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UncategorizedMove Carefully or Get Caught In The Act
Fresh from this year’s Game Developers Conference, we have video from Kotaku‘s Stephen Totilo showing upcoming iOS title The Act The lush, cinematically animated 2D game is a comic cartoon in which players control Edgar, a hapless window washer in pursuit of Sylvia, the woman of his dreams. As the video demonstrates better than a…
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Tell Kotaku Game Club About Your Mass Effect 3 Saga!
Welcome to the first Kotaku Game Club discussion of Mass Effect 3. Since I hadn’t determined a stopping point ahead of time, we’re going to say that today’s discussion will cover everything through the mission on Menae. I imagine that some of you are already past that point, but I don’t want too many people…
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Software Designs Its Own Video Games For Humans to Play
Prototype game Space Station Invaders doesn’t look like anything special. It’s blocky, a bit clumsy, and derivative. Far from groundbreaking to look at or to play. However, its design is anything but ordinary. The point of Space Station Invaders isn’t so much the game itself, but its designer: an AI program called Angelina The New…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Evil Ryu Emerges in this Street Fighter X Tekken Short Film
Thousand Pounds Action Company is known for their martial arts choreography and film productions. Much of their work is inspired by anime and video games. Their latest production, “Street Fighter: The Devil Within,” is a short film where Ryu struggles with Satsui no Hadou, or “surge of murderous intent.” You can tell because there’s a…
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UncategorizedAnimated Star Wars: The Old Republic Makes Hilarious Light of Unpredictable Dialogue
Have you ever played a BioWare game where a dialogue option you chose resulted in a completely unexpected response? I certainly have. In fact, I distinctly recall cursing into the night, “Dammit, that’s not what I meant to say!” So has Redditor TerminalMontage, who made this hilarious and cute video on his experiences playing through…
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UncategorizedFrom Metal Gear Solid to Portal 2, Every Video Game Sounds Better in German
Why would you ever want to play a video game in a language you don’t understand? Once you hear Half-Life‘s G-Man, Metal Gear‘s Psycho Mantis, and Portal 2‘s Space Sphere speaking German you’ll understand completely. Our German-speaking audience might be scratching their heads right now, wondering what the big deal is. Well, the big deal…
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