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  How To Make Dragon Age II Look A LOT Better On PC

  Don’t worry, elitist PC owners: while the demo for Dragon Age II made the game look like a sloppy console port, you can already download a patch that will have it looking more to your liking. Developers BioWare have posted a “High Resolution Texture Pack” on their website, a 1.08GB download that will “enable higher…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  Beyond Good & Evil Goes Way Beyond 2003

  Now here’s something. After years of listening to fans call this one of the great, under-appreciated classics of video gaming, people will actually get the chance to play a polished, updated version of Beyond Good & Evil. First released all the way back in 2003, Beyond Good & Evil is what happens when you let…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2011
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  Now, Plain Zero!

  Now that we’re all back from the whirlwind that was GDC 2011, the nightly open thread can resume its regular programming. This is where we talk about things like The Running Man or what we had for lunch or what music we’re listening to, should you just be joining us. So, speaking of the Running…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  Tomb Raider Is Also Getting A Reboot At The Theater

  Tomb Raider, the video game, is starting fresh with a new Lara Croft adventure planned to reinvigorate the 15-year-old series. That game, simply called Tomb Raider, will be an origin story of sorts for Lara. Now, Hollywood is following suit with its own reboot, planning a new Tomb Raider flick for 2013. The Hollywood Reporter…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  Climbing Mortal Kombat‘s New Challenge Tower Is A Bloody Good Time

  The new Mortal Kombat, as revealed last week, will feature a 300 mission long mode dubbed the “Challenge Tower.” We played a handful of levels of the mode that lives up to its name with demanding while teaching players the finer points of this year’s Mortal Kombat. Those 300 missions feature no lack of variety.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  Is Grand Theft Auto V Codenamed Rush? And Are These Its Major Players?

  The next Grand Theft Auto game may be heading back to Los Angeles—or its GTA equivalent Los Santos—if rumored casting details dug up by Google search crackerjack “superannuation” for a project codenamed “Rush” are Rockstar-related. Casting calls for a project by the name of Rush tied to Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar Games, point to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  The 10 Best Video Games Of All Time To Be Decided Again At PAX East 2011

  Going to PAX East? So is Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo, where he will join Newsweek alum N’Gai Croal in sorting out which video games deserve to be included in the ten best of all time. “Canon Fodder Season 3” will continue the list-sorting drama that ended last year with Doom ranked in the #1 spot…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  Homefront’s In-Game Quadracopter Comes to Life

  Turns out that Rango the video game could be as good as last year’s Toy Story 3. I loved Toy Story 3, but more importantly Tristan loved it and he’s the one saying Rango could be better. I’ll be checking it out tonight probably. Totally unrelated, how weird is it that THQ sent me two…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 7, 2011
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  Game Consoles Transformed Into Hot Women Should Be More Exciting Than Hyperdimension Neptunia

  In the future, all wars will be fought by Japanese anime women wearing revealing battle suits. For the console wars the future in now, thanks to Hyperdimension Neptunia. The goddesses of the lands of Planeptune, Laststation, Lowii, and Leanbox have been locked in battle for ages. When one goddess falls from grace, she and her…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2011
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  Controversial Bulletstorm $20 off on Amazon Today

  Want to see if Epic’s Bulletstorm will make you a sex-crazed murderer, but didn’t want to pay full retail? Luck’s with you, Wayne—Amazon is selling the title for all platforms for just $40 today. [Amazon [Thanks, @Brokeotaku!]

  By Joel Johnson Published March 7, 2011
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  Street Fighter’s Akuma And The Art Of The Zanku Hadouken

  There is a lot of power packed into this Street Fighter fan art by Tyler James Zanku Hadouken by Tyler James (Blog) (deviantART) (CGHUB) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  These Are 2010’s Best PlayStation Network Games

  Last month Sony asked PlayStation 3 owners to vote for the best PlayStation Network Games of 2010 across four different categories. Only two of the winners directly involved zombies. Though I suppose God of War: Ghost of Sparta does have the name of an undead creature in the title, making for a near clean-sweep in…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2011
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  Indie Gaming’s Weird Winner Nidhogg, Acted Out For You

  What is Nidhogg? It’s an orange man vs. a yellow man. It’s a fencing football game. It’s about dragons and it’s the winner of the 2011 Nuovo Award, which means its great at being experimental/artsy/peculiar It’s an abstract fighting game and a lot of fun (proven at the four-minute mark of the video at that…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 7, 2011
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  First Look At The New Silent Hill Movie’s Leading Lady

  The second Silent Hill movie—based on the third video game—is now filming, with the newly revealed Adelaide Clemens taking on the role of Heather Mason, the playable teenage daughter of Harry Mason from Silent Hill 3. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D—not to be confused with upcoming Nintendo 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations—will be directed by Michael…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  The Dark Knight, Too Triumphant?

  Batman can’t fly. Not in the comics. Not in the movies. Not even in the upcoming video game Batman Arkham City, despite what you might infer from some of the game’s screenshots. The Dark Knight of Arkham City nevertheless seems like a more powerful Batman than the one we last played in Batman Arkham Asylum.…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 7, 2011
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  The End Of The Shenmue Saga Would Have Been ‘Tight,’ Mega 64 Reveals

  Will there ever be a Shenmue III? Maybe. But the long hoped for conclusion to the Shenmue saga is moot now, thanks to Sega legend Yu Suzuki revealing to Mega 64 how the story arc would have ended. Spoiler alert! Suzuki spilled the beans on the remaining chapters of the Shenmue saga at GDC last…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011
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  Battleheart Is A Touching Take On Strategy Role-Playing

  Bringing together a party of four diverse fantasy adventures on the field of battle has never been quite as touching as it is in Mika Mobile’s Battleheart for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Battleheart isn’t a full-fledged role-playing game, nor is it a feature-packed real-time strategy game. Instead, it distills those two genres down…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2011
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  The Trials HD People Believe They Can Bring Online Innovation To, Get This, The Wii

  The follow-up to a hit Xbox Live Arcade game isn’t usually a downloadable Wii game. And the test-bed for novel features in online gaming tends not to be Nintendo’s home console. Bucking these trends bravely are the creators of Moto Heroz, the new WiiWare game from Red Lynx. WiiWare gets few significant games these days,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 7, 2011
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  Generation Kill, Hurt Locker, Black Hawk Down, All Are Inspiration For Battlefield 3

  You can’t make a first-person shooter without a story driving it. Gone, it seems, are the days of Battlefield games that are just that: A virtual battlefield. That doesn’t mean that Battlefield 3 will be any less a Battlefield game, just that it won’t just focus on the multiplayer gaming that made the series so…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 7, 2011
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  Can You Beat A Computer At One Of The World’s Oldest Games?

  As the world continues its love affair with Watson. the Jeopardy champion computer, The New York Times creates a simple online game that demonstrates how an artificial intelligence can outsmart a human at a slightly simpler game. Rock, Paper, Scissors has been played in some form or another since China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE –…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2011