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For the Second Time, Tiger Woods will Share the Cover of His Own Game
Golfers Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy prevailed in a three-week vote-off to determine the co-stars of the cover of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, which will be the second game in the series’ 15-year run to feature a second golfer in addition to Woods. McIlroy, who charged upon the international golf scene with a dominant…
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At Age 29, a Game Developer Must Battle Back from a Stroke
When he got the vision floater in his right eye that morning at work, Mikey Neumann figured in the next 30 minutes he’d be asking someone to drive him home so he could fight off a migraine. But the walloping headache never came. By 6 p.m., he was still in the Gearbox Software office, playing…
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If This is the Only NBA on Your TV All Year, NBA 2K12 Supplies the Proper Camera Angle
Baseball parks’ larger, varying dimensions and nonstandard playing areas make for unique camera angles, familiar for fans who watch the local broadcasts but markedly different to others. MLB 2K11 (and MLB The Show 11) sought to replicate this in this year’s game. But just because the court dimensions are uniform and the NBA’s arenas range…
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Cheapest Price Ever for Kinect and Two Games
• Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures and Child of Eden (download code) is $107.24, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $120 from Amazon. The previous best Kinect deal was a $114 net value ($139 w/ $25 bonus credit) from Amazon, but that was for the original bundle without Child of Eden. [Dealzon]
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A Night at the Symphony
A Night at the Symphony | A 70-piece symphony and choir perform selections from The Legend of Zelda’s 25 year history at The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert in Los Angeles on Oct. 21, 2011. (Photo by Nintendo of America) A Guide to Batman’s Arkham City Wardrobe By our count, there are 14…
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Love is a Battlefield
Battlefield 3 releases on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on Tuesday. Other titles include Kinect Sports Season Two for the 360 and Kirby’s Return to Dreamland on the Wii. Downloadables this week include Daytona USA on XBLA and PSN, a free table for Pinball FX 2 and The War of the Worlds on Xbox 360.…
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Arkham City‘s Official Map App Gives Aid to Trophy Hunters
One of the more frustrating aspects of Batman: Arkham Asylum, for me, was the lack of a minimap in the hud. I appreciated the clean view afforded by a minimalist HUD, but it made hunting up Riddler Trophies and clues, with the aid of a GameFAQ, of course, a chore marked by constant pausing. While…
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Pumpkinheads
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Most Epic Halloween Gaming Pumpkins of All Time [Ranker] The fact Ranker included 10 links to Kotaku has absolutely noooooo bearing on my choice…
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A Guide to Getting Batman’s Arkham City Many Downloadable Add-Ons
By our count, there are 14 alternate costumes or characters you may play as in Batman: Arkham City, through a variety of promotions, pre-order bonuses, and timed-exclusive downloadable content available now. The “good” news, I suppose, is that all of this stuff will be available at some point—for a price. So if you’re intent on…
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Man Gets 27 Years for Killing Crying Baby Who Interrupted His Game
William Johnston was on this Earth for only one month. Andrew Keith Johnston, for 19 years. And he’ll be spending the next 27 in a Tennessee prison, whose population generally doesn’t look favorably upon child killers. Andrew Johnston, of Normandy, Tenn., pleaded guilty on Monday and was sentenced on Thursday. In October 2010, he was…
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Wild Card Weekend
So, yeah, the infamous wheelbarrow picture from Friday gave a lot of you premature ‘shopulation. I figure this is as good a time as any to try something I’ve been saving for a rainy day: the wild card weekend. In the more than 18 months we’ve had the ‘Shop Contest I’ve refrained from making Kotaku…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
I hate to be a scrooge, but let’s get on with standard time. This waking up in total pitch darkness at 6:30 a.m. is for the birds. I’ve been ready to fall back for about a month. Thanks to Shadoroch for this morning’s TAYpic. Thanks to ‘Shop Contest all-star pan1da7 for his numerous submissions too;…
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Sunday Comics: Subjective Objective
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Oct. 17.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 18.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Put a Ring On It Winners
Last Sunday the ‘Shop Contest said “I do” to Bejeweled’s cartoon-crazy cubic zirconium. We’ve got 20 winners—and one animated .gif—plus Ruizc inside! Getting everything started, Zak Canard (19) went well off the map and looked to another PopCap title to create his bloody-good shop. SphessMahreen (16) took a ridiculous-sized gemstone up to an even more…
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Here’s the First Dumbass Thing the Mainstream Media Said About Grand Theft Auto III
Ten years ago today, Grand Theft Auto III released for the PlayStation 2. It became, in the words of Time “a national obsession.” In the mainstream media, it has since served as the No. 1 scapegoat for the corruption of youth through violent video games. Rightfully considered an epochal entry in video game design, the…
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How EA Sports Kept Loose Lips from Sinking Blitz
For 18 months, Dave Ross surfed forums and blogs and dreaded what he’d find. He couldn’t tell his kids what he was working on, lest they say something at school. Every day, when Ross booted up his computer at EA Sports, he clicked on the shared drive over the studio’s intranet, and then on the…
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Domain Registrations Sound Certain that Assassin’s Creed Movie is Coming
Variety reported on Wednesday that Sony Pictures and Ubisoft were in talks to make an Assassin’s Creed movie. Turns out Sony’s already registered 16 domains for such a picture, making this seem like a done deal. The domains were all registered on Oct. 20, the day before the Variety story, reports domain name eye-in-the-sky Fusible.…
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The Cel-Shaded Stylings of NBA 2K12‘s DLC
Somewhat lost in the shuffle with Thursday’s announcement of NBA 2K12‘s “Legends Showcase” DLC is the unique visual style the extension will carry. People seem to be fixated so much on the backstory of this and 2K’s motivations, and rightly so. This is the first paid post-release DLC extension for a 2K Sports title; it…
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Conan O’Brien Thinks Batman’s Getting Too Old for This Shit
Batman is Batman, he’s not like the Patterson family in For Better or For Worse in which everyone ages real-time. He was created more than 70 years ago and, as this Conan O’Brien sketch from Thursday imagines, he’d be a lot less badass if Batman: Arkham City didn’t lie about his age. Scroll down to…
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