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Cleaning Von Kaiser’s Clock — With Kinect
Kinect Sports Boxing, everyone asked if that was like Punch-Out!! on Kinect. Fighters Uncaged, same thing. How about we just go ahead and play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! with a Kinect? This guy does. Here is RetroKinect by modder Dan Dockery. Simple controls, punch up, punch low, dodge left and right. The programmer disposes of Von…
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This Powerful Pokémon Is Only Available For A Limited Time
The countdown begins when Pokémon Black and Pokémon White launch on March 6, giving trainers a little over a month to catch mythical Pokémon Victini before it disappears. Fire and psychic powers come together for the first time in Victini, the Pokémon so mythical it’s Pokédex number is 000. Players purchasing Pokémon Black and Pokémon…
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Fable III Journeys To Traitor’s Keep Next Week
Only the best-dressed adventurer will survive the three new levels for Fable III in Traitor’s Keep, the new downloadable content pack coming to the Xbox 360 on March 1. Ravenscar Keep, Clockwork Island, and the Godwin Estate will open to Fable III players for the price of 560 Microsoft points ($8.00) on the first of…
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Halo: Reach Players Get Defiant On March 15
Microsoft has nailed down a March 15 release date for the Halo: Reach Defiant Map pack, punctuating the announcement with a set of fresh screens showing off the three maps you’ll be paying $10 for. Let’s take a visual tour of Condemned, Highlands and Unearthed, the three new maps that make up the Defiant Map…
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Rift Might Not Be Ready For Rift
Due to overwhelming response, hundreds of hopeful players of Trion Worlds’ Rift have just had their afternoon totally screwed. Trion is opening new servers on the fly, so if yours is full, try another! This message brought to you by the guy waiting three hours to play.
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Create Your Own Online Co-Op Campaign In SOCOM 4
SOCOM is a series that’s all about cooperation, and in SOCOM 4 Zipper Interactive hands control of cooperative online multiplayer missions to the players, giving them free reign to create custom co-op campaigns. SOCOM 4 players will be able to choose from a selection of missions designed specifically for online co-op, tweaking enemy density and…
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Are You Ready For Rift?
The head start program for Trion Worlds’ fantasy MMO Rifts launches today, and with more than one million registered accounts to date, things are bound to get a little crowded. As of this writing there’s only a half-hour before the land of Telara is officially opened up to early start customers, with countless players staring…
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Age Of Empires Creators Declare Orcs Must Die
What can a lone War-Mage do against a never-ending horde of orcs hell-bent on invading his castle? Quite a lot, actually. We’ll find out for ourselves later this year, when Robot Entertainment releases its new action-strategy game, Orcs Must Die! Robot Entertainment, founded in 2009 by former members of Age of Empires and Halo Wars…
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Some Game Characters Need To Keep Their Big Mouths Shut
In today’s silent-but-deadly episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Inspector-Jones quietly sings the praises of video game characters that have nothing to say. Today I was arguing in defense of Valve keeping Chell silent in Portal 2. A few commenters remarked how they want Chell to speak, or commented on how Valve was lazy for…
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The Boisterous Shapeshifters Of Guild Wars 2
What’s eight feet tall, transforms into a wolf, bear, snow leopard, or raven, is unafraid of anything, and can drink you under even the shortest of tables? Meet the Norn, the biggest, baddest, and loudest race in Guild Wars 2. The shamanic barbarians of the North, the Norn are the most outgoing player character race…
By Mike Fahey
