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Ms. ‘Splosion Man Crosses Over With Pinball FX 2 Next Week
Although known primarily for its Marvel Comics tables, the pinball simulator Pinball FX 2 has other crossovers, like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Street Fighter. The game’s latest team-up is with Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man, and it is available Aug. 31. The add-on runs 240 Microsoft points. (Pinball FX 2 is an Xbox Live Arcade…
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Check Your Fantasy Football League’s Scores When You Play Madden NFL 12
The NFL’s official fantasy football service, offered through NFL.com, will be integrated into Madden NFL 12, updating gamers with scores and results from their leagues, standings, schedules and more. The move, a first for Madden, helps drive interest to the NFL’s fantasy offerings, one of the few realms in which it is competing head-to-head for…
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Why Charles Barkley Isn’t Appearing in NBA 2K12
2K Sports attempted to include basketball great Charles Barkley in NBA 2K12‘s “NBA’s Greatest” mode, showcasing dozens of superstars spanning the game’s history, but the two sides were unable to reach an agreement bringing the hall-of-famer to the video game. He will not appear in NBA 2K12 “There’s no doubt in our minds that Charles…
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Midweek Deals: Refurbished Kinect, Wii & Mario Kart Bundle, and More
A batch of several good deals have come in since Saturday’s edition of The Moneysaver. See below for deals on refurbished Kinect sensors—$15 lower than in previous Moneysavers—and the lowest price ever for the Wii/Mario Kart bundle. Hardware • Refurbished Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor w/ Kinect Adventures game is $79.99 + $5 shipping Tuesday from…
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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Hits PSN Next Month With All of the 360’s DLC
We heard back in July that Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, last year’s cooperative multiplayer platformer on Xbox Live would be making its way to the PS3. Konami has now said to expect it in September. It will also feature a new, local four-player cooperative mode in addition to the six-player online cooperative mode, the “Beauty,…
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All Your Gamescom 2011 News Right Here: Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Dark Souls, Guild Wars, Cosplay and Lots More.
The giant Gamescom show in Germany wrapped up this weekend, but the coverage won’t stop here. We have more galleries, impressions, news and notes from days four and five here, and the crew returning from Germany will have much more to share as the week unfolds. For now, here is a round-up of the latest…
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Culture
Body Modification
Deus Ex: Human Revolution leads us back to the land of big release weeks, serving up the third game in the Deus Ex series and, canonically, the prequel to the first. Other names of note include another map pack from Call of Duty: Black Ops and Street Fighter III‘s “Third Strike” Online Edition. Tuesday •…
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Kinect was Tested by Dropping It on Concrete
The Microsoft engineers building Kinect “knew this thing was going to be viewed as a toy,” says one, “and so it was going to be abused.” So they abused it first, toughening the thing up to the point it could be dropped on concrete and still function. Now, it’s not said how high of a…
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Toilet Humor
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 10 Most Memorable Toilets in Video Game History [Piki Geek] I get the strong feeling I’ve seen something like this elsewhere and, sure enough,…
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Pokémon in Minecraft? Hell, Why Not?
Two worlds of obsession collide with this Minecraft mod under development, bringing Pokémon into the game. Ten minutes of gameplay! Learn how to make a Pokéball! (redstone, coal, wool). Catch a Pidgey! Rename him! The mod’s maker, Seagoingmanatee, says he hopes to bring all 151 original Pokémon, plus Team Rocket, battle support, and lots more.…
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It’s Not Looking Good for the Videogame History Museum
Collectors, archivists, whatever you wish to call them, Joe Santulli, Sean Kelly and John Hardie have a collection of video gaming history numbering greater than 30,000 pieces, and are trying to establish a West Coast operation to house all of it, and from which a touring show will originate. They’re serious men with a serious…
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Where Are You Taking This … Thing?
Where there’s a games convention, there’s cosplay, and where there is cosplay, there is the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. One look at the Bumble wampa being escorted by Imperials on Friday, and I knew it’d be grist for our challenge today. I know we did a cosplay gallery a month ago with Comic-Con, but there are…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves Part IX: The Talkening
Hey, hey, Weekend TAY, how many threads have you started today? It is time to talk amongst yourselves. Discuss with those who are here. Converse, in the company of yourself and others. Speak, whilst all are present. Big thanks to Sloober_Tooth for today’s work of art. You too can be a featured TAY all-star. Just…
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Sunday Comics: The Best of Burdened
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 Aug. 15. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Aug. 19. – Read more of Nerf…
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The Summer of Valve Winners
Last week’s protest for Half-Life 3 outside Valve’s headquarters provided the creative inspiration for the latest Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, in which Gabe Newell was presented with a set of fresh demands that are only slightly less likely to be met. We’ve got 20 finalists inside, plus Pikmin and Pokémon fan Hermain Cain! Leading off, GiantBoyDetective…
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Clever Xbox Live User Sues Microsoft for $500 Billion (or 625,000,000,000 MS Points)
Some cletus down in Arkansas opines that Microsoft has to pay him $500 billion because it didn’t answer, in writing, a mailing designed to not get a written response to his demands for $500 billion. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is your source for all the fun, courtesy of a federal civil complaint filed Monday by one…
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Who Owns Madden‘s Virtual Playbook?
They have all the secrets to make you a better Madden gamer. “SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OVER THE COMPETITION,” says the website. “DOMINATE ONLINE.” It sounds like a huckster pitch from any of the numerous, unofficial, strategy sites dedicated, for the last decade, to selling tips and secrets to winning in Madden‘s gladiatorial multiplayer community. But it’s…
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“Rise of the Cakeling,” LittleBigPlanet 2‘s Move-Enabled DLC, Arrives Sept. 14
LittleBigPlanet 2 will roll a PlayStation Move-enabled DLC pack on Sept. 14. Pricing isn’t set yet, but with the ability to create Move-enabled Sackboy games, as that video shows, this could be the most useful application of that controller’s features of any PS3 game out there. There’s all sorts of other stuff include in the…
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Minecraft-Inspired Shoes to Help a PC That Went SSSSS-Bang [Update]
KyozoKicks, a custom shoe designer featured recently in Official PlayStation Magazine (and before on Kotaku), intended to wear these Creeper Vans to Gamescom this week. Instead, as his PC up and died, he’ll be selling them to raise money toward a new one. Only one pair exists, and KyozoKicks doesn’t plan on making more. They…
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