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Portals Opening All Over Steam’s Potato Sack Indie Games
Valve’s vast potato-based conspiracy explodes today, as GLaDOS and Portal invade the thirteen games that were offered as part of Steam’s indie game Potato Sack bundle. The horror! Players that purchased the Steam Potato Sack indie game bundle have gotten a whole lot more that thirteen excellent indie titles and a special skin for Portal…
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BlizzCon 2011 Tickets Will Briefly Be On Sale Next Month
Blizzard has cordoned off two fleeting moments in time next month in which fans can attempt to spend $175 per ticket to attend the annual celebration of all things Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo-related in Anaheim, California. BlizzCon 2011 takes place in October this year, same as last year, bucking Blizzard’s trend of alternating between August…
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Basement Defense? Anomaly Warzone Earth Turns Tower Defense On Its Head
I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth—I don’t see a colon on the game’s website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree—really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly pummel a…
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A Marriage Built On Love, Respect, And The Need To Catch Them All
In today’s love-fueled Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Maureliuswolf explains just how amazing his Pokémon-loving wife as they ramp up to their second anniversary. I was planning on waiting to get the 3DS until OoT comes out; however, my wife had other plans. You see, two weekends ago, we saw the deal on Kotaku for Pokémon…
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Our First Peek At Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gameplay Looks Vaguely Familiar
Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios pulled together some of the biggest names in fantasy to create Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, so it should come as no surprise that the game in motion looks like several excellent fantasy role-playing games rolled into one. So this is what happens when comic book artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane,…
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These Portal 2 Boots Were Made For Not Dying Painfully
The fourth and final Aperture Laboratories investment opportunity video is here, harping on the benefits of not having Chell’s shins forced into her nasal cavity when falling from great heights. You don’t want your shins inside of your nasal cavities. You do not even want The Shins inside your nasal cavity, which is probably why…
By Mike Fahey