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Make It Through Another Day, and Xbox Live’s Homeless will Share Its Story
When I was a journalism student at Columbia, there was a guy on 112th Street and Broadway, the most unobtrusive homeless person I’ve ever encountered in New York. He had no sign and I don’t ever recall him verbally soliciting passersby. He just sat there, obviously homeless, with a strangely placid expression. One day I…
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Tats of the Old Republic Winners
BioWare bossman Greg Zeschuk inked himself with Star Wars: The Old Republic during release week, showing his bodily commitment to the MMO. His original tat was a little wishy washy, so we decided to give him a few suggestions, other than laser removal. Twenty winners inside, including MustangSaggy! Leading off, lots of folks explored the…
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Xbox Live Pries the Guns from Your Cold, Avatar Hands
This announcement oughta go over like a turd in a punchbowl. Seems that on Jan. 1, Xbox Live is taking guns away from all avatars. That is according to Epic Games’ community manager, who in a reminder to Gears of War fans said that if they don’t have the Lancer or Hammerburst avatar props, they…
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Yule Love These Holiday Fireplace Apps for Gaming Consoles and Mobile Devices
In 1966, TV station WPIX filmed a a fireplace at New York’s Gracie Mansion, canceled $4,000 worth of advertising, and broadcast it for two hours on Christmas Day as a gift to viewers who had no fireplaces in their apartments. Its spirit lives on screens large and small to this day. You can give your…
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‘Tis the Eve Before Christmas
Whether you’re making last minute shopping plans for a gamer on your list or eyeballing what you might be doing with gift certificates or Christmas money, The Moneysaver marches on with more than 60 deals on hardware, software, and digital downloads. GameStop has a buy two, get one free deal on used games through Wednesday;…
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What Are You Playing This Holiday Weekend?
This is the weekend I finally get around to playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Funny thing about picking it up today. I go to GameStop in Springfield, Ore.’s Gateway Mall. I know everyone bags on GameStop and I’ve done my share of that, but I really do like the guys who work there. They…
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VVVVVV on the 3DS! Get Your Codes for VVVVVV on the 3DS Here! Who’s Ready?
Alright gang, here we go with another wild download code giveaway over Twitter, and this one is extra super special because the codes are for a game that is not even available yet But if you’re lucky enough to snag one of six codes I’m giving out over Kotaku’s official Twitter in the next two…
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Resistance‘s Official Site is Back Online After Seven-Week Outage
The official site for the Resistance series of games is back online, ending a seven-week outage and one of the strangest security breaches in a year that has seen quite enough of them. Insomniac Games, the game’s maker, tweeted that Sony Computer Entertainment “has restored all web service to MyResistance.net and the site is now…
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Multi-Touch Not Worth the Hassle with this Meat Boy Clone
It was independent games development’s darling of 2010, and all who dared cross it risked the righteous anger of its creators and fans. But badass platformer Super Meat Boy still is not available on mobile gaming’s No. 1 platform. And I don’t think it’s because one of its creators got into a pissing contest with…
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Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book
A week ago Star Wars Galaxies closed down for good. Today, the MMO published its official “memory book,” a whale of a tome at more than 200 megabytes in PDF form, recalling all of the worlds, races and principal events of the MMO’s eight-year run. Remember the Sullustan, the Ithorian, the Wookiee, the Human and,…
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Video Games Tell Us Who”ll Win the NBA’s Christmas Tipoff and College Football’s New Years’ Bowls
Pro basketball resumes on Christmas Day; college football will begin staging its major postseason contests eight days later. This has, perhaps unintentionally, engendered competing five-game simulations from 2K Sports and EA Sports, makers of NBA 2K12 and NCAA Football 12. Want to know who wins the big matchups? We’ve got the results predicted by these…
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Madden Picks Up a Top Designer from The Show
Free agent signings are big news in sports video games, not just the leagues they simulate. Today, EA Sports picked up Kolbe Launchbaugh, a senior designer for Sony’s universally acclaimed MLB The Show baseball simulation, and he’ll start work on EA Sports’ cornerstone Madden franchise in a couple of weeks. Launchbaugh himself revealed the news…
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Club Nintendo Calendar Invents a New Month
Announced this summer, Club Nintendo’s gifts were customarily dumped on, then turned out to be not that bad. For the platinum level, anyway. Elite level members had to settle for a desk calendar. And one containing a new month, between October and December, named “Nobember.” Whoops. Nintendo has noticed the goof and in an email…
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The PS Vita’s Memory Cards Cost Less Than Expected, but Still Essentially Mandatory
The bad news is you still have to buy a new proprietary memory card for your PS Vita. The good news is it won’t cost as much as originally feared. Of course, the better news would be that you didn’t have to buy them at all. Alas, you still do. But the official pricing, included…
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Twisted Metal Creator Reveals the Tentative Cover Art, and has a Special Message for Racists
While not officially saying this is official, Twisted Metal creator of David Jaffe acknowledges that the game’s cover art is up on GameStop’s web site and, hell, “I figured I’d share a bigger version of it with you guys.” He included another five shots of the box’s reverse, so none of this is official, but…
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EA Sports Envisioned Return to PC with “Madden NFL Online”
EA Sports, which ended publication of Madden NFL for the PC in 2008, evidently had plans to return to that platform through a browser-based game sometime in 2010, according to mockups created by a former staff designer. The label was serious enough about the project to build a working, mouse-driven interface for the game’s console…
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SSX Pushed Back Again to End of February
It doesn’t involve a realistic roster or league licensing, so it’s sometimes hard to remember that SSX is an EA Sports title. And the snowboarding reboot should be one of the bigger ones for the label in the coming year. But with a lineup crowded by more traditional fare in the first two months, SSX…
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Wii-Owning President Obama Doesn’t Care if the Xbox Version is Better
Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred. President Obama picked up the two titles on a photo-op shopping trip to an Alexandria, Va., Best Buy, where he bought gifts…
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Dog Days of Christmas
Dog Days of Christmas | Kane & Lynch 2 evidently can be had at a stocking-stuffer price at reader Vincent K.’s local Walmart. Veni, Vidi, Vita There is, officially, a new gaming machine on the market. The PS Vita went on sale in Japan today. Kotaku‘s Brian Ashcraft has comprehensive coverage of the device—what you…
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Video Playback Quality Poorer Under New Xbox Dashboard: Report
The Xbox 360’s video player does not display video properly, a problem that testers reported during the new dashboard’s beta period, and one confirmed by Eurogamer this weekend. The issue seems to be that the new dashboard forces videos to display at limited-range RGB levels, which in layman’s terms means the color looks washed out.…
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