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Talking To The PS4, Hints Of Rockstar’s Agent And Other Secrets

Editor’s note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation digs through the Internet to find secrets companies don’t want to announce yet. All of what Superannuation finds is available to the public. Are these true gaming secrets? Or are they gaming red herrings planted to throw Superannuation off? Read on…


Nintendo Game Creator Raves About The Wii U

I thought I was on another planet on Wednesday when I saw Alex Ward for the first time in five years.


Backhanded Box Quotes: No Need For Creed

Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes”, a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere.


Here’s One Of Those Cool Need For Speed: Most Wanted Pre-Race Scenes

In my review of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, I mentioned how the game has these wicked-cool little videos that play before every race. There are a lot, and they’re great. I grabbed one to give you a sense of what I’m talking about.


Need For Speed: Most Wanted: The Kotaku Review

Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a video game shot out of a cannon. It starts at a sprint and never stops for breath, hurtling forward with such momentum that it feels like it may rattle apart at any moment. Most Wanted is exhilarating, disorienting, maddening, cathartic and hilarious, all in equal measure. It’s the most purely enjoyable racing game I’ve played in ages.


EA Wants To Raise The Speed Limit

The folks who publish the Battlefield and Mass Effect franchises aren’t above some really questionable marketing campaigns. Remember the fake protests for Dante’s Inferno or the Dead Space 2 ads that talked about your mums? Now, their latest could-be-controversial gambit is a plea to raise the speed limit to 130mph (209km/h) because that’s what Americans want.


Use Your Mouth To Look Around With Need For Speed’s Kinect Features

When you begin a game of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, your engine will be off. How do you start it? Well, by saying “engine start”.


The Best Damn Video Game Trailer I’ve Seen This Week

Trailers are often criticised these days for showing little, or even no gameplay footage. It’s a fair complaint, but also one that should be shelved, at least temporarily, for this clip.


Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul Set To Star In A 2014 Need For Speed Movie

Electronic Arts has signed up an Emmy-winning actor to put the pedal to the metal in an upcoming film adaptation of their Need for Speed franchise.


Need For Speed: Most Wanted’s Mobile Version Looks Pretty Spectacular

I was a little worried my new mobile gig here at Kotaku would preclude me from enjoying Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Looks like EA Mobile and the racing experts at Firemonkeys have me covered. This is gorgeous.


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