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First Look At Castlevania Now-Gen Is Shorter Than This Headline

Posted by Michael McWhertor at 4:00 PM on October 12, 2008

events

When Talking Plush Murlocs Attack

Posted by Mike Fahey at 7:20 AM on October 12, 2008

By far the most popular item available for purchase at BlizzCon 2008, the plush talking murloc doll from the lovely folks at Jinx completely sold out yesterday at the convention, and today's allotment is going quickly as well, with lines stretch across the convention floor. I managed to beg, plead, cry, and pay $US40 for one of the little bastards, which I quickly brought up to the press room to unbox. Things were going great, until the little fish creature took a liking to my hand. The possibly NSFW results, after the jump.


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Starcraft 2 Gameplay Trailers, Fresh From The BlizzCon Floor

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 9:00 PM on October 11, 2008


It's not all Tokyo Game Show here at Kotaku. BlizzCon's going down as well, and as Blizzard are prone to do, they're following up their major announcements with new media. in this instance, two new Starcraft 2 clips, one Protoss v Terran, one Zerg v Terran.

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Spider-man: Web of Shadows S.H.I.E.L.D Survival Guide

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 12:00 PM on October 11, 2008

sports

New Making of Skate 2 San Vanelona Trailer

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 9:40 AM on October 11, 2008


The guys over at Blackbox are hard at work on your beloved Skate 2 modifying and rebuilding what might have not worked too well in the first game. This making of video focuses on New San Vanelona as well as some other new areas you will see in the game.


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Kreating The Kollector's Edition Kover for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 8:00 AM on October 11, 2008


Alex Ross, comic book artist and designer for the collector's edition cover for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe walks us through what it took to make it. The video shows a time lapse of that illustration. It's refreshing to see that the cover art, unlike so many today, was not created in Photoshop and the results are pretty impressive. You'll be able to pick up your copy on November 11th for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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industry news

See Diablo III's New Wizard Trailer

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 6:40 AM on October 11, 2008


While Fahey was live blogging the opening ceremony of Bliizzcon, Blizzard made no hesitation rolling out the first of hopefully many announcements with the new wizard class for Diablo III. We got a new video you can take a look at the and see wizard in action. Sadly for us, it's only a little taste of what the lucky folks at Blizzcon are getting their hands on right about now.

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What Could Lara Croft Do? New Behind The Scenes Look At Tomb Raider: Underworld

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 6:00 AM on October 11, 2008


What can Lara do? That's the approach the designers over at Crystal Dynamics are taking when constructing Lara Croft's latest adventure.This third part in the "Beneath the Surface" video series talks about the evolution of Lara Croft herself. It seems like they're off to a good start focusing on her past physical limitations and then breaking them by adding in new gameplay mechanics. The game is set to hit stores November 28th for all consoles and PC, except PSP.


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New Monster Hunter 3 Screens

Posted by Adam Barenblat at 10:20 PM on October 10, 2008

Yes, it can use the classic controller and remember, this is for the Wii. You would almost forget looking at these screens. Monster Hunter 3 (tri) is one of the most visually appealing Wii games yet. The game is playable at TGS, if you're willing to wait in line. As for the rest of us, we'll just enjoy these screens for now.


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Sonic Wishes You a Shitty Morning

Posted by Brian Crecente at 9:20 PM on October 10, 2008

There are many types of creepy. There is, for instance, the zipper-chested Sackboy creepy, the kind that gives you nightmares of creeping death and knit intestines. Then you have Were creepy, the glaring, overly happy, spring in your step kind that makes you wonder whose intestines this particular bit of anthropomorphic IP just choked down to get so happy.


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