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The Week in Gaming Apps
This week Kotaku‘s Gaming Apps of the Day are all over the place, from an arcade fighter to a card game to a … clock? It’s starting to look like the Nintendo Download up in here. What’s next, colored notepads? I suppose it’s okay when the clock in question is Fallout inspired, and it’s not…
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UncategorizedStarCraft MMO Mod Releases Its Debut Gameplay Trailer
StarCraft Universe, the “World of Starcraft” MMO project that touched off a tense week for the StarCraft II modding community back in January, has released the first trailer of gameplay from its alpha version. You get a wide look at a lot of features of the game in that four-minute trailer, above. Ryan Winzen, the…
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Facebook Games More Likely to Please a Woman than Sex
Hold your manhoods cheap, guys. Doritos, of all fuckin’ things, surveyed girl gamers and found that they’re more likely to get off on video games—worse yet, Facebook video games—than doing it with you. A survey of 2,052 lady gamers, commissioned to promote something called (adjusts glasses) “the Doritos Dip Desperado Facebook game,” found that women…
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Why Sony and Microsoft Teaming Up on Their Next Console Makes a Lot of Sense
Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next PlayStation are one and the same? A few months ago, while reporting about the then unannounced Wii U console for Nintendo, we stumbled on an interesting ancillary rumor: Microsoft and Sony were in active discussions regarding…
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This Week in the Business
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “Playing a much bigger game.” – EA, fresh off its massive PopCap acquisition, is setting its sights higher than Zynga, noting that Facebook is “just one segment” to leverage. QUOTE | A new study commissioned by Doritos found that girls who enjoy…
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UncategorizedLana Del Rey Sings a Lonely Song Called “Video Games”
25-year-old Lana Del Rey certainly has a lot to be sad about: she’s gorgeous, talented, and has excellent taste in old Hollywood indulgence. But as a bald traffic cop once wandered by my car and told me, everybody hurts sometimes. And there’s something genuinely affecting in the picture she paints of a relationship that hits…
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Now Make a Castlevania That Copies BloodRayne
Now that I’ve gotten past the shock of the initial reveal and the awe of the first trailer, I’m done referring to BloodRayne: Betrayal as a game that’s trying to be Castlevania. With each new screenshot I find myself wishing there was a Castlevania that looked this good. The screens don’t do the game justice,…
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Captain America Does His Best Mirror’s Edge Impression on the iPhone
He’s not nearly as attractive as Mirror’s Edge heroine Faith, but Captain America certainly has her moves in Sentinel of Liberty, now available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Sentinel of Liberty grants Cap the same endless running, jumping, sliding, and swinging that made the iOS version of Mirror’s Edge such a treat, while…
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UncategorizedYou’re Gonna Lose Yourself in Prototype 2‘s Tendril Dismemberment
Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted and tear it apart with your writhing tendrils, would you capture it, or just let it slip? Are you ready to drop tendril bombs in Prototype 2? By the time I’m done with Prototype 2 the city will look like…
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Arkham City‘s Two-Face Isn’t Half-Bad Once You Get to Know Him
Once upon a time district attorney Harvey Dent was an unwavering force of justice in Gotham City, but that’s nothing a face-full of acid couldn’t cure. Read all about Mr. Dent in his official bio from Batman: Arkham City Being a comic book and video game fan, I often take for granted the fact that…
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UncategorizedWhy Excellent Video Game Voice Actors Can’t—or Shouldn’t—Be Stars
I recently asked writer Tom Bissell whether voice actors might ever become celebrities in the video game world. I wondered whether they would ever be featured as headliners who could single-handedly amplify sales and excite major curiosity. “Unless every game uses the immensely expensive and complicated processes Team Bondi and Rockstar Games employed in L.A.…
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