Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:44 MDT
Building The Ultimate Transformers Origin Story [Clips]
In this video documentary for Transformers: War for Cybertron, the development team at High Moon Studios talk about bringing the Autobots and Decepticons back to Cybertron to tell a story never fully told.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:29 MDT
EA Sports MMA: Who Knows About Broken Bones? [Gdc]
I was outclassed last week by the other games reporter watching a demonstration of EA Sports MMA. He knew the name of the game's fighters, the name of the referee — and — he knew the ref's shaving habits.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:40:00 MDT
Frankenreview: Final Fantasy XIII [Round-up]
Come, brave adventurers, and witness the Final Fantasy XIII Frankenreview, a Franken so disparate we decided to run the graph right at the top of the post.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:20:00 MDT
Stream Netflix, Read Comics, Track Sports, Play Games With Windows Phone 7 [Clips]
Windows Phone 7 is shaping up to be a mighty powerful looking platform for all forms of entertainment. What's that mean? Well check out all of the things you can do on the upcoming mobile phone platform.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:00 MDT
Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars [Hot Flashes]
Are you addicted to leveling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars - "The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars."
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:40:00 MDT
Windows Phone 7 Playing an Xbox Live-Linked Game [Clips]
The MIX10 conference kicked off today in Las Vegas. Most of the stuff they'll be talking about puts me to sleep instantly, but
Microsoft let us know to expect some Windows Phone 7 news to hit as well.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:20:00 MDT
Hunted: The Demon's Forge, A Dungeon Crawl For The Gears Age [Bethesda Softworks]
inXile Entertainment's Brian Fargo wants to update the classic dungeon crawler, popularized by MUDs and dark medieval adventures like Stonekeep and the Wizardry series, for the modern age, for the Halo or Gears of War player, with Hunted: The Demon's Forge.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 MDT
Trooping Through The Oblivious Enemies of The Old Republic [Hands-On]
Much has been made about Star Wars: The Old Republic and its "next generation storytelling" driven by volumes of spoken dialog. But what's it like to play the game?
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:40:00 MDT
The Nintendo Download: Do You Like Games About Gladiators? [Downloadables]
Airplane star Peter Graves
may be dead, but our fascination with movies and games
about gladiators lives on in this week's edition of The Nintendo Download.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:20:00 MDT
Super Mario Bros. In 64 Pixels [Clips]
Here's what happens when you take a relatively primitive game and downgrade it to an extremely primitive game, courtesy of Carnegie Mellon student Chloe Fan.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:00 MDT
The Men, And Old Men, Of Red Dead Redemption [Rockstar]
Forgoing the usual subject matter of horses and landscapes, the latest set of screenshots for Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption instead focuses on the game's cast of supporting characters.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:40:00 MDT
Crackdown 2 Busting Heads In July [Release Date]
Ruffian Games and Microsoft do what they can to take care of the traditional summer gaming drought with Crackdown 2, heading to the Xbox 360 the first week of July.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:20:00 MDT
iPhone Chart Toppers: Where's Waldo? At Number Two! [Igaming]
I've beaten Street Fighter IV three times already, and loved everyone of the nine minutes it took me to do so each time.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:00:00 MDT
The Silicon Valley Canteen [Well Played]
Last week San Francisco transformed, turning into something like the Hollywood Canteen, but for gamers.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:40:12 MDT
Peter Molyneux Wants Fable III Players To Change Their Clothes [Gdc]
Peter Molyneux was smarting last week from the fact that half of the people who played his studio's last game, Fable II,
didn't bother with half of its depth. People didn't even change their (virtual) clothes. His fault.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:20:00 MDT
10 Short Interviews With The World's Best Game Makers (And Three Other Guys) [Gdc]
Gabe Newell. John Carmack. The creators of Uncharted 2, Scribblenauts, Farmville. Even Penny Arcade. I interviewed a parade of award-winners backstage at the Game Developers Choice Awards. And I wanted to make sure these post-awards interviews were not dull.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:23 MDT
Talk Amongst Yourselves [Official Kotaku Forum]
Some people have their Saturday SFO-JFK flights cancelled and get stuck by AA having to fly Sunday-Monday overnight to BOS and then transfer to LGA. Those people will REST on Monday, while you here at TAY discuss video games.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:30:00 MDT
Day Light Savings Time...... BLERGH [Note]
To: Crecente
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:00:00 MDT
A Look At Predators [Clips]
With Aliens vs. Predator already out (and
reviewed!), it time to get excited about the next project with Predator in it, the upcoming feature film Predators.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:00 MDT
