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The 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards have come and gone. and it was yet another glorious year for children young and old everywhere. Highlights include a celebrity sliming performed on Orlando "Immensely Overrated" Bloom, Hannah Montana desperately trying to get her own name back, and the Naked Brothers' Band once again receiving condemnations from NAMBLA for false advertising. From a gaming standpoint, my nephew narrowly avoided getting a sympathetic smack upside the head as EA's Madden 2008 inched out High School Musical: Sing It! for the coveted Favorite Video Game award. It's nice to see that children faced with a crappy selection of titles went for one of the lesser evils. More »
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My hand is already played; I'm admittedly not a sports fan. But I am a fan of using sports games as a litmus test for how comfortable developers have gotten with specific hardware. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289993&view=rss&microfeed=true You've heard the excuses, now here's the comparison. EA says the PS3 Madden looks cruddy compared to the Xbox 360 version, because the company has more experience developing 360 games. I say: This is proof why companies shouldn't try to port games from the 360 to the PS3. If you are going to release two versions, then develop two totally separate versions! It's that simple. And that expensive. More »
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VH1's Harold Goldberg was there when Ozzy Osbourne popped into Times Square's Hard Rock Cafe to shill for Electronic Arts Madden 08. Goldberg even got a second or two with the rapidly-aging rock star, probably just a second. More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=286600&view=rss&microfeed=true Madden? 08? Anyone? I know the franchise is amazing, it even makes me sorta like football, but is there enough difference between 07 and 08 this year to justify a buy? More »
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Every year I buy Madden twice. Normally I am not a fan of football whatsoever, but there are two times of the year where the testosterone starts to stir. Madden launch day, which inevitably finds me waiting in line with a bunch of people I have nothing in common talking in a tongue almost completely foreign to me, and then around Super bowl time, when I find myself rebuying the game after having handed it off to a friend days after the initial purchase. As soon as it comes, it goes again, like catching a light sneeze. The fact that I just vaguely referenced a Tori Amos song is testament to both my lack of interest in the sport as well as the sheer primal power of football. Looking at these new Xbox 360 screens I am starting to feel it all over again. More »
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My interest in picking up Madden NFL 08 was momentarily at an all-time high when they tipped us off about this year's "weapons" feature. Sadly, though, I discovered that this wasn't going to give me an opportunity to recreate the opening scene from The Last Boy Scout, adding the cold-blooded murder of defenders to the game. Nor is it taking the offensive game to the next level, a la Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. More »
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