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Rainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
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Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
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EA Sports Avoids Campaign-Year Headache by Keeping Obama Out of NFL Blitz
A year after appearing in NBA Jam (with Vice President Biden, and eight other political figures of both parties), President Obama will not cameo in January’s NFL Blitz, one of the game’s designers said recently. Though Yuri Bialoskursky didn’t say so specifically, it’s probably because a presidential election year is coming up, and EA Sports…
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Game Reviewers Protest Middle-Earth’s Senseless War in the North
There once was a small hobbit that left the Shire on a grand adventure, performing brave deeds and overcoming impossible odds for the sake of all Middle-Earth. This is not his story. The Lords of the Rings: War in the North instead follows the story of a trio of adventurers going on a journey so…
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Get Swept Up in the Sound of Skyrim‘s Barbarian Choir
Back in 2006 Skyrim game director Todd Howard called up composer Jeremy Soule and told him he wanted the music for the game to sound like The Elder Scrolls theme as sung by a barbarian choir. Lacking barbarians, Soule just hired some men with deep voices. I am posting this video specifically so I can…
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This is How Modern Warfare 3 Will Bring Everyone Together
The Call of Duty series has traditionally been about shooting your enemies apart online, but with the strong social features of Call of Duty Elite and Facebook integrated with Modern Warfare 3 the latest game in the series is more about bringing gamers together. And then killing them. I’m not a big multiplayer shooter person.…
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Homegrown Terrorists Fight to Take Back America in Rainbow 6: Patriots
After a two-game vacation in Vegas, Tom Clancy’s elite counter-terrorism unit takes on an all-new threat threatening to destroy the U.S. government in Rainbow 6: Patriots now in development for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. In the latest entry in the venerable series, Team Rainbow faces off against the True Patriots, a well-organized…
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Sonic Generations Has Game Reviewers Running in Circles
Desperately attempting to please two different sets of fans on Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary, Sega has crammed two different types of hedgehog gameplay into Sonic Generations, a formula that never fails to create entertaining game reviews. What else can Sega do? Some fans hate 2D Sonic, other fans hate 3D Sonic. They’ve tried making…
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Run Green Hill Zone in Under 1:50 and Collect Some Nice Sonic Merch
Earlier today I was wondering what qualified me to review Sonic Generations, beyond my capacity for saying “god dammit.” Yet after a solid 24 hours with this game not only are my eyeballs properly tracking its sidescrolling motion, I’ve recovered my innate understanding of the technical requirements of a solid speed-run through a Sonic world.…
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Character Creation Is Back and Better Than Ever in Soulcalibur V
My favorite feature of Soulcalibur IV was the ability to create my own custom characters and see how they fare on the stage of history. Judging by this trailer and these new screens, it’ll probably be my favorite feature of Soulcalibur V as well. With the inclusion of stickers and scars, pattern changing and scaling,…
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It’s Sonic Generations Launch Day
Two generations of hedgehogs collide today in Sonic Generations, and we’ve got the launch trailer to prove it. Just don’t watch it if you’re waiting on the PC version (November 4) or the 3DS one (November 22). Or if you’re in Europe for that matter (November 4). Or Australasia (November 3). Or Japan (December 1).…
By Mike Fahey
