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Madden NFL 12 Franchise Mode Gallery
Expanded rosters will make preseason games more meaningful as Franchise players decide who to cut and who to keep. Expanded rosters will make preseason games more meaningful as Franchise players decide who to cut and who to keep. As you scout rookies for the NFL draft, their ratings will be partially unlocked according to how…
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Madden NFL 12 Superstar Mode Gallery
A system of skill points, used to develop your created NFL superstar, is new to this year’s mode. A redone menu in Superstar mode. Superstars may ask for a trade to another team. Whether it’s honored is another thing altogether. Superstars may ask for a trade to another team. Whether it’s honored is another thing…
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Siege Hero Returns Fire Against Birds
Once upon a time, Armor Games published a flash game called Crush the Castle, and it was quite good. Then another studio came along, replaced the trebuchet with a slingshot, the ordnance with birds, and made off with all the gold in the land. Armor Games strikes back, sort of, with Siege Hero, an iPhone/iPad…
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Won’t Someone Think of the Children?
Won’t Someone Think of the Children? | A Los Angeles