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The first trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for the 3DS and Vita is rather snazzy, showing off comic book-style cutscenes and some interesting 2.5D interpretation of the console game’s moves. What’s with the big guy at the end, though? Wasn’t Batman’s first encounter with him during Arkham City, some six years down the line?
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Watch An Hour’s Worth of Xbox One Interviews, Live, Right Now [It’s over]
Much of the Kotaku crew is in PAX right now, and so are the good folks over at Twitch, who are doing interviews from the event live, right now, starting with Xbox One titles. For the next hour (10am to 11am Pacific time) Twitch will be streaming three interviews Xbox One titles — Dead Rising…
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A Rare, Fascinating Look Behind The Scenes Of The Next Final Fantasy
Square Enix, in an effort to both educate and entertain fans, has released the first episode of what is going to be a web documentary series chronicling the making of Lightning Returns, the upcoming sequel to Final Fantasy XIII-2 Narrated by Lightning’s voice actress, Ali Hillis, the introductory episode of “Inside the Square” focuses on…
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Assassin’s Creed IV‘s Blackbeard Is Scarier In Real Life
If you thought Blackbeard intimidating in the trailers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, wait until you see actor Mark Bonnar doing his voice. I peed a little. I spied Bonnar once before in a two-part episode of Doctor Who (2011’s “The Almost People” and “The Rebel Flesh”), and he didn’t strike me as particularly…
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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: General McFist gives ustips on cooking bacon the manly way, Patrick Allen and friends take a look at Dishonored in Game Club,and Stormborn’s Pokemon: One a Day arts series tackles Charmander, the greatest starter of all time. And you can always go join the voices…
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Hey, remember that Kingdom Hearts compilation for the PS3? The HD 1.5 Remix? It’s still on track for this fall—September 10, specifically. Recently, Square Enix put out a new trailer to show off what the English version plays like. Have a look above, and make sure to check out our review of the Japanese version
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A Love Letter To One Of The Most Beautiful Game Worlds
In case you’ve forgotten just how gorgeous Just Cause 2’s Panau Islands look, YouTuber ultrabrilliant is back with an amazing clip in which he revisits all the memorable locations of this amazing open world. The sunset in Panau’s Capital City and the arctic mountain regions still look fantastic. Other Places: Panau (Just Cause 2) [YouTube]…
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As you can see, JoJo’s All Star Battle is not a typical fighting game, even by Japanese standards. Iggy is a DLC character, and he has some quite unusual techniques. And believe me, there’s a reason I chose not to post the GIF version. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…
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I Can’t Get Over How Pretty This Zombie Game Looks
These five new screenshots for Dying Light, Dead Island developer Techland’s upcoming free-running zombie survival game, were released by Warner Bros. accompanying an announcement about the game’s competitive “Be The Zombie” mode. This multi-player game mode, which will only be available to pre-order customers at release, will feature Night Hunters—extremely strong and agile zombies who…
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A Somber, but Beautiful Trailer About Tanks, Planes, Gunships and War
Gaijin’s military combat MMO War Thunder is here to talk to us about the horrors of war—though the all-caps “Ready for Next Gen?” message at the end kinda breaks the mood a bit. Still, whether you care for the game or not, this is a damn great trailer and it deserves at least one look.…
By András Neltz
