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“Just feed her foie gras whenever she screams and don’t let her stay up later than 2am”, I bellowed to my visiting parents as I left them with my one-year-old for the evening. “I’m off to play INDEPENDENTLY-...
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Today marks the debut of the Evo 2014 fighting game tournament in Las Vegas, but those who didn't book airfare to the City of Sin won't be entirely left out thanks to a bevy of broadcast streams covering all the virtual fisticuffs. Eight...
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Platform selection for the Destiny beta is live today. The beta itself is still a few days out, but eager Guardians are already getting some good news: Beta participants will be given three download codes for the platform of their choice...
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Warcraft III‘s mod scene is underappreciated. It brought MOBAs to the world with DotA, crystallised the modern tower defence, did a lot for wave survival modes, and had dozens of other weird multiplayer ideas and genres I’d s...
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In celebration of our tenth anniversary, all this week the Joystiq crew have been sharing our 10 favorite games of the past 10 years. You can watch all of the top picks from the Joystiq staff in the YouTube playlist above. Now let's hear...
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Three years ago, audiences were blown away by Rise of the Planet of the Apes , a smart reimagining of the Apes franchise for the biotech age. Now ape protagonist Caesar is back in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , where humanity has been ...
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Throughout the week, Joystiq celebrates its tenth anniversary by revealing each writer's favorite - not "best" - games of the last decade. Aside from selecting a number one, each list is unordered. To close out the Joystiq staff's picks ...
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Every once in a while you can grab a ridiculous gaming deal from Dell, and today is one of those days. Get a Playstation 4, 3 month Plus subscription, copy of inFamous: Second Son, and $100 gift card for $450 . Gift card shows in cart. R...
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No Luddy does it better/Makes me feel sad for the rest/No Luddy does it half as good as you/Baby, you're the best/I wasn't looking for video games/I tried to read a book/But like Heaven above me/The spy named Luddy/Is playing all my PS4 ...
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And now for the cutest thing I've seen all week: scans of Japanese magazine CoroCoro reveal that the upcoming Pokémon remakes will have some form of dress-up, presumably for the contests feature included in the original games. Read ...
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Cliff Bleszinski is a man who used to be called CliffyB, co-created Unreal and also invented the chainsaw gun, because videogames. Then he retired, but now he is unretired and returning to his roots. Except for the CliffyB part, at least...
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This week's Super Joystiq Podcast is thinking about bringing a classic theme song back as a pre-order bonus. Real, true, big games. Sorry Willy Beamish. Ludwig, Xav, Alexander, and Sinan convene to cover the week's big release, classic-s...
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Today in gaming highlights: How to park a boat when you're done with it, how to scare off a Hearthstone opponent in one turn, and a new world record speedrun! Read more...
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Watching a Michael Bay Transformers movie is a serious investment. When you add up the running time of the original trilogy, it clocks in just shy of 7.5 hours. That's practically a work day! Thank god they're all chock full of eye-melti...
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Isometric-turn-based-point-and-click-platformer is a string of words taken for dead. Sent to the abattoir. They’re all huddled for warmth, waiting for the reaper, when along comes the sausage man and snip-snip-snip he sets them free. “Go...
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It was only two years ago that the Museum of Modern Art put its seal of approval on Pac-Man by adding the game to its permanent collection . Many saw this as a pivotal moment for video games; one of the most prestigious museums in the wo...
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The age of early access is upon us! No longer the domain of PCs, the alpha build is becoming a central tenet of the modern game industry, even on consoles. "We have a global strike team, plus an SCEA strike team, who are in charge of try...
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Evo 2014 has begun, so stop wasting your time working or checking Facebook and watch some people tee off on each other in some of the best fighting games around. Today starts with pool competition in Super Smash Bros. Melee , Injustice ,...
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Throughout the week, Joystiq celebrates its tenth anniversary by revealing each writer's favorite - not "best" - games of the last decade. Aside from selecting a number one, each list is unordered. For his top selection, Feature Content ...
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Hallo! I’ve got five words for you this morning: “top-down stealth-action game.” If you allowed me seven, I’d add “cyberpunk dystopia.” I might casually mention that the main character is a hitman name...
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Deadspin I Can't Stop Watching This Agonized Mets Fan's Performative Suffering | Gizmodo My Cyborg Ear: How a Surgeon and Titanium Cured My Lifelong Deafness | io9 Batgirl's New Uniform May Be The Best Damn Superheroine Outfit Ever | Lif...
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The Creative Assembly moved to answer concern regarding its newly revealed pre-order DLC for Alien: Isolation by confirming the content will be available separately after release. Earlier in the week, Sega revealed the content starring t...
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Today's selection of articles from Kotaku 's reader-run community: SnackTAYku International Vs: Venezuela • SnackTAYku International Vs: Trinidad • Back in the TAY : Guilty Gear • Trainime - Summer Season 2014 Impressions Part 4! Read mo...
