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XCOM‘s ‘Flying Spider Shark’ Wasn’t Left on the Cutting Room Floor
At the beginning of the latest video for XCOM: Enemy Within you can see some hideous tentacled thing that turns invisible and sneaks up on a lone soldier to strangle him, facehugger-style. That’s a Seeker, and its original concept looked even more dreadful. “That’s our Flying Spider Shark,” said Garth DeAngelis, putting a sum-of-all-fears capper…
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New Sherlock Footage Debuts Tomorrow
If you’re anywhere near as obsessed with the BBC’s Sherlock as I am, then you’ll be thrilled to know that new footage will debut in the morning. Season 2 ended on something of a cliffhanger, and we’re all waiting eagerly to see how exactly things will resume. That wait is almost over, as season 3…
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Watch the Cast of School of Rock Play That Great Song 10 Years Later
You know the song I’m talking about. “And if you want to be the teacher’s pet / Well baby you’d just better forget it / Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme / You’d better get me to school on time!” It’s cheesy now, and it probably was back then. But I was a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Unhappy Family: The winners
One family’s domestic discord is another person’s punchline. Who knew The Sims 4’s rather workaday screenshot of an unhappy couple would provide such inspiration to your fertile and disturbed imaginations. There’s a full set of 20 finalists inside, starting with overall No. 1 FAHtastic! Honorable mentions begin with sciteach, who rallied back after I again…
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Xbox One TV Features Might Not Require Gold Subscription After All
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s messaging surrounding the Xbox One has been convoluted, and it seems even the company’s own representatives don’t quite have a grasp on all the console’s features and policies. But some of the TV-related features that Microsoft previously said will require an Xbox Live Gold subscription might not after all. The…
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This Bonkers Baseball-Fighting Flash Game is Getting a Proper Release
I had never heard of Lethal League before reading about it in this NeoGAF thread, but apparently the single-projectile fighting game made a splash during the grand finals of Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 9′s mystery game tournament back in May. Now its developer, Reptile Games, has announced that a standalone version of the Flash game…
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Is Miyamoto Really Responsible For Unrealistic Dual-Wielding in Games?
Did you know the infamous pirate Blackbeard (I hear he’s scarier in real life) carried no fewer than six flintlock pistols with him at any given time because they took so long to reload? You wouldn’t know it from playing Assassin’s Creed—Connor is really good at reloading those pistols—but that’s what Youtuber XboxAhoy says in…
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Tim Schafer Just Showed Off These Psychonauts Figurines in a Vine
If you’re at PAX and you’re a fan of Tim Schafer’s funny platforming classic Psychonauts, you’re going to want to stop by the Double Fine booth and pick up a few of these figurines. Schafer tweeted about the Psychonauts figurines today, linking to a 6-second Vine video in which he shows them off in quick…
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‘I Am Street Fighter‘ Doc Explores the Fighting Franchise for an Hour
Just in case Street Fighter didn’t get enough love during last year’s 25th anniversary celebrations, Capcom yesterday published the 72-minute documentary “I Am Street Fighter.” And it’s a doozy. Created by Area 5, the video was actually originally included as part of the $150 Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set. This is the first time…
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Call of Duty: Ghosts Riffs Off Titanfall‘s Cinematic Multiplayer
Infinity Ward this week showcased the pre-order bonus for its upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts, a multiplayer map called “Free Fall” that the developer claims will add a touch of the cinematic single player campaign to the game’s deathmatch modes. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Yes, that’s the exact thinking behind Titanfall, the first…
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The Unknown Curse Of The Immortal Barry Steakfries
I’ve been playing Jetpack Joyride for what seems like a long time, but the other day I encountered something so strange and different that it set my mind spinning. It was just a glitch, but it was something that I’d never seen before, and my Googling revealed no forum threads or other users mentioning the…
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The Best Halo 4 Players in the World Are Competing This Weekend at PAX
The battle for supremacy in Halo 4 that kicked off at the Rooster Teeth Expo earlier this month and continued at Gamescom will conclude at PAX Prime this weekend. The Halo 4 Global Championship Finals began yesterday at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and they continue today. Tomorrow’s finale will be live streamed from 4 to…
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Foul Play Battles its Demons in a Crowd-Pleasing Way
A daemonologist, a chimney sweep, a stage play in Victorian England. Foul Play could have taken its inspiration from any number of sources. In fact, a music video from 1996 is largely how developer Mediatonic ended up with these themes on this type of game, a sidescrolling beat-em-up coming to Xbox Live in mid-September. “We…
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Plants vs. Zombies 2 Already Beat the Original’s Lifetime Downloads
You’re in good company if you’ve been playing Plants vs. Zombies 2 for the last couple of weeks. In fact, your company is nearly 25 million strong, according to figures published yesterday by PopCap. That’s how many people have downloaded the sequel since its release earlier this month, and according to the developer that’s more…
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Report: Wii U Early Adopters Won’t Get Special Treatment From Nintendo [UPDATE]
When Nintendo dropped the price of the 3DS mere months after its release in 2011, it offered a mollifying “Ambassador Program” to early adopters of the handheld system. That program included 20 free games available to players who bought the 3DS before a certain date. Now that the Wii U’s price is dropping $50 on…
By Mike Rougeau
