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  Should you Buy Kirby’s Return to Dreamland? No.

  Kirby’s Return to Dreamland is the first Nintendo-published game for the Wii since June and only the third of the year, but scarcity alone does not guarantee quality. Nor does the fact that this Kirby game allows him to do what he hasn’t done for years: inhale his enemies. So Kirby sucks, but is Kirby’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011
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  The Next Chapter in the Halo Saga Begins Right Here

  The road to 343 Industries’ Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series from Star Wars and Gears of War scribe Karen Traviss that bridges the gap between the third and fourth games. Want to read a huge chunk of it? You’ve come to the right place.…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  The Battlefield 3 Reviews We Can Find Are Pretty Positive

  Normally on the day after the review embargo for a major video game release is up sites like Metacritic are flooded with fresh opinions waiting to be woven together into one of Kotaku‘s Frankenreviews. Not so with Battlefield 3 As of this writing there were only 18 critic reviews of the PC version, four for…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  Here’s Who You’ll Be Swinging With in Grand Slam Tennis 2

  Last week, I reported on how EA’s going to be handling the debut of their Grand Slam Tennis series on the Xbox 360 and PS3. During my hands-on time, I only got to see Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova in action but this new trailer shows off the other racket-wielding pros you’ll be controlling in…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011
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  Warp’s Teleportation Lets You Distract Bad Dudes with Decoys, Then Tear Them Apart From the Inside

  With the genius exhibited by Valve’s Portal games, it wouldn’t be entirely unfair to think that there’s a conceptual no-fly zone around the use teleporting as a game mechanic. At the very least, if you’re going to use the ability to pop in and out of reality in your game, then you need to make…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011
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  These Are the Best Cities For the Next Grand Theft Auto

  Grand Theft Auto is a franchise driven by stories, with a massive cast of characters and nearly endless replayability. But the thing that most distinguishes one Grand Theft Auto from the next is Rockstar’s glorious, subversive take on each of the games’ settings. The cityscape of a Grand Theft Auto is often the game’s most…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011
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  Your PC Must Be This Powerful to Run Skyrim

  And now the figures you’ve all been waiting for! Bethesda’s Pete Hines has tweeted the minimum and recommended PC specs for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and they’re rather reasonable. First off we’ve got the minimum specs, which are just enough to get you playing the game without all the bells and whistles that come…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  News of GTA V‘s Trailer Hit On Unhappy Anniversary for GTA Foe

  Jack Thompson, active nemesis of any video game that he believes causes real world violence, was disbarred on September 25, 2008. Website GamePolitics notes that his disbarrment kicked in Oct 25, 2008 and that, three years to the day later, we get an announcement of GTA V. Jack hates GTA

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011
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  Attention Digimon Masters: Your Massively Multiplayer Online Game is Ready

  The real world and the Digital World collide once more (in English!) as Joymax officially launches Digimon Masters, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which 38-year-old game journalists can live out their secret Digimon fantasies. Well now, that was a bit more specific than I planned. What I meant to say is anyone capable…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  Dragon Age Redemption Episode Three Is Ready for Viewing

  Dragon Age Redemption, the official live action web series by Felicia Day and friends, hits the halfway mark today with a release of the third of six episodes. In this installment, she’s stabbing a guy who wants to help out. Pretty good episode, and, so far, my preferred way to get live-action interpretations of video…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011
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  Adam Frucci Dishes on His Toyota Yaris Unboxing Experience

  By now you’ve seen the unboxing of the 2012 Toyota Yaris. (If you haven’t, it’s right up there above the headline.) It was your basic big deal, and our sister site Gizmodo was thrilled to participate. What did star of said video, Gizmodo pal and swell dude Adam Frucci, think of the experience? He spills…

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  Microsoft Bans—and Un-Bans—13-Year-Old Boy from Xbox Live Due to ‘Glitch’

  Sure, it’s a given that a big conglomerate like Microsoft can giveth and taketh away. But the part that rankles is when the lockout of an XBLA account happens with no explanation, especially when it appears that there’s been no wrongdoing on the part of a particular user. Take this one 13-year-old, for example. As…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011
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  You Know What the Pokémon Franchise Really Needs? Your Fresh Ideas

  Commenter Balmung of the Azure Sky has been thinking about Pokémon lately, and believes it’s high time the franchise gets the modern-day makeover it desperately needs. How would you folks bring Pokémon up to date? Speak Up on Kotaku, I choose you! So I have been thinking a lot about Pokémon lately. These games need…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  The Huge Hardware Implications for Grand Theft Auto V and the Future of Video Games

  In a year full of headlines about Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, it’s possible to think that the forces that shape the future of what we’ll play and where we’ll play it is now solely in the hands of the people who make plastic and metal boxes. Or maybe it’s in the hands of the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011
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  Batman: Arkham City Shipped 4.6 Million Copies in Its First Week

  From the earliest announcements of its existence, Batman: Arkham City stood out as one of the most anticipated titles of 2011. But, in a year with Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 on the way, no one knew just how many units all that anticipation would move. Well, as of this morning, Warner Bros. is…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves V

  Sorry, we can’t tell you what city the next Talk Amongst Yourselves takes place in. Can’t tell you what platforms it’ll be on. Even worse: we don’t have a trailer for it, so come Nov 2, you still won’t know. Recover from your disappointment by talking here about video games. After all, that’s what TAY…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011
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  Leeroy Jenkins, Yes That Leeroy Jenkins Gets a Prime Time Name Check

  I’m a fan of buddy crime-solving comedy Psych. The silly nature of the show and its constant references to obscure pop culture, the 80s and obscure 80s pop culture suits my downtime perfectly. But when I heard Shawn Spencer (actor James Roday) bellow out a “Leeroy Jenkins” I thought that maybe it was just a…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011
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  Our Giant Monsters Used to Rampage; Now They Sit, Spit, and Burn the City

  What’s happened to the monster work ethic in North America? There was a time when a giant fire-breathing lizard wasn’t afraid to get up to their elbows in urban renewal. Now they relax at a safe distance, destroying buildings with fiery physics. They say they’re using their minds to solve problems instead of their fists.…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2011
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  Get All the Dance Central Tracks on the Cheap

  There may be some debate about what the best Kinect game is. Some may say Fruit Ninja Kinect, others will cast votes for Child of Eden and Twisted Pixel’s The Gunstringer made a strong debut on the motion-sensing camera a few months ago. But the best franchise on Kinect? That’s without a doubt the Dance…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011
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  Ponying Up for Grand Theft Auto

  Bills | Mountain View, CA: A customer shelled out cash for GTA IV in this 2008 pic. (Photo: Paul Sakuma | AP) Grand Theft Auto V To Be Revealed Next Week On November 2, Rockstar will release the debut trailer for the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series, according to the developer’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 25, 2011