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38 Studios founder Curt Schilling uses tales of baseball triumphs past to hook Late Night host Jimmy Fallon and then brings Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in for the kill. More »
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What kind of gamer trades the comfort of a couch and a big-screen television for a computer desk and a pair of monitors? Commenter Faux Bravo does unless someone talks him out of it in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Last year Kotaku readers were enthralled by the daring exploits of Shinya Arino as he desperately attempted to finish a dozen of the most brutal retro games Japan has to offer. Now we're giving you one last chance to watch before Retro Game Master goes away forever. More »
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This clip from next Tuesday's winter premiere of NBC's drama Parenthood is really only delivering the sort of common sense knowledge every parent already knows: If you turn off the game before your son or daughter completes the level, you're a total bitch. More »
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Last week we wrapped up our first experimental season of Retro Game Master. More »
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This fall Ubisoft teams up with CBS to bring the award-winning NCIS series to video games, letting fans of special agent Gibbs and crew perform their own Naval criminal investigations, provided they can figure out that confounded video game system. More »
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Microsoft has been saying for months, for years, that they're in talks with folks at cable companies about using the Xbox 360 as a cable box, but Digiday reports today that the company is close to signing deals with Comcast and Verizon. More »
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The Nerdist podcast co-host Jonah Ray wanted to create a Comedy Central show that was like The Soup, only for video games. Comedy Central said no, and now Jonah's failure is complete, so he decided to share it with us. More »
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Dealing with the guilt of shooting someone in the head, Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman winds down with the special light gun version of id Software's Rage. More »
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Speaking of roofs (rooves?), GameTrailers TV went on ours in New York this week with Totilo, Crecente and Joel. Fahey is still en route, delayed by the hurricane. Boy is he gonna be pissed. More »
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Tonight on Spike TV, Joel Johnson, Stephen Totilo, and Brian Crecente spend several minutes chatting with GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley on the roof of Kotaku's New York City headquarters about the big fall game releases, and not one of them ironically plummets to the street below. More »
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Last night, one of the biggest celebrities in Japan, Shinsuke Shimada, abruptly stated he was leaving the entertainment industry. Shimada, a comedian and talk show host, is the Japanese equivalent of a David Letterman or a Jay Leno—if either of them appeared on six prime time shows and produced music albums. More »
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"If you were a video game console, what would you be?" is not the sort of question one would expect to find on the Facebook page of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, yet here we are. More »
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You're not into musicals; I get that. It's a silly show that definitely didn't make me cry multiple times during the first season alone, and I wouldn't be caught dead playing Tap Tap Glee, now available on the iTunes App Store. More »
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George R.R. Martin teased and quizzed the Game of Thrones cast in a panel at Comic-Con yesterday. The cast shared their greatest GoT challenges and favorite scenes, the creators hinted at what's ahead, and Martin revealed the moment he won't watch on television. More »
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It seems today that all you see are quick and dirty browser-based tie-in games for popular shows on TV. 20th Century Fox is bringing Seth MacFarlane's animated comedy online, giving fans a chance to make their pop culture laden flashback dreams come true. More »
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In next week's episode of the AMC hit Breaking Bad, Jesse convinces two of his pals to dip into a little cocaine, spawning an insightful conversation about Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil 4, and Call of Duty: World at War. More »
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While season four of the popular Cartoon Network series Star Wars: The Clone Wars officially kicks off this fall, players of Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play online game Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures will be able to play through an epic storyline leading directly to the first episode's opening act. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5821534&view=rss&microfeed=true Earlier, British TV star Billy Murray, who voices Captain Price in Modern Warfare, was charged with assaulting his wife and 27-year-old daughter. Charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service, reports the Mirror, ceasing any further actions. [Mirror Thanks, Tom!] More »
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Dudes who play video games in their thirties and beyond? What's up with that?! That's the question posed to the leathery co-hosts of the fourth hour of Today, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, who explain that, well, that's just weird! More »
