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Reviews
Wreckateer: The Kotaku Review
This review of Wreckateer is a little late because last week, I was also under siege from large stones, some of them burning. They were just in my kidneys. While Wreckateer may be more enjoyable than a trip to the urologist, it still involves its own degree of waiting and uncertainty, and likewise requires you…
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Xbox Live Listing Hints at Digital Release for NBA Live 13
A listing in the monthly Xbox Live Rewards roundup hints that NBA Live 13 will see a digital release when it arrives, supposedly in October. “NBA Live 13-Digital” is the listing, first noticed by Pastapadre, among dozens of titles eligible for Xbox Live Rewards in the coming months. “NBA Live 13 – Digital – DLC”…
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‘Backbreaker NFL 13‘ is Now Available—From a Certain Point of View
If you’re sick and tired of Madden NFL, or if you just don’t want to wait until the end of the month to complain about it, why not get a real downloadable roster update for a sports video game really released two years ago, the way everyone says it ought to be. Backbreaker, the flawed…
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Load “Great Memories”,8,1
The Commodore 64 turns 30 today. Reams of copy have been written in tribute to this machine. It wasn’t the first personal computer, but it truly was one that democratized them to millions of middle-class households. Releasing in August, 1982, it stepped into the breach a year later when console video gaming, as we knew…
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Wii U’s Touchscreen Features Prominently in FIFA 13‘s Shooting, Passing and Tackling
Touchscreen shooting, passing, tackling and free kicks lead the list of GamePad-specific features for FIFA 13‘s Wii U version, which Official Nintendo Magazine has published in its latest edition. Touching the GamePad screen will tell your players who to mark or tackle and where to pass the ball. You’ll also be able to place your…
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No, NBA Live 13 Has Not Been Secretly Canceled
Yesterday, Electronic Arts mentioned just three console and/or PC releases coming up between October and the end of the year, and NBA Live 13 was not on the list. Given the series’ troubled history, an E3 reveal widely judged to be a flop, and near silence from EA Sports since then, sports gamers took this…
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Though Mum on Specifics, 2K Sports Insists Jay-Z Isn’t a Glorified Celebrity Endorser for NBA 2K13
Jay-Z, the hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur, is indeed the executive producer of NBA 2K13, but what exactly that means as far as features within the game, 2K Sports isn’t really saying yet. “I don’t want to get too into detail right now, because we’ve got a lot of stuff coming down the road,” Jason Argent,…
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Culture
The Week in Games: Say It Three Times Fast
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance on the 3DS headlines another light midsummer week. Other names arriving Tuesday include the Risen and Orcs Must Die! sequels. On Wednesday, Awesomenauts comes to Steam and Deadlight continues the Summer of Arcade on Xbox Live. Tuesday • Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (3DS) • Risen 2: Dark Waters (PS3,…
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Capping Off the Rampaging Tour of Liberty City, It’s Sonic
Promise, last one. We’ve had our fun. From R2-D2 (to his Skyrim-themed friend) to the Portal 2 multiplayer robots, we can only take so much of seeing cartoon or comic-relief characters going on a mass-murder rampage in Liberty City. For Sonic the Hedgehog—even if he looks like a little more like a blue Shadow the…
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Ubisoft’s Free-to-Play Plans Might Include Might & Magic
Another registration points to Heroes of Might & Magic as a potential free-to-play online game. Ubisoft has said it plans to reveal new free-to-play titles in August. It filed for mightandmagicheroesonline.com on Friday. Domain watchdawg Fusible has all the details.
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No Game Save for My Backup
Three days home, sick, with the complete understanding and sympathy of my employer. Fully conscious and ambulatory, with some grade-A camaro-drivin’, country-music-songwritin’, shirtless-guy-on-COPS prescription narcotics on the bathroom sink. Can’t go outside and enjoy this nice day, cause I’m sick. Can’t work, I’m sick. Can’t brush my teeth, put on deodorant or underpants or mow…
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Teenagers Step Up to Launch Portal 2‘s Space Core … to Spaaaaaaace
Last week, my misidentification of a laser engraving on a space part suggested the wrong personality core from Portal 2 was symbolically being flown to space (a fate echoing the game’s story.) A team of 18 teenagers from Nevada stepped in to restore order, and properly send the Space Core—or, well, a plushy version of…
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‘Shop Contest: Kitchen-Aided Consoles
Though we have a source image for this week’s ‘Shop Contest, this one will be thrown open to your imagination and whatever you can scrape together to illustrate it. The “Super Nincoffee Jr.” shown yesterday provoked a comment thread of other console/kitchen appliance mashups that deserve some form of graphical representation. We know there are…
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Why Yes, Those Claw Machines Are Rigged, Says Arcade Operator
An arcade owner from somewhere in central California popped into Reddit late last night to confirm, in exacting detail, what everyone has long suspected: those goddamn claw machines do deliberately have a tissue-thin grip, even when you think you have it lined up directly over that plush toy and can’t possibly miss picking it up.…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: The Bad Old Days
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. Legacy Control by Javis Ray published July 25.—Read more of Legacy Control Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published July 23.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
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These Sure Look Like the Stages You’ll See in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Someone seems to have pried apart the data files for the private, early access PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta and discovered what appear to be the stage select icons for every stage in the game, plus eight characters unannounced so far. If this is true, locales like Columbia from BioShock and Black Rock Stadium from…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s your morning call to talk about the games you’re playing, loving and hating in Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY forum at this link and do what you’ve always done: share your thoughts and opinions on the things you’re passionate about.
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Sexy Mario, Anyone? The Winners.
A celebrity guest pose kicked off last week’s edition of Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Internet-famous Sexy Mario offered up his centerfold for the reworking and remastering of our depraved artists. We have this week’s best inside, plus overall winner warmsleepy! Though Sexy Mario was indeed at a tennis court, I fully expected to see him transported…
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