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Today’s Batch of Jack-o-Lanterns
Yesterday’s patch is a tough act to follow, but there are still more gaming-themed pumpkins to be had this year. Here’s a few more. We’ve got a Ninja Turtle from Neo_X, a PlayStation logo taken with a cell phone cam from Eric Pederson and I can’t find the original email that had the Borderlands pumpkin…
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Fairytale Fights “Porn” Video Is Actually Safe For Work
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I heard three porn stars shot a promo video for Fairytale Fights. It definitely wasn’t this, though… Spotted on Machinima’s YouTube feed, this PG-rated commercial for the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 game features a whopping nine seconds of actual gameplay footage to about 30 seconds of “acting” from…
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Which Free NES Game Should I Get?
Those of you that shelled out for the Wii’s Internet Channel before Nintendo made it free can now download one NES game on Virtual Console — as long as its worth 500 points. All you have to do is dust off your Wii and update the Shop channel. A little button saying “One Free Title”…
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Sony’s Magic Wand Shouldn’t Look Like A Sex Toy
A tipster pointed out some fan-made concepts of Sony’s Magic Wand motion controller. Nothing to write home about — but it looks so much like a sex toy, I had to share the lol. Just to be clear: this is not an official concept of the Magic Wand. We even checked with Sony to be…
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Need For Speed Nitro Says Anything’s Possible In Rio
This Need for Speed: Nitro Trailer is very likely the closest I’ll ever get to Rio de Janeiro — and as virtual tourism goes, it doesn’t look half-bad. NFS: Nitro ships November 3, two whole weeks ahead of schedule and with a heck of a lot of fancy cars. If the Wii is where you…
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A Patch Of Gaming Pumpkins
I asked and many of you answered. We almost have enough gaming-themed pumpkins to cover a post a day between now and Halloween. Here’s a gallery of ceemdee’s pumpkins. “Mainly I’ve used an x-acto knife and three tiny screwdrivers to do most of the carving,” ceemdee said in an email. “I used some wood carving…
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Epic Mickey’s Animatronic Donald Gives Me The Creeps
Game Informer’s keeping a steady stream of Epic Mickey articles coming between its November 2009 reveal issue and its online supplements. This article takes a look at character design and art. We’ve already been told that this Wii exclusive game will be all about Mickey painting in parts of his environment to get through levels…
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So Apparently No One Cares About Valve’s Conflict-of-Interest
We’ve heard one developer say they didn’t feel exploited by Valve, despite Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s assertion that that’s exactly what Steam does. Today, Ars Technica lets us hear from a few more. Indie devs 2D Boy, Dylan Fitterer, Amanita Design and small but not indie dev Telltale Games all lent their voices to the…
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Vesperia Fashion In Tales of Graces
Siliconera reports that Tales of Graces pre-order customers score Tales of Vesperia downloadable content in the form of three fashionable costumes. In this blurry YouTube vid, you can clearly see Graces’ lead character Asbel sporting a Yuri Lowell outfit. Far cuter is the Rita Mordio getup that goes to Sheria, but sadly you can hardly…
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Smash Bros. For Charity — A Kotaku Alumnus Story
Former Kotaku intern Andrew Freedman is making us proud at his university’s daily newspaper. Check out his latest piece on “The Peach Bowl,” a college charity Smash Bros. tournament. Courtney Whitmire, a freshman at the University of Maryland, suffered tragedy this year when flooding wiped out her house and most of her small town in…
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Talking Points Brought To You (Mostly) By Peter Moore
Half the fun of any panel with Peter Moore on it is just listening to him talk. Sometimes he says funny stuff, sometimes he says important stuff. But he never fails to entertain. At the PLAY Conference this past weekend, I got to watch the man at work during “The Monetization Game” panel, which also…
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Guitar Hero, Madden, Eliminate Play The Monetization Game
Kai Huang, Peter Moore and Neil Young forecast a grim future for physical media at the University of California at Berkeley’s PLAY Conference this past weekend. Huang, co-founder of Red Octane and parent of the Guitar Hero franchise, went so far as to predict that this generation would be the last to own physical media.…
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Get Your Psylocke On In New Marvel: Ultimate Alliance DLC
Carnage was pretty cool, but I’m really glad Psylocke’s getting a shot at Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. I think my favorite Psylocke moment is when she breaks up with Archangel because they’re “too different.” I mean, come on — that’s lamer than the “I think we should see other people” breakup line. Especially so because…
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GameStop: Super Street Fighter IV Has Low, Fierce Price Of $40
Here’s your Street Fighter pun for the day: “Juri’s out on Super Street Fighter IV this March.” The GameStop listing was spotted by MTV Multiplayer earlier today and Capcom has yet to deny it. The pre-order ship date of March 23 certainly syncs up with Capcom’s Spring 2010 goal. Super Street Fighter IV introduces several…
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GameStop Gives You Two Extra Levels In COP: The Recruit Pre-order
COP: The Recruit looked like a big game when I saw it last. But if you want to super-size it, GameStop’s giving out two extra levels to pre-order customers. To me, the game is what Grand Theft Auto could’ve been on the DS — only from the perspective of the police. You play as an…
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