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Activision Seizes “ModernWarfare3.com” from Battlefield 3 Fanboy
Two months ago, after discovering that the owner of “ModernWarfare3.com” was first using the site to spew some fanboy hate about the game, and then redirect visitors to Battlefield 3‘s official site, Activision moved to seize the domain. Yesterday, it won. Domain watchdog Fusible reports that the National Arbitration Forum ordered the name transferred from…
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Rookies Won’t Appear in NBA 2K12 Until the Lockout is Over
Interesting tidbit surfaced from a hands-on post about NBA 2K12 over at Operation Sports: None of the rookies taken in the NBA Draft will appear in the game until the league resolves its labor dispute with the players’ union. Once the lockout is over, whenever it’s over, 2K Sports will publish a roster update that…
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Put Da NFL Preview on My Back, Week One: Saints vs. Packers, with the Greg Jennings YouTube Guy
Remember Demetry James? The man whose breathless narration of Greg Jennings 99-yard, broken leg touchdown in Madden NFL 10 amassed 5 million YouTube views has joined Kotaku and Deadspin to announce our video preview of the NFL’s biggest game each week this season. [NSFW language] Today, we’re going back to the matchup that started it…
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The National Football League Meets Backbreaker in NFL Rivals
Yesterday brought word that NaturalMotion, the makers of the popular Backbreaker series of games for iOS devices, had landed a license to make an NFL game. It released today. NFL Rivals, for $2.99 (iTunes), combines the offense and defense games of Backbreaker and Backbreaker: Vengeance with authentic NFL uniforms and schedules, and adds some bragging…
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Locked-Out NBA Player Joins Pro Gaming League
Many NBA players have signed contracts with overseas teams as the 69-day NBA lockout drags on, certain to wipe out at least some of the regular season. One player is joining a different kind of professional league. Gordon Hayward (above left), in his second year with the Utah Jazz, wil compete in IPL 3: Origins,…
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Modders Celebrate the New NFL Season by Updating Tecmo Super Bowl to 2011
Ah, and now the football video game that really is just a roster and uniform update, and that’s all everyone wants it to be. Just in time for the NFL’s kickoff tomorrow, modders today released Tecmo Super Bowl 2012. It’s the same NES classic you’ve loved for 20 years, updated with the stars of the…
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A Look Inside the First EA Sports Retail Store
Back in June, EA Sports announced plans to open up three brick-and-mortar stores, appealing to sports fans’ wallets with games and apparel. This is the first location, the month-old EA Sports store located just at the Concourse C entrance at Charlotte (N.C.) Douglas International Airport. I got a look at it this morning when I…
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Did Backbreaker Just Get an NFL License?
Torsten Reil, the co-founder and CEO of NaturalMotion, on Sunday tweeted this picture which he says is from an iPhone version of Backbreaker: Vengeance, a spinoff of last year’s football game Backbreaker which challenged Madden NFL without any NFL branding. Reil’s picture shows someone for the Seattle Seahawks leaping over an Arizona Cardinals defender, in…
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Dutch Broadcaster Admits “Slavery: The Game” Trailer was Viral Ad
The trailer for “Slavery: The Game,” suspected to be a fake, is in fact so. Dutch broadcaster NTR made it as part of a viral campaign for a documentary series about the nation’s history in the slave trade. “It was by no means our intention to hurt people with the trailer. We chose this approach…
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Madden’s NFL Predictions — And a Few of Our Own, Vol. 3
It’s an annual tradition for Madden NFL 12 to simulate the upcoming season and offer its predictions of how the football season will unfold. Last year it correctly picked one of the Super Bowl participants—the eventual champion Green Bay Packers. This year, the game calls for a rematch of their title game with the Pittsburgh…
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ReviewsMadden NFL 12: The Kotaku Review
As the NFL lockout dragged all of the spring and much of the summer, Madden NFL 12 figured to be the only football coming to your TV this year, until a month before its release. From its conception, the game was meant to be a salve for the hurting hardcore fan, not a song for…
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New Multiplayer Details, Sumo Wrestling, and the Price of Being Elite: All the News from Call of Duty XP
Badges awarded at Call of Duty XP [above] give an idea of the activities that expo attendees enjoyed over the weekend. Kotaku spent the past two days the inaugural gathering for fans of Activision’s combat shooter, where the publisher revealed more details about the premium Call of Duty Elite subscription, we spent time with the…
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Captured Tiger
Captured Tiger | His season ended when he missed the cut at the PGA Championship three weeks ago, so Tiger Woods is on the virtual links instead, doing motion-capture work for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 (Photo by brerwolfe/Flickr) How You’ll ‘Connect’ to Others in Call of Duty Elite Activision’s social network and stat-tracking service…
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Freddie Wong is Officially The Man Now
We would never call master filmmaker Freddie Wong a sell-out. But, the use of the SharpShooter and the Resistance 3 setting (with animations by Insomniac Games), right as both are part of a big ad campaign, does make it seem this was, well, commissioned. If so, who cares; Freddie Wong has absolutely earned it. And…
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Culture
Disgaea 4 and Some Other Games
I’ve been hearing it for a month about Disgaea 4 not being included in the Coming Soon for Sept. 6 alongside other games such as Resistance 3, Driver: San Francisco, Dead Island and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. So here you go: Disgaea 4, here on the front page, big as Christmas, is coming out this…
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League of Legends Shutting Down Mac Support
After about a year of beta testing, Riot Games is canceling Mac OS support for League of Legends at midnight on Tuesday. In a statement, Riot said it made the decision because “our current approach regarding the Mac platform won’t guarantee the quality and frequent updates we deliver today on the PC.” While this is…
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Love Train
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. •Ten Greatest Train Levels [Megabits of Gaming] It’s more than just a staple of westerns (though I was disappointed not to see Red Dead Revolver…
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Peter Moore: EA Sports’ NBA Game “Will Take a Few Years” Before It Competes with NBA 2K
Though recently promoted to Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer, EA Sports’ old boss, Peter Moore, still is involved with products coming out of that division. And in an interview with IndustryGamers, he said he doesn’t expect their next NBA simulation, due in 2012 after a two-year hiatus, to compete with NBA 2K right out of…
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Bastion‘s Creator Says There’ll Be No DLC for the Game
The widely acclaimed action RPG Bastion will not be getting any DLC—at least DLC that extends the story—the game’s developer said in an interview. “We have no plans to extend the game in that way,” Greg Kasavin, the game’s writer and creative director, told The Morton Report. “As I was saying before, we held nothing…
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CultureShop Contest
Smash Mountain
No-brainers make for the best ‘Shop Contest ideas and this one was a lead-pipe lock as soon as it was spotted on Tuesday. This log flume full of Smash Bros aficionados takes the gold for best roller-coaster reaction shot of all time, but we’re going to make it better. The exploitable potential of this really…
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