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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
What manner of man is this who can summon up Talk Amongst Yourselves without flint or tinder … Some call me … Owen … Great big thanks to Jimmy_Jazz for today’s #TAYpic, interrupting what looks like an Orlando-L.A. Lakers game with some skywalking and cherubic trash-talking. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Grab…
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Sunday Comics: Waiting is the Hardest Part
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. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Feb. 15.—Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 13.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
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Gotham City ‘Shoppers: The Winners
A motley crew of Gotham City impostors sauntering over a pedestrian bridge to work gave us this week’s ‘Shop Contest inspiration. We’ve got 20 hilarious impostors-of-impostors in your evening commute, plus a big hand for pan1da7! Leading off, yes, a lot of people tried the Strutting Leo meme. While Guilherme_B (6) didn’t do it first,…
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Should a Video Game Have Predicted the Rise of Jeremy Lin?
Ordinarily, NBA 2K12 updates its rosters once a week. This week, it got not one, but three revisions in the span of four days. Jeremy Lin had a hand in all three. The first update came Wednesday, well after the 38-point coming-out party Lin and the New York Knicks staged on Feb. 10 against Kobe…
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Oblivion, Fallout Get Combined Release in April—but Not on PS3
For those whose first foray into Tamriel came this year with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the series’ maker will offer the preceding entry, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion combined with another outstanding role-playing game, Fallout 3. The combo will be $29.99 on Xbox 360, $19.99 on PC in March. What about PS3? Bethesda Game…
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And Now, Here’s the Most Evil DLC—DLC the Game
The implied social contract of paid, planned and premium downloadable content is, “don’t want it? Don’t buy it.” OK, well, what if the game itself is buying planned premium downloadable content? Mega64’s latest satire gets a 5/5 on the evil scale from me.
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Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft
The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. “There’s nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer,” Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft‘s creator, told Eurogamer, “which pre-dates Minecraft.” What the hell is Infiniminer?…
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Sony’s U.S. Chief Says a PS4 Reveal Would be “a Distraction” in 2012
Further solidifying the stance that we’re not gonna hear anything about Sony’s next console, Jack Tretton, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment America, told IGN that we can rule out any PS4 reveal in 2012. “I, quite frankly, would be very distracted if I had to be talking about next generation hardware this year,” Tretton…
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First Mojam Game Gets a Name: Catacomb Snatch [UPDATE]
Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, invited over some friends this weekend to build video games from scratch and raise a ton of cash for charity. Mojang, Oxeye Game Studios and Wolfire Games have already raised more than $200,000. But don’t forget, you can play the end product of their build-a-thon, when it ends in about…
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Let’s Punch Up Some Deals
A $20 discount on Skyrim‘s collectors edition joins modest savings and bonus credits on Tuesday’s new releases to highlight our latest edition of The Moneysaver. We’ve got more than 50 deals, values and savings in hardware, software and digital downloads inside! Software • Feb. 21 release Asura’s Wrath (360, PS3) is $56.99, free shipping from…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
As Kotaku’s weekend editor, my problem is the fact Friday is my hump day. Now, I know it’s a lot of other folks’ hump day too, but for different purposes. But when I talk about what I’ll be playing this weekend, bear in mind this is like what you would be playing on your Thursday…
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This Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. 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? Final Fantasy XIII-2: “Sazh: Heads or Tails?” Available:Feb. 28. Price: $5 for an extra episode, $3…
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Someone’s Making a Twisted Metal Flick and I Can’t Wait for the Reviews
Let me put this delicately. I don’t want to see a Twisted Metal movie. But I do want to see a Twisted Metal movie get made. I want to see what happens when the whole thing gets trashed in a review. If it’s anything like what happened with the game’s review this week, it’ll be…
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What MLB The Show’s “Diamond Dynasty” Is, and Why It Isn’t Another Ultimate Team [UPDATE with images]
Cards, collections, virtual currency— when “Diamond Dynasty” appeared in a retail listing as a new mode for MLB 12 The Show, everyone thought they knew what it was: A feature that would borrow heavily from EA Sports’ “Ultimate Team,” which has been a cash cow for its FIFA, NHL and Madden franchises. It would seem…
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Jeremy Lin Gets Another Ratings Boost in Time for the Weekend
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • As promised, 2K Sports rolled a second roster update early this morning to give New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin another nudge in his overall ratings. Lin, who has come from the end of the bench to lead New York to seven straight…
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Biff Tannen Predicts This Weekend’s Biggest Sports Matchups
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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Reset Glitch May Wipe Out Gotham City Impostors Data
A glitch coming when a user updates Gotham City Impostors‘ trial version to a full game is causing reset of some players attributes and statistics, developer Monolith has said, which is particularly troubling since some players have boosted their attributes with paid upgrades. Monolith, answering a lengthy (and upset) thread on the game’s official forums,…
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ReviewsUFC Undisputed 3: The Kotaku Review
UFC Undisputed tried to come back too soon. Following a breakout season in 2009, it returned with a good-but-not-great sequel in 2010. Publisher THQ recognized the franchise didn’t deliver enough and shifted it to two-year production cycle. So is UFC Undisputed 3 the game mixed martial arts fans should have gotten last May? Or is…
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Bankrolling Psychonauts 2 was Just a “Semi-Joke,” Says Notch
A Tweeted offer to back a sequel to Tim Schafer’s cult favorite Psychonauts was “a semi-joke,” said Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft and a guy who’s not hard up for cash in light of that game’s success. Notch rattled off a host of reasons why we shouldn’t get our hopes up, especially the…
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