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Digital Art Book is Dead Island‘s Preorder Bonus
A preorder of Dead Island with Amazon will land buyers a digital art book filled with “game art and concept art of everything from the characters, that fat tourist dude with the camera, zombie types, environment concepts” and more, Deep Silver says. It moved two concept pieces with a news release on the bonus, written…
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Five Triumphant Moments in Space Shuttle Gaming
Now that the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program is underway, we thought we’d take a look at some of the games influenced by the primitive spacecraft over the years. Since the early test flights leading up to the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, game creators have been…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
It’s a four for four special this week in Kotaku’s gaming apps round-up, as in we didn’t have an app of the day on July 4, so you get four. Hooray independence! Not that independence figured much into this week’s app. Kicking off Tuesday with Tiny Tower pretty much killed the will I had to…
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In a World Invaded By Space, Two Producers Launch a Film Project No One Wants to See
Not satisfied with aiding in the creation of the childhood-stealing Transformers and G.I. Joe movies, producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura has teamed up with Odd Lot Entertainment’s Gigi Pritzker to bring Space Invaders to the silver screen. Oh joy. When last we checked in with the Space Invaders franchise, Warner Bros. was looking to option the…
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PlayStation 3 Gamers Enter Limbo on July 19
Earlier this week developer Playdead confirmed the stunningly stark and strirring Xbox Live Arcade title Limbo was “coming soon” to the PlayStation Network. According to the PlayStation Blog, soon means July 19 in North America, July 20 in Europe. Rejoice!
By Mike Fahey
