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Madden NFL Doritos Impressions: Saltier. Cheesier. Orange-ier.
Madden NFL 11 strives to make your football video game experience “simpler, quicker, deeper.” Not sure what dedicated Dorito support can add to this – maybe “more stoned?” – but two flavors “inspired” by the game have hit store shelves. As the clear market leader with an exclusive license, Frito-Lay is dogged by knee-jerk consumer…
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Project: MyWorld Is The Vision Crackdown And APB Were Built Upon
How did developer Realtime Worlds go from creating violent free-roaming shooters like APB and Crackdown to working on the massive social gaming undertaking Project: MyWorld? They don’t. It was the other way around. Realtime Worlds’ debut of the ambitious Project: MyWorld on Wednesday took a lot of people by surprise. Known for violent shooting games…
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How To Add West And Wesker To Lost Planet 2
Previously unlockable only by having older game saves on your console’s hard drive, a generous Capcom has divulged the secret to unlocking Dead Rising’s Frank West and Resident Evil’s Albert Wesker to Lost Planet 2, game save-free. Perhaps Lost Planet 2 didn’t live up to sales expectations because it required game saves from Resident Evil…
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There’s A Battlefield 3 Beta Invite In Your Medal Of Honor Limited Edition
EA sweetens the deal for players picking up the limited edition of the modern-day Medal of Honor reboot on October 12, with a beta invite for DICE’s highly anticipated Battlefield 3 in every package. We’ve heard nary a peep regarding Battlefield 3 since EA COO John Pleasants mentioned it back in June of 2009. All…
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Do You Think You Could Kill Lynch?
Don’t worry, I highly doubt the murderous psychopath Lynch was directing the question towards you in the latest ultra-violent trailer for the upcoming Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. At least I hope he isn’t, because that would mean he then refers to you as a “little shit,” and no one calls Kotaku readers little…
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Hot And Cold Running Game Controllers
When you play with thermoelectrics, you’re bound to get burned, or possibly chilled. Researchers from the at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that certain something that’s been missing from every video game that’s ever featured lava and ice levels: ThermoGame, a video game interaction system that delivers sensations of hot and cold to the…
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Three Hundred Dollars’ Worth Of Left 4 Dead 2 Tank
After teasing the first statue in their Left 4 Dead 2 line on Wednesday, Gaming Heads sends us detailed pictures of their grotesque Tank statue, along with a $300 price tag, and that’s the cheap version. The blurry picture released earlier this week did not do Gaming Heads’ rendition of Left 4 Dead 2’s Tank…
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All Three Dragon’s Lair Games At Once, All For Wii
Were Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon’s Lair II: TIme Warp too hard for you? Then you’ll want Destineer’s Dragon’s Lair Trilogy for the Wii, featuring a beginner moves guide and Watch Mode, so you don’t even have to play. Dragon’s Lair property owner Digital Leisure continues to try and milk as much money from…
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The Old Republic Visits Nar Shaddaa, A Good Place To Be Bad
The Star Wars universe has its fair share of wretched hives of scum and villainy, but Nar Shaddaa, the crowning jewel of the underworld, is a rather lovely hive of scum and villainy. Ah, The Smuggler’s Moon; doesn’t it sound so romantic? Orbiting the Hutt home world, the sprawling upper cityscape of Nar Shaddaa is…
By Mike Fahey
