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UncategorizedIt Takes a Pretty Big Boss Monster to Face Down Darksiders II‘s Death
In this adorably gory trailer for THQ’s Darksiders II, our hero Death finally runs into a creature he can’t take out with a single savage slash. We’re going to need a bigger scythe. Ah springtime, when young men and women’s hearts are filled with Death and dismemberment. Darksiders II hits retail on June 26. Shortly…
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UncategorizedBarry Sanders Advances in the NIT of Cover Contests
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • If the Madden cover contest is like the NCAA Tournament, does that make the vote-off for NCAA Football 13 the NIT? Oh, yeah, that’s going on, too …. In the vote-off, Desmond Howard has advanced to face Herschel Walker, and Doug Flutie advanced…
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Like the Rest of Us, Madden Submits a Bracket—and Prays It Gets a Winner
Indianapolis. St. Louis. Griffin. Flynn. Washington. Seattle. Smith. San Francisco. Denver. Tebow. And now, Madden. The dominoes that fell in Peyton Manning’s release, free agency, and his signing on Tuesday with the Broncos tumbled all the way to the cover of the NFL’s signature video game. In addition to displacing Tim Tebow, the Bronco fan…
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UncategorizedThe First Five Levels of a World of Warcraft Panda Monk
This morning I shared with you the creation of Susan, my first female Pandaren Monk in the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta test. Unfortunately she died. But don’t fret, she can and has been replaced with Stacy, a much better Pandaren Monk. Join Stacy and I as we roll our way through the…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Mass Effect Anime, Starring James Vega, Will be Released This Fall
BioWare has been expanding their Dragon Age and Mass Effect story universes through comics and novels for several years. Now they’re branching out into animation projects, working with FUNimation to create a pair of anime features for later this year, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker and Mass Effect: Paragon Lost In this Dailymotion video…
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Mass Effect 3‘s Ending Got You Down? Come Talk About it at Kotaku Game Club
Welcome back to the Kotaku Game Club‘s discussion of Mass Effect 3. We’re finally here. Today we’ll be talking about the game’s last missions and its oft-maligned ending. Whether you loved or hated it, everybody seems to have their own idea of what should’ve happened at the end of this game. As with all of…
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UncategorizedThese 860 Screenshots Tell My Mass Effect 3 Story
One of the reasons I enjoy being a PC gamer is the ease of taking screenshots. Sometimes, many screenshots. It’s a hotkey that calls to me with an allure I can’t ignore. So it came to pass that when I played through Mass Effect 3 with my Shepard, the Shepard I had played through Mass…
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ReviewsNinja Gaiden 3: The Kotaku Review
I admit it: I may well be the world’s worst ninja. My sense of timing is less than exemplary, my coordination is not always great, and sometimes I just plain lose track of what’s going on. If Ninja Gaiden 3 had needed me to learn any actual skills or to provide any creative input into…
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