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Borderlands 2 Has Four Post-Release Campaign DLCs Planned
Four pieces of campaign DLC will add to your Borderlands 2 experience after the game’s release on September 18. Gearbox revealed their committment to releasing the extra content at their PAX Prime panel today. CEO Randy Pitchford noted to me that they’ll be on par with the scope of something like Borderlands 1’s General Knoxx…
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Brothers In Arms: Furious Four Is No More. It’s Now An Entirely New Game.
You won’t be seeing Brothers In Arms: Furious Four anymore, developer Gearbox announced at their PAX Prime panel today. They haven’t canceled the game, though. They’ve just changed it so much that it’s now an entirely new game. When it was announced at E3 2011, Brothers in Arms: Furious Four immediately drew comparisons to the…
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Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Indeed Have Female Characters, Gearbox Says
You’ll be able to play and customize lady marines in Aliens: Colonial Marines, developer Gearbox assured fans during a panel at PAX Prime today. You can hop in the clunky metal shoes of Jennifer Redding during co-op play and even customize an array of female avatars for competitive multiplayer. Gearbox didn’t want to announce anything…
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These Are The Four Playable Co-Op Characters in Aliens: Colonial Marines
There will be four characters players can choose from in Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ cooperative play. In addition to the known hero character Cpl. Christopher Winters, Gearbox revealed three new characters during their panel at PAX Prime today, shown in the above concept art. The three are Pvt. Demarcus Short, Pvt. Jennifer Redding Quintaro and Pvt…
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You’ll Wish It Was Winter Already After You See This Snowspeeder Sled In Action
Why no one built this until now, 32 years after The Empire Strikes Back, I don’t know. But this enterprising builder, “fortyozjuicebox,” assembled a compact, cardboard version of a Snowspeeder and, at the :40 mark of that video above, races it downhill at a sledding derby. The video, however, doesn’t show the level of detail that…
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It’s Looking Like a Digital-Only Disappearance for NBA Live
The rumor went around shortly after everyone got back from E3. I took a phone call from a person within the industry who knew I’d been down to EA Sports’ Tiburon studio to see NBA Live. They asked if I thought it was going to be a digital-only release. “What? No. That’s … dumb,” I…
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Portal 2‘s Writers Originally Planned for Chell to Marry a Turret
Even for a game known for some really bent comic themes and recurring gags, this concept is way the hell out there, but Portal 2 was originally going to see Chell, the protagonist, get married to a turret. Erik Wolpaw, one of the writers, revealed the idea at a panel at PAX yesterday. Wolpaw said…
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‘Grifball’ is Officially Added to Halo 4‘s Multiplayer
“Grifball,” the insane, deadly multiplayer sport Rooster Teeth created for Halo, will be featured as one of the main multiplayer modes in Halo 4, 343 Industries said yesterday at PAX 2012. GrifballHub.com supplies that video of its PAX demo. In the mod, opposing teams hustle a “grifball” back and forth on the map attempting to…
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GaymerCon is Fully Funded—and Then Some—for a 2013 Meeting
GaymerCon, an effort to convene the “first gaming and geek lifestyle convention with a focus on LGBT culture,” drew backing and support from the likes of Xbox Live, Penny Arcade, and even the Sniper from Team Fortress 2, beat its funding target by a mile after its Kickstarter closed on Friday. Organizers set $25,000 as…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Art Restoration
A couple weeks back, some old lady in Spain attempted to “restore” a peeling fresco and ended up turning Jesus into, quite ironically, a caveman. As the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest is the highway to hell upon which all good intentions are paved, we’re gonna take it upon ourselves to fix some classics this week. This…
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Relax, They’re Not Really Turning Final Fantasy Type-0 Into a Dating Sim
At Final Fantasy‘s 25th Anniversary event yesterday in Japan, Square Enix thought it’d pull a fast one on the audience, putting Final Fantasy Type-0 director Hajime Tabata up to revealing the concept for something called “Tokimeki Final Fantasy: Suzaku Magic Institution Peristylium: Oh no! I’m in Love With the Crystal’s Divine Guardian.” Aka a dating…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Assassin’s Cross-Breed: The Winners
Mixed messages in Madden‘s marketing copy gave rise to last week’s ‘Shop Contest challenge, which asked everyone to mash up Assassin’s Creed with another video game. We’ve got the weekly winners inside, plus overall No. 1 Johnny Stanley inside! [Correction] An earlier edition of this story misattributed the winning entry. Johnny Stanley is this week’s…
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Do You Want a Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! Coffee Table Book? Of Course You Do.
Lots of Kickstarter video game projects come over the transom here every day, a lot of them wishful thinking. So it’s rare to see one that is both a great idea and eminently attainable, but that’s my gut feeling about a coffee table book celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! If you want…
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Watch Mass Effect‘s Geth Dance to Dance Central 3
If you’re at PAX Prime this weekend be sure to head over to Harmonix’s booth, where cosplayers dancing on stage is hilarious. You can also pick up some fancy slap watch bracelets that make me feel like I’m I’m elementary school again. Clarification: This is the character Legion, not a generic Geth.
By Tina Amini
