If you port a game, at least do it right!

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The movie ?The Godfather? is widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made. Earlier this week Electronic Arts released a new game based on the film. This game was originally made for the Xbox and has now been ported to PC. It follows in the same vein as games such as Mafia and GTA: San Andreas, and has been getting a lot of positive feedback. However, EA forgot something relatively important with this port

Iwata?s GDC Keynote

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Nintendo bossman Satoru Iwata gave his keynote speech, which Kotaku editor/blogging machine Brian Crecente covered in real-time. Our Alice has posted the entire speech, which is after the jump. It?s just like being there. Well, sorta.

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GDC 2006 Reporters Notebook Part 3

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In his final GDC 2006 reporters notebook, JCal discusses Will Wright's keynote address, then checks out Crysis, Ritual's Sin Episodes, and finally Novint's Falcon controller.

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GDC 06 Reporters Notebook: Day 2

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In today's GDC 2006 report, JCal revisits AGEIA to spend more time behind the wheel of a PhysX-powered PC. Inside JCal reveals more impressions of the physics-based game Cell Factor, as well as inquiring more on AGEIA's retail plans for PhysX cards -- is a lower-priced sub-$200 PhysX card in the works?

Crysis Trailer from GDC 2006

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A beautiful movie of the upcoming sequel to Far Cry, Crysis, was on display at GDC. There?s some really amazing technology on display here: dynamic day and night cycles, interactive palm fronds, volumetric fog and the best looking NPCs we?ve seen in a game this side of Half-Life 2.

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Epic Games Mark Rein Interview

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Vice President Mark Rein chats about Unreal Engine 3, PS3 and the future of PC Gaming. He has some choice words about Intel's integrated graphics solutions that you won't want to miss inside!

Battlefield 2142 Scans of PC Gamer cover story leaked

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The Battlefield 2142 hoopla is starting to look more and more real as scans of the PC Gamer issue in question have surfaced online with BF 2142 featured as the magazine's May cover story

Final Fantasy XII

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Kotaku tipster Torokun sends word that Korean site Ruliweb has a load of Final Fantasy XII clips up, giving folks outside of Japan an opportunity to check out Square?s eye-candy. All are WMV files and are on the huge side.

Battlefield 2142 Trailer

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I might take some flak for making this a news post but all i can say is... i need this.. and i need it quickly. But heads up im having trouble confirming this so take this with a grain of salt.

Ritual Interview

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Members of the Ritual team talk about SiN Episodes, briefly on their DirectX 10 UBER engine, and other assorted topics.

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Halo 3 No More - Meet Forerunner

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An Xbox.com forum poster, DM Duo Maxwell, is claiming to have reproduced, in its entirety, an exclusive Game Informer article from the upcoming April issue that reveals details about Bungie's next project.

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DropTeam Multiplayer Beta

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DropTeam is a truly Sci-Fi multiplayer tactical simulation of mechanized ground combat using a new groundbreaking and powerful 3D engine. DropTeam is all about fun, fast and furious tactical action ? but not at the expense of realistic physics and a credible combat experience. This mp beta allows you to try out 2 scenarios, Ice Field" and Raid.

Black & White 2 Demo

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Lionhead have released the playable demo for Black & White 2, surprisingly (after the lack of a demo for the original game) allowing the chance to try out their 3D god-playing strategy sequel of last October. Word on its contents is: "The Demo starts on Land 3 of the main game, and will guide you through the finer points of town building and how to complete lands."

Guild Wars Factions on April 28th

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ArenaNet , developer of the award-winning online roleplaying game Guild Wars, and NCsoft Corporation, the world?s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announce today the release date of Guild Wars Factions, the hotly anticipated second game release from the critically acclaimed studio. The Adrenaline Vault

Battlefield 2 1.21 Patch

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Electronic Arts has issued new retail patches and servers for Battlefield 2, bringing the team-based 3D multiplayer action game by Digital Illusions to version 1.21. This update fixes issues with heat seeking missiles, claymores, the Battle Recorder, the screen capture, multiplayer and more, and as usual there are incremental (from v1.2) and full patches as well as Win32 and Linux servers.