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Borderlands 2‘s Official Rating Description is Outstanding
Back at E3 I was dismayed to learn that, thanks to prudes overseas, Borderlands 2‘s darkly humorous death animations would have to be toned down from the original’s, which included eyeball-exploding electrocutions. Well, if the official ratings description handed down by the ESRB is any indication, I needn’t have worried. Borderlands 2 went to gold…
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The Moneysaver: War for Cyberdeals
A combo pairing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron with its predecessor leads our list of 60 bargains, 35 of them digital downloads and, as usual, most of them available from online retailers. NCAA Football 13 is down to $40 about a month after its release, and the PlayStation Move game Sorcery is just $14.99. Appropriately enough…
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In the Background of Video Games’ Exclusive Deals, There’s More Than Meets The Eye
They are the heroes of our childhoods. The glory of their times. Their video game comes out later this month. For the entirety of the current console generation, just one mega-publisher has solely controlled the exclusive right to immortalize their triumphs. It’s a deal that has reaped gobs of cash, and the latest edition of…
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Video Game Makers Aren’t Your Friends. But If They Were …
Today, Dorkly broke down the major players of the video gaming industry into commonly understood archetypes: Your friends. Doesn’t make them any more tolerable, but it does make them more understandable. Still, I would have figured Activision for your gun-obsessed weightlifter friend who drives a 1989 Celica and listens to the Iron Eagle soundtrack, and…
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OnLive Assets Acquired by ‘Newly Formed Company,’ Vows to Continue Service [Corrected]
Bad news always slides under the door at the end of Friday, and today’s was a rumor of some kind of quasi -bankruptcy for the cloud gaming service OnLive and, more importantly, mass layoffs of its employees. After a series of officious no-comments to reporters, OnLive has issued a statement confirming that its sale to…
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Playing Again, as Sam, in Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Splinter Cell: Blacklist is next year’s update of the venerable Tom Clancy series from Ubisoft, promising new weapons and classic method, if not the classic Sam Fisher voice actor. Nonetheless, you can catch 12 minutes slam full of gameplay in this annotated developer video. Using the “killing-in-motion” bullet-time feature, watch Sam cut like a hot…
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Wondering Just What Darksiders II Is All About? Here’s a Video Overview!
We’ve given you the review, talked about some port problems, and shown you the art. But how does Darksiders II really look? And what’s it all about? Kotaku‘s own Chris Person has created this video overview for those of us who might not have caught the franchise’s first entry. Just what is Death wandering through…
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Get Ready for Madden‘s “Connected Careers” With This 175-Page Guide
Madden NFL 13 this year merges its Franchise, Online Franchise and Superstar modes into a single suite, called “Connected Careers.” We’ve done our best to explain what it is, but in a nutshell, gamers controlling a single player will be able to play in the same league against gamers controlling a single player (edit: and…
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The Simpsons are Just the Cursed Topping on One Amazing Week in Gaming Apps
When an official video game based on the most successful mature animated series in the history of television is one of the least exciting items on the list, you know you’re in for one hell of a Week in Gaming Apps. What’s better than Homer Simpson? How about the experiemental music toy-meets-tower defense with a…
By Mike Fahey
