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You Might Catch Some Secrets in This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Monster Video
Join me as I take a trip through my favorite new feature of Final Fantasy XIII-2, monster recruitment, snag a couple of rare creatures, and witness the beginning of a legend that will never die. Well, probably never die. Since finishing the main story of Final Fantasy XIII-2 last weekend I’ve spent the majority of…
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These Are Not the Same-Sex Relationships The Old Republic Players Were Looking For
Riffing on the Family Research Council’s outrage over same-sex NPC relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic, talk show host Conan O’Brien and team cobble together some footage of the science fantasy franchise’s most famous gay couples. Of course the actual footage has nothing to do with the actual situation in Star Wars: The Old…
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Deus Ex Lead Designer Honored With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award
With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The annual peer-selected award will honor Spector’s many contributions to the science and art of…
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The Witcher 2 Dev Diary Might Answer Your Questions About the Xbox Version
In case Kirk Hamilton’s preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here’s CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colorful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game. Yep, nothing like a highly-polished marketing movie to show us exactly where a game…
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Tebow Works Another Fourth Quarter Miracle—in Madden Bowl
His season may be over, but Tebow Time has not run out. And if last night’s news about the Madden NFL 13 cover is any indication, get ready to see a lot more of the Denver quarterback during the off-season. Tebow, who had a breakout season leading the Broncos to a division title and the…
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Minecraft Captures the Non-Stop Action of Rock’em Sock’em Robots
Two robots enter, both robots stay, only one has a slightly elevated head. Minecraft craftsman Sethbling has recreated the 1964 sensation that swept an easily-amused nation, Rock’em Sock’em Robots The classic two-player big robot battles comes to life in Mojang’s pile of virtual building blocks, using a rather ingenious little pressure plate mechanic to simulate…
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Sweet Naiveté Triumphs Over “Normal” Mass Effect PC Controls
Just because we’ve conditioned ourselves to play PC games a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else has to follow suit. In today’s charming Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Confirm4Crit tells the inspiring story of what happened when he handed his non-gamer girlfriend his laptop running a copy of the original Mass Effect. I am very,…
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Is More Than 200 Hours of Kingdoms of Amalur Too Much Reckoning?
Perhaps proving that you can have too much of a good thing, a recent total completion playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning clocked in at more than 200 hours, which has the lead designer wondering if maybe they might have overdone it a little. One would think more than 200 hours of content would be…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Come along, boys and girls. It’s time to let yourselves out of your shells and spend some time discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Yankton, America’s Sweetheartmade my day with a wonderfully stacked TAYpic. Wonderfully done! Join the party and create your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share…
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With a Wink, One Epic Game Shrewdly Delivers Less Than It Promises
Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II…
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Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices
Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. He had been dead for up to nine hours. Intense levels…
By Mike Fahey
