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Roger Ebert Not-So-Subtly Reminds Us What He Thinks of Video Games
Roger Ebert is a very smart man and a very sharp and entertaining writer who just happens to think very, very poorly of video games. Sometimes our gamer discussions leak out into the mainstream, as recently happened with Michael Thomsen’s piece in Slate. In his article, as we reported, Thomsen challenged the idea that a…
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Femshep Takes a Stab at Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” Trailer
Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” trailer was lovely and all, but for many fans of the franchise it featured the wrong main character. Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch has an exclusive trailer that fixes that oversight. Go look! [EW.com]
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Show Some Respect, This is a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist
Meet Wrench, the first fighter revealed for Kung Fu Factory’s upcoming downloadable fighting game Girl Fight. You know, like Bum Fight, only with girls. Now before anyone gets angry, keep in mind that this post is running during Kotaku‘s Off-Kilter humor block, which is quite frankly the only place I could imagine putting it on…
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Cloud Strife is a Hero, a Lover, a Woman, a Rabbit; He is All This and More
One of the most iconic figures in modern role-playing, Final Fantasy‘s Cloud Strife cuts a very distinctive figure, largely due to a combination of spiky blond hair and his ridiculously huge Buster sword. These features set him apart. They also make him ridiculously easy to twist into whatever form the fan artist so desires. Like…
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Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Now With More Horse Penis
Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they’re everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you’d more likely hug it than run screaming. At least until you saw the…
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The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode to Mortal Kombat‘s Crappiest Character
Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass. Okay, so officer Kurtis Stryker wasn’t a mall cop. He might…
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In 1985 “Real Gamers” Were a Completely Different Animal
When you hear the term ‘gamer’ these days it’s safe to assume that it refers to a person that regularly plays video games. Way back in 1985, however, “real gamers” carried leather dice bags, sat around paper-cluttered tables for hours on end and rarely possessed a pair of X chromosomes to rub together. At least…
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Motorstorm RC Races Onto North American Vitas for Free
Games are a commercial endeavor, complete with cross-promotional marketing. Sometimes the messages have questionable ties, but other times, the match is too good to miss. So it is with Scion’s (a Toyota company) promotion of the Vita version of Motorstorm RC. According to an announcement on the PlayStation blog, not only is Motorstorm RC launching…
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EA Pulls Simpsons Game from iTunes Due to Overwhelming Popularity
Following EA’s pull of Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the App store two weeks ago, EA recently revealed that The Simpsons: Tapped Out is getting the same treatment. But while Battlefield 3: Aftershock was plagued with crashes and connectivity issues, EA is pulling The Simpsons: Tapped Out for an entirely different issue. Pocket Gamer reports that…
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Minecraft Creator Is Unsurprisingly the Winner of This Year’s BAFTA Special Award
The British Academy Video Game Awards will award Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson with its “Special Award” at this year’s ceremony, it said today. The annual BAVGA (ok, so it doesn’t have as nice a ring to is as BAFTA) ceremony—presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts—doles out awards to deserving games…
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Joe Danger: The Movie Takes Stuntman Action to a Whole New Level
The coolest part of an action movie is, well, the action. Carefully choreographed and filmed stunts and effects make the impossible seem downright easy, when splashed on the big screen. Joe Danger: The Movie, slated for release on Xbox Live Arcade later this year, is all about the action. First seen at last summer’s PAX,…
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Assassin’s Creed III Brings a New Hero to a New Console with a New Engine
His name is Ratohnhaké:ton, but you can call him Connor. The latest Assassin’s Creed hero prowls the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC frontier on October 31, with work underway on a version for Nintendo’s Wii U. It’s a game so ambitious Ubisoft created an entirely new game engine just to power it. That engine…
By Mike Fahey
