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Soulcalibur V’s Next Costume Offerings Includes a Pac-Man Cameo (Sort Of)
Pac-Man is having a hell of a career second act in fighting games. Of course, he is one of the free characters in Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation 3. Now it looks like he’ll be included—as some kind of bizarre head-thing—in Soulcalibur V‘s next batch of monthly costume DLC. See for yourself at…
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Fan-Made Wing Commander Game Can Go Forward, but It’s Not Endorsed by EA
A fan-engineered sequel to the long dormant Wing Commander series is known to Electronic Arts, and all of the franchise’s rights holders, but they are taking no action to shut down its development. That said, they don’t officially or unofficially endorse the game. The creators of Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn had to clarify that…
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Grade-School ‘MMO’ Launches Site, Plans Kickstarter Drive
ClassRealm, the role-playing game/teaching system developed by educator and longtime Kotaku reader Ben Bertoli, has launched a web site to help share the game with other schools and teachers interested in it. Bertoli says a Kickstarter project is planned soon.
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Canabalt Runs Onto PlayStation Platforms This Week
Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt, the 2009 flash game sensation and mobile gaming hit, is making its way to PS3, PSP and PS Vita through the PlayStation Mini offerings in the PlayStation Store. Saltsman tweeted earlier this past week that the game already is available as a Mini in Europe, and it will arrive in North America…
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Capcom Says It’s Working on a Patch as Four Infinite Combos Found So Far in Street Fighter X Tekken
This past week saw multiple YouTube videos demonstrating infinite (or nearly infinite) combinations across multiple characters in Street Fighter X Tekken One involves some gem usage, and believed to be tool-assisted, but four others are confirmed. It’s enough of an issue that Capcom on Friday informed fans the game’s development team is looking at a…
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Mass Effect 3 Fan Complains to the Feds Over the Game’s Ending
One upset fan in the great Mass Effect 3 rageathon now is making a federal case out of his crushing disappointment in the game. Literally. BioWare Forum user “El_Spiko” went to the Federal Trade Commission’s web site to file a false advertising complaint directed at Electronic Arts and how it marketed the game. He also…
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Angry Helmet
I know some of you wanted to ‘shop up that dick sculpture Ashcraft posted about on Friday, but that would be like giving a match to a child who lives in a tinderbox. F1 racer Heikki Kovalainen’s Angry Birds helmet provides a safer alternative with explotable potential. Kovalainen’s sponsor is Rovio, the game’s publisher. Since…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Ape Escape is the inspiration for our latest TAYpic, by commenter pan1da7. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments below. If you’ve got a good idea and the skills, take a shot at whipping up a #TAYpic. Post your…
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Madden Effect: The Winners
A shipping screwup last week sent Madden to Mass Effect 3 customers. We asked you to imagine a mashup of both games, and everyone came through in the clutch against a pretty tough concept. This week sees our first ever roundup with two artists getting two finalist berths apiece, but they didn’t win out overall.…
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown‘s PC Version is Getting Extra Special Attention
There is no way Firaxis would build the PC version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown to accommodate the console version’s system of command prompts. “No, no, no. Nooo. Oh man, no,” Jake Solomon, the game’s lead designer told PC Gamer. “I wouldn’t do that to you, are you kidding me? No.” That’s good news for PC…
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Ten Disasters Under the Covers of Sports Video Games
This week, the Portland Trail Blazers released Greg Oden after a five-year, injury-tainted marriage that was star-crossed before he could show up for his first training camp. Oden is one of the most ill-fated athletes ever to appear on the cover of a video game, starring on the cover of College Hoops 2K8. It got…
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Portal 2 is Best Game, and Battlefield 3 Wins Three at BAFTA Awards
Last night, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts held its awards gala, and Portal 2 took home Best Game as one of three video games to win in multiple categories. Battlefield 3 was honored with best online multiplayer, audio achievement and the public-voted GAME award; Batman: Arkham City was the top action title,…
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You Wish You Were This Good At Draw Something
Perusing Draw Something‘s Facebook page, you’ll notice some very impressive drawings from players. Take a look at the gallery for some of my favorites pulled from the submissions on the app’s Facebook page. If you read up on our Gaming Apps of the Day, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Draw Something. Even…
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Bit of War, a De-Made God of War, is Now Available—and Free
It took more than five years, but Bit of War, which is God of War reduced to an 8-bit style platformer, is finally out, and it’s available for the low, low price of zilch. Holmade Games, the shop responsible for this, said the project has been going on in some form since 2007, and that…
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Mass Effect‘s Producer Promises ‘We’ll Keep Listening’, and New Content that Brings ‘Closure’
Casey Hudson, the executive producer of Mass Effect 3, responded yesterday to the boiling-over outrage of longtime fans of the series disappointed in the game’s conclusion. Hudson’s full statement is free of spoilers, so worry not about that. In short, it sounds like he is promising extensions to the story, through DLC, that offer outcomes…
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Is Super Mario Bros. History’s Greatest Masterpiece of Surrealism?
The surrealism of Super Mario Bros. would seem to be self-evident but, as PBS’ Idea Channel on YouTube says, perhaps it has been around for so long that its non sequiturs are taken for normal. Its wide acceptance (and a catalog of work spanning more than two decades) may make the Super Mario Bros. franchise…
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Up-Armored Savings
Three new releases—Armored Core V, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, highlight our weekly roundup of savings, bonuses and values to be found in video gaming. We’ve got them and more than 50 other offers inside! Software • Amazon has 19 Ubisoft PC download games DRM-free in a “Buy 1 for $5,…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to another week of The Best of Kotaku. For this week’s best image found on the Internets, we have this Pokémon artwork done by Reddit user Jord-UK It’s my personal hope that I am continuously making you all change your desktop background, so here you go. Or save it for a rainy, “I can’t…
By Tina Amini