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Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘This is the Cars 2 of Team Ninja’
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week, Backhanded Box quotes encounters several conflicting opinions among our panel of critics. Some critics even disagree with themselves. Ninja Gaiden 3 Released: March 20 Critic: Nandusky (Metacritic). • “[I]s a…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Freakin’ nothin’ for me, it looks like. Tuesday, I got Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 for review and played it until 3 a.m. When I went to bed, there was no sign of the 7.5 inches of snow that Eugene, Ore. would receive. Heavy and wet, it was like dumping a sack of Redi-Crete on…
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EA Sports Opens a Bar in Vegas, Baby
No, it doesn’t have a sports book. But the EA Sports Bar at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas will feature Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s, six high definition televisions, and an assortment of, duh, EA Sports titles for patrons to play. It’s another real world presence for the sports label, which last September opened a…
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How Long Should a Game Hang In There Online Before It Taps Out?
EA Sports MMA was conceived as a two-year series, alternating publication years with its Fight Night cousin. No one thought it would be getting a sequel after its major license, Strikeforce, was acquired by the UFC. But pulling the plug on MMA‘s servers shows the first edition’s lifespan fell far short of EA Sports’ expectations.…
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‘Dawnguard’ Trademark Filed, May Point to Skyrim Expansion
No plans for a downloadable expansion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have been announced yet, but a trademark filing spied at the end of February is believed to tip off its name or part of it anyway: Dawnguard. ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Games, filed the trademark; “downloadable software” is listed in…
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See Six More Gorgeous Views of Assassin’s Creed III
Another six screenshots for Assassin’s Creed III have hit the Internet. The screenshots depict Connor on his American adventures and while it’s tough to tell which of these are pre-renders and which (if any) are gameplay, the visual clues they offer tip off what you should expect from the game. In two of them, Connor…
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Barry Sanders Advances in the NIT of Cover Contests
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • If the Madden cover contest is like the NCAA Tournament, does that make the vote-off for NCAA Football 13 the NIT? Oh, yeah, that’s going on, too …. In the vote-off, Desmond Howard has advanced to face Herschel Walker, and Doug Flutie advanced…
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Like the Rest of Us, Madden Submits a Bracket—and Prays It Gets a Winner
Indianapolis. St. Louis. Griffin. Flynn. Washington. Seattle. Smith. San Francisco. Denver. Tebow. And now, Madden. The dominoes that fell in Peyton Manning’s release, free agency, and his signing on Tuesday with the Broncos tumbled all the way to the cover of the NFL’s signature video game. In addition to displacing Tim Tebow, the Bronco fan…
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Madden‘s March Cover Madness Features 31 Teams and the Rams Ain’t One
There are 32 players representing thirty-one teams—that’s right, one franchise has no representative—in the second edition of Madden NFL‘s fan-voted playoff for the cover of the video game. It’s possible there may be two teams with no candidate in the contest before it’s all over, too. Befitting a promotion that opened as NFL free agency…
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Culture
In the Gaiden of Good and Evil
Ninja Gaiden 3 and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City lead the list of console releases this week, joined by Armored Core V and the return of Kid Icarus at the end of the week. Tuesday • Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (PS3, 360) • Ninja Gaiden 3 (PS3, 360) • Armored Core V (PS3, 360)…
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Soulcalibur V’s Next Costume Offerings Includes a Pac-Man Cameo (Sort Of)
Pac-Man is having a hell of a career second act in fighting games. Of course, he is one of the free characters in Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation 3. Now it looks like he’ll be included—as some kind of bizarre head-thing—in Soulcalibur V‘s next batch of monthly costume DLC. See for yourself at…
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Fan-Made Wing Commander Game Can Go Forward, but It’s Not Endorsed by EA
A fan-engineered sequel to the long dormant Wing Commander series is known to Electronic Arts, and all of the franchise’s rights holders, but they are taking no action to shut down its development. That said, they don’t officially or unofficially endorse the game. The creators of Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn had to clarify that…
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Grade-School ‘MMO’ Launches Site, Plans Kickstarter Drive
ClassRealm, the role-playing game/teaching system developed by educator and longtime Kotaku reader Ben Bertoli, has launched a web site to help share the game with other schools and teachers interested in it. Bertoli says a Kickstarter project is planned soon.
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Canabalt Runs Onto PlayStation Platforms This Week
Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt, the 2009 flash game sensation and mobile gaming hit, is making its way to PS3, PSP and PS Vita through the PlayStation Mini offerings in the PlayStation Store. Saltsman tweeted earlier this past week that the game already is available as a Mini in Europe, and it will arrive in North America…
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Capcom Says It’s Working on a Patch as Four Infinite Combos Found So Far in Street Fighter X Tekken
This past week saw multiple YouTube videos demonstrating infinite (or nearly infinite) combinations across multiple characters in Street Fighter X Tekken One involves some gem usage, and believed to be tool-assisted, but four others are confirmed. It’s enough of an issue that Capcom on Friday informed fans the game’s development team is looking at a…
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Mass Effect 3 Fan Complains to the Feds Over the Game’s Ending
One upset fan in the great Mass Effect 3 rageathon now is making a federal case out of his crushing disappointment in the game. Literally. BioWare Forum user “El_Spiko” went to the Federal Trade Commission’s web site to file a false advertising complaint directed at Electronic Arts and how it marketed the game. He also…
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Angry Helmet
I know some of you wanted to ‘shop up that dick sculpture Ashcraft posted about on Friday, but that would be like giving a match to a child who lives in a tinderbox. F1 racer Heikki Kovalainen’s Angry Birds helmet provides a safer alternative with explotable potential. Kovalainen’s sponsor is Rovio, the game’s publisher. Since…
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