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DC’s Animated Young Justice is Old Enough for Its Own Video Game
Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Artemis are about to enter their second season as one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series, Young Justice. That calls for a video game, don’t you think? Little Orbit certainly thinks so. The small developer is hard-at-work on Young Justice: Legacy, the interactive entertainment tie-in to…
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EA Sports Confirms the Return of NBA Live
Kyrie Irving, the NBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick for 2011, appears to have outed EA Sports’ intention to return to the NBA Live name when it publishes a simulation basketball title this fall for the first time in three years. “In Orlando for #AllStar checking out the #FutureOfBasketball with @EASPORTSNBA. Get to see the…
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If Only Historians Had Auto-Load
Preservation of any art or technology is always a tricky business, and it’s no secret that video game preservation is particularly thorny. Because games are so intertwined with the platforms on which we play them, we lose a number of them just as our platforms evolve. (For example, I recently found two old favorites on…
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WTPT: A Guide To The Beautiful Vacation Spot Of Rapture
Bytes Breaks presents a video guide on BioShock‘s underwater city of Rapture. I’m sure many of you know this vacation spot well. The serene waterscapes, the very socially-inclined inhabitants, and the many activities available for young children. The city even provides each one of your young girls with a body guard! That sounds safe. The…
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Do Not Attempt These Painfully Awkward Video Game Pickup Lines on Other Living Creatures
“A lot of black girls, some of them are too light. Some of them are too dark. But you? You’re like the Perfect Dark.” When Bay area pickup artists Simple Pickup are tasked with getting girls’ phone numbers using lines incorporating video game titles, that was the best they could do. How can they possibly…
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Journey Down to a New Adventure Game in March
Despite my oft-professed love for classic adventure games and new iterations on the genre, The Journey Down slipped completely under my radar until this week. The original game, which has always been described as chapter one in an episodic adventure, is a small, free PC download. However, indie developer SkyGoblin has recently announced an HD…
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Who’s Looking for Some PS Vita Friends?
There’s a new Sony handheld on the market, and one that makes better use of the PlayStation Network’s friend features than the PlayStation 3. Commenter Grizzly_Chin believes this calls for a Vita friend exchange post. Speak Up on Kotaku agrees. So I got my Vita today and I think it’d be cool to add some…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s time to gather round the tavern table for another day of talking video games with your peers in Kotaku‘s great and mighty official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. The Great and Mighty Cupid Trio aren’t monkeying around in today’s glorious TAYpic, courtesy of the talented Mr Marsu Want to be like Mr Marsu? Of course…
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What Do Dillon’s Rolling Western, 2 Fast 4 Gnomz, and Box Pusher Have in Common?
One’s a mildly anticipated game for the 3DS eShop; one is a DSiWare game about box pushing; and the third comes from someone that thought 2 Fast 4 Gnomz was a good name. What could they possibly have in common? That’s right, it’s time for your weekly Nintendo Download, where games of all shapes, sizes…
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Learn How To Make Video Games With This Video Game
Code Hero isn’t your basic first-person shooter. You’ll have enemies, and you’ll be “shooting” them, but it won’t be with assault rifles and pistols. Instead, you shoot lines of Javascript to command the environment around you. Need a platform moved over? A certain kind of enemy eliminated in one fell swoop? There’s a code for…
By Tina Amini
