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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mister First [Update]
Unlike yesterday with NWBZPWNER Jarod, I don’t think we can get Andrew House (left) and Mic-Droppin’ Jack Tretton (right) to judge this week’s contest. Maybe Joey Chiu, the first guy to buy a PlayStation 4 at the launch event on Thursday, can get in touch with us. [Update: He just did!] Luke lifted this still…
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One million PlayStation 4s were sold to customers in the first 24 hours the console was available, Sony said in a news release this morning. The PS4’s Nov. 15 launch was in the U.S. and Canada only. Sony has said it expects to sell 3 million by year’s end. The PS4 launches in Europe and…
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Sunday Comics: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Nov. 13. Read more of Penny Arcade Brawl In The…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make ‘Shop, Not Warcraft: The Winners
As mentioned an hour ago, this week’s ‘Shop Contest is being judged by none other than the subject himself: Jarod, who cosplayed South Park’s “NWBZPWNER” at Blizzcon a week ago. He has a critique for five of you, but gives his overall No. 1 to adrianssons! Remarks of the Judge: 1st Place: adrianssons “This man…
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Meet NWBZPWNER. He Has Come to Judge You.
A week ago we featured this guy, who cosplayed NWBZPWNER, the loathsome griefer from South Park‘s seminal “Make Love Not Warcraft“ episode of 2006. Then we used him for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Then we got in touch. His name is Jarod, and he’ll be grading your entries. Jarod, 33, lives in Southern California, only…
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For Sale: A Rare Pac-Man Bootleg from Arcade Gaming’s Golden Age
This Craigslist advertisement for a Pac-Man arcade cabinet tells a sweet and sentimental story about its life with its owner, and its role as a favored sleeping perch for his cat. But it may overlook its real value to collectors: It’s a rare, illegal clone of the game, known as “Hangly-Man.” The seller, a “Pac-Man…
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Reach Through the TV with MIT’s Amazing Kinect-Controlled Project
This is called a Dynamic Shape Display. MIT built it, and it uses a Kinect sensor. In one of its applications, instead of a user in real life manipulating something on a TV, it puts the user on a TV, manipulating something in real life. See for yourself. inFORM, the name of the display, has…
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One California City is the Scene of the First Two PS4 Robberies
The PlayStation 4 officially launched at midnight Thursday, U.S. Eastern time. Three hours later, it was officially robbed for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the dawn of a new era in console crime! Not only that, happy PS4 customers were robbed on launch night twice in the same city: Bakersfield, Calif. the…
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How Long Can a PS4 Last in a Microwave Before Bursting Into Flames?
Here we go again. Kenny Irwin is a self-styled “professional microwaver,” who has melted down, let’s see, a Nintendo 2DS, a Wii U, a 3DS, and an Xbox 360. Think he’ll take on the PlayStation 4? Of course he will. For art! He’s very careful to say this is a “non working” PlayStation 4 but…
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How To Download The PS4 Day-One Patch Right Now
Before everyone across the country hops online to download the day-one patch for Sony’s next-gen console releasing tomorrow, you might as well prepare in advance. You can get the PS4’s 1.5 system right now, put it on a USB drive and have it ready to install immediately when your console arrives, no waiting to download…
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Michael Jordan’s Big Space Jam Win Gets a Gloriously Fake Documentary
Seventeen years ago on Friday, Space Jam hit theaters. That makes now the perfect time for this fake oral history of the film’s climactic throwdown between the Tune Squad and the Monstars, done with all the self-regarding gravitas of an ESPN 30-For-30 documentary. Yahoo! Screen’s sendup (Director: Tony Yacenda) is very well edited, but what…
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An Insomniac Games graphic arts intern, who worked on Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, lost her leg in a hit-and-run accident and is facing a long recovery and financial uncertainty with medical bills and college loans. Insomniac has donated $5,000 to Ana Kessel; a fund raiser for her has been established here. Update: An…
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Someone Stuck an Xbox One at the Bottom of a Shark Tank in New Zealand
Sorry, New Zealand—you are not the site of the first Xbox One to be sold in the world, despite this promotional stunt involving an Auckland aquarium. About 150 folks already have theirs and didn’t have to swim to the bottom of a shark tank for it. But Microsoft pressed ahead with this anyway because, hell,…
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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: The Mushroom reports on Bowser’s plans for Thanksgiving, which should of course end horribly. Rathorial offers Last-Gen Hero kudos to Gears of War 3 and Aestevalis introduces you to “The Wrestling Torta.” Mmmmm, tasty. Don’t forget that you can always go join the voices talking…
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A 500GB PlayStation 4 Will Give You About 400GB of Storage
A 500GB PlayStation 4 actually has a little more than 400GB of available storage, meaning you’re going to fill that drive up even faster than you thought with the hefty mandatory installations of games like Killzone: Shadow Fall. That’s according to a series of Tweets from a lucky user named CJ who got his PlayStation…
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Xbox One Call of Duty Offers Better Framerate than PS4, Say Reviewers
The furor that kicked up two weeks ago over Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ native resolution on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One appears to have gotten its sequel. With reviews of the Xbox One version trickling in today, some are saying the Xbox One does not suffer the framerate drops that were reported in…
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