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If you can stomach the sounds of Whoopi Goldberg talking with her mouth full, you see an impressive demonstration of The Michael Jackson Experience on the Wii and an audience overcome with the thrill of free stuff. More »
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The American comic book industry wants you to buy comics! Head to your local comic book store tomorrow to celebrate the ninth annual Free Comic Book Day, and pickup free comics featuring everyone from Sonic the Hedgehog to Iron Man. More »
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Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is "on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history." It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. More »
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Those of you that shelled out for the Wii's Internet Channel before Nintendo made it free can now download one NES game on Virtual Console — as long as its worth 500 points. More »
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Telltale Games and LucasArts have teamed up to make this year's Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 — same day as Rosh Hashanah) memorable with a free download of Tales of Monkey Island, Episode One. More »
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Steam hosts a free Unreal Tournament 3 weekend, slashes the price down to $11.99 USD and renames it Unreal Tournament 3 Black. Spontaneous generosity, or a loud death rattle? More »
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Sony is sorry that the 2nd set of Eye of Judgment cards were subject to delay in North America, and to make up for it, they're giving away three rare cards next Friday. The Eye of Judgment Set 2 Promo cards to be exact, a set of three special cards that form a big image when placed together. To get the cards, watch the Official PlayStation Blog next Friday, and be one of the first few hundred who registers with their mailing address for your chance to get your hands on these three rarities. I'll be keeping an eye out myself, and I'll be sure to let you guys know when sign ups start...once I've registered, of course. More »
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As I logged into my school email account this past week, only to be greeted with the news that some libraries are way too protective over their microfilm (damn you, Yale!), a little item on the news section of our login page caught my eye. Microsoft is giving away several full-fledged programs to college students, hoping to lure them away from Adobe-powered and open source software; in addition to Visual Studio Professional Edition and Expression Studio, they're also handing out XNA Game Studio 2.0, including a 12 month trial subscription to XNA Creators Club (plus some other stuff). Under the initiative titled 'DreamSpark,' they're hoping to rope in people early on, with the hopes of reaping the financial benefits later. More »
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A bunch of Kotakuites have forwarded an email from 'The Rock Band Team' apologizing for the 'unacceptably long delay' in getting replacement guitars to customers, and promising a 'FREE EA game' (as of yet unnamed). In a world of spectacularly shitty customer service, it's always nice to see some attempts at making up for glitches in the system. So if you're patiently waiting for a guitar replacement, looks like a new guitar and an unnamed game may be headed your way: More »
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For those still flailing wildly during Wii Sports, good news. Nintendo has released the fourth version of its Wii-mote strap and giving them away. For free! Remember, these have little lock thingy that keeps the strap from loosening. Nintendo's packaging the updated straps with its products and is also giving out four per serial number to those who need them. How nice of them! Just provide the necessary info on the Nintendo site. I'm curious: Do people continue to swing their Wii-mote around all crazy like? More »
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Besides a new Professor Layton game, Level5 also announced a soccer RPG calledd Inazuma Eleven. The game centers around a junior high school team that has gotten an exchange student from Australia. Original teams can be created and exchanged with friends via Wi-Fi. Players use the touch pen to draw lines for passing and tap the touch screen to shoot. There are a thousand-plus characters as well! The game features comical, unrealistic soccer moves like the "God Hand" in which a huge hand blocks the goal. The music is being done by Yasunori Mitsuda, who worked on Chrono Trigger before getting ulcers. While the release date hasn't been announced, TGS attendees have an opportunity to snag a demo cartridge that not only features Inazuma Eleven but also an original mini story Professor Layton and the London Holiday. Called "Level5 Premium Silver," expect this limited edition cart to be snapped up FAST! More »
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Got a "bricked" PSP? Good for you. Homebrewers NOObz are here to help with a free "Pandora's Battery" program to unbrick PSPs. According to NOObz: More »
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This is neat. No, this is clever — sneaky, even. At the Pokémon I saw over over the weekend, DS and Pokémon Diamond and Pearl owners received a free Darkrai pocket monster download. The entire theater was filled with kids — kids with DSes! Before the movie, there were also a couple Wii and DS game ads. Guess who was annoyed with me for A). Not bringing the DS Lite to the theater and B). For not buying Diamond and Pearl? Boy, these Pokémon Company people know what the heck they're doing! More »
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The Ultimate Matrix Trilogy Collection is coming out this week that includes not only the complete Matrix series, but a little something special for the Xbox 360 people too: More »
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The Xbox 360 Elite comes preloaded with eight videos, one Arcade Live game and three demos. More »
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Game site Gamasutra has a fantastic interview up with Father of Video Games Ralph Baer. Besides developing Pong, he also created the first commercial console (the Magnavox: Odyssey) and was the brains behind the first light gun. What does he think of today's games? Says Baer: More »
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Back when I visited Sony's Ginza showroom, Sony gave me a big bag o' nuttin'. Japanese culture site Japundit blogs that Sony is now giving away schwag to entice customers. From Japundit: More »
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For those who didn't win our Lost Planet competition (or even enter for that matter), we've got 25 tickets to give away for the Lost Planet event this Thursday, January 11th. The LP development team will be in attendance, and the event will feature a multiplayer tourney against the development team so that they can break in your noob ass. Master LEGO Builder Nathan Sawaya will be making block masterpieces off the cuff. There will also be t-shirt giveaways, a rock climbing wall, free food and drink, demo stations and humans! More »
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Want Lost Planet? We've got ten, count 'em, ten copies of the Xbox 360 game to put in your greedy hands. Just handing them out ain't no contest though, but a giveaway. So here's our newest contest: More »
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Okay, so last week, we had a super short F.E.A.R. contest. And this week, we're gonna do the same! We love giving away free stuff that much. Here's how it works: To enter, just send an email kotakucontest@gmail.com with the subject line Fear 360 Contest before Monday, December 4th. Easy, right? An email will be picked at random to win. By emailing your entry, you agree to our swell Contest Rules. One, two, three, GO! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=218487&view=rss&microfeed=true 'Cause we just *heart* the happy looks when folks win stuff comes this F.E.A.R. contest. Gamespot's PC Shooter of the Year, F.E.A.R., has made its way to the Xbox 360 with new levels, new weapons and Xbox Live! And can be all yours for gratis. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=216907&view=rss&microfeed=true Our first day's give-away wrapped up at midnight EST. I used Random.org to select the post to pick through for a winner. It turned out to be Ashcraft's post that featured the video showing the PSP and DS booting up: More »
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