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RPG Classic Fallout Is Free For 48 Hours

Posted by Kotaku Apr 05 2012 18:05 GMT in Good Old Games

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gog.com

For the next two days, the classic post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout will be a free download from Good Old Games. Looks like it's time to explore the wastes again. More »

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Nobody Knows When the Hell Super Mario Bros. Was Released

Posted by Kotaku Mar 29 2012 02:00 GMT in Gaming News

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gamasutra.com

#mario It's commonly held that Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System is one, if not the greatest game of all time. People constantly talk about its historical importance, and how it was largely responsible for the unprecedented success of the NES console. More »

it came out in 1960 because it was the first game ever made

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it came out in 1960 because it was the first game ever made

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Pedophile Caught Thanks to Girl's Nintendo Camera

Posted by Kotaku Mar 29 2012 00:00 GMT in Gaming News

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telegraph.co.uk

#sexualabuse A girl in the United Kingdom put away a man who molested her thanks to the camera on her Nintendo DSi, using it to surreptiously capture his assault and force a confession. More »

It's too bad she didn't catch the sexual assault in STUNNING 3D

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Agreed, Doopliss. *crag*ing kids using outdated technology, I wanted to see his penis in 3D

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The US Military Wants to Hack Foreign Game Consoles, Steal User's Information

Posted by Kotaku Mar 28 2012 00:30 GMT in Gaming News

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livescience.com

#hacking The Department of the Navy is looking very closely at used video game consoles. Only, they don't want to play them. They want to crack them open and steal all the information on overseas users they can get their hands on. More »

what the *crag*

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Thanks Kotaku you're totally a trustworthy source of information and I completely take this as fact

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Rumor: SOCOM Creators Being Shut Down by Sony

Posted by Kotaku Mar 24 2012 00:00 GMT in Gaming News

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kotaku.com

#zipperinteractive Zipper Interactive, a first-party Sony studio responsible for the creation of the SOCOM series and PS3 shooter MAG, is in the process of being shut down, according to Kotaku sources. More »

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good

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Breaking: Angry Birds Space Has Launched. Download It Now.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 22 2012 08:45 GMT in Gaming News

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kotaku.com

#breaking Angry Birds: Space has launched on iOS (iPhone/ iPad) as well as Android (Google Play). Download it now! More »

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Would Make A Beautiful Opera

Posted by Kotaku Mar 21 2012 16:00 GMT in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

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#watchthis And this video proves it. More »

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Good Lord, Computer Gaming World Had Some Hip Menu Music

Posted by Kotaku Mar 15 2012 23:30 GMT in Gaming News

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tomasdiablo.com

#menumusic If you bought a copy of the magazine Computer Gaming World in the early 2000's, chances are you heard a track by Tomas Diablo. The magazine was one of several PC-centric gaming mags that would come with a bundled CD each month. One of my fondest gaming memories was the PC Gamer CD, upon which I believe I once grabbed a demo copy of The Descent, which I proceeded to play over and over again. More »

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dang thats pretty sexy

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The Day the Dorito Shell Tacos Made Kotaku Nauseous

Posted by Kotaku Mar 10 2012 03:30 GMT in Gaming News

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wired.com

#openthread We get a bunch of weird things in the office, especially because we share the editorial space with our sister sites, like Gizmodo for instance. Today, Taco Bell brought Gizmodo a stack of boxes filled with a dozen tacos each. But these aren't just any tacos. No. These tacos are wrapped in a Dorito chip shell. More »

video games

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i like tacos
i moderately like doritos
and these things do not look appealing to me at all

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This is how to Play Ms. Pac-Man Like a, Well, Man

Posted by Kotaku Mar 07 2012 05:00 GMT in Total Recall

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arcadenation.tumblr.com

#arcade Or at least a young adult. So adorable. More »

This brings back memories of me when I was little. brb, think im gonna go cry.

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I'm crying too, because I remember how ass horrible this game was. I would seriously rather play Big Rigs than Pacman.

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Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer

Posted by Kotaku Feb 26 2012 00:00 GMT in Nintendo 3DS

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siliconera.com

#pokemon As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on television in Japan today to announce the next entries in the Pokémon series. They are Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2. More »

DS? Like, regular *crag*ing DS?

WHAT.

Oh whoop-dee-doo the 3DS version will have a webcam chat or some shit but dumbed down grahics and music quality so it can still play oin the regular *crag*ing DS.

