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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Persona 4 Love, Muramasa: The Demon Story, Helmets, And Drunken Hedgehogs
This week’s thrilling episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku is brought to you by the letters Ursus-Veritas, The Drunken Moogle, John-Hamptonshire, and Guru Smooth, who’d like to discuss helmets, Muramasa’s story, Persona 4’s greatness, and getting hammered with you. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
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Super Mario Crossover Gets Crossover Box Art
What if Exploding Rabbit’s excellent Flash game Super Mario Crossover were a real Nintendo game? It would probably look something like this. This awesome box art was mocked up by Steve Napierski of Dueling Analogs, a comic we regularly feature in our Sunday Comics posts. Seems he was just as charmed by the game as…
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We All Had Super Powers Once
An article at Cracked.com explores the fact that every human being on the planet is born with super powers, from telepathy to heightened senses – we just grow out of them. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s super babies! Scientists love studying babies more than they enjoy studying rats and monkeys, mainly because babies…
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Google’s Chrome Web Store Brings Games To Your Web Browser
At the Google I/O conference today, Google revealed the Chrome Web Store, a browser-based application store where users will be able to download and install games like LEGO Star Wars and Plants Vs. Zombies directly to their web browsers. The Chrome Web Store, due to launch later this year, will enable users to easily discover…
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Talk Live To Alan Wake’s Creators Right Now
Load your pistol and make sure you pack plenty of batteries as Kotaku Talk Radio talks with two members of Alan Wake development studio Remedy Entertainment. Have a question about Alan Wake? Remedy Entertainment’s Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen have answers, and they’ll be taking your calls live for the next hour with Stephen Totilo…
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The Only Time You’ll Find A BMW At Kmart
Blur comes out next week, and should you choose to pick the game up at Kmart or Sears for some strange reason, you’ll find a chromed-out BMW waiting for you when you launch the game. People still shop at Kmart? I drive by a Sears every once in awhile, but in order to pass a…
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Target’s Video Game Department Gets All Fancy
If you’re the kind of shopper who makes a beeline for the game section of any store you enter, the reinvention of Target gaming department should be a welcome change, making games more accessible and organizing by platfom and genre. I’m a relatively regular Target shopper, and up until now I’ve known exactly what to…
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PAX East Breach Code Theft Suspect Faces Arraignment
Arrested at the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston for allegedly attempting to steal early code for Atomic Game’s upcoming multiplayer shooter Breach, Justin D. May faces arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court. May was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games caught him attempting to download the source code…
By Mike Fahey