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Get Real Coaches and Players (and Accurate Dreadlocks) in NCAA Football 13
Roster editing is done in every simulation sports community but nowhere is it more important than in NCAA Football 13, which has to skirt amateurism requirements (and legal action) by auto-generating random names for its players. This requires a nonstop effort by fans to accurately name the rosters of more than 120 teams featured in…
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Jeremy Lin, No Longer a Knick, Wearing His New/Old Uniform Thanks to NBA 2K
Whatever the reason—his ethnicity, his team, his alma mater or the time of the year—Jeremy Lin became an overnight superstar for the New York Knicks back in February. Not bad for a guy rated 56 overall when NBA 2K12 released. It got him a “ridiculous” contract offer in limited free agency, which the Knicks will…
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Overlooked School Says Their Fight Song Can Be Patched Into NCAA 13
Baylor University wants answers from a music licensing group it trusted to manage its fight song, which did not end up in a video game whose cover celebrates the school and its first Heisman Trophy winner. The good news for Baylor Bears fans who bought NCAA Football 13 is that “Old Fite” could be patched…
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NCAA Football‘s Cover School Says It Had Nothing to do With Fight Song’s Disappearance
Baylor University says it demanded no extra money from EA Sports for the use of its fight song in NCAA Football 13 and no one in the university’s administration had anything to do with the song’s exclusion in this year’s version of the game, which released last week with its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback starring on…
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Culture
A Summer at the Arcade
Mass Effect‘s latest DLC is totally free, and it arrives Tuesday, offering new maps and playable characters in the game’s multiplayer suite. Otherwise, the big release for the week would be Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, kicking off the annual Summer of Arcade on Xbox Live. Tuesday •Mass Effect 3: Earth (XBLA, PSN) •Dyad (PSN)…
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I Get the Feeling Halo vs. Predator Isn’t Meant to Determine a Winner
Only forces beyond our mortal comprehension of this universe could bring Master Chief face to face with Predator, to determine who is more powerful, across a rather eclectic series of competitions. Hang in there to see who is really behind this duel of fates, as filmed by Freakin’ Rad. There’s a special guest star at…
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A Heisman Winner Gets His Close-Up—but Without the Right Music
As a private-school doormat for decades to two big-boy conferences, until last year most people couldn’t name one guy on the Baylor football roster. Even if Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy in 2011, it didn’t make the school’s fight song any more recognizable last week. Maybe that’s why so few noticed that when…
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Jak, Daxter and Sony’s inFamous Hero Tapped for PlayStation All-Stars Roster
At Comic-Con today, another two (three?) playable characters were revealed for the roster of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale—Cole McGrath, from inFamous, and Jak and Daxter from, well, Jak and Daxter Per the PlayStation Blog, Jak and Daxter fans will recognize weapons such as the Mass Inverter and Needle Lazer, in the official announcement video (above).…
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Merqury City’s Making a Comeback in SSX This Summer
EA Sports dropped this video of SSX late Friday, boasting that they’ve got something new in store for fans this summer, and that only those with sharp eyes would be able to even guess what it was. Well, in the first 20 seconds, the camera lingers on board art that says “Merqury City,” referencing a…
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Ubisoft’s uPlay is Down for Everyone, Not Just You
Ubisoft’s uPlay, the online service largely used for validating the digital rights management on PC games, has been down for much of the day. If this is planned maintenance, Ubisoft didn’t do a great job of communicating that to its user base, which is ripping the publisher a new on on its official forums. Users…
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“Legendary Edition” Halo 4 Hardware Also Offers Controller Sold Separately
The “Legendary Edition” Halo 4 console bundle, outed on Thursday, was officially revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. What we didn’t know is that it’ll have some Halo 4-themed controllers sold separately. For those who want a piece of Halo themed hardware but can’t take the $400 the full console package costs, a custom gamepad will run…
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Who’s That Grill?
This NFL helmet, based on a real design that will debut this season, reminded some of Baraka from Mortal Kombat Others saw Mileena without her veil. Still others imagined Optimus Prime or Soundwave. It doesn’t matter if you give a damn for American football or Madden, something ridiculous is lurking underneath that facemask. That’s where…
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Imitation or Parody, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 DLC Features More than 100 Swimsuit Costumes
Whether an attempt to copy Dead or Alive or to parody it, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will feature more than 100 swimsuit costumes as downloadable content after the game releases Sept. 11. The costume collection includes beachwear for all characters, male and female. It’s the voluptuous “Bad Girls” live-action trailer for the game (above), which…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Eating Before Bedtime
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. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto published July 10.—Read more of Brawl In The Family Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published July 9.—Read more of Awkward…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s another reminder that yes, the TAY community is active, strong, and your place to talk about games you’re playing, loving and hating, remembering, or trying to forget. Head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY…
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Suck It Wolverine, Here’s the Deadpool Game’s Announcement Trailer
Let’s see: Voices in his head? Crude humor? Breaking the fourth wall? Swearing? High Moon and Activision are sending a very strong message that the Deadpool video game, just announced at San Diego Comic-Con, has everything a fan of the character will want. Really, though, is that Nolan North voicing Deadpool? No launch date was…
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Give ‘Em a Hand: The Winners
OK, we didn’t make it to the full 20 this week. I was prepared for some backlash against the new commenting structure. The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has published weekly for more than 2 1/2 years, weathering another redesign that brought on a lot of the same moaning and groaning we heard last week. Still we…
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Sonic Adventure 2 Gets a High-Definition Re-Release This Fall
At San Diego Comic-Con today, Sega abandoned all pretense of a surprise announcement—which is good, because this leaked a month ago—and confirmed that a port of Sonic Adventure 2 would be arriving this fall on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Joystiq points out that the game briefly had a listing on the Xbox Live…
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Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Back a Bad Dudes Sequel?
For nearly a quarter century, this video game has posed the ultimate hypothetical question of one’s manhood: Let’s say, perchance, the head of government of the United States of America is abducted by masked assassins: Do you embody the qualities of a highly motivated, results-driven person who can effect his safe return? If Joe Modzeleski…
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Is a Deadpool Game Being Announced Today? My Common Sense is Tingling …
I mean, look, that’s a clock, it’s gonna hit zero at 6 p.m. EDT. The URL is “deadpoolgame.com,” and the background is the titular antihero from the Marvel universe. High Moon Studios, which has handled three Transformers games for Activision, is listed along with the publisher, and Marvel. There’s a Deadpool game coming out sometime…
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