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Resident Evil Director ‘Circling’ Castlevania, Metal Gear Movies
Castlevania? Thought that movie project was dead. Apparently not, and apparently Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race, Mortal Kombat) is “waiting on a script.” Oh, and he’d like to adapt Metal Gear Solid for the silver screen, too. That is according to Jeremy Bolt, who is Anderson’s co-producer on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Visiting that…
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Job Listing Says Dead Space 2 Will Have Multiplayer
A job listing on LinkedIn hints at multiplayer support and levels within Electronic Arts‘ sequel to Dead Space. A tipster to Joystiq pointed out the advertisement for a “Senior Online Level Designer,” and it’s set off alarms all over that you’ll be doing some strategic dismemberin’ with and/or of your friends in Dead Space 2.…
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Laser Engraver Blasts Out Super Mario Theme
Well, not with its laser, with its motors. Hacklab, a Canadian mod collective, wrote some code to make it happen a while back, but it sounded a little too perfect. The guy who shot this confirms it is real. BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow writes that he stopped by Hacklab yesterday unannounced and asked to see the…
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If You Don’t Have a Holiday Card List, Make One
Valve’s back, following its hilarious Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year,with four sets of gift cards featuring characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead, and L4D2 that are simply a holiday must. They’re slam-packed with in-game memes – Pyro’s speechlessness, Demo-Man getting lit on egg nog, and Spy romancing Scout’s mom under the mistletoe. Each…
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Lego Indiana Jones 2: You Won’t Like How This Ends
The finale from Raiders of the Lost Ark, as interpreted by Lego Indiana Jones 2, has been posted and, unlike the witty rendering of the Nepal shootout, this one’s sanitized to the point of condescension. Disco-dancing replaces face-melting. Yes, really. I get that this is a family title, and blood or gore would be inappropriate,…
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Your Comprehensive Guide to Just When the Hell L4D2 Will Unlock
We deal with “midnight” a lot as an embargo time, and you know, it’s always confusing. Valve knows, and has laid out specifically when Left 4 Dead 2 (PC) will unlock in all the major time zones of the world. Says Valve, on the L4D2 blog: Due to an ongoing debate in the office and…
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Heist Nets 100 Copies of Modern Warfare 2
Conflict currency – it’s not cash, but goods or valuables that are small, easily liquidated, easily smuggled. Diamonds are the classic example. We might have to add Modern Warfare 2 to the list, after what just went down in Pennsylvania. Cops in Meadville, Pa. say a man went into a Gamestop there at 7 p.m.…
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Weekend Timewaster: Elevator Fart, the Game
The great thing about working weekends is I can blast gas with impunity in the Kotaku Tower elevator, and then on Monday when the car smells like Donkey Kong’s taint, Fahey gets blamed for it once Crecente comes in. Here’s a delightful little flash game that trivializes a serious problem faced by millions of Americans…
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PS3: It Only Does Kidnapping …
A Florida teenager says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, driven to a Walmart and forced to buy his captors a PlayStation 3 for the new super-low price of $299.99. Cops have arrested one suspect. The Naples, Fla. teen says two guys in a white pickup truck blocked his car as he tried to enter a…
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Totilo, Talk-Show Star, Visits Fox News
This doesn’t qualify as shameless self-promotion because, well, it’s not about myself. Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo went on Fox News‘ “Strategy Room” on Friday to discuss Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and other hot topics. Totilo, who was earlier a guest on MSNBC, joined Seth Porges of Popular Mechanics and the NPD’s…
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At Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You
Bernard, a customer support rep for Activision, proclaimed that if he got more Twitter followers than his colleague, Randolph, by Friday, he’d pie Randy in the face. Bernard came up short but carried out the attack anyway. That’s customer service. Bernard lost by 1,400 to 340. I know cowardice when I see it and I…
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Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin’s Creed II, L4D2
Three GameStops in Jersey City, N.J. put Assassin’s Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2 on sale today, calling in customers to pick up their preorders. Clerks said corporate authorized the move, blamed on a rogue independent breaking street first. The stores involved were nos. 4627, 4260 and 6005 at the Hudson Mall and Newport…
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Mass Effect 2’s Elusive Illusive Man is … Martin Sheen?
Shepard confronts the behind-the-scenes puppeteer “Elusive [sic] Illusive Man” who blends the habit of Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files with the look of Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock – and the voice of President Bartlet from The West Wing. Exclusive Ellusive Man Gameplay [GameTrailers]
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The Importance of Asking ‘Why’
In film or literature, the creation of acclaimed work is sometimes attached to a personal event, or reaction. “That doesn’t show up often in game development bios,” says one dev. Finding that “why” might save games from a “cultural ghetto.” As reported by Gamasutra’s Chris Remo, Chris Hecker (formerly of Maxis, now an independent developer)…
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World Store Launches New Super Mario Bros. Wii This Afternoon
Friendly reminder to those in the vicinity of New York City – Nintendo’s World Store is throwing a launch party beginning in a couple hours (3 p.m. US Eastern time) for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The shindig is more than just a line-up for an early purchase. Nintendo says it’ll deck out the store…
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Maybe the Greatest of All Time, but not In Its Time
Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honors. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not. That would be ESPN NFL 2K5, the last and best of an uncommonly good crop of football games in…
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