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Sunday Comics: That’s Justifiable
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Sept. 15.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Sept. 10.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Horsing Around: The Winners
The WTFery of Konami sponsoring lifelike horseheads as a costume item in PlayStation Home gave rise to this week’s ‘Shop Contest, which I am proud to report is brony free. Keep your friends close and your ‘Shops closer with double-finalist and overall winner uscg_pa, inside! Let’s get started: ZeroToad supplies an equine take on Infinity…
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If You Put Your Wii U GamePad in a Blender, Yes, Nintendo Will Sell You a Replacement
On one hand, this seems like a painfully obvious thing: Broken hardware typically can be replaced under warranty or through the manufacturer for a fee, and the Nintendo GamePad is hardware. On the other hand, it’s a controller, and Nintendo is deliberately not selling GamePads on their own in North America. So that raises the…
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Dinner’s On Us, Grateful Fans Say to City of Heroes Developers
Last week’s vigil in Paragon City was misunderstood (including by me) to be a protest against the announced shutdown of City of Heroes, the eight-year-old superhero MMO. It was intended as a statement of support and tribute, particularly to the Paragon Studios development team that, let’s not forget, is seeing the end of something it…
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Seven Years Later, Deadly Plague Returns to World of Warcraft
Late last night, reports WoW Insider, Death Knights in World of Warcraft contracted a bug which allowed them to cast plagues upon friendly targets. The afflicted death knights, as per their namesake, went apeshit with this newfound power, laying waste to Azeroth’s population in a way not seen since the infamous “Corrupted Blood” plague—which celebrated…
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This Fan-Made Borderlands Shootout Video Takes Us Back to 2009
We’ve seen some swell Borderlands cosplay leading up to Tuesday’s release of Borderlands 2, but those were in still photos. Here’s a video tribute to the original characters from Gearbox Software’s smash hit from three years ago. Don’t go looking for much of a big story, surprise or sight gag—though I do like the post-production…
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Play Pac-Man With a Portal Gun and Never Get Trapped By Blinky and Clyde Again
In Pac-Man if you were trapped by two ghosts, all you could do was jiggle the joystick and hope the pattern backed one off at the last minute. In PacMan Portal, you can just fire at the wall, slip through, and get back to chompin’. Created by Russian programmer Dj_smart, the game was updated about…
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Someone’s Already Trying to Sell a Wii U on eBay. For $900.
Remember when the Wii launched? What were those things going for on the gray market, like $700 or something? Actually, yeah—Fahey did this analysis after the 2006 holidays and found the price, for a pre-order listing on eBay, spiked at $707, almost three times its MSRP. (That’s not counting this jackhole, trying to sell one…
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The Moneysaver: Bordering on Insane
The big upcoming release is Borderlands 2 and we’ve found a sale on the DLC subscription so you can be ready when those extras start rolling out. None of the big three (Best Buy, Gamestop, Amazon) have the console versions discounted, so you’ll probably only find deals if you’re looking for the PC download. Elsewhere,…
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Here Is EVE‘s In-World Memorial to Its Statesman, ‘Vile Rat’
As has been written before, Sean Smith of the U.S. State Department also was a deeply committed presence inside the world of EVE Online, as well as outside it, serving on the unique Council of Stellar Management, a governing body selected by its peers and convened in the real world. Smith was killed Tuesday in…
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Francis is Back, and He is Pissed at the Wii U
Francis, the vox fulminati of gamers worldwide, has contemplated yesterday’s formal unveiling of the Wii U’s price, specifications and launch lineup and offers this cogent analysis of its shortcomings, plus the phonetic pronunciation of “TVii.” It evidently has less memory than his nonexistent wristwatch. And, in probably the most humiliating slam, “Apple charges less for…
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Pays Tribute to Slain Diplomat and EVE Online Gamer
In a memorial service today for four American diplomats assassinated in Libya earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to Sean Smith, a consular officer for the United States who also served as a diplomat in EVE Online and as a member of that MMO’s real-world governing body. In her eulogy, Clinton…
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President Obama Returns to Madden—Through In-Game Advertising
President Obama may not be in Madden NFL 13‘s Super Bowl celebration ceremony but that doesn’t mean the POTUS can’t buy his way back into the game. Ads for his re-election campaign are popping up in the game’s multiplayer menu, but only in targeted states. Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia are the…
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Fantasy Drafts Are Again a Reality in Madden
A server-side update has returned the fantasy-draft option to Madden NFL under its new Connected Careers mode, but only for online leagues. Still, anyone present in a league before it begins is able to participate in a draft of all of the NFL’s active talent, remaking and rebalancing each of the NFL’s 32 franchises. Fantasy…
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Chinese Developer Straight-Up Rips off Facebook Game
We’ve seen Chinese and Vietnamese “developers” flat out copy successful Flash games, and steal visual assets from titles like Torchlight before. Now they’ve taken it upon themselves to rip off an actually good Facebook game, Woodland Heroes, a real-time strategy game made by alums of the studio that makes Madden NFL Worst part? The copycats…
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Fantasy Drafts Are Returning to Madden‘s Career Mode
The official Twitter feed for Madden NFL 13 just announced that fantasy drafts—a mainstay feature of the game’s franchise mode for nearly a decade—will return to the game’s Online “Connected Careers” mode tomorrow. Fantasy drafts dispersed the entire NFL population of players and allowed franchise holders to reconstitute their teams through a league-wide “draft” of…
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