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Pulling Action Figures Into a 3DS with Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device’s camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I…
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Prototype 2 Makes It a Date: April 24, 2012
Prototype 2 will release for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on April 24, 2012, Activision said today at San Diego Comic-Con. A new CG trailer, the first of in a series of three, went up at the game’s official website. Shape-shifting superhero Alex Mercer and blade-armed badass Sgt. James Heller will also throw down at…
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Val Kilmer and His Amazing Friends Take On Spidey and the X-Men
With the San Diego Comic-Con right around the corner, Activision pulls back the curtain on the top-tier talent lending their voices to Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny. It’s good to see Val Kilmer is still alive, isn’t it? Yes, the actor that brought ace pilot Iceman to life and briefly paraded about in…
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Activision Seeks to Sieze Nettlesome ModernWarfare3.com Domain
It appears that Activision is fed up with the owner of ModernWarfare3.com. The publisher filed a complaint with a dispute board seeking to sieze control of the domain, after noticing this week that it was redirecting visitors to Battlefield 3‘s official site. Before that, ModernWarfare3.com had simply hosted anti-Call of Duty propaganda. When the redirect…
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You’re Gonna Lose Yourself in Prototype 2‘s Tendril Dismemberment
Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted and tear it apart with your writhing tendrils, would you capture it, or just let it slip? Are you ready to drop tendril bombs in Prototype 2? By the time I’m done with Prototype 2 the city will look like…
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Call of Duty Elite Trailer is Like a Simile Wrapped in a Metaphor
Call of Duty Elite beta began a “staged launch” today and to kick it off, Activision unloaded this two minute trailer that spends one minute cracking jokes and another minute answering questions except for the biggie: How much is this damn thing going to cost? For now, it’s free; for now, it’s in beta. You…
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GameStop Wreaks Havok on the X-Men, Gives Spider-Man an Identity Crisis
With two Marvel superhero video games coming from Activision this fall, GameStop ransacks comic book continuity for fresh outfits to provide preorder customers of X-Men: Destiny and Spider-Man: Edge of Time Spider-Man developer Beenox really went to town on the alternate costumes in its previous outing, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, so this time around the preorder…
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Glitchers Brought in to Test Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer
A group of Call of Duty glitchers has been called back to Infinity Ward to help the studio test and shore up the game’s multiplayer, according to the gang’s leader. This isn’t the first time mapMonkeys have assisted on a Call of Duty project, according to founder Rezzzo. He says members had been flown to…
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Who Would You Battle in the Ultimate Game Industry Boss Fight?
In today’s battle-hardened edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Dracosummoner asks you to square off against a corporate executive, developer, designer, or member of the gaming press in your ultimate game industry boss fight. Cue battle music! If you could face off against any major gaming figure (other than Bobby Kotick, get creative!) in…
By Mike Fahey