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The Cliffster: Cliff Bleszinski? Huge Kojima Fan
Comment by: CliffyB
Nominated by: ashcraft

1. I don't work. I just do interviews and photoshoots all day while ego surfing. ;)

2. The bigger, blah blah thing has been retired for a month. Yeah, it got old. I got tired of hearing it come out of my own mouth.

3. I no longer want to be called The Cliffster. I want to be called Dude Huge.

A Week In Comments (Can't Wait For Next Monday!)

Connecticut Senator Searching For "Rape Scene" In GTA IV
Comment by: Nobuyuki
Nominated by: Kokatu

Oh man, you guys totally missed the rape scene. You get like a million points for it too.

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You Picture Here — in Street Fighter IV
Comment by: Americo
Nominated by: RavingRabbid

If Capcom is going to own my likeness, it damn well also be a zombie in Dead Rising 2.

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Nintendo's Father's Day Smash Bros. Tournament
Comment by: nick.soapdish
Nominated by: Pezdispenser

I guess the acceptable plural for the Nintendo Wii has just become Wii. Like sheep, or moose.

"We can see the herd of Wii roaming the countryside."

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The Worst of Ubidays 08
Comment by: CelticsFansSuicideWatch
Nominated by: Nirolak

Hey now you heard them.

These games cost a lot of money to get people to buy. Hundreds of people went to college for 4, or even more, years to obtain the skills necessary to convince a 10 year old girl that she wants a technologically advanced diary and a simulation of a baby care. if you were legally allowed to only use a baby for competition.

This is someone's life, and they most likely have a drinking problem because of it.

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Maybe I'm just a jaded old gamer, but I fail to see how EA will create a true holographic interface. Unless, of course, they develop a new type of 'television' that we haven't seen before. Seeing as how I don't see that happening anyti— ok never, I would like to take this opportunity to address EA.

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Every single day, I wake up, get dressed, go to school. Attend my classes, talk with my friends, eat more food than is necessary to support my body weight, go home, play games, watch TV, then sleep. And it is boring as all fuck to everybody but me.

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so do you have to blow into the back of both cartridges to get it to play?

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Ooh, "DS Universe" sounds even better. "Raiden vs. Nintendog" would be EPIC.

A Week In One Comment

I was ready to comment on that article featuring N'Gai Croal's thoughts on RE5, but after scrolling down, I said the hell with it. Why bother? I was ready to really analyze Croal's words and apply them to my own personal thoughts on the matter, but when you get comments like:

Announcement time! That's right, Hyper Multi-Tap is changing its format. Up until, say, last Friday, the only reward those commenters nominated for Multi-Tap got was a happy feeling. Ditto for those kind enough to nominate them! But, we'd like to do more. You know, repay you for making brilliant comments and nominating them as well. So! Here's what we are going to do: Award a Kotaku Star (see above) to those commenters who make Multi-Tap, plus one to those who nominate. Keep in mind, that we are only doing seven comments for Galactic Multi-Tap. (Hopefully, the best ones!) What happens to those who repeatedly nominate or make it into Multi-Tap? They won't get extra Kotaku Stars, but rather, a warm place in our cold, bitter hearts.

Galactic Multi-Tap launches this Friday.

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This guy has the face of a criminal. If there's no console underneath my TV, I'm blaming him.

A Week In Comments (Fahey's Mom Edition)

Well Mike, you little ingrate. Who brought you into the world, fed you, sent you to school (when I could find you)and paid for your ROTC Candy when you ate it all and didn't have the money to pay for it yourself? Who plugged in the hole you drilled between the bedroom and the bathroom so you could spy on the cute babysitter while she was in the shower? Who just smiled with tears in her eyes when the one class you passed was the "wrong bowling course" and you didn't get credit for it. Who spent half her time rescuing your cat from you and clearing all the moldy hot dogs out of your underwear drawer? Who went to all the trouble of hiding all your Christmas Presents under your own bed because she wanted you to be surprised on Christmas and knew the on place you would never look was under that bed? Does this sound like lazy to you?

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Weird Preview of the Week: Blueberry Garden
Comment by: unmarkedone
Nominated by: hikergirl

So that's how baby party hats are made. I always wanted to know but was too afraid to ask.

Gore Verbinski Pontificates About "Zero Narrative"
Comment by: JustThisGuy
Nominated by: Tikey

I think a lot of folks are missing the point here. I don't care for Verbinski's movies, but he's bringing up some very valid points as someone who is outside—and thus unaffected—by the game industry. He's coming into the game late, without all the preconceived notions that us gamers share, but with a solid sense of critical grounding on the matter. It's a bit like how the best movie/book/art critics are generally not practitioners of the craft itself; they offer fresh takes—context, if you will—on a lot of things that the actual content creators take for granted.

Verbinski's remarks are exciting because he's treating games as a completely separate medium from movies—they share certain superficial similarities but still have irreconcilable differences. Games have not matured. For them to really mature, they have to define their own distinct standards of criteria that fall outside the current narrative paradigms.

All that said, I think Shadow of the Colossus is a fine stab at this sort of null-narrative—a historical analogue to Don Quixote, if you will—precisely because it offers an experience that can't be replicated in any other medium. SotC would make a horrible movie and a boring-ass book. And that's how game developers should look at it: i.e., by asking themselves, "How can we create an experience on this medium that either cannot be replicated or is inferior on another medium?"

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Indiana Jones isn't racy, unless your son is really young. I thin I was about 10 when my father watched Raiders with me, and I'm well adjusted. At least, I like treasure and hate Nazis.

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More Details on the 360's 16 Percent Failure Rate
Comment by: dbushik
Nominated by: cheez

I'm an adult owner and an engineer with a masters degree. I totally take care of my stuff. Even the ridiculous requests MS customer support makes like plugging it into the wall socket by itself (no surge protector or extensions or whatever or other devices drawing off that outlet). I've had the wall current in my house measured even to make sure that isn't an issue. (Even though it's ridiculous considering the power supply has to have voltage regulation.) I keep it in a well ventilated location away from any other electronics or sources of heat, have never used an intercooler with it (which actually works against you) and even make sure the cables coming out the back don't interfer witht he air flow. I generally treat the thing like it was a Faberge Egg, and I've had two hardware failures.

I'm totally happy for you still being on your launch consoles (hey, I still have my PS1 from launch that works like gang-busters too, and have a non-launch NES, SNES, GC and fat PS2 that all work great also), but you are seriously lucky to not have had issues with the 360. I love the thing, but it has seriously undeniable hardware issues.

Just saying, because it is annoying hearing people who have not had issues (god bless their lucky souls) talk like those that have are foolish idiots sticking PB&J sandwiches into their disc trays and wondering, "why-for thing no work and all sticky?".