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There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
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Another All-Time Great Sues EA Sports Over Its College Games
Another hall-of-fame sports star—Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great—has sued Electronic Arts over what he calls the unauthorized use of his likeness from his college career more than 50 years ago. Russell, who is plainly “Center #06” of the University of San Francisco’s 1956 team in NCAA Basketball 09, is one of the biggest names…
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The Rarest, Longest-Lost Atari 2600 Cartridge—Once Sold Door-to-Door—is Finally Found
Before the infamous crash of console gaming in the early 1980s, third-party cartridge development was somewhat a wild-west affair. Development costs were negligible compared to present times and, without the need for a presence in online distribution channels, a garage-built game might actually turn a profit on door-to-door sales. Thus Extra-Terrestrials was born. Skill Screen…
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Here is How Star Wars: Galaxies Will Be Won
With the dawning of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Wars: Galaxies, aka “that other old MMO,” is headed for extinction. The game is going to wind up with a gigantic PvP throwdown for dominance settling once and for all (sorta) who runs the galaxy, Empire or Rebels. Here’s how it will be scored. It’s…
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Tiger Woods 13 will be EA Sports’ First Kinect Game
Somewhat obscured by the promotion surrounding Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13‘s fan-voted cover contest is the fact the game, when it arrives in March, will be the first EA Sports title fully playable on Xbox 360 with Kinect. Peter Moore, then the EA Sports president, announced back at E3 that the label would begin offering…
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VVVVVV Coming Soon to Nintendo 3DS
The superbad ultrahard old-school platformer VVVVV, which debuted to raves when it released nearly two years ago, is making its way to the Nintendo 3DS and, yes, the game will be presented in 3D. Nicalis will publish the game to the Nintendo 3DS eShop but did not specify a release date. However, anyone headed to…
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Culture
The Winner of the Sunday Comics Playoff is …
Kotaku readers have chosen Legacy Control over seven other contenders to be the new feature in our Sunday Comics roundup. Congratulations to Javis Ray, the comic’s writer and illustrator. Legacy Control will begin appearing this Sunday. Thanks to all who voted, and thanks to everyone for making Sunday Comics a popular weekend feature for more…
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Getting Shafted was Never This Much Fun
In, Mechanic Panic, you’re an elevator maintenance guy on his worst and, inevitably, last day of the job. You will die. The question it poses is how will you choose to spend it? Saving your own skin? Or trying to save others? Maybe that gives a little too much narrative credit to the game, an…
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EVE Online Boss Grovels for Forgiveness After a Summer of Fiascoes
Wracked by boneheaded decisions involving game expansions and the sale of virtual goods, EVE Online‘s community has been in an uproar for several months. The outrage was so loud that the game’s publisher has now prostrated himself in begging forgiveness, with a 1,500-word self-flagellating unconditional apology. “The estrangement from CCP that many of you have…
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‘Object Rape’ by Wii Remote Sends Utah Man to Jail
A Utah man is in jail after he raped a 12-year-old boy with a Wii remote, according to authorities in in a Salt Lake City suburb. Police say the 26-year-old assailant was angered that the boy and his friends had been teasing him. Nicholas Parry is in the Salt Lake County jail facing charges of…
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Should You Buy NBA 2K12? Yes.
NBA 2K12 is out there ready to be purchased, or rented, and played. But should you invest the time and money? Here’s Kotaku‘s Gut Check: Stephen Totilo: Yes, though I gotta say I haven’t played the game. I played last year’s NBA 2K11 and, not even caring about sports games, was blown away. So if…
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A Sports Video Game Outsold Gears of War 3‘s Launch
EA Sports’ hot streak at retail continues to ride strong; FIFA 12 sold 3.2 million copies in its first week, the label reports, citing internal analysis. That means FIFA 12‘s launch was bigger than Gears of War 3‘s That’s a global figure buttressed by interest in the world’s most popular sport; it’s also a multiplatform…
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From a Bit Player to a Mobile Force, Apple’s Gaming Legacy Under Steve Jobs
Popularly regarded as a distant runner-up to the Windows PC, Apple nonetheless played key and even dominant roles in shaping the history of video games over the past 35 years, emerging from an utterly marginalized brand in home computer gaming to a force almost unilaterally shaping the course of mobile gaming today. The company’s founder,…
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Tiger Woods 13 Sounds Like It’s Adding Celebrities to the Roster
As it stages two fan-voted playoffs to choose the next cover in the series, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 has also revealed that the game’s stable of 22 golf professionals will be joined by what sound like celebrity golfers. Craig Evans, EA Sports‘ marketing director for the Tiger Woods series, told Kotaku today that the…
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Every Night is Basketball Appreciation Night in NBA 2K12
It is 2 a.m. and I’m going to score 60 points with Dell Curry. Having unlocked the 1992-1993 Charlotte Hornets—you had better believe it was the first thing I did in NBA 2K12—I’ve started Dell in place of Kendall Gill and he is, well, he’s beating his son. Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors have no…
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The Sith’s Gonna Do It Again
The Sith’s Gonna Do It Again | Graffiti spied on a utility pole on the Eugene, Ore. side of the Knickerbocker Bridge. Vote on Sunday Comics‘ Newest Strip Last week we took nominations for a new feature to take Rooster Teeth‘s place in Sunday Comics. After reading through all of your suggestions, we’ve come up…
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This Guy is Hellbent on Getting a DotA 2 Beta Key
Valve opened a photo-submission contest offering beta keys for DotA 2 and asking fans to show just how much they want one. The contest guidelines included the requirement that images be larger than 600 by 400 pixels. Think a billboard will do? Steven Addison talked a rep for Clear Channel, owner of this digital billboard…
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Culture
Rage With Your Machine
A jampacked Tuesday gives the core gamer Rage and Dark Souls. Sports fans get NBA 2K12 and loyal webheads will see Spider-Man: Edge of Time Today • Tetris Axis (3DS) Tuesday • Dark Souls (PS3, 360)—The successor to From Software’s uncompromisingly challenging Demon’s Souls sends Xbox 360 gamers to hell and back for the first…
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Video of the New Xbox Dashboard Surfaces After Leak
A recent leak of the latest software development kit for Xbox 360 included the new Xbox Live dashboard, which rumor has it will be released on Nov. 15, and scuttlebutt has it some kind of cable TV service could arrive with it. This two minute video [hit mute unless you want to hear some reggae]…
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Not Necessarily the News
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. • Top Seven Reasons the News Doesn’t Want You Playing Video Games [Ranker] A baker’s half-dozen rounding up the MSM’s greatest misses from recent history.…
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