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This Resistance 3 Multiplayer Map Comes From a Land Down Under
While Resistance 3‘s single-player story sees players traipsing across the U.S., multiplayer is a trip around the Chimeran-infested world, with stops in Bogota, Colombia, Glamorgan, Wales, Africa’s Republic of Chad, and this latest map, which takes the battle to the second largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. That would be Alice Springs, lovingly…
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EA Sports Pioneers the In-Game Hair Transplant
While it might be too late to shoot a new box cover for the UK version of FIFA 12, Electronic Arts managed to give Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney’s in-game model a quick makeover to reflect his recently transplanted hairline. As one of the most skilled footballers in the world, Wayne Rooney’s skills stem from…
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Babies are Already Angry, Might As Well Put Birds on Them
As we approach the point of total global Angry Birds saturation, one important demographic has been left out of the fowl-flinging sensation: Babies. Rovio’s new partnership with baby product company SwaddleDesigns might stop infants from crying over lack of spilled pork. As the proud father of 9-week-old twin boys, I can safely say there’s nothing…
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Dead Island Gets the Gang Together To Be Torn Apart
“We hang together, or we fucked.” Truer words have never been spoken, in or out of a co-op trailer for Dead Island Whenever you see a ragtag group of survivors banding together to try and survive a zombie apocalypse, comparisons to Valve’s Left 4 Dead series are inevitable. So I won’t make any. You folks…
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When Does a Game Console Go Retro?
Commenter GiantBoyDetective wonders when video games and their consoles make the transition from recent to retro in today’s nostalgic installment of Speak Up on Kotaku. How old does a game have to be to be considered “retro”? I would definitely consider anything Super Nintendo or older as retro…at least in my eyes. I suppose the…
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GameFly Sweetens the Pot with PC Game Downloads
For nearly a decade GameFly has been the Netflix of video games, delivering console and handheld titles to eager gamers across the United States, but where’s the PC gaming love? It’s coming later this year, when GameFly rolls out an online client featuring more than 100 free PC game downloads. Launching next month in closed…
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