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Fund GildenTide and Help Develop a Steampunk Street Fighter
Circular Geometry Studios loved the gameplay of the Street Fighter Alpha Series, and seeks to develop in a space where indie games don’t get much attention: the fighting genre. “After seeing that a small group like the developers of the video game Skullgirls can indeed create a fighting game, we gathered talented people who wanted…
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Historic Register Adds Landfill Where Atari Dumped the Worst Console Game Ever
Alamogordo, New Mexico. Fifty miles southeast of Roswell, the most famous UFO site in the nation. Also the scene of the most infamous landfill in video game history. Here, Atari buried thousands of cartridges of E.T. a game that, combined with an awful Pac-Man port was blamed for the collapse of North American console gaming…
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NFL Blitz Returns to Set Up Us Da Bomb
A long-forgotten truth of NFL Blitz revealed itself to me as I looked to salt away my first victory: You don’t salt away any victories in NFL Blitz. You want a time-consuming play? Unload a deep pass route, like the fondly remembered “Da Bomb.” I’ve become such a slave to clock management, not just in…
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You’ll Find Hidden Chronicles To Be a Decidedly Different Sort of Zynga Game
Launching today on Facebook, Zynga’s Hidden Chronicles ditches farming and building in favor of unlocking the mystery of your uncle’s death via hidden object games. Okay, there’s a little building too. I didn’t even realize my uncle had died, but here we are in Hidden Chronicles, rifling through his stuff and travelling the world rifling…
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Portal 2, The Best Game of 2011 is the Kotaku Game Club‘s First Game of 2012!
Welcome back, Game Club! It’s a brand new year, and we should make sure to start it on the right foot, right? There’s no better way to do that, I think, then to play a game we know is going to be great. Since we just gave Portal 2 our Game of the Year Award,…
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The Sins of The Naked Gun Are Visited Upon Frank Drebin’s Son
White-haired action comedy hero Leslie Nielsen may have passed, but his legacy lives on in The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P., an episodic adventure series coming to iOS and Android devices in the next few months. Let’s check out the first trailer, shall we? Rather than spend the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect Nielsen…
By Mike Fahey
