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One Of L.A. Noire‘s Murder Mysteries Is A GameStop Exclusive
There are a million stories in this naked city, but the Naked City story for L.A. Noire is only yours if you preorder the game through GameStop. Since L.A. Noire’s particular flavor of police investigation action is episodic, standalone cases make excellent preorder gifts. That’s what Rockstar Games is doing with Naked City, which sees…
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A New Guild Wars 2 Class Emerges From The Shadows
Slipping through the shadows unseen, striking from the darkness with a relentless barrage of melee attacks, one could easily mistake the latest class revealed for Guild Wars 2 as some sort of assassin – and they wouldn’t be far off. So far we’ve seen two different flavors of casters and two heavily-armored fighter professions revealed…
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Microsoft’s SideWinder Gaming Hardware Isn’t Dead Yet
Has the long-lived SideWinder line of gaming-centric computer peripherals finally bitten the dust? Microsoft says it isn’t so. Microsoft’s been releasing computer gaming peripherals under the SideWinder brand for the better part of two decades, pushing out everything from flight sticks to elaborate force feedback steering wheels. The line was put on hiatus in 2003…
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NCAA Football 12‘s Cover Goes Up For a Vote
Four collegiate standouts – Washington’s Jake Locker, Oklahoma’s Demarco Murray, Alabama’s Mark Ingram, and Nick Fairley of the national champion Auburn Tigers – are candidates for the cover of NCAA Football 12 in a fan-voting contest EA Sports is conducting via Facebook. The winner will be announced April 19.
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Three Heroes Converge In Call Of Juarez: The Cartel
Ubisoft’s controversial third entry in the Call of Juarez series tells the story of three very different above-the-law heroes, and players can step into the shoes of any one of them, both online and off. A fictional drug cartel has bombed a U.S. law enforcement agency, killing hundreds of people. Believing the cartel has infiltrated…
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Why Aren’t You Finishing Your Video Games?
In today’s mostly complete episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Dodgerwd wonders if everyone is having the same difficulty finishing their video games as he is. With the release of Radiant Historia I am left with another dilemma and a question for my fellow gamers. You see, I have not completely finished the game I…
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Steam Secures Player Accounts With Random Intel Technology
Digital delivery service Steam wants to keep its users’ accounts secure, but software security is a fragile thing. That’s why Valve has teamed with Intel for Steam Guard, hardware-based security that could make account phishing a thing of the past. Someone has attempted to reset your Steam password. Please verify your information by following this…
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Infinity Blade Goes Dungeon Diving At A Discount
Chair Entertainment spices up sexy iPhone swordfest Infinity Blade with The Deathless Kings, a free update that brings the quest for medieval combat dominance into the darkest dungeon depths, along with a discount to lure new players to their doom. Tired of slashing away at the same old enemies in the same old locations? Sure,…
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Mortal Kombat’s Challenge Tower Turns The Game Upside-Down
The 300 missions in the new Mortal Kombat’s Challenge Tower mode will put even the most accomplished MK player’s skills to the test, turning the world upside-down and offering them a teddy bear for comfort. When I first heard about Challenge Tower, I figured it was simply 300 different Mortal Kombat fights in a row,…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
If you had one place – just one place on Kotaku that acted as an official forum for you to talk about games, would you use it, or would you just let it drop? Thanks to reader Rokeden for today’s Finally Fantastic image. Submit yours to #TAYpics. (Grab this month’s source image here and feel…
By Mike Fahey
