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SF Flowchart: All Roads Lead to Shoryuken
This incredibly deep flowchart nails the entire spectrum of decision-making Ken presents to 98.7 percent of those who play Street Fighter – especially jump backwards-Hadouken! Of course the best part is, no, you never learn anything. Even if you do manage to land the jumping kick to a shoryuken, it was probably just dumb luck…
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Gears Screenwriter Wants the Rock
Chris Morgan just finished the Gears screenplay and knows who’d be a perfect Marcus Fenix. “A really f’ing good actor” who can blend silent toughness with humanity. AKA Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson! Talking (again) to the MTV Movies Blog, Morgan calls The Rock “a genuine actor. Not only can he play the tough guy, but…
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Gametap Partners Up with Microsoft
Age of Empires 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Mech Warrior 4 are on the way to the game portal GameTap, following an agreement reached with Microsoft Game Studios, announced last week. The full catalog was not specified in the GameTap news release of Thursday. GameTap said only that its users “will have access to…
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Scout-Chop: You’re Gonna Love His Ball
YouTube user CastingOutTheSelf mined the Scout soundfile and came up with, lo and behold, a dead-ringer script for everyone’s favorite hooker-beating pitchman. How the hell did we go a week before seeing this? So very well played. But wait, there’s more! Hang on for the testimonials at the end. Audio possibly NSFW. Just more proof…
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PlayStation Home Offers Affordable Housing
What’s more affordable than free, anyway? Beginning Thursday (May 14) you can get some new digs in PlayStation Home if you’re tired of the standard-issue harborside apartment. “Chamber Apartment” is free, but only for a week. After that, you can expect to cough up some dough. The new pad features fantasy-inspired architecture, and a courtyard…
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Eidos: Sequels, and Sequels to Sequels
Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed. Speaking to Gaming Indians, Livingstone says IO Interactive is working on a new Hitman title; Kane and Lynch 2 has a hoped-for release…
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Mod Makes L4D Survival into Versus Mode
Playing survival mode as special infected kind of defeats the purpose, IMHO. But some guys at Left 4 Dead mods say they’ll drop configs for that soon – if Valve doesn’t spoil the fun first In the video above, posted Wednesday, you see human controlled infected, plus 8 bots versus human survivors, playing on The…
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Sackboy is the Law
No, that’s not fan art. Media Molecule’s announced that stickers and costumes for Judge Dredd – and others from the 2000 AD comic universe – will arrive May 28. Much as I’d like to flesh that out, that is all the information contained in a movie poster Media Molecule put up on its site sometime…
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Weekend Coupons: A Bad Mutha
Perhaps because of Mother’s Day, there seem to be few sales bonanzas and so there ain’t much to talk about this weekend. Especially since Steam’s big weekend sale is for Universe at War: Earth Assault. Nothing against this RTS, which comes from Petroglyph, and they do that genre right. But I can tell it’s a…
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Announced, This New Clone Wars Game Is
If you can stomach any more of Yoda’s by-now insufferably clichéd inverted predicate/subject bullshit, here’s the trailer for The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which is announced for Sept. 15 across all major platforms. Posted this video, did Entertainment Weekly. Embedded it is not. Visit their page to see it, you must. Wii and DS, the…
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Rumor: Jaffe Tease Means Twisted Metal at E3?
David Jaffe‘s already said Twisted Metal is coming to PS3. And sure, lots of games involve cars and humans. But a sloppily posted screenshot of an email may tease the game’s unveiling at E3. This week on his blog, David Jaffe – the series’ co-creator – posted a screenshot that seemed to discuss the development…
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Kotaku Originals: Two Turntables and a Microphone
DJ Hero’s turntable controller twittered out this week, later confirmed by Activision and compared (by your humble editors) with the Scratch controller. We also turned Stephen Totilo loose on a terrorized games industry. Stephen’s presence on staff should boost the headline count in this here roundup quite nicely. He accounted for 12 in the first…
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Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy Falls In Fall
Sequel to the so-so Alchemists of Al-Revis, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy promises more of the Atelier Iris-flavored alchemy and crafting elements that the first game paid homage to. The first Mana Khemia took a bit of a hit in the ratings for being long-winded. But with screens this pretty, I may not mind…
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Phantom Brave: We Meet Again Looks Hauntingly Familiar
I’m not completely sure what Phantom Brave on PlayStation 2 was supposed to be a successor to: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, La Pucelle: Tactics or some other cult hit tactical role-playing game. But it doesn’t matter because Phantom Brave: We Meet Again is Wii a port of the PS2 game—and therefore not beholden to whatever…
By AJ Glasser