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A Mass Effect Raffle That Made Everyone Look Like Losers
The attempted raffle of an early copy of Mass Effect 3 this week still bothers me, even though its owners apologized and pulled back the gimmick when they realized it would run afoul of anti-gambling laws. The raffle or its legality isn’t what really troubles me, however. Backing up a bit, this is what happened.…
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Actually, This is German for ‘The Wanna Wanga’
Me Chaade Su Goodie | The person who got this tattoo is definitely not a weak-minded fool. (Fuck Yeah, Tattoos) Leaked Assassin’s Creed III Pics Reveal British Ambush In these new screenshots from Assassin’s Creed III, leaked today by the website All Games Beta, the main character appears to be ambushing a group of British…
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Hybrid to Hold a Beta; Signups Begin After GDC
Hybrid, the third-person online shooter set to release on Xbox Live Arcade this year, will have a public beta with signups beginning shortly after the end of GDC, which is next week. “Gamers will finally get to experience our innovative ‘combat focused movement’ for themselves,” Developer 5th Cell said in a statement.
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Tecmo Super Bowl‘s World Championships are Tomorrow, and NFL Films Will Be There
• The world’s largest Tecmo Super Bowl tournament is tomorrow in Madison, Wis., featuring a field of 178 players. TecmoBowl.org also tells Kotaku that NFL Films will be present, apparently for a feature sometime later about video gaming and football. The event will be livestreamed and liveblogged from TecmoBowl.org’s official tournament page. The action begins…
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Biff Tannen Delivers the Stone Cold Sure Things in Sports
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
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Coach, Not Community, is to Blame, Says Female Fighter Striking Back in Sexual Harassment Controversy
The fighter inside the controversy that stirred allegations of sexism and misogyny in fighting video games says that its community, fans and star performers do not deserve the collective blame they have endured, and vows that she will not leave her sport despite the alienating remarks of the man who once coached her. Miranda Pakozdi,…
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Fighting Game Community’s Leading Voice Calls for Accountability and Respect in Sexual Harassment Fallout
Shoryuken, one of the most respected voices in the fighting game community, has called upon its readers and followers to deal honestly with questions of misogyny and sexual harassment, following sexist match commentary on a controversy that has roiled the fighting game community for a second day. “If we continue to let the worst elements…
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A Video Introduction to The Show‘s “Diamond Dynasty”
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The Diamond Dynasty mode for MLB 12 The Show is extremely deep—last week, I hit the broad points, but still there are some details and features that you may not yet know about. Matt Vasgersian, the game’s play-by-play announcer, tries to answer all…
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Baseball’s New Playoff Format Will Be Supported in MLB 2K12, Whether It Happens This Year or Not
Though not yet officially ratified by Major League Baseball, a 10-team playoff format said to take effect this season will be supported in the season-long modes of Major League Baseball 2K12 when the game hits shelves on Tuesday, 2K Sports confirmed to Kotaku. A 10-team playoff, in which two wild-card qualifiers from each league play…
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What’s The Future of Assassin’s Creed Have to Do With Snow?
The Assassin’s Creed Facebook page shifted over to the “timeline” display today, choosing that mysterious snowy image for its panorama. On cue, Ubisoft’s page managers followed up with a comment that “a major announcement from Assassin’s Creed is only days away,” yet also advising folks to check the official Assassin’s Creed site tomorrow. Don’t believe…
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New NCAA Kickoff Rules Will Appear First in a Video Game
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Last week, the NCAA implemented kickoff rules changes similar to ones imposed last year by the NFL, with a couple of twists. Whatever the case, NCAA Football 13 producer Ben Haumiller assured The Gaming Tailgate that his game will reflect the new rule…
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Madden‘s Cover Madness Names Its First Sweet Sixteen Candidates
Back on Super Bowl weekend, I tried to pick the 64-man field—two players from each of the NFL’s 32 teams—who would be vying in EA Sports’ fan-voted playoff for the Madden NFL 13 cover. Half of the picks I made were pulled out my ass. The other half were regrettable for other reasons. Yet after…
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R2-D2 Birdhouse? R2-D2 Birdhouse
I Bet Birds Actually Understand R2 | Hand-painted R2-D2 birdhouse by Nirdhouse of Etsy. NirdHouse also has C-3PO and Mario designs. (via Neatorama) Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on Japanese TV show Pokémon Sunday today to announce the next…
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I Bet I Know Why You Will Play Kinect Star Wars’ Dance-Off At Least Once
It’s going to take a hell of a turnaround to get me to change my tune on Kinect Star Wars. Yeah, Totilo said the game’s improved over what I played at E3, but, come on, a dancing game? I mean, how stupid is that. Do I look like a guy who wants to— fast forwards…
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The Pac-Man Saturday Morning Cartoon is Coming to DVD Next Week
Despite how silly it looks, the Pac-Man animated series broadcast on ABC in the early 1980s was a modest success. It lasted only two seasons, but that can partly be attributed to the crash of home console video gaming taking the subject off people’s minds. What’s crazy to me is that it was an animated…
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Looks Like Kingdom Hearts 3D Comes West in Late July
Square-Enix’s official French store briefly listed Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream, Drop, Distance for release on July 27 before the company pulled back the listing and replaced it with “Summer 2012.” Either way, it’s a more precise release window than what we’d heard before. Square may be pulling back the Western release date just to give…
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Culture
Someday the Mountain Might Get ‘Em
The franchise restart of SSX carves this week’s fresh powder, joined by the North American release of Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2 and WAKFU‘s arrival on PC. Monday •PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond (Wii) Tuesday •Binary Domain (PS3, 360) •Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (PS3, 360) •The Lord of the Rings Online: Mithril Edition (PC) •SSX…
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OK, Now We’re Just Being Trolled About Fez
How long has Fez been in development? I can remember my pal Sander going all OMFG showing me this video of the thing while we were goofing off at work. That was before I worked here Fez, the perspective-switching indie platformer, has wowed gamers for more than four years with its “long postcards” showcasing it’s…
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This Probably Isn’t What EA Sports Had in Mind for SSX
In my demo impressions I suggested that you lay off the stick because the physics lends itself (themselves?) to oversteer. Some dudes in Europe took that advice to the extreme and this what they got: You can finish a race without touching the controller. Racing Whitehorn Mountain in the demo that released last week they…
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Yah Mo Be ’Shopped
Michael McDonald’s WTF appearance on a fight stick is so off-the-wall, it’s like a ‘Shop Contest entry in real life. But can this be improved? We’re going to try. Yes, McDonald, the singer/songwriter, member of the Doobie Brothers, backup singer for Steely Dan and former session pianist for Toto, was given this custom fight stick…
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