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dim who told you about my disability?

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Uncharted 3 Runs Away With Writing Award

Posted by Kotaku Feb 20 2012 15:40 GMT in Gaming News

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wga.org

#awards The Writers Guild of America is a slight misnomer. In fact, there are two separate unions, WGA West and WGA East. But they work in tandem, and once a year they come together to celebrate the past year's achievements in writing. The 2011 awards were presented on Sunday, February 19, in a simultaneous, shared event that took place in both New York and Los Angeles. More »

Hoow do you get a writing award for copying the script of The Last Crusade?

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because video games

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Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft

Posted by Kotaku Feb 18 2012 20:00 GMT in FortressCraft

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eurogamer.net

#minecraft The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. "There's nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer," Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft's creator, told Eurogamer, "which pre-dates Minecraft." More »

oh man

Way to make yourself look like being even more of an idiot.

Looks like someone caught a case of the angry 12 year old fps player

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it's almost we hadn't known this for months already!

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Metal Gear Online Is Dead

Posted by Kotaku Feb 14 2012 13:30 GMT in Metal Gear Online

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konami.jp

#metalgear Launching back in 2008 with Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Online, the online Metal Gear spin-off, had 1.3 million members at one point in 2009. This summer, Metal Gear Online is going offline. The game's service is finished, Konami stated today. More »

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Outgoing Twisted Metal Creator Would Consider Kickstarter Funding for His New Projects, Too

Posted by Kotaku Feb 12 2012 00:00 GMT in Twisted Metal

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gamasutra.com

#davidjaffe Despite his fears—as only he could express them—that crowdfunding for video games could become "a dick measuring contest," Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe says he'd consider a Kickstarter project for backing, as he embarks on life starting up a new development studio. More »

now all game developers just assume that you can make the players pay for a game twice, once to have it developed and once to buy the finished project

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nonsense tails if it's against the law than it MUST be evil!

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Get Your First Look at Mass Effect's New Female Shepard in Action

Posted by Kotaku Feb 10 2012 17:00 GMT in Mass Effect 3

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kotaku.com

#masseffect In this new trailer for the fast-approaching Mass Effect 3, we get to see a lot of old scenes played out by a very new face. More »

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Nice.

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The Worst Facebook Game Title Ever

Posted by Kotaku Feb 04 2012 00:30 GMT in Gaming News

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appdata.com

#chortle These days, it can seem as though every Facebook game-title ends in -ville. So thank God for Telaxo, whose game Ball Separation stands out from the sack... I mean pack. More »

Mmmmmm

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dem balls

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Watch Humanity Take Its Next Leap Toward Real-Life Galaga

Posted by Kotaku Feb 01 2012 14:30 GMT in Gaming News

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kotaku.com

#thefuture Nano quadrotors fly in formation in this great video from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. All we need is a spaceship that can shoot these things down and we're good to go. More »

awesome

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I was just thinking about making them kinect controlled, could be cool but would end up being crazy complicated.

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The Wii U Will be Out by Christmas in the US, Europe, Japan & Australia

Posted by Kotaku Jan 26 2012 08:20 GMT in Wii U

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reuters.com

#wiiu While there's still scope for slight delays, Nintendo has tonight eased fears of a drastically staggered release of the Wii U by confirming the new console will be out in all four major territories by Christmas. More »

orly

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inb4 the UK gets about twice the price of the US version.

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Idiot TV Program In Serious Trouble For Using Game Footage as "News"

Posted by Kotaku Jan 24 2012 06:00 GMT in ArmA II

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guardian.co.uk

#arma Late last year, a British documentary used footage from a video game and amazingly labelled it as a secret IRA recording. It has now, a few months later, been given a severe dressing-down. More »

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Whoops.

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There Is Half-Life Stuff Hiding in Counter-Strike: GO

Posted by Kotaku Jan 18 2012 22:30 GMT in Half-Life 2: Episode Three

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kotaku.com

#counterstrike The people at Valve Software like to tease. They don't, however, like to confirm the existence of new Half-Life games. More »

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goddamnit i want a beta keyyyyyyy

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Every Game Studio That's Closed Down Since 2006

Posted by Kotaku Jan 17 2012 04:30 GMT in Gaming News

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neogaf.com

#industry Pub trivia fans and those looking for an example of just how cut-throat the video game industry can be, take a look at this list. Try and memorise it if you must, but know it is very long, because it's a list of every developer and studio that's closed down since 2006. More »

rip

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Though I kinda liked Bomberman 64 and Mario Party 2.