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Irrational Games has been slowly drip-feeding us portions of its behind closed doors, 14-minute-long E3 2011 demonstration of BioShock Infinite, a preview that helped the game secure the Game Critics' "Best of Show" and "Best Action/Adventure Game" awards. Soon, you'll be able to see it in its entirety. More »
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Starting next week, Kotaku will begin streaming new episodes of Retro Game Master, the Japanese TV series that forces comedian Shinya Arino to play Japan's most popular video games, largely from the 8-bit and 16-bit era, in marathon gaming sessions. More »
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Iron Chef, a Japanese cooking show that began in 1992, has quite the cult following in certain Western countries thanks to years of dubbed episodes and re-runs. More »
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Video games and TV just do not mix. Aside from a few brave attempts coming out of the UK, I'm yet to see a show about games that doesn't come off as juvenile, stale and boring as hell. More »
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National Geographic's Taboo series looks at gaming and internet addiction in South Korea in tonight's episode, focusing on a "15-year-old South Korean boy in rehab because he's hooked on video games." More »
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THQ and SyFy have teamed up to produce Red Faction: Origins, a made for television movie that spans the time period between 2009's Red Faction: Guerrilla and 2011's Red Faction: Armageddon. More »
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The day time soap opera is dying. Perhaps the most clear and recent evidence of its demise is the impending cancellation of long-running soaps All My Children and One Life To Live, shows that have been on the air for more than 40 years. Who's responsible? Is it Farmville? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5795533&view=rss&microfeed=true THQ and Syfy's live-action movie Red Faction: Origins will debut on Saturday June 4, only a few days after the May 31 launch of Red Faction: Armageddon for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5792547&view=rss&microfeed=true Someday, we may get The Daily Show: The Video Game or Spike TV Video Game Awards: The Game, thanks to the formation of 345 Games, the new video game arm of Comedy Central and Spike TV. The first two titles to come from that studio will be Deadliest Warrior: Legends and Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon, both for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, MTV announced today. More »
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A daytime television legal precedent was set earlier this year in a landmark case involving Wii mod chip shenanigans. More interesting than plaintiff Joseff Ben David suing defendant Eyal Levinshtein for gouging him on mod chip installation fees are the blatant displays of piracy and ignorance broadcast on syndicated TV. More »
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Surely, the writers of CBS crime drama NCIS know what a massively multiplayer online role-playing game is, right? And that they don't involve "high scores" in the Pac-Man or Galaga sense? Of course they do, so we're taking this recent cameo of faux-MMO Fear Tower 3 as good-natured ribbing. More »
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Texting, watching television, and playing games before bed could be responsible for 63 percent of Americans not getting enough sleep. The latest study from the National Sleep Foundation has experts suggesting an electronics curfew an hour before bedtime. More »
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Not content to dominate digital downloads on the Mac and PC, Valve is heading to GDC 2011 with plans for a "big picture" mode, a controller-friendly version of Steam perfect for playing on your big-screen television. More »
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Early this morning we reported on a new study that claims one in ten children are engaged in pathological gaming, prone to serious mental health issues. How does CNN handle the study? More »
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Because you demanded it, Namco is finally bringing the 1980 arcade sensation Pac-Man to unscripted television. Think Wipeout (the pratfall-soaked game show) or the Amazing Race, not so much Jersey Shore, for Pac-Man's "reality" TV outing. More »
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With today's smart television sets capable of packing multiple internet applications directly on the hardware, why not just install games directly on the TV? That's what Oberon Media is doing with Tetris. More »
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Turns out the story of a fighting game can be worth something, as illustrated by Israeli television series "Hasamba 3 G." In this snippet from the show, spotted by SDTekken, the Mishima clan from Tekken get name-dropped for laughs. More »
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Microsoft has already taken action to block developer ThriXXX's adults-only girl-groping Kinect game from PC release, but that hasn't stopped the El Paso, Texas Fox affiliate from terrifying parents with the thought of their young children touching virtual breasts. More »
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If you flip on your television, chances are pretty high you'll see a McDonalds ad. For those living in Japan, chances are higher you'll see a mobile phone game commercial. Way higher. More »
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Today on Speak-Up on Kotaku, Mr. Nose says a new television program from Showtime could be the "first successful video game drama ever." More »
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