Luke and Leia Use the Force in This First Taste of Angry Birds Star Wars

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Luke and Leia Use the Force in This First Taste of Angry Birds Star Wars

Now kiss! Rovio doesn't deliver sibling smooching in this first gameplay teaser for Angry Birds Star Wars, but they do give us Lightsaber swinging and pink Force-pulling, so I'll forgive them. More »

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Gameloft Brings 12 of Its Best to Windows Phone 8

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Gameloft Brings 12 of Its Best to Windows Phone 8

With 12 of its most popular games coming to the next generation of Microsoft's mobile platform, I can stop complaining that games like Asphalt 7 and N.O.V.A. 3 aren't on Windows Phone 7 and start whining about not having a Windows Phone 8. Huzzah! More »

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Joss Whedon 'Endorses' Mitt Romney, Harbinger Of The Zombie Apocalypse

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Joss Whedon 'Endorses' Mitt Romney, Harbinger Of The Zombie Apocalypse

Leave it to Avengers director/Buffy-creator Joss Whedon to surprise us all with his presidential endorsement. More »

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Abusive Player Editing Shows We Can't Have Nice Things in Madden

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Abusive Player Editing Shows We Can't Have Nice Things in Madden

When it released, Madden NFL 13's new "Connected Careers" mode forbade the editing of any player. This was somewhat understandable, as the roster is used by others online and changes can affect the outcomes of games elsewhere in your league. It was still rather Draconian, as it meant you could not edit your own created player, so if you happened to give him a helmet with no facemask, well, that's what he was wearing until he went into Canton. More »

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We Are Explorers: In Search of Mystery in Videogames

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We Are Explorers: In Search of Mystery in Videogames

My favorite videogames are the games I don't fully understand. They stay with me after I stop playing. They ask questions I cannot answer. They resonate with mystery. More »

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Comes To iOS And Android This Fall

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Comes To iOS And Android This Fall

To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on October 29!), Rockstar will re-release the popular game on mobile platforms this fall. More »

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ESRB Opens No-Cost Ratings Service for Digitally Distributed Games

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ESRB Opens No-Cost Ratings Service for Digitally Distributed Games

Downloadable games sold through the three console makers' online services will be rated by what the Entertainment Software Ratings Board is calling a "streamlined, no-cost service," in a statement released today by the ESRB. The new "Digital Rating Service" gives developers and publishers access to a "brief but detailed online questionnaire" to define a product's covers downloadable games on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo's eShop and Wii Shop Channel, and Windows 8. More »

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Get a First Look at XCOM's Fantastic Concept Art

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Get a First Look at XCOM's Fantastic Concept Art

While a few pieces were shown here and there in the lead-up to the game's release, what you're about to see is a collection of mostly never-before-seen concept art from the production of one of the year's surprise hits. More »

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Macross FB7 is More a 90-Minute Commercial Than a Film

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Macross FB7 is More a 90-Minute Commercial Than a Film

Thanks to the surprise popularity of Macross Frontier, the Macross franchise has been riding a wave of popularity for the last five years. However, as popular as Macross Frontier is, the longest series in the franchise was 1994's Macross 7 (52 episodes, a movie, and an OVA). So this year, as part of Macross' 30th anniversary, a movie crossover between the two series was released this past weekend in Japan. But what comes out of this is far from your standard crossover film; rather it's perhaps the most meta clip show ever devised. Whether it's good or not, however, is something altogether different. More »

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The Unfortunate Naming of Burger King's Newest Japanese Hamburger

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The Unfortunate Naming of Burger King's Newest Japanese Hamburger

Each year, Halloween becomes a bigger and bigger event in Japan. And more and more companies try to figure out how to make a quick buck off of it. Burger King seems to be the latest, with its new burger. More »

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He Raised $25,000 To Make A Game. Then All His Programmers Quit.

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He Raised $25,000 To Make A Game. Then All His Programmers Quit.

2012 in gaming may well be remembered as the year of the Kickstarter. Crowdfunding, in all its forms, took off into the stratosphere with the DoubleFine drive back in February, and has just kept going since. More »

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Goldfinger Is A Silly Movie. It's An Even Sillier Chapter of 007 Legends.

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Goldfinger Is A Silly Movie. It's An Even Sillier Chapter of 007 Legends.

