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Talk Amongst Yourselves
With only a few days left before the Reaper invasion, it’s a good time to gather with your friends, loved ones and total strangers to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snake56 does amazing things to the brand-spanking-new March TAYpic. I’m almost convinced this was the artist’s original intent. You too…
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War is Not a Video Game to President Barack Obama
Defending his preference for peace in an in-depth interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, President Obama updates the tried-and-true ‘war is not a game’. Eventually we’ll have a president that’s played a first-person shooter. It’s pretty much inevitable. Perhaps one day a president will sit down with a reporter and talk about how much the…
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DC Universe Online‘s Battle for Earth Begins March 13
Brainiac is going down, but he’s not going down without a fight. Players looking to help serve the metal menace his final comeuppance should hit up DC Universe Online on the PlayStation 3 or PC March 13, when The Battle for Earth expansion goes live. With new earth-based powers and epic battles to fight, The…
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Coach, Not Community, is to Blame, Says Female Fighter Striking Back in Sexual Harassment Controversy
The fighter inside the controversy that stirred allegations of sexism and misogyny in fighting video games says that its community, fans and star performers do not deserve the collective blame they have endured, and vows that she will not leave her sport despite the alienating remarks of the man who once coached her. Miranda Pakozdi,…
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While the Kirk’s Away the Mikes Will Play
It takes a special kinda man to kick off a new month of Kotaku‘s daily Open Thread posts. Unfortunately that man could not be with us today. Here’s a bunch of My Little Pony links. Oh you know I would never share my top secret pony links with you folks. Instead, here’s some quality pony-free…
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Fighting Game Community’s Leading Voice Calls for Accountability and Respect in Sexual Harassment Fallout
Shoryuken, one of the most respected voices in the fighting game community, has called upon its readers and followers to deal honestly with questions of misogyny and sexual harassment, following sexist match commentary on a controversy that has roiled the fighting game community for a second day. “If we continue to let the worst elements…
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There Exists an ATM That Dispenses Cupcakes 24 Hours a Day
All I Ever Wanted | In sunny Beverly Hills, California they have built mankind’s greatest achievement — 24-Hour Sprinkles (Image by Sprinkles via Neatorama.) Assassin’s Creed III‘s Official Box Art Verifies Revolutionary War Setting Looks like that rumored image we ran last night of the protagonist from Assassin’s Creed III checks out-Ubisoft has posted the…
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Stan Lee as a Playable Character in The Amazing Spider-Man, Can You True-Believe It?
The interwebs are abuzz with the news that comic book legend Stan Lee will upgrade from his usual cameo role to playable character in Activision’s Spider-Man movie tie-in. Seriously? I will give the good folks at addict of fiction this: Stan Lee does indeed say he is going to be a playable character in Beenox’s…
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When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song
To many role-playing fans Grandia III was a slightly-above average role-playing game with an excellent battle system, a clichéd plot, and inconsistent pacing. To me Grandia III is three minutes long, sung by a Japanese pop/rock singer, and absolutely amazing. It’s amazing how much a single short and simple piece of music can color one’s…
By Mike Fahey
