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Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment—it cost the publisher around $100 Million on production and lost revenue—that it is almost singlehandedly responsible for their dire financial straits. More »
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By "video game movie", I do not mean movies that were adapted from video games. Oh, no. More »
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Summer means sun. Weeks off school, days off work, Coronas under a palm tree as a sea breeze washes over you. But it also means it's time for Hollywood's big shebang: the summer blockbusters. More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5313553&view=rss&microfeed=true Think back a few decades. Think Steven Spielberg. Back before he was putting his name on Wii games, before his stories were being turned into under-appreciated Lucasarts adventure games, before he looked like Totoro. All the way back to 1983. When he was not only putting out ET, but talking up the film's videogame adaptation. And lying through his teeth. More »
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Some Auburn University students are planning a documentary on the famed E.T. landfill. The landfill, which many still claim is an urban legend, has been widely discussed in video game circles for years. Now our intrepid filmmakers are out to find the legendary dumping ground with their film E.T.'s March. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=357411&view=rss&microfeed=true I don't think I need to go into any details on just how horrible the Atari 2600 E.T. game was. It's been written about in every game publication and listed on every list of every "Worst Games" list ever written. It even has it's own landfill urban legend. So, I won't bore you with the story, I'll just let you watch this commercial and remember how foul it really was for yourself. Flynn De Marco More »
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We've all heard it before, the story of the Great Atari Landfill. According to legend, Atari 2600's E.T. game sold so terribly, that in an attempt to literally bury the stink-bomb, a landfill was created out of all the unsold copies. More »
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