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Whether motivated by trolling or delusional wish fulfillment, some guy tossed up a page pretending to be a registration site for a Halo 4 multiplayer beta last week. 343 Industries, the game's developer, quickly branded that as a fake, and the site was taken offline. That's not good enough for Microsoft. More »
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Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one's surprise, the DJ revealed this afternoon he did not, in fact, lose an unreleased PlayStation Vita in a Los Angeles cab after his performance at last night's Spike Video Game Awards. More »
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The source of the stir created by a Modern Warfare-themed countdown site - believed to be announcing another sequel, or a competitor's - has been traced to a Canadian troupe set to debut a Modern Warfare film next week. More »
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Activision, the publisher of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, says a countdown website hinting at the announcement of a Modern Warfare sequel next week is a hoax, a company representative says. Activision has nothing to do with it or the mailing of novelty dogtags to the speciality press today, viral promotions that both reference characters from the series. More »
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Like you, sister site Gizmodo was recently informed of a web site for Gizmondo Live, one that promised a rebirth of the dead as a doornail handheld from Tiger Telematics. The reason for so many folks becoming familiar with the site that promises a new Gizmondo with an "open source environment" and "exciting psychic worlds" that will "democratize gaming" may be due to the prison release of a former executive. Regardless, hints that Gizmondo will rise from the ashes are greatly exaggerated, says sister site Gizmodo. More »
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It's a sign! From the heavens! Or not. Not sure if this is a hoax, but a poster over at Something Awful claims that his window is warped in such a way that it produces the above symbol. Pretty amazing, huh? If this is true (and we hope it is), someone might want to reinforce that fence so it doesn't overheat and catch fire. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Being the type of site never to rely on rumors for news, I made sure to refrain from posting about the alleged Gears of War downloadable content that was rumored to be coming out on 12/24. The rumors were started by what many believed to be an Epic Games sponsored viral marketing site, theabovedomain.com, which has now been removed. More »
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Engadget reports that all traces of the Phantom Game Console have been erased from the Infinium Labs website, breaking the hearts of the two people who actually believed the thing was genuine hardware. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=194727&view=rss&microfeed=true This was going to be a big comprehensive post about the Eon8 thing that's rattling all sorts of meme vectors right now, but as with viral marketing of this scale, the sheer number of forum posts, references, speculation and factoids gleaned via WHOIS and hacking are making that sort of thing redundant. So instead this will be a brief overview, followed by a linkstravaganza. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=184679&view=rss&microfeed=true Well, a website has - http:/www.ilovebees2.com - but that certainly doesn't mean this is a legit viral campaign. In fact, I think this website is a giant hoax. But, what do you the insightful sleuths reading Kotaku think? Is this some kind of new viral campaign or just a countdown to "meh." More »
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