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It’s Time for Reckoning
The action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning releases on Tuesday, bringing with it damn near 200 hours worth of gameplay. You don’t have to get it full price, either, there are savings on the console and PC versions of the game, plus more than 58 other values, inside this weekend’s Moneysaver! Software • Feb. 7…
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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Turns in His Badge
Stephen Toulouse—known as StepTo to those listening to Major Nelson’s podcast, or unfortunate enough to feel the cold kiss of the Xbox Live banhammer—has given his two weeks notice to Microsoft. The director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement will leave Feb. 16, after 18 years with the company. On his personal blog, Toulouse calls…
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NFL 2K5 Says New England Wins a Super Bowl Shootout
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners over the New England Patriots. A simulation run on dearly departed Madden nemesis NFL 2K5 returned the opposite…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I got sucked back into Skyrim this week. My first playthrough didn’t get very far; I was tromping around as a Nord warrior, and it didn’t really connect me to my choices, and my choices to the story, as much as I would have preferred. After watching the Grosjean Brothers’ hilarious Skyrim 2012 sequel, I…
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Hear Five Minutes of the Latest Halo Novel, Narrated by Guilty Spark
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version. Narrating this clip is Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark.
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That Old College Try
That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year’s NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA…
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Tebow Works Another Fourth Quarter Miracle—in Madden Bowl
His season may be over, but Tebow Time has not run out. And if last night’s news about the Madden NFL 13 cover is any indication, get ready to see a lot more of the Denver quarterback during the off-season. Tebow, who had a breakout season leading the Broncos to a division title and the…
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With a Wink, One Epic Game Shrewdly Delivers Less Than It Promises
Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II…
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Put Your Lighter in the Air for this Rock Remix of the Skyrim Theme
As a fierce, cold land of rippling muscles and town guards who speak like Col. John Matrix, Skyrim has always struck me as a kind of ancestral home for hard rock, much in the same way Iceland is where the Supreme Council of Metal is seated. That makes this rock remix of The Elder Scrolls…
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Fans to Pick Next Madden Cover from a Field of 64 Players
At Madden Bowl XVIII, EA Sports’ Anthony Stevenson just announced that the cover athlete for Madden NFL will be voted on by fans for a second year. This year’s field will be doubled to 64 candidates, and the first round of voting will be a “play-in” round pitting NFL teammates against each other to determine…
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Helghast or Sith?
Helghast or Sith? | “Apocalypse Vader,” is one of 24 custom Darth Vader helmets going up for auction on Feb. 7 by HalloweenCostumes.com, (along with “Skevader,” by artist Ryan Renders, featured here in December). Proceeds will benefit two Minnesota charities. Here Are 3 In-Game Screens from The Last of Us Game Informer Magazine has posted…
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I Wonder If the Artist Realizes Lacrosse Does Have a Video Game
Wishful thinking is a common theme with conceptual EA Sports game covers; usually the artist is honoring a favorite player or another star he wishes would be anointed for cover recognition. Entirely imaginary titles, as conceived here by an artist and posted on Behance, are a little less common. No NCAA Lacrosse title by EA…
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Madden Bowl XVIII Kicks Off Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend Tonight
Four teams of all-star competitors, including three Heisman Trophy winners (in their video game personae, above) and two Pro Football Hall of Famers, clash tonight in the Madden Bowl, the annual pre-Super Bowl throwdown EA Sports has staged for nearly 20 years. You can watch the action on ESPN3, which means if you have an…
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EA: No Online Pass for Syndicate
Not all Electronic Arts-published games will be given the Project $10/ Online Pass treatment. Rather than slap Syndicate with a one-use code that unlocks the game’s multiplayer features, EA will keep such access free, to grow interest in the shooter’s co-op mode it says. Syndicate is being published by EA Partners, meaning it doesn’t own…
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Simpsons! Simpsons Arcade Here!—Oh, You Get the Idea …
Konami has confirmed that the beloved beat-em-up The Simpsons Arcade is coming to consoles, and sooner than you expected. Not only does it get here, like, Friday (on Xbox Live), it’ll be available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers when PSN gets it on Tuesday Feb. 7. For those who don’t get it free, The Simpsons…
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Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants Anti-Bullying Tax on Video Games
“Violent video games,” a governmental classification of speech and expression that the Supreme Court found a smidge troubling last June, would be taxed extra under a proposed law in Oklahoma, with the collected money going toward state programs fighting bullying and child obesity. Here we go again. William Fourkiller, Democrat of Stillwell, Okla., proposed a…
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The Amazing Cube
The Amazing Cube | Minecraft-themed Rubik’s Cube created for fun by Matt Boynton, a programmer for 5th Cell, the makers of Scribblenauts SoulCalibur V Takes a Beating From Game Reviewers With the past couple of years dominated by Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat-style 2D fighters, it’s nice to see the return of one of the…
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Spoiler Alert: Giants Win Super Bowl, Says Madden
The New York Giants will claim their fourth Super Bowl title on Sunday, according to EA Sports’ official Madden NFL 12 simulation, which has New York defeating New England 27-24 on a 40-yard field goal as time expires. For the third consecutive year, Madden‘s simulation has picked the Las Vegas underdog (the Patriots are three-point…
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Fear Leads to Anger; Burgers Lead to Fries
Charbroiled Buns | Until March 1, Quick, a Benelux fast food chain, is serving sithburgers on black buns to commemorate the 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I. (h/t Kevin Butler.) Ace Attorney 5 Announced for Japan—Will It Go West? Capcom dropped a bomb today, announcing in Japan that Gyakuten Saiban 5 will be made.…
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This Reenactment Won’t Win Any Awards, but Neither Did Street Fighter
Bravo to 1Up for getting Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, producer of the Street Fighter series, to reenact this gem from M. Bison’s hilariously awful dialogue in 1994’s Street Fighter: The Movie. He dropped by their offices last week to talk Street Fighter X Tekken We’ll remind you that Ono-san is not an English speaker, so this…
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