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WTPT: BioWare Fan Throws a Fit Over Mass Effect 3 DLC
A portion of the gaming community hasn’t taken news of the day one DLC, From Ashes, for Mass Effect 3 lightly. Amongst them is Francis, who you may know from his many YouTube videos, rants and other oddities. He is not pleased with having to pay more for a complete game. IT’S 10 AMERICAN DOLLARS,…
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Puzzling Choices—Both Good and Bad—Define Furmins
Having seen enough of physics puzzles scored on one-to-three star scales, Furmins was going to have to show me something enjoyably different to get a nod in my App of the Day writeup. It did, but this game, by Housemarque, brings another unnecessary problem on itself in how it gets you to pay for it…
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Princess Peach Does One Amazing Lana Del Rey Impression
With retooled lyrics, some sweet costumes, and a heavy application of lip makeup, the magical Jenny Bede transforms Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” into a tale of video gaming’s most heartbreaking love triangle. Sorry, Miss Del Rey, but if you’re going to name a song “Video Games” this sort of thing is bound to happen.…
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Killzone 3 Multiplayer Coming Free to a PlayStation Near You
This week, Sony announced a new experiment in free-to-play gaming coming to the Playstation Network, in their most recent Blogcast podcast Killzone 3 Multiplayer will be available on PSN next week. This edition of the shooter spins off the multiplayer part of the game as a separate entity from the single-player campaign, bringing all of…
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Next Week’s Rock Band Wonders: Do You Like Huey Lewis and the News?
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really…
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Why Do Text-Heavy Games Make Reading So Painful?
In today’s short-but-sweet installment of Read Up on Kotaku, commenter RevRain wonders why developers spend days filling their games with tomes of ancient lore without putting nearly as much effort into delivering a pleasant reading experience. A lot of games require you to read lots of text be it in a form of a mystic…
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This Is the Last Vita Game I Expected to Enjoy
When the shipment of Ubisoft’s Vita launch day games arrived, Michael Jackson: The Experience was set aside, along with Asphalt: Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance, three unfortunate side-effects of getting my hands on Rayman and Lumines Indeed I might not have ever gotten around to playing it if not for a random bout of OCD…
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There Are 100 Keys to This Weekend’s Tera Beta Test Hidden in This Post
Who wants to see if Tera‘s promise of action-driven massively multiplayer online role-playing combat rings true this weekend? I’ve got the beta keys, but you’re going to have to work for them. Might want to stretch first. Tera‘s closed beta test two runs from Friday, February 24 at 3PM Eastern to Monday, February 27 2:59AM…
By Mike Fahey