How Video Games Taught Me Everything About Capitalism [Money]
You collect coins. You then use those coins to get extra lives or buy things. Get used to it, because that's the way the world works.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:30:00 MDT
Uncharted 2's Art Book Is Something Else [Uncharted]
As someone who snuggles up to his copy of
Raising The Bar every night, I'm one to appreciate a good video game art book. And Uncharted 2's looks
damn good.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:00 MDT
Guess This Person Is A Fan [Ps2]
No, a
superfan. If you know this game, feel free to say it out loud and pat yourself on the back. Good job! If not, read on.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:30:00 MDT
Take Part In Kotaku's Census 2010 [Kotaku]
Later this month, citizens of the United States will take part in the 2010 Census, an event aimed at helping the government learn more about the people it's trying to serve. We're doing exactly the same thing.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 MDT
A Real Xbox 360 Coffin [Microsoft]
When Xbox 360 conked out in the past, folks would send their Xbox 360s to Microsoft in cardboard boxes affectionately called "coffins". Here is a real honest-to-goodness Xbox coffin.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:30:00 MDT
This Dreamcast Made The Kessel Run In Less Than 12 Parsecs [Screengrab]
As seen on
Ben Heck.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:00:00 MDT
Standing Up To Proposed Virtual Child Porn Legislation [Legal]
The Tokyo Metropolitan government is moving forward on legislation that sets out to ban provocative "visual depictions" of characters who appear to be 18 years-old and younger. And some of Japan's most famous manga creators are fighting it.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:30:00 MDT
Gran Turismo 5 On The Move? [Playstation Move]
The
initial lineup of PS3 games compatible with Sony's new Move controller was, SOCOM aside, geared heavily towards the casual user. The list of compatible games on the Move's website, however, is a little more promising.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 MDT
Hey Activision, GDC Is For Developers, Not Strippers [True Crime]
Activision, the company that publishes Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, did not get the memo. The recent Game Developers Conference is not the venue for half-naked pole dancers.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:30:00 MDT
War Machine Toy Captures The Essence Of Don Cheadle [Toys]
In the upcoming Iron Man movie sequel, Tony Stark won't be going it alone. He's got James Rhodes, aka War Machine, to help him out. And you know what that means: yes, Don Cheadle action figures.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:00:00 MDT
Direct Sequel For Final Fantasy XIII? [Square Enix]
For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy XIII might seem like the sequel to Final Fantasy XII. It's not. Each game is its own title, so if there was a FFXIII sequel, it would be FFXIII-2.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:30:00 MDT
Rumor: DS Successor Has Nifty Screen, GameCube Power [Nintendo]
RPAD spent the
entire Game Developers Conference trying to dig up information on Nintendo's successor to the wildly-successful DS handheld. His findings? Of interest.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT
Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Also Features Ridiculous Price [Call Of Duty]
Capping off
a fairly terrible fortnight of news surrounding Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward comes word this morning that Modern Warfare 2's map pack is one of the most over-priced pieces of downloadable content we've ever seen.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:21 MDT
Flower Creators: No New Games This Year, Intrigued By PlayStation Move [Gdc]
That Game Company's Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, saw their team's game Flower nominated for several Game Developer's Choice Awards, winning for Best Downloadable. We talked about their future, Pokemon, and, since they made motion-games for the PS3, PlayStation Move.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:40:00 MDT
Stupid Sim [Night Note]
To: Luke
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:20:15 MDT
Uncharted 2 Creators Tip Hats To Killzone 2, Celebrate Lots Of Wins [Gdc]
Two of Naughty Dog's top people collected five Game Developers Choice Awards lat week for Uncharted 2. Short on material for
my backstage interviews, I asked them which awards they deserved most and least. They answered and offered Pokemon tips.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:40:00 MDT
Brilliant Five-Word Reviews of 94 Video Games [Brevity]
Haiku is so overdone, and would be verbose compared to these spot-on assessments of nearly 100 video games, done in just five words by Games Radar. Some rate a spoiler alert.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:20:27 MDT
John Carmack Has Three Lifetime Achievement Awards, No Early iPad [Gdc]
Doom co-creator John Carmack earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Game Developer's Choice Awards, but he's not done. Oddly, he wasn't sent an early iPad despite being a
big iPhone games booster. We discussed that, plus, naturally, Pokemon.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:00:00 MDT
Week in Games: A Wrathful God [New Releases]
Tuesday is named for Tiw, the Norse god of war. Fittingly it's also the day Sony's
God of War III releases.
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