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The Song That Blew Me Away In Borderlands 2's Newest DLC [Video]

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The Song That Blew Me Away In Borderlands 2's Newest DLC [Video]

All of Borderlands 2's environmental music is pretty great. It's fitting, subtle enough to set the mood but powerful enough for your ears to perk up and notice. More »

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Judge Dredd Explains Why Most Video Game Movies Aren’t Up To Scratch [Judge Dredd]

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Judge Dredd Explains Why Most Video Game Movies Aren’t Up To Scratch [Judge Dredd]

Karl Urban knows a thing or two about movies based on video games. He's been in one. He's also been in Lord of the Rings (above), Star Trek, The Bourne Supremacy and now Judge Dredd. More »

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You Can't Watch Halo 4's Intro Right Now [Update] [Video]

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You Can't Watch Halo 4's Intro Right Now [Update] [Video]

The leak, and subsequent piracy of (and perma-bannings for playing) Halo 4 resulted in a flurry of videos such as this one, uploaded by the YouTube user Madchinima. More »

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Terrific Mass Effect Cosplay May or May Not Survive This Fight [Mass Effect]

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Terrific Mass Effect Cosplay May or May Not Survive This Fight [Mass Effect]

It helps that the model, Matt Smith, looks pretty Shepard-ish to begin with. But let's be real, it's the costume, gun and make-up that really helps sell this. More »

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These Gamers Won $1 Million on Saturday [League Of Legends]

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These Gamers Won $1 Million on Saturday [League Of Legends]

Those young men you see up there are five of the members of the Taipei Assassins, who on Saturday took out season 2 of the League of Legends World Championships at the Galen Centre in Los Angeles. More »

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If You're Dressing As Mario for Halloween, You Should Make Sure You Sound Like Him Too [Video]

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If You're Dressing As Mario for Halloween, You Should Make Sure You Sound Like Him Too [Video]

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Microsoft Investigating Purported Halo 4 Leaks [Halo]

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Microsoft Investigating Purported Halo 4 Leaks [Halo]

That image of Halo 4's two discs popped up on NeoGAF earlier today. Some in the forum shrugged it off, saying that reviewers must be getting their copies, to which I chuckle heartily. I can't remember the last time, if ever, consumer code was sent out for review three weeks before release. Please. More »

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Hollywood, Let's Fix This Small Mistake in The Wolverine Movie [Culture Smash]

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Hollywood, Let's Fix This Small Mistake in The Wolverine Movie [Culture Smash]

Hollywood movies usually get Japan wrong. There are exceptions, sure, but generally speaking, they fail miserably. It's either hiring non-Japanese actors to play Japanese characters or doing a bad job of recreating the country. More »

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Boy, Arnold Schwarzenegger Was On The Cover Of Just About Every Game From The 1980s [Total Recall]

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Boy, Arnold Schwarzenegger Was On The Cover Of Just About Every Game From The 1980s [Total Recall]

Of all the people who loved Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 1980s prime, none loved him more than the artists responsible for the covers of video games. More »

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Reviewers Love Killing Aliens One Turn At A Time In XCOM: Enemy Unknown [Xcom]

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Reviewers Love Killing Aliens One Turn At A Time In XCOM: Enemy Unknown [Xcom]

I'll admit to rooting for XCOM: Enemy Unknown to be a hit ever since I got a speeding ticket coming home from a press preview event for it over the summer. Sure, I deserved it, but I wanted that embarrassment (and money) at least to be worth something. More »

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This Animated Street Fighter Movie Isn't Being Made in Japan [Street Fighter]

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This Animated Street Fighter Movie Isn't Being Made in Japan [Street Fighter]

Brazilian artist Victor Hugo has quite the thing for Street Fighter, and I've quite the thing for his take on the fighting series, falling as it does somewhere between "next-gen fighting game" and "Hollywood animated movie". More »

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Dishonored: The Kotaku Review [Video]

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Dishonored: The Kotaku Review [Video]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Dishonored. "Well, it's Deus Ex meets BioShock," someone undoubtedly said. "Oh hey, and let's throw in some Half-Life 2 'cause why not?" More »

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New Halo 4 Live Action Series Is Surprisingly Great [Video]

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New Halo 4 Live Action Series Is Surprisingly Great [Video]

It's not often you get to see under the helmets of your fellow UNSC military soldiers. But this first episode in a new series of live action films digs deeper into the lives, struggles and drama of the cadets. It serves to humanize a war you may have partaken in for over a decade. More »

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