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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves, your one-stop alternative for bantering, chatting, conversing and rambling with your like-minded colleagues here on Kotaku. Our subject today is the same as every day: video games. As for today’s TAYpic, gang, Pan1da7 is sweeping up the end of the month here. Don’t wait for a new picture, get…
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Sunday Comics: Kicked on the Curb
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. ActionTrip by Borislav Grabovic and Ure Paul published Feb. 20.—Read more of ActionTrip Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 20.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!!…
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Boldly Gone: The Winners
The suborbital marketing stunt experiments of Mass Effect 3 provided the palette for our smart ‘shoppers, who took the game to the reaches of the universe—and absurdity. We’ve got 20 Kotaku ‘Shop Contest finalists inside, including seivewright! Leading off, TuxedoFox (20) came in with a brilliant conclusion to this space spectacle. mentuss (14) returned from…
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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 entries in the Pokémon series. They are Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 The games are scheduled to release in June for Nintendo DS systems, in Japan. DSi and 3DS players…
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The Rookie Mistake Most Video Games Make
Whether they won the club championship or they’re the sixth man on their Y league team, most recreational athletes would accept that they are, by definition and by depth of skill, amateurs. It’s not a bad word. But it sure feels like it in a video game. “Amateur,” “Rookie,” “Freshman,” “Beginner.” These are all the…
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Amazon France Outs 10th Anniversary Xbox 360 Bundle with Three Digital Downloads
France’s Amazon.com marketplace is listing a 10th Anniversary Bundle for the Xbox 360, commemorating (by a few months late) the 10th anniversary of the original system’s launch. It runs €280 and includes digital versions of three full games. So, don’t worry, this configuration also comes equipped with the 250 GB hard drive to store Gears…
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 DLC Delayed a Week on PS Vita
After getting “a number of reports” that the day-one DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was missing from the PlayStation Vita store, Capcom did a little looking and, yes, it ain’t there because of “last-minute issues.” The problem is with making sure that a PS Vita and a PS3 with the same game and…
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Here’s a Fight Stick Modded to Work with a PS Vita
There’s some input lag, and it doesn’t really fit with the theme of the game-anywhere “the world is in play” marketing theme of the PS Vita. But then again, its sticks and buttons just don’t have that clicky-click of a fight stick, either. So this enterprising Japanese modder whipped up a solution allowing the user…
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This Gallery Contains Spoilers and It Concerns Mass Effect
Today saw the leak of a batch of screenshots pertaining to Mass Effect’s day-one DLC “From Ashes,” which caused so much of a fury when it inadvertently hit Xbox Live early, and its summary paragraph tossed out spoiler details pertaining to the story. Here’s a gallery of five Mass Effect: From Ashes screenshots, which is…
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BandFuse: Rock Legends Announced as 2008 Calls, Wants Its Game Back
Do you have a guitar? Do you like both Coldplay and Lynyrd Skynyrd? Well have we got the product for you. BandFuse: Rock Legends announced itself yesterday, promising that you’ll be able to plug in a real! guitar and play your favorite hits, assuming those hits include both “Harder to Breathe” by Maroon 5 and…
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Sony Removes the Vita’s Buggy Facebook App
Sony has removed the Facebook app for the PlayStation Vita, after receiving several complaints from users that the app crashed at its startup. If you’re not seeing the Facebook app in the store, this is why. “”We are currently looking into this to restore it to normal operational status,” Sony told Game Informer in a…
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Let’s Go for a Ride
This coming Tuesday sees the long awaited return of SSX. Only suckers pay retail, and you can already get the game at deep discount if you don’t mind having it shipped. There are more than 50 additional details awaiting you in this week’s roundup of The Moneysaver. Let’s go! Last one to the bottom of…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
When I travel, I usually frontload my gameplaying, trying to pack in progress in an RPG before I leave, and then kill time with handhelds in transit. But Monday, I’ll be flying to Washington. My grandfather will be buried at Arlington. Forgive me, I’m not in much of a games-playing mood right now. It’s not…
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Mad as Hell, And They’re Going to Take It
I swear to Christ, Battlefield fans have to be the unhappiest people on earth. They hate Modern Warfare. They hate Origin. They hate Electronic Arts and, for all I can tell, they hate the game they play so much. It’s a community that seems committed to proving itself to be the most knowledgeable, least appreciated,…
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A Postwriter Contemplates the Stupidnaming of Warfighter
We have a clubhouse leader for stupidest triple-A game name of 2012, and it’s at least seven months from release. Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Say it three times fast. For sure, the last word ends up “Warfare” on the third try. If a focus group wanted to develop a name that highlighted the derivative nature…
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The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. Yes, even you in the comments, smart guy. Here’s a look at the latest package of extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar the last dollar out of your wallet. Can you still respect yourself if you buy it? Mass Effect 3: From Ashes Available: Day-one DLC.…
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Pinball Wizard
Pinball Wizard | The twin-flipper pinball table—which practically anyone with a living memory of pinball understands as the game’s only layout—was developed by this man, Steve Kordek, who died on Sunday. He was 100. (Image by Pinball News) Pokémon Director Teases New Game Announcement This Weekend News of the next Pokémon game could come as…
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MLB 2K12 Demo Arrives on Tuesday; No Word Yet on The Show
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Major League Baseball 2K12 will release its demo on Tuesday, 2K Sports said today. Still no word from Sony regarding a demo for MLB 12 The Show The demo will rematch the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers, the two teams from last…
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Expect NCAA Football 13 to Have a Heavy Heisman Focus
The Gaming Tailgate, which last year chipped in to help NCAA Football 12 coordinate its end zone artillery, has noticed that this month seven Heisman Trophy winners have all been mentioned on Twitter in connection with NCAA Football 13. Most of the mentions come from Sandy Sandoval, EA Sports’ top man for athlete relations. Famous…
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Biff Tannen Gives You Sports’ Lead-Pipe Locks for This Weekend
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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