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Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension‘s Launch Trailer Has A Few Suggestions
For anyone with a little one at home, or anyone who happens to love surreal animated children’s television, the names Phineas and Ferb resonate strongly. Then a game to captivate your young ones/easily entertained brain is a welcome treat. In this clip Dr. Doofenschmirtz gives some tips on how to play the new game. Shoot…
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Who Wants To Be a Gun-Toting, Zombie-Killing Stripper?
Naked Terror, the first of two exclusive levels for House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut for the PlayStation 3, transforms the players from a pair of foul-mouthed men of action into a couple of scantily-clad adult entertainment workers. The Naked Terror level fills in a gap in the House of the Dead: Overkill story,…
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Words With Friends Takes On Your Facebook Friends
Zynga’s scrabble-style word game, Words With Friends is coming to Facebook. Words With Friends will carry over all of the features and functionality from the Android and iOS versions while adding social features. This is the first time Zynga has moved one of their mobile games to Facebook, not the other way around. Adding a…
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Want to Get into the Kotaku Game Club CivWorld game? Here’s How.
Hello Game Clubbers! I have great news! The good people at 2K have offered to create a CivWorld game especially for our group. However, because they will need to manually add each and every one of us into the game, I will actually need three things from you: Your first and last name Your Facebook…
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Ragnarok Online Goes Offline for the iPhone
One thing about playing the adorable massively-multiplayer online game Ragnarok Online I could never stomach; all the damn Ragnarok Online players. Ragnarok Violet for iOS solves that nagging problem this Friday. Ragnarok Violent is role-playing game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that allows players to explore Prontera, capital city of the Rune-Midgarts Kingdom,…
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Rise of Nightmares Cuts a Bloody Swath Through Fourteen Screenshots
I get the point; this is an M-rated Kinect game. Can you please stop throwing blood all over me, Sega? Oh god, it’s in my mouth. Sega’s Rise of Nightmares is the gamer that finally realizes the joy of air-chainsawing the undead into tiny little pieces, even if it still has a way to go…
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How Video Games Make It Harder to Quit Smoking
When attempting kick the cigarette habit, tasks and activities once associated with smoking make the cravings flare. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Peter Pan Complex struggles with video games as a catalyst for puffing his life away. That damn cancer stick. I’ve been trying to quit after 10 years of lighting it up…
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EA Enlists Ex-SAS Operator to Pen Battlefield 3: The Russian
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU Special Forces operator Dima, one of Battlefield 3‘s playable characters. That man is not Sean Bean, but he was played by Sean Bean, which is pretty much the same thing. The man Sean Bean is…
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Flick Rocket is a Daydream of Centipede Asteroid Invaders Command
In third grade, I would draw up notebook-paper hybrids of arcade games. Pac-Man would chase barrels with a hammer and Frogger shot at invaders from the highway. Flick Rocket, a hybridized, deeply nostalgic arcade shooter, strongly appeals to my inner eight-year-old game designer. Drawing on Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and Missile Command, with nods to…
By Owen Good
