trailer, which is…
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Why John Carmack Isn’t Eager for Next Gen
You might be thrilled with next gen—er, current gen. But John Carmack, ex-id Software star programmer and Oculus Rift guru, isn’t yet. He thinks we can still do more with last gen. “The 360 and PS3 are far from tapped out in terms of what a developer could do with them,” he said, speaking to…
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Kotaku East
The Witch and the Hundred Knight lands in the West next March. Per the company’s announcement, Nippon Ichi Software’s quirky monster-devouring hack n’ slash game is hitting European PS3s on March 21, and North American ones four days later, on the 25th. You can read our impressions on the Japanese version here
By András Neltz
