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Ugly Sonic Costumes Finally Make It Into LittleBigPlanet
Remember those Sonic the Hedgehog costumes for LittleBigPlanet that we told you about last November? They’re coming your way this week, and they’re still as hideous as ever. Some things translate well into LittleBigPlanet. Ezio was lovely, and the recently released White Knight Chronicles costumes were downright hot. Sonic, on the other hand, doesn’t fare…
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Know Your Red Steel 2 Weapons
Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 hits stores this week, so you’d best get familiar with the weapons you’ll be using to get the job done. While I’ve yet to play the game (or have any reason to attach my Wii Motion Plus at all for that matter), the style certainly has captured my attention. Then again,…
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Red Dead Redemption Box Art Is Redder Than Ever
This is the third time we’ve posted a completely different version of the official box art for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Hopefully it’ll also be the last, but we’re not promising anything. First there was the stylistic cowboy. Then came a slightly more realistically-colored version of that same box art. Now we’ve lost the cowboy…
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PSN This Week: Hamsters Triumphantly Reclaim Monkey Balls
Marble Madness meets Super Monkey Ball this week on the PlayStation Network, as TikGames reveals Hamsterball, the game that reclaims running balls for adorable rodents everywhere. TikGames’ Howard Lehr is the one that calls Hamsterball Marble Madness meets Super Monkey Ball in the PlayStation Blog post revealing the new title, downloadable this Thursday for $9.99.…
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The First Console Game With Facebook Publishing
Closet Buzz!: Quiz World fans will be outing themselves all over Facebook this week, as a patch makes the PlayStation 3 trivia game the first console title with true in-game Facebook publishing. While we’ve seen several console games utilizing Twitter to keep friends up-to-date with player progress, none have allowed players to publish updates directly…
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The Nintendo Download: This Is The Story Of A Cave
It’s Cave Story week on the Nintendo Download, and Nintendo has gotten every other WiiWare game out of the way in order to make sure Studio Pixel’s eagerly anticipated action adventure has center stage. IT feels like we’ve been waiting forever, but we don’t have to wait no more. Cave Story for WiiWare is here,…
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Side-Scrolling Team Fortress 2 Mod Ready For Download
If you were as impressed as we were by Dylan ‘Steaky’ Loney’s Team Fortress 2 mod The Great Class Dash, which turned Valve’s first-person shooter into a side-scrolling platformer, then you’ll be glad to hear it’s now available for download. We fell in love with The Great Class Dash from the moment we saw the…
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Amazon Rolls Out The PlayStation 3 Deals All Day Long
Dante’s Inferno at $38.99 might not be that great of a PlayStation 3 game deal, but if you hurry you can score Tekken 6 for $17.99 as part of a day filled with PS3 deals on Amazon.com. It’s PlayStation 3 Gold Box deal day at Amazon.com, and the deals are going fast. We’ve already missed…
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Accused Game Cheater Gets Knife Through Head and Survives
An argument between Counter-Strike players at a Chinese net café over suspected use of a ‘wallhack’ cheat led to a 17-year-old boy being stabbed through the head with a foot-long knife – and living to tell the tale. (Graphic Photo) Counter-Strike players in the Jilin province of China take cheating extremely seriously, as evidenced by…
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A Kick-Ass Trailer For The Kick-Ass Movie Game?
The characters from the movie based off of Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass completely kick ass in this trailer for WHA Entertainment’s video game adaptation for the iPhone and PlayStation Network, and somehow that doesn’t seem right. Then again I’ve read the comic book series several times over, and I haven’t seen the film yet,…
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People Watching Me Discuss Video Game Journalism
“Members of the gaming press are always working. For instance, that picture I took at the beginning of the panel? I’ve already uploaded it and posted it on Kotaku.” The audience at my MomoCon panel on game journalism. Nice-looking bunch!
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Cheating At Pokémon And Walking At The Same Time
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver both come packed with the Pokéwalker, a nifty little device that promotes good health through Pokémon mastery. Then this lazy yet inventive individual comes along… I know I shouldn’t call the creator of the Pokéwalker cheat device lazy. For all I know he or she can’t walk, and this is a…
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MomoCon Cosplay Gallery: Atlanta Gets All Dressed Up
MomoCon has filled the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta with cosplayers, and video game fans are there in force. Check out characters from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Miles Edgeworth, BioShock, Brutal Legend, and more! It was nice to see a couple of games represented that you don’t normally see that often being cosplayed.…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published March 19 PvPOnline published March 16 ActionTrip published March 16 GU Comics published March 18 Ctrl-Alt-Del published March 15 Dueling Analogs published March 15 Nerf NOW published March 16 Rooster Teeth published March 20 Monday Night Crew published March 19 Virtual Shackles published March 19 Dotgif published March 19
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Get Your PlayStation Move On At PAX East
Our PAX East party might be the convention’s must-attend Friday night event, but what can you do on Thursday night? Why not get some hands-on time with the PlayStation move at Sony’s PlayStation Blog meet-up? Sony’s PlayStation Blog crew is making the cross-continent trip next week to spend a little time in New York and…
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One Left 4 Dead Character Won’t Survive The Passing
Valve’s poster for Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing downloadable content finally gets a tagline: Nobody Survives Forever. And while the original survivors will be showing up at the beginning of The Passing, only three make it to the end. The news comes by way of Valve’s Chet Faliszek, speaking to Geoff Keighley at GDC,…
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Naughty Bear Does His Chest Burster Impression
Rather than tiptoe around our nightmares, the fine folks at Artificial Mind and Movement have decided to just tear through our darkest childhood fears like so much tissue paper with their latest Naughty Bear video vignette. This is almost exactly the same as a nightmare I had as a child, only a creepy rendition of…
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To Do In Atlanta: Momocon – Anime, Comics, Gaming, And Kotaku
If you’re in the Atlanta area this weekend, you’d be remiss if you didn’t stop by MomoCon, the largest free admission fan convention in North America, featuring anime, manga, gaming, comics, and a special Sunday panel session with yours truly. MomoCon is a free fan convention with a focus on video games, anime, costuming, manga,…
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Tips & Guides
FarmVille How To: The Tips and Tricks of The Farming Masters
With around 82 million players worldwide, odds are at some point you’re going to be playing the hit Facebook game, FarmVille. Kotaku went directly to Zynga’s FarmVille team for tips and tricks on harvesting your way to the top. While I’ve merely dabbled in FarmVille myself, being more of a Petville man, it’s hard to…
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Puzzle Quest 2 Playable At PAX East, And So Are We
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the game that launched the puzzle-RPG genre, Puzzle Quest, will be playable at PAX East next weekend, if you can manage to pry us away from the controls. Now I can’t speak for Stephen Totilo, my partner in PAX crime, but Puzzle Quest is more than a game for me.…
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