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"When you're making fun of his suit, you're making fun of his mom." Far Cry 4's Executive Producer Dan Hay gives yet another eccentric tidbit of information about Pagan Min , the game's villain, in an interview Ubisoft just poste...
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Our ancient, titanic oak doors have creaked open once again, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun very much wants to give somebody a job. Yes indeed – we are in search of one brave soul to send to the heart of the sun on a one-way mission to s...
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Last night, the Facebook page for EA's Origin —a video game distribution service—asked a girl named Emily if she'd go out with a boy named Nathan. Read more...
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Lab Zero revealed Skullgirls Encore is set to make another encore, this time on PS4 and PS Vita. The reborn edition of the 2D fighter is due to arrive later this year, with all Indiegogo-funded DLC characters, stages and story content in...
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Are videogames art? Or are they toys, children’s playthings powered by tech so cutting-edge that it can cut the edges off other edges? Action Henk replies with a curt, confident, “Why not both?” It’s a toy-themed ...
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Not too long ago, I asked you to help me dive into the world of unconventional, strange, and often horrible computer pointing devices . Some of them have very specialized purposes. Some of them are just dumb. Here are 13 of the weirdest....
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You know what makes everything better? Adding Levi from Attack on Titan to everything. Yes. Everything. Read more...
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Square Enix announced it's bringing mulitplayer 3DS RPG Final Fantasy Explorers to Japan sometime this winter. The publisher showcased the upcoming game at the start of today's Japan-only Nintendo Direct broadcast, which you can replay h...
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Saints Row 2 alternate cover. Read more...
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It's hard to capture in a drawing exactly how badass Charizard is, but Genzoman managed to do it. The Chilean artist, whom long-time Kotaku readers might know for his excellent video game-related art , apparently picked Charizard because...
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Dovetail Games’ vision and mission statements are remarkably similar to The Flare Path’s. Replace “company” with “column”, “hobbies” with “articles”, and “delight and retain customers” with “debag and retrain readers” and the...
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An isolated human colony ship is on the run from aliens and the only effective defense they have left are giant robots. No doubt, you’ve heard similar setups before; but Knights of Sidonia plays the situation completely straight—from the...
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In Japan, Capcom slapped a release date on Monster Hunter 4G today, provoking millions of the country's 3DS owners to circle October 11 in their calendars. The expanded version of the 3DS action RPG is the same one headed west as MH4 Ult...
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Fans of beat'em up games, rejoice! Maybe. In tonight's Nintendo Direct , game developer Hiroyuki Sonobe of ParityBit said they were working on "that game," without directly mentioning the title. Images that appeared to be from a ...
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You'd be amazed how many different ways the classic movie series has been turned into a game - shooters, platformers, beat-em-ups, management sims and more. The only absolute: most of them were rubbish. Read more...
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Mount & Blade: Warband is so very PC Gaming. Whatever that term means, whichever disparate games it tries to bind together, M&B is It. Or That. Or one of Them. You know what I mean. An action-RPG where you also control and equi...
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You know, I thought that getting a young princess through her final year before her coronation wouldn’t be too tough—even with all the court intrigue, invading armies, and economic issues. I was wrong. She died… a lot. Read more...
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If you're a fan of Disney's animated musical Frozen, the sight of Sony's new limited edition PS4 might make you want to sing with joy - give us a sec to get the earplugs. Unfortunately it's currently limited to Japan, where the Frozen-co...
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In Freedom Wars , you are a prisoner living in a dystopian future where simply existing is a crime worth a million-year sentence . The game is basically another mission-based multiplayer hunting game, a la Monster Hunter , but it's got e...
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You know it, you love it. Starbucks. Or maybe you hate it. The coffee chain is everywhere. And at one shopping mall in China, a knock-off Starbucks sign has a memorable name. Read more...
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Well, how to do this without spoilers? “In the final episode of the first season of Telltale’s adaptation of/prequel to comic series Fables, the current storyline is concluded semi-satisfactorily and there are more quick-time...
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Ever since the 16-bit era, there have been side-story games that help flesh out the world of the original Gundam . Now these have been abridged and collected in the new PS3 title Gundam: Side Stories . But what are all these titular side...
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Update: If you missed it earlier, we've now got the replay below the break. As for the news, Capcom announced Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is coming to Japan on October 11, while Final Fantasy Explorers sets foot in the country sometime thi...
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I’m really looking forward to Crawl. The concept – a dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters – is as brilliant as it is elegantly simple, and it’s got oodles (or blob monsters, as it were) of style...
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Recently on Korean website Humor School , a series of photos appeared of a young man who was slated to enter military service on June 30. He got a haircut that was so bad, it's good. Read more...
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In China, there's a contest for online game Tera . According to the game's official site, "a thousand beautiful women" install the game on gamers' computers. Not at once, mind you. Read more...
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Gaming Heads has announced the follow-up to their Jak and Daxter figurine from last year . The new figure, which is based on the Jak II version of Jak and Daxter, is priced at $210, and limited to 850 pieces . For an extra $10, you can a...
