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Tracing The Musical Saga Of Mass Effect
Remember when this is what Mass Effect sounded like? There was a time when the story had a fairly straightforward theme, using electronic and orchestral sounds to draw us into a sweeping space opera with dark tones around the edges. Back then, of course, it was a more straightforward story. It was a theme in…
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From Kingdom Hearts to Super Mario RPG: The Yoko Shimomura Mixtape
One of the best parts about doing a weekly mixtape is hearing suggestions from readers on which composer to cover next (PS: keep ’em coming). Out of all the suggestions, nobody has been more requested than Yoko Shimomura. So this week on the Kotaku Mix Tape, we celebrate one of gaming’s most moving composers. Even…
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I’d Freak Out if You Kept Getting Up After A Hundred Shots to the Chest, Too
So in a game like, say, Uncharted, we’ve all lamented those nameless henchmen or mini-bosses that seem to take a ridiculous number of shots to kill. “I shot you,” we’ll yell. “I shot you like twelve times! In the head! Why won’t you die?!” But imagine how much worse it is on their side! They…
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EA Sports Practically Begging for South Alabama’s Forgiveness Now
Whoever screwed up—whether EA Sports or some paper-pusher at the NCAA—the University of South Alabama will not be in NCAA Football 13 during the school’s debut year in major college football. While USA is one of 124 schools, and its alumni base is comparatively much, much smaller, this kind of exclusion is terrible PR in…
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Your Best Bets for Starting a No-Name Dynasty in NCAA 13‘s First Week
There are many reasons to pick up NCAA Football the day it releases, and the next edition arrives on Tuesday. The rosters, however, are not one of them. For hardcore players, the first week is often spent tinkering with secondary modes while waiting for the roster editing community to complete a full and accurate naming…
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You Can Pick Up In-Game Health At a Real-World Pharmacy in Robert Bowling’s New Game
If you needed first-aid supplies, you’d probably go to your local pharmacy or drugstore, right? It only makes sense. And when you’re playing a character in a video game, if that character needs first-aid supplies, you tend to loot them from a hospital or pharmacy. It makes a post-apocalyptic kind of sense. Of course, there…
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This is the Ultimate Custom Arcade Fight Stick… for StarCraft II
Fighting game fans go great lengths to create their own custom arcade controllers, personalized weapons carved from raw passion to wage a war against all comers. What if the same ingenuity and passion were applied to a non-fighting game like StarCraft II? I think it would go a little something like this. Created by the…
By Mike Fahey
