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Put Your Judgmental Faces On For Comment Of The Week
It’s Friday! Kotaku, it’s Friday. FRIDAY. What will you all be doing this weekend? I’m packing and preparing for the shenaniganry known as E3. It’s like hell week, but for game journalists. I’ll also be taking care of my sick kitty before I jet off. Before the weekend jumps up on us, can I get…
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Make Crazy Faces At Your Webcam And Your EverQuest II Character Will Soon Mimic Them
Emotes in MMOs are no new thing. Interacting with players online just isn’t the same if you can’t dance with them every once in awhile. But EverQuest II, an eight-year-old MMORPG, is getting an even more impressive facelift for even more expressive emotes. Namely, your emotes. No typing, only a webcam that will watch your…
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Did We Get What We Were Promised From Last Year’s E3?
The Big Three make a bunch of promises every year at E3, during the big press conferences they throw at the start of the week. In 90 minutes or two hours, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo show off their newest hardware and biggest games. We hear all kinds of guarantees: here’s a game coming this fall.…
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Rambling, Shambling Zombie Carnaval Brings Horde Mode to the Endless Runner Genre
Zombie Carnaval seems to be a straightforward endless-runner. It’s got a zany soundtrack, outlandish transformations, and a peppy musical accompaniment, making it plainly inspired by the success formula of Jetpack Joyride. It’s only after I notice there are eight bug-eyed, green-skinned undead brethren trailing me that I see the game’s distinction, and get serious about…
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Alternate The Avengers Ending Raises Important Questions
Fair warning: this video definitely has spoilers in it. Including inside jokes. So if you haven’t watched The Avengers yet (why haven’t you watched The Avengers yet?!), please do so immediately and then return for this video. If you have watched The Avengers, proceed on to watch the animated version of how Joss Whedon’s film…
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Rift’s Storm Legion Expansion Adds a Ridiculous Amount of Sexy New Stuff
Trion Worlds takes its massively-multiplayer online role-playing game expansions seriously. Tripling the size of the game’s landmass, adding 10 new levels and four new classes, guild and player-housing; if Storm Legion‘s massive influx of new content doesn’t satisfy you, you probably shouldn’t be playing Rift While I am not a big Rift player at the…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s a brand new month, and we’ve got a brand new TAYpic to bastardize, but right now let’s discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. This month’s TAYpic base comes from professional TAYpic craftsman Pan_1da7. Well, technically “Primavera” comes from Sandro Botticeli, but that was way back in 1482, so I don’t…
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Those Adorable Mini Ninjas Get Kinect-ified for Xbox Live Arcade
We’ve not heard much from Hiro and his tiny assassin friends since 2009’s Mini Ninjas, which makes sense; you’re not supposed to hear ninja. Fans will get a chance to learn that for themselves come June 29, when Square Enix releases Mini Ninjas Adventures, a Kinect-powered fight-fest for Xbox Live arcade. Hinted at back in…
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This Elegant Controller Solution Could Change the Way Mobile Games are Made and Played
When I first showed pictures of Power A’s MOGA to my compatriots, they thought it was a brand new gaming handheld. In a way, it is. MOGA is a complete mobile gaming system aimed at making today’s console-quality smartphone games play like console games. Mobile phone gaming controllers have come and gone, bulky add-ons proving…
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Self-Mutilation for Magic Coming to North America in Soul Sacrifice
Mega Man co-designer Keiji Inafune’s fleshy new dark fantasy, Soul Sacrifice, is just too bizarre to stay in Japan. Today Sony confirmed a North American release for the PlayStation Vita game, and Inafune confirmed that he can be really confusing when talking about game concepts. The main gameplay system of Soul Sacrifice is that the…
By Mike Fahey
