An Epic Marvel Cosplay Shoot

The Windows Phone / Xbox 360 Cross-Compatibility You Crave in a Little Furry Package

If you eagerly snatched up a Windows Phone 7 when they launched last year, dreaming of a mobile applications that allowed you to extend your Xbox 360 games beyond the television set, then this is the app for you, only it’s Kinectimals. More »

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Batman: Arkham City Finally Coming to PCs in Two Weeks

After an auspicious debut on consoles, Rocksteady Games’ second outing with the Dark Knight will be hitting PCs in two weeks. North America gets its hands on the Bat first on 11/22, with Australia following on 11/23. More »

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One Female Gamer Records A Warfare in Words

The latest Call of Duty‘s out today and there’s going to be lots of trash talk and cuss words among the many fans who’ll be cutting class, calling in sick and otherwise shirking their duties to play the latest entry in Activision’s best -selling FPS series. More »

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Sale Now… In the Netherlands

This is becoming the year when every single major game goes on sale before it is supposed to. I’m sure it’s breaking your heart too. The latest game to hit shelves early? More »

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Getting to the Bottom of All This Nintendo Hate

Is there an inordinate amount of hate being projected at Nintendo lately? Commenter SageofMusic seems to think so, and he’ll tell you why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. More »

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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North: The Kotaku Review

Why didn’t Gandalf have his giant eagle friends drop the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom and be done with it?

This is a question I’ve jokingly put forth to fans of J.R.R. More »

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This is What Happens If you Stink at Super Mario 3D Land

If at first you don’t succeed at Super Mario 3D Land, try again. If you fail a second or a fifth time, Nintendo will help you out.

Despite the relative ease of the first several worlds of Super Mario 3D Land I struggled enough in one level to find out how Nintendo helps players who die a bunch. More »

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This Modern Warfare 3 Building Looks Awfully Familiar

As Josh from FinalLevelGames was making his way through Modern Warfare 3‘s story mode, he noticed a particular structure that he was sure he had seen before – More »

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Modern Warfare 3 Rises to the Challenge of the Game Reviewers

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wants you. It wants your friends. It wants to chew you and spit you out a walking, talking, stalking killing machine, but to get to you it’s gotta go through the game reviewers first. More »

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Sonic Generations: The Kotaku Review

Even after 20 years, it’s amazing how quickly muscle memory returns. And not just in the hands or the arms; I’m talking in the extraocular muscles-the ones that move your eyeballs. More »

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Gamer Thwarts Teen Gunman’s Attempt to Steal His Copy of Call of Duty

A 27-year-old man fought off an armed teenager in a dark parking lot when the would-be robber demanded his copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at gunpoint, Kansas City police say.

The 18-year-old was arrested earlier today after following a customer from a GameStop. More »

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Call of Duty: Blacks Ops Hours Played Nearing 3 Billion

The population of the planet just hit 7 billion people. The total number of hours played online in Call of Duty: Black Ops, released one year ago, just exceeded 2.8 billion, according to Activison. More »

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