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The First Details On Telltale’s Borderlands Game
“You never really play what actually happened, you’re playing this Big Fish version of what happened,” Telltale’s Kevin Bruner said of his studio’s Borderlands spinoff, Tales from the Borderlands, at a panel at SXSW on Saturday. As reported by Polygon, the game will include a pair of playable protagonists who narrate the events of the…
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Video Games Live Concert Tour Heading to Mexico, South America and China
The ever-popular Video Games Live tour, which features orchestral performances of a super wide range of music from games, has 50 newly announced dates for stops all around the globe, from Europe to Southeast Asia to South America and more. The tour (dates and ticket info here) will include concerts in Mexico City, Dubai, Beijing,…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Players Are Finally Getting What They Want
It appears that player housing is coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic, or so this teaser video for SWTOR‘s SSHP seems to promise. SSHP is likely short for Super Secret Housing Project, which unlike the Super Secret Space Project (which became the Galactic Starfighter expansion) actually was a secret. The reveal was shocking, but…
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Several Compelling Reasons To Be A Gamer
We all know that video games are ruining our minds, but perhaps games are at the same time teaching us lessons that can aid us in living our lives. That’s what Ryan Higa gets at in his new video. It’s true, though. Even in those weeks where you neglect all your work and friends and…
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These May Be the 10 Worst Game Consoles Ever
Who’s up for a good argument? All of us, probably, and AllTime10s has made a list of what they believe to be the ten worst game consoles ever made that we can fight over on this chill Saturday. One or two of these are so bad I hadn’t heard of them, but most are quite…
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Guy Who Rebooted Spider-Man Movies Thought It Was “The Stupidest Idea”
Marc Webb made music videos, and then he made 500 Days of Summer, and then he made The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of that feature movie franchise. But when Sony Pictures boss Amy Pascal offered him the Spidey gig, he called it “the stupidest idea I ever heard,” Webb said today at SXSW in Austin.…
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Looks Like Titanfall‘s Day One Update On Xbox One is 840mb
Folks who have managed to snag Titanfall early from retailers are saying players who grab Xbox One disc copies of the anticipated online title this week will need to download a relatively manageable 840mb patch before they can play it. To be clear, 840mb is going to take a bit of time to download for…
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The Insane Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Will Soon Be Even More Insane
The ridiculous mod that allows folks to play with each other in Just Cause 2‘s map has always been wild, but now the enterprising people behind it are continuing to add features that will expand upon the madness. This 0.1.4 update, which is now in beta, will include earthquakes and wearable hats and heatseeking missiles.…
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Welcome To The Weekend Of Phil On Kotaku
Happy Saturday, everyone. Your usual Kotaku weekend editor, Owen Good, has made his exit from this esteemed site, and I, Phil Owen, am not his replacement. I am merely a temporary caretaker, and hopefully I can assist in helping you, dear reader, survive this weekend. So let us drive off this metaphorical cliff in an…
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Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 3
So, this was an interesting week! If you want to catch up with some of our best stuff, you know where you can find them all rounded up. Forgive me if Kotaku Selects looks a little light. I was still on vacation for half of this week, ahem Stephen ahem. Have you all seen Her…
By Tina Amini
