Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Page 2
News

Madden The Man On Madden The Game

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In Real Life

The Most Adorable Super Street Fighter IV Wallpaper

Behold my new desktop background, courtesy of the artists of Capcom Japan, as seen on Capcom Unity.


The Ugly Fantasies Of Revenge

Beyond Holocaust museums, Holocaust documentaries, and Holocaust action movies we now have the Holocaust first-person shooter. This is our chance to virtually be an escaped Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, heavily armed, with hundreds of Nazis in our sights. Catharsis?


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Monstrous Monster Hunter Sales Helps PSP Strike Black

PSP phenom Monster Hunter Portable 3rd made a huge splash in Japan during its first week on sale, moving close to two million copies in just a few days. What did that mean for the PlayStation Portable?


Talk Amongst Yourselves

Kotaku AU

This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.


In Real Life

This Is Where Minecraft Is Made

Minecraft creator Notch gives us a peek inside the offices of Mojang Specifications, where Jens Bergensten (left), Daniel Kaplan (middle), and visitor Martin Jonasson are hard at work watching the Starcraft 2 semifinal, as seen on The Word of Notch.


The Machiavellian Plot Hidden In A Blockbuster Video Game

Jeffrey Yohalem wanted the blockbuster video game he wrote this year to be different. He wanted Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to say something about the world today, if he could get away with it.


News

Mass Effect 3 Will Be A Battle For Earth

A listing for Mass Effect 3 popped up on the EA online store today, and a plot description describes a fight to take back planet Earth.


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Concentration Camp Game Was Meant To Be ‘Fun’

The developers of Sonderkommando Revolt, the video game set against a violent prisoner uprising in a Nazi concentration camp, reads like exploitative revenge fantasy. But its creator says the team behind the first-person shooter makes no political statement and has no agenda. It’s “blast the Nazis fun,” its maker says.


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Puzzle Quest 2 Welcomes Tiny Fingers

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Namco brings the sequel to the original role-puzzling game to the iPhone, and while Puzzle Quest 2′s engaging gameplay is intact, the controls are a little on the tiny side.