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If This is the Only NBA on Your TV All Year, NBA 2K12 Supplies the Proper Camera Angle
Baseball parks’ larger, varying dimensions and nonstandard playing areas make for unique camera angles, familiar for fans who watch the local broadcasts but markedly different to others. MLB 2K11 (and MLB The Show 11) sought to replicate this in this year’s game. But just because the court dimensions are uniform and the NBA’s arenas range…
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Guess Who’s Making an Arcade FightStick for Soulcalibur V?
If you’ve got a big-name fighting game on the way, Mad Catz has your high-quality Arcade Fightstick. Check out the sexy see-through number the stick maker has put together for next year’s Soulcalibur V It’s the same Tournament Edition controller we’ve reviewed on three separate occasions here at Kotaku, only this time the smoky transparent…
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Ultima Creator Transforms Into a Robot to Work From Home
With his new wife living and working in New York and his company and home base in Austin, Texas, how does legendary game developer Richard Garriott split his time between the two? He doesn’t, that’s what his robot is for. Garriott’s $15,000 robot patrols the halls of his Austin-based Portalarium development studio when the big…
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My Favorite 3DS Game Involves Dancing and Dressing Up a Little Girl in Cute Outfits
I don’t particularly want to admit that Natsume’s Gabrielle’s Ghostly Groove 3D is my favorite game on the 3DS, but when I play a game every chance I can get for two weeks straight I feel I should mention it. Be gentle. What can I say, I’m a sucker for handheld rhythm games. Blame Elite…
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There’s a Little Extra Classic Sonic Lurking in Sonic Generations
In case the classic Sonic the Hedgehog gameplay isn’t classic enough for you in Sonic Generations, Sega’s tucked an old school surprise in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of next week’s hedgehog revival. Completing levels in Sonic Generations earns players points in the game’s Skill Shop. One of the items up for sale…
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In Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor You Are Half of the Controller
As Brian Ashcraft reported during the Tokyo Game Show in September, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor foregoes the pricey, complicated controller of the original game in favor of a slightly less convoluted control scheme that uses Microsoft’s Kinect and a real gamepad. You are the controller! That’s what Microsoft told us during E3 2010, when their…
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World of Warcraft Guilds Can Now Switch Servers and Sides
Have you or someone you know spent years cultivating an Alliance-side guild in World of Warcraft, only to realize late in the game that Blizzard only loves the Horde? Now’s your chance to feel the company’s approving warmth as new services debut that allow guild leaders to change realm and faction. Starting yesterday, guild leaders…
By Mike Fahey
