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Rick Perry’s Idea of American Ingenuity is a Canadian Video Game
Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is as wholesome and American as they come. He believes in hard work, patriotism, faith in god, and good old American ingenuity, even if we have to import it from Canada. Rick Perry’s first web video since joining the presidential race is mostly as generic a political ad…
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Let’s Get Ready For Gamescom!
Gamers from around the world descend upon Cologne, Germany this week for the world’s largest public celebration of gaming, and Kotaku will be bringing you live coverage starting tomorrow and lasting until the last Euro-cosplayer washes the color from their hair. Festivities kick off tomorrow with a series of pre-show press events thrown by the…
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If Bioshock Infinite Encourages Cosplay Like This, I’m All For It
Russian cosplayer Ormeli offers her take on Bioshock Infinite‘s “Elizabeth”, the emotive sidekick that accompanies you throughout your adventure in a time-rent floating city. It’s a little bit Alice in Wonderland, a little bit Alice in Wonderland at the adult costume shop. Either way: bring on the Lizbots! Elizabeth Cosplay [Flickr via Reddit]
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This is How Spider-Man: Edge of Time Does Mary Jane
Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin Laura Vandervoort crosses the DC / Marvel line this October in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, trading her Supergirl undies for the damsel-in-distress role of Mary Jane Watson. It’s nice to see Laura cast as a more down-to-earth character for once. The problem with possessing otherworldly beautiful is you soon get typecast…
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New Deus Ex Ad Features Mechanical Evolution, Gives Us Indie Heavyweights [Update]
The smartest and strongest may not always survive, but it never hurts to have some wall busting fists. Adam Jensen goes through his cybernetic transformation in the newest commercial for Deus Ex: Human Revolution That music in the background is performed by Susanna Waiche of The Dirty Projectors and Kenseth Thibideau of Pinback, who recently…
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Seven Minutes in Hard Reset‘s Cyberpunk Shooter Heaven
Earlier this month I took a good hard look at Hard Reset, the upcoming single-player shooter coming out next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog, telling you all about my favorite parts of the game. Now I can show you. Thanks to Hard Reset‘s experimentally short public relations campaign, only a week and a…
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Planetside 2 Keeping Friendly Fire, Adding Offline Skill Training
Planetside 2, the massively multiplayer first-person shooter with persistent warfare between three competing factions, is shaping up to be a pleasantly hardcore experience, if a presentation by the team is anything to go by. FPSGuru.com spoke to Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley and Matt Higby, who described Planetside 2’s dynamic, gameplay-affecting warfare, multiple planets, skills…
By Joel Johnson