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American Box Art Makes Kid Icarus Look Angrier Than He Should

Posted by Kotaku Jan 16 2012 05:00 GMT in Kid Icarus Uprising

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tinycartridge.com

#kidicarus I...just...you know...sigh. Whatever. Stuff like this won't stop anyone from buying Kid Icarus on 3DS. But stuff like this does make me wonder who the hell is getting paid to make pointless decisions like this. More »

so it begins

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i was about to say, it's like kirby again. more than just kirby air ride btw

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This Is What Razer Thinks Of SOPA

Posted by Kotaku Jan 15 2012 06:30 GMT in Gaming News

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kotaku.com

#sopa Earlier today we reported that Bungie and even The White House came out to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act better known as SOPA. Well, now you can count Razer among the opposition. They've even created a lovely visual representation of their feelings on the subject. More »

probably becuase they wouldn't be able to make rip-off products anymore

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"Look guys! We're hip! Please buy our stuff"

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Here’s What You Get For Pre-Ordering Ninja Gaiden 3

Posted by Kotaku Jan 12 2012 20:30 GMT in Ninja Gaiden 3

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kotaku.com

#ninjagaiden Details about Ninja Gaiden 3's Collector's Edition came through a whole back but Tecmo's finally seen fit to show everyone what it looks like. As mentioned before, you'll get a two-figure Duel of the Masked set and a downloadable demo from Dead or Alive 5, the upcoming entry in Tecmo's fighting game series. There's a soundtrack CD and art book in there, too. More »

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No ninja sword, no deal

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Supposed Video Game Developer 'Spy' Had Worked on Language-Learning Game

Posted by Kotaku Jan 09 2012 21:00 GMT in Gaming News

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sbir.gov

#amirmirzaeihekmati The death sentence imposed on Amir Mirzaei Hekmati today by the Iranian government charges that the U.S. citizen and Marine was "waging war on God." But his activities for a video game development company appear to be quite different than the nefarious CIA-funded actions his televised "confession" implied last December. More »

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I'm seriously about to go out into the middle east becuase it seems like thats where all the adventurin' is going on

you got:

spies

war

fallen ancient cities

corruption

women

game deveolpers

crazy god cults running governments

Dude seriously this is like some shit straight out of indiana jones brb iran

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This Week in the Business: 'Nintendo Must Stop Living in the Past'

Posted by Kotaku Jan 07 2012 00:30 GMT in Gaming News

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industrygamers.com

#industrygamers What's happened in the business of video games this past week ... More »

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lol this guy is an idiot
he makes some, and thats a very very verrry small some, valid points but for the most part he's misjudging the industry and how well nintendos sales go
even if the system the sell is underpowered and gimmicky, it somehow comes out on top, aside from a few exceptions of the device being a technological failure

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Bikini Cowgirl Game Gets Inevitable Boob Mousepad

Posted by Kotaku Jan 03 2012 21:30 GMT in Gaming News

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storenet.jp

#onechanbara Onechanbara might not be a computer game, but that's not stopping it from getting a boob mousepad. More »

lol

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No, Nas, these people actually have a genuine interest in this. The average Kotaku reader was even hugging their body pillow as they read this very article.

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This Brutally Cute Skyrim Mod Shouldn't Have a Sword

Posted by Kotaku Jan 03 2012 18:30 GMT in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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kotaku.com

#theelderscrolls Ask any fan of virtual idol Miku Hatsune. It should have a leek. The character, who always carries a leek, is huge in Japan, and Toyota is even using Miku to sell cars in the West. More »

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The Virtual Pikachu That Didn't Need Food, Just Affection

Posted by Kotaku Dec 30 2011 20:00 GMT in Gaming News

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tikisaurus.com

#pokemonpikachu Back in 1998, Pokémon was the shiz-nittle-bam-snip-snap-sack. Much like Ninja Turtles the decade before, Pokémon was -the- children's franchise. Even people who didn't watch the show could instantly recognize the American series mascot, Pikachu. It was during this time that Nintendo and Game Freak decided to release a giga-pet based on owning an actual Pokémon. And thus the Pokémon Pocket Pikachu was born. More »

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i used to want one of these so much

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