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Head's up kids! Today is your last day to get those free Eye of Judgment Set 2 promotional cards from Sony's Official PlayStation Blog. The three card set went damn fast the first time they offered them, so you might want to hope over there for your last chance at adding three new cards to your arsenal, at least until they announce the really really last chance sometime next week. Submissions start at 5PM Pacific, which is...now. Run, you fools.
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Ion Rock Band Drums Pass, Drummer Fails
Chris Tries Out Ion Drum Prototypes at CES [Gamerscore Blog]
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Kotaku Talk Pretty One Day
Game|Life, in what we can only consider was a feeble attempt to reverse engineer our general awesomeness, put Kotaku (along with some other sites) through the Flesch-Kincaid-based Blog Readability Test. Findings included that Kotaku reads at a junior high level (and rumor has it that we totally rule the lunch line). What can we say other than we're honored to be in the good company of The New York Times and the rest of the majority of newspapers that read like the most pimply, awkward two years of one's life. Since most people learn all their curse words by that time, it seems like a good fit for Kotaku. Here were the full results of Game|Life's abecedarian testing: More »
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Sprite Stitch
I can always count on Alice over at Wonderland (and occasionally here at Kotaku) to dig up the best of the best of gaming crafts and this one is no different. We've featured a number of gaming cross stitch pieces here but now someone has gone so far as to create a blog dedicated to the subject called Sprite Stitch. And not only do they post the cross stitch creations themselves, but you can even download the patterns so you can sit on your lazy butt and make them yourself! They don't have too much there now, but definitely worth a look see and clicks in the future.
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David Jaffe: GOW3 Promises To Be Best In Series
David Jaffe was stuck in the San Francisco Airport yesterday so what did he do? Read Kotaku of course. And even better, he took a photo of Kotaku on his MacBook. (But one of my posts isn't featured in the photo....it's ok Jaffe, I get the hint). But he does say Kotaku "never lets [him] down with the goods." Well Jaffe you never let us down either. Yesterday he also posted an entry about the departure of Cory Barlog from the God of War team. His take? It's a good move for Cory and he thinks God of War 3 "promises to be the best game in the series." Read more over at Jaffe's blog.
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Space Giraffe Gets Launch Blog
Having listened to the howls of disappointment from my boyfriend every time some news is released about Jeff Minter's psychedelic shooter Space Giraffe (usually that the release isn't here yet. And still isn't here. And still isn't here ...), I'm glad that those will soon be coming to an end. Or we hope, at least - the Llamasoft website has a blog up about the release and assorted game details which means launch should be imminent. More »
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THQ's Zany Presser
THQ, you so kurazy! The press conference kicked off with a clip of girls wearing too much make-up and too few clothes. Next up, some wrestling divas appear on stage. They don't wrestle, though. They just kinda stand there. And smile. Of course, since I live in Japan, I have no clue who they are. Analyst and soothsayer Michael Pachter, who happens to be sitting next to me, says that Michelle McCool is famous. Believe him. He's Pachter.
They play through a round of Smack Down vs. Raw 2008 on the Wii. The game looks solid, and moving the Wii-controls in a certain way can mimic the wrestler's signature taunts. Nothing like a small children getting more chance to practice HHH's "Suck It!" gesture.
Next up, was Frontlines. The game is set twenty years in the future. Rather, in teh future. The textures were quite as detailed, and the frame rate looked choppy. Probably a little early to show the game.
Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon looks fun. It's set in the 1970's. To keep it from getting repetitve, an improved heat sinking anal probe, new space saucer and "high fidelity destruction" that leave damage on buildings and street.
There were a bunch of race games. Like there are.
The most interesting title? De Blob hands down. The game features a
black and white colorless world and was originally created by students in the Netherlands. Players use their blob to absorb paint and bounce around the town, spashing color. Each different color makes a different noise, and it's possible to mix the colors. The character design and the game design looks very neat! Nice to see this kind of thing from a third party.
Finally, UFC fighter Quentin "Rampage" Jackson, a self proclaimed "video game freak," gets on stage to promote THQ's upcoming UFC title. Rampage is charming, funny and tells us if we're not watching UFC, we're watching ballerinas. See? Kinda nutty.
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Bethesda's Blog
Just in time to leech it for information about Fallout 3, Bethesda has launched a company blog. The Beth Blog has been quietly in the works by the Maryland crew for quite awhile, Pete Hines, tells me. But apparently there was some sort of hang-up with permission slips. The currently the blog is a little sparse, with absolutely no revelations about Fallout 3, not even a nice crisp high-res screen shot. Get on that guys, will ya? More »
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Sony Launches Official Blog
I've been beating the "Sony needs a blog" drum for longer than I can remember. I even told Dave Karraker on several occasions that he should be their blogger. It looks like he didn't take me up on my suggestion, but SCEA did launch an official blog today, which is fantastic news. More »
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True Story of a Rock* Cybersquatter
Joel Parker writes of his foray into cybersquatting with the post [There was a small chance that] ROCKSTAR GAMES AND TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE [could have] SUED ME. More »
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Some Nerdy Game Blog On PBS's FRONTLINE
In a four-hour special called "News War," FRONTLINE examines how news media today is changing. Interesting and fascinating — Worth a watch, if only to see a millisecond of Kotaku. Be sure to blink so you can miss it! More »
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Lippy Microsoft Blogger Reviews PS3
Microsoft's mouthiest blogger Ozymandias clacks out his his PS3 hands-on impressions. No real shockers, and surprisingly, he's actually easier on the console than some mainstream reviewers. We've gone through, selected the meaty bits for y'all to sink your teeth into after the j-u-m-p: More »
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Clips: Kotaku Makes Japanese TV
A reader send in word that Kotaku wasn on BlogTV, a Japanese show that seems to follow the happenings of blogs on... um... TV. We're at the 6:30 mark. The two presenters, a woman in a scarf and a guy in a cowboy hat, start talking about the Playstation 3 in hushed and amused tones. There's lots of gesticulation and laughing and then there's Kotaku, on that big-ass screen over their shoulders. More »
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Yea Verily, He Pwneth Noobes
Those of you that had trouble reading pirate patois (ha ha ha, losers) are going to tear your scalps off and eat them in chunks after I launch this one at your faces: More »
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Microsoft Squeezes Out XNA Blog
Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express got its own blog. It's called XNA Team Blog (clever!), helmed by XNA manager dude Boyd Multerer and looks pretty Spartan compared to Major Nelson's page or even the Gamerscore Blog. Microsoft's favorite thingy is to set its employees loose in the Blogosphere to communicate with folks, address pressing issues and troll Sony. More »
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Microsoft's Sony Hater Blog
Contrary to popular belief, we do not loathe Sony. Actually, we quite enjoy their products and are very much looking forward to the free PS3 consoles the company is going to send all of us. Microsoft, on the other hand, hates Sony with the scorn of a thousands years in hell. And that's when Msoft is being nice. More »
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