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Remember When You’d Get Up Early Every Saturday Morning to Watch AwesomeNauts?
Every Saturday morning my little sister and I would bound out of our room, grab a big bowl of sugary cereal, and lose ourselves in the latest episode of AwesomeNauts. Man, those were the days that never really existed. No, AwesomeNauts isn’t a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s, but it desperately wants to be…
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When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes
Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialog from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I’m ready to marry the guy. Over the course of this three-level marathon of pre-marital proportions, GLaDOS manages to find a…
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Finally! Video Game Clothing That’s Stylish, Understated, and Perfect for Daily Wear
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is already getting great reviews, though it doesn’t release until tomorrow. And now a Deus Ex clothing line has been announced for what promises to be a blockbuster game. The clothes, created by online fashion retailer Musterbrand, are what we’ve all decided can only be described as “pretty snazzy looking”. We’ve…
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On the 8th Day Atlus Gave Us a Good Reason to Buy Devil Survivor Again
With only one more day before the 3DS remaster of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor comes out, Atlus gives fans one more day to consider replaying one of the best role-playing games of 2009 Asking fans to re-buy a role-playing game a mere two years since its initial release is a pretty tall order, even…
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The Rare Angry Birds Theme Guitar Remix Spotted in the Wild
When musicians decide to take video game music and make it better, the results are almost always fantastic. Julian Brasart’s Angry Birds theme song, played on electric guitar, is no exception. His youtube channel has some other video game/electric guitar gems, which are sure to impress anyone you show them too. Thanks to twitter user…
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Death of PC Gaming Scheduled to be Disproven on August 26
We’ve heard it said time and time again, PC gaming is not dead, but sometime just saying something isn’t enough. This Friday, PC peripheral maker Razer plans to prove it. As one of the world’s top manufacturers of high quality PC gaming gear, Razer has a vested interest in the future of PC gaming. One…
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The Trailer For Dark Souls Comes with Fair Warning.
The new trailer for Dark Souls comes with a simple warning: Prepare to die. This warning, of course, serves two purposes. Not only is it for your character, who you can see coming up against creature after creature, but it also refers to the gameplay itself, which promises to be even harder than Demon’s Souls…
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“The Gamer” T-Shirt is Beautiful, Will Also Haunt My Nightmares
Creating a memorable shirt design can be difficult, but this one will stick with me for a long time. Whether I want it to or not. “The Gamer,” a hairy creation by powerpig, shows us that gaming is not just skin deep. Look deep into his d-pad eyes and see into the eyes of madness.…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Review Scores Are Perfectly Natural
In the year 2000, Ion Storm unleashed the perfect marriage of futuristic shooter and skill-based role-playing in Deus Ex, a game so unique that even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its success. Can any follow-up possibly do it justice? Deus Ex: Invisible War took the award-winning formula established in the first game and dumbed it…
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New Game From Portal and Left 4 Dead Vet to be Revealed at PAX
The first game collaboration between Square Enix and Airtight Games will be revealed at a PAX panel this Saturday, 7:00 PM PST. The panel will feature former Valve developer, Kim Swift. Kotaku is covering everything PAX, so check back regularly!
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If You Can Figure Out Minecraft’s PigTales, You Get a Cookie
The Minecraft folks have teamed up with Mackapar Films to make…something. PigTales, the resulting website, features a customizable video of Minecraft pig sock puppets. You make up dialog, then post to the site. We’re still not sure why. [PigTales]
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Must We Compare Every Online Role-Playing Game to World of Warcraft? Yes, And Here’s Why
In today’s thrilling episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Vezroth explains why people need to stop getting angry when every other massively multiplayer online game in the world is compared to World of Warcraft. I am, and have been a consistent World of Warcraft player since the Burning Crusade expansion. Vanilla I played off…
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How to Play Your Xenoblade Import on a North American Wii
Xenoblade Chronicles is out in English right now, but Nintendo of America doesn’t seem keen to let North American’s play it, so they can’t. Not unless they import a copy from Europe and follow Joystiq’s guide for soft modding Nintendo’s Wii to play imports. Joystiq’s step-by-step guide takes Wii owners through installing the Wii Homebrew…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
You guys actually read what we write!! The call to arms has been answered, and we have a couple new TAYpics. But we’re not out of the dark yet! Keep those submissions coming! Gamescom is over this week, but don’t worry, PAX is right around the corner! Chat up your favorite convention, or the convention…
By Jen Schiller
