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Spoiler alert? Only if you planned to play community made campaign "Suicide Blitz 2" in Left 4 Dead 2, currently the officially featured fan-created add-on for Valve's zombie horror first-person shooter, the game that has a very neat Portal 2 Easter Egg buried within. More »
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Did you catch the latest trailer for Wii adventure The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword that debuted at this year's Game Developers Conference? Did you catch the hidden secret of the trailer's theme song? If not, watch this video. You might just be amazed. More »
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In today's slightly spoilery episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 黒人 laments the games that require a player complete countless complicated steps in order to see their "true" endings. More »
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Those lucky enough to be in on the Gears of War 3 beta today were treated to this, either cute or disturbing depending on your sensibilities. Pick a male character, COG or Locust, and voila, bunny hat. [h/t reader Hazel H.] More »
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Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country Returns makes homage to on-again, off-again Donkey Kong high score champ Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe's nemesis in the documentary The King of Kong. How so? See the patriotic neckwear worn by this giant monkey idol? More »
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Spoiler Alert. On the next page you'll see video of the location of the Guybrush Threepwood costume holocron in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. You'll also get detailed instructions on finding it, and see Threepkiller in action. More »
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Nearly nine years after the game's release on Nintendo's GameCube, an Easter Egg that unlocks a verbally abusive asshole mode in Wave Race: Blue Storm has been discovered. More »
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You can elude the Dominion. You can evade the Zerg. You can swipe precious artifacts out from under the watchful eyes of the Protoss and escape without a scratch, but you can never escape Apple's crack marketing squad. More »
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Kotakuite Harejordna was exploring the Zero Hour level in StarCraft II when he stumbled across a decidedly different sort of Space Marine. Find out how to spot this elusive creature before his portable toilet blasts off. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Reader Jake discovers why the StarCraft II laser drill is taking so long. More »
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How long this has been available, who knows, but someone just found an Easter egg in YouTube that allows you to play a game of Snake on the video while it's paused or plays. More »
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Left 4 Dead Easter Eggs, made by Kotaku reader Jeff R. for a friend. When the infected eggs start to rot I bet they smell like authentic zombie, too. Two more pictures on the jump. More »
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Who is that lady who appears in the new Avatar video game from Ubisoft? Why, it's Kendra Midori who just may have starred in another Ubisoft game under a different name. More »
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At Evo 2009, Capcom community-mans Seth Killian gets cornered about the final undiscovered secret in Mega Man 9 but vows it does indeed exist, and that it is still out there. More »
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Last year, the coder who wrote the Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong revealed it had an Easter Egg but it's "totally not worth it." Someone has gone to the trouble of finding it. More »
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Sports fans with a taste for glittery unicorns should run, not walk, to ESPN.com and remember their Konami Code, because it appears that some soon to be possibly unemployed web designer is having a laugh. More »
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It's become something of a tradition ‘round the Tower to observe Easter with, what else, lists of Easter eggs. So here is my dirty half-dozen, from well before the 8-bit days. More »
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Eagle-eyed Kotaku reader Sriker spied something interesting during his play-through of the Left 4 Dead demo, amusingly enough on the back of an in-game box of "Chocobites" cereal. Seen in the first apartment in the game's first campaign — and wherever cereal is eaten in Left 4 Dead — the back of the box promises a free six-inch Team Fortress 2 action figure. The catch? It teases us to "collect all 10!" More »
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That above is an Easter Egg in Resistance 2 that gives props to Metal Gear Solid 4 — as you can see, in reads "MGS4PWNS." PS3 Fanboy published it after one of their readers spied it. More »
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We've been a little nostalgic the past couple of weekends, which included a look back at Sierra's origins; now Adventure Classic Gaming has a look at hidden assets of classic Sierra games. Not the Easter Eggs, but the bits and pieces hidden in the asset files of games — things that will never appear in the games themselves and take some exploration to actually get to. These range from bits of dialogue to wacky animations to pencil sketches; the author takes a look at some of these hidden assets and the meaning behind them: More »
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Easter Egg discovery is a bit like genetic mutation. Get enough numbers to try some random stuff that's well outside of what they're supposed to be doing, let alone what they've evolved to do, and you'll hit something eventually. How apt that the Spore Creature Creator Demo, leaked yesterday and downloaded by lots of gamers, provides that lesson. More »
