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MapleStory Oozes Its Sweet, Sticky Goodness All Over Facebook
Admit it, you’ve been playing Nexon’s adorable side-scrolling MMO MapleStory for years, hiding your age behind your joyously big-headed avatar. It’s time to finally share your secret passion with the world via Facebook’s MapleStory Adventures The next exciting chapter in the story of Maple World will be broadcast on your Facebook wall for all the…
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Catherine Charms the Pants Off Video Game Critics
Catherine first caught gamers’ eyes last year largely due to sexy half-naked images of its title character. Months later the game is on store shelves, and we’ve all gained a deeply profound appreciation for sexy half-naked images of its title character. Hopefully the assembled game critics got beyond that bit. Catherine is a sexy horror…
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These Two Indie Games Are Worth $250,000 to Activision
While not actively engaged in being an evil video game empire, Activision engages in a little independent game developer philanthropy in the form of the Activision Independent Games Competition, the first and second prize winners of which just received a massive influx of development capital. Meet Dstroyd and Rigonauts: Broadside Activision Publishing created the Activision…
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Do You Ever Regret the Time Spent Gaming?
Commenter Aikage returns to Speak Up on Kotaku for the second time in as many days, wondering if you every iamgine where life would have taken you if not for all of that time spent gaming. Do you ever regret gaming? Especially in high school and college I feel I may have missed out on…
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The Dark Knight Rises Gets the Taiwanese CGI Treatment
The first The Dark Knight Rises trailer was just a tease, but this one really gives the people what they want. Bane, the return of The Joker and even some Cat Woman S&M action. If this doesn’t get you excited for the end of the Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy, nothing will.
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You’ve Seen the Dead Island Trailer, Now Read the Book
Inspired by the award-winning CGI trailer that sort of vaguely touched on the actual gameplay of Techland’s upcoming zombie survival game, UK author Mark Morris delivers his take on the tropical carnage with Dead Island: The Book While I’m certain the game itself will contain some sort of narrative, it takes a true novelist to…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Another week, another Wednesday…the heat wave is over (for now…) but just in case it sneaks back onto the radar we should probably stay inside and talk about video games. Just to be safe. Thanks to Incursor, who is staying safe from all weather, and keeping our TAY pic page well stocked. Follow suit, fellow…
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How to Customize This Site’s Navigation
We’ve made a few small adjustments to our site today, including a new way to interact with stories in our right sidebar: You can now set the sidebar to a one- or two-paned interface, as demonstrated in the video above, made by our friends at Lifehacker We also gently pushed the maroon slider up towards…
By Joel Johnson