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Open-World Zombie Survival Shambles Slowly Towards Xbox Live Arcade
Code name Class3 is not an action game with zombie targets. It’s an open-world zombie survival game, and it’s coming to the Xbox Live Arcade courtesy of Undead Labs and Microsoft Game Studios. What’s the difference between a game with zombies in it and a zombie game? A game with zombies in it could just-as-well…
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Why Would a Game With No Online Play Require an Online Connection?
For some, the inclusion of DRM – “digital rights management” which prevents copying – is a provocative act. That makes requiring an online check-in for a game with no online component, like Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, both perplexing and obnoxious. PlayStation 3 owners buying the sequel to Capcom’s show-stealing hit of 2008 were greeted with…
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UncategorizedDistracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform
A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. Technology may truly be the downfall of man, or at least this small boy and that woman…
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Humanity Poised To Take Its First Steps On Fake Mars
Following up on one of our earliest daily Kotaku science posts, the Mars500 Project is now in orbit, with three crew members preparing to become the first humans to set foot on fake Mars. In an experiment that began in June of last year, six men – three Russians, a Frenchman, a Columbian, and a…
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UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns’ Big Bull Nails You With The Jet Hammer
You want a piece of Big Bull, the latest competitor unveiled for PlatinumGames’ Anarchy Reigns? Oh he’s got a piece for you, and you’re not going to like it one bit. Big Bull is something called a Cybrid, a cyborg in which the only remaining human tissue is the brain. So there’s something human lurking…
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Team Fortress 2 Freebies Packed Inside An Online Fantasy Game
There isn’t much of a crossover audience between a first-person like Team Fortress 2 and the online role-playing game Rift, but that could change now that a Steam preorder of the MMO scores players exclusive content for both games. Here we see one of the benefits of being a company that develops games as well…
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UncategorizedA Disgusting Way To Introduce The PlayStation Phone To The World
This creepy little clip is supposed to be the first commercial for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, aka the PlayStation Phone. I’d say we found out what’s become of the advertising team behind those PlayStation 3 baby ads While Sony Ericsson still hasn’t officially outed the Xperia Play, everyone and their brother has either seen…
By Mike Fahey