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It's Easter Sunday, and all over the country children will be set loose in their backyards, hunting for colorful treats hidden away by mischievous and sometimes sadistic adults. I'm speaking, of course, about Easter eggs, and while here at Kotaku tower we prefer to shop for our Easter treats in bulk after the holiday is over and the prices get slashed, we can still share with our fluffy bunny readers some of the best video game Easter eggs we've come across in our travels. To start us off on our egg hunting adventure, we give you - well... More »
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Valve and Nunchuk Games have teamed up to bring you a very special edition of the martial art skill game Ninja Reflex appropriately titled, Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition. This new downloadble through Steam only edition contains quite a few additional bits of content including new belt ranks, over 50 achievements and "a special "basket" of Easter Eggs from the universe of Half-Life and Portal." That portion of it has me more excited than any of the others. Perhaps our old friend Companion Cube will make an appearance? If you order this special edition now, you can even get 10% off the already low, low price of $9.95. What a bargain! More »
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Gamasutra has yet another interesting installment of their "game design essentials" series up - this one on game mechanics shrouded in a cloak of mystery. Everything from Bubble Bobble to Street Fighter makes the list, with explanations of why the game made the (not ranked in any particular order) list and what it says about game design more broadly. Why does this stuff matter, anyways? More »
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I've yet to play through the second episode of the Half-Life 2 expansions, but I now know that I'll have to do it twice to get the full experience. PC Gamer's Tom Francis recounts his journey, one that's seemingly spoiler rich, of guiding a garden gnome through the entirety of the latest Gordon Freeman adventure. Doing so and—spoiler alert!—stashing the little guy into a rocket at the end of the game unlocks one of the more difficult to accomplish achievements. Brilliant stuff, but it's hard to expect anything less from Valve. Great screenshots at the link below. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312180&view=rss&microfeed=true Having a hard time finding all the hidden skulls in Halo 3? Curious about what they all do? Instead of bogging yourself down with icky reading, GameTrailers has assembled a helpful video guide revealing the locations and characteristics of (nearly) every one of the game's boney power ups. Collecting them all nets you the ninja-riffic Hayabusa armor, further strengthening the Team Ninja and Bungie love-in. More »
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Easter is a time when people come together to celebrate Jesus sticking his head out of his cave and seeing his shadow, heralding six more weeks of winter. While I probably could have paid more attention in church as a boy, I fondly remember the yearly Easter egg hunt, a tradition that some gamers practice all year long. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=250197&view=rss&microfeed=true Who knew this weird little song was implanted in so many of the games Kazumi Totaki has scored for Nintendo? Don't say "Me!" Or, worse yet, "Mii!" I am a man capable of extraordinary acts of physical violence. Florian Eckhardt More »
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This screenshot was found on a WoW forum and precariously claims to display the Sword of One Thousand Truths which will be winnable in arena matches in the Burning Crusade. More »
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Oh, thou obsessive geeks. I admire you. I sit here, withered away in cynicism like an Aztec mummy, my eyes staring at the internet like desiccated plums. I do not love gaming so much anymore that I would comb a 2500 pixel Halo 3 promo pic and discover, hidden in the texture of the assault rifle, an 18x18 pixel square nursing the Marathon logo. Yet even the dead vortex of my heart feels a slight throb when I marvel upon your crazy obsessed works. Florian Eckhardt More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=207336&view=rss&microfeed=true Blizzplanet is home to a vast and occasionally over-enthusiastic list of World of Warcraft pop culture and literature references. Here's what I mean by over-enthusiastic: More »
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Unlike most easter eggs, these World of Warcraft inspired egg creations will not finish their brief ovum existence dramatically hurled at the side of my kid sister's head. Which is just as well, because some WoW players really poured every ounce of cool they've got into these things. More »
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If you can t cheat in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where can you cheat? And like in every other aspect of this 150-hour game, San A s list of possible cheats is a monster. The one we found lets you raise the water levels, call in fog and create pedestrian riots. There s also an amusing list of Easter Eggs like the guy talking trash about Atari s crap-fest DRIV3R. Man, even fictional characters hate that game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=26014&view=rss&microfeed=true Helpful reader Dave enjoyed the Star Wars Kid in THUG 2 so much, he sent in this link to a video of what you can see if you dawdle in Sega's upcoming racing game Out Run 2. Apparently Japan has official state calisthenic exercises, and that's some of what the flag man can be seen doing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=23263&view=rss&microfeed=true Our fellow Gawker site Screenhead used its mutant eye powers to see the magic way to post when all our servers were going crazy and scooped us on linking this. The scoop: Waxy found a tribute to the geek version of the Paris Hilton video in Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and has detailed how you can find it too. I love it, but I'm going to be a little disappointed if Mahir isn't found later on as well. More »
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