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  Ultima Online’s 8th Expansion Dated

  Ultima Online turns twelve-years-old next month, making it the perfect time for Mythic to release the game’s 8th expansion pack, Ultima Online: The Stygian Abyss. Ultima Online channels the classic first-person dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld on September 8th, with the Stygian Abyss expansion adding in the game’s largest dungeon to date. They’ve filled it with…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009
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  Tim Schafer and Cliff Blezinski: A Peek Inside Their Offices

  Last week we ran a feature showing off the desks and play places of some of gaming’s greatest developers and producers. Today we’re adding two more set ups for your perusal. Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine productions and the man behind Brutal Legend, and Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games designer and the face of Gears…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009
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  Aion’s Closed Beta Closes This Weekend

  This weekend marks the very last closed beta session for NCsoft’s Aion, so if you were looking to give the game a try before the open beta flood, now would be the time. Players who preorder Aion receive a code good for access to all closed beta events leading up to the open beta and…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009
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  Spyborgs Gets Pushed Up, Celebratory Webisode Commence

  Capcom’s cyborg secret agent game is now hitting stores a week earlier than anticipated, and the company celebrates with the release of the first cheese-flavored animated webisode for Spyborgs. In a season full of delays, Capcom pushes up a game for a change, moving Spyborgs’ release date from September 29th to September 22nd. Capcom punctuates…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009
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  Hitler’s New Look In Wolfenstein RPG

  Wolfenstein RPG hit the iPhone last night with a neat, almost cel-shaded look. I was a bit surprised, though, to see Hitler’s new look in the game. Unwilling, it seems, to keep Hitler in the turn-based title, the developers decided the next best thing would be to create a leader who has lower facial hair…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009
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  High Voltage Traps Ghostbusters Engine

  High Voltage, the developers behind the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit, have signed up for a lifetime license to the Ghostbusters-powering Infernal Engine, gearing up for some Xbox 360 and PC development. With The Conduit out of the way and a couple more Wii projects being polished off, High Voltage Software is now ready to…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009
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  Section 8 Allows PC-Hosted Xbox 360 Severs

  The Xbox 360 version of Timegate’s Section 8 is getting a multiplayer boost, allowing players to create their own dedicated Xbox 360 server on their PC. Upon the launch of Section 8 on September 1st, Timegate and publisher Southpeak will have free X Server software available for download, which allows players to create their own…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Video games were made solely so you could talk about them. So please talk about them here. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2009
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  Learning For The Pokemons

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Talk All the Time We made a deal with Mini-Bash: We will only buy him a Pokémon DS game after and only after he learns to read hiragana. He’s been studying and can read, so it looks like we’ll be getting him either of the Gold/Silver remakes. Japanese characters, gotta…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009
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  Elite 360 Dropping In Price, RIP Pro Model

  Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. You’ll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour – Ars Technica’s ever-reliable Microsoft mole – are that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  So, What Was The World’s Very First Gamertag?

  While there are millions and millions (and millions!) of gamertags out there now, in the beginning, there was but one. The alpha, the creator, Xbox Live’s Adam, before he lost a rib. So, who was it? As part of a little Q&A about the new Xbox dashboard, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has disclosed that the very…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  New CryEngine 3 Demo

  id weren’t the only ones showing off fancy new graphics engines at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans. Crytek were there too, with a new CryEngine 3 demo. Granted, it’s not the most exciting clip – there’s no guns, Koreans or explosions – but it is showing that, as texture counts become ever less…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  Sony Announcing Its Announcing Something At Gamescom About Video Store

  Is this thing on? Sony has something to announce. “We will be making an official announcement regarding our forthcoming Video Store, next week, at Gamescom,” says European PlayStation Store manager Angela Madronero. To be fair to her, Madronero could’ve been asked about the video store. To be fair to us, she could cut the corporate…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009
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  If Only There Were PS2 Games On The PSN…

  Do you dream about things? We don’t. Dreaming is for dreamers. We prefer to spend our spare time thinking merely of things that should be, but are not. Which is where these new kind of Kotaku posts come in. If you see a post tagged “Let’s Fantasy”, that’s exactly what it is: fantasy. An idea,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  New Assassin’s Creed II, Patrice Footage

  Not only does this Assassin’s Creed II clip have new gameplay footage and concept art, but it also has new footage of AC creative director Patrice and his beard. Patrice does the talking. His beard? The listening.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009
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  After Monkey Island, Telltale Looking At…Loom?

  During a podcast chit-chat with PC Gaming Now, Telltale’s Dave Grossman has revealed that, once his team is done with Tales of Monkey Island, another classic Lucasarts game might be ripe for the remake/sequel treatment. “The one I always think about these days is Loom actually”, Grossman says, “and how ahead of its time it…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  Another Game Delayed To Spring, This Time Lord Of The Rings

  Add another game to the won’t-be-released-this-holiday pile. The Lord of the Rings: Aragon’s Quest will now be out “Spring 2010” — with a bunch of other games that were originally slated for this holiday season. No reason was given why the Wii, PS2, DS and PSP versions of family-friendly Aragon’s Quest were pushed back to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009
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  Sony Europe: PSN Game Delays? It’s The Publisher’s Fault!

  PAL customers often have a hard time of it. Delays, higher prices, that sort of thing. So Sony Europe have taken the time to pull up a chair, have a little chat, try and explain some of that stuff. On the topic of delayed games – particularly those on the PSN – Sony’s Angela Madronero…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  Oh Goodie, Another Mother Statue

  Camille Young’s handmade, resin statues are exquisite. But she doesn’t just make ’em for Mother 3 handbooks! Oh no. She makes them for previous games in the series as well. Here’s Ness. Since we used “exquisite” already, we’ll have to use something else for this guy. “Delightful”? Yeah, that’ll work. Ness Figure [Tiny Cartridge]

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009
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  Hong Kong Game Mag Puts “PS3 Slim” On Cover [Update]

  The upcoming issue of Chinese publication Game Wave features an image of a very “slim” looking PS3, along with a blurb that says the console is debuting at the end of next month. What’s more, according to this publication, the new console will be first shown in Germany. (We assume at the upcoming Games Convention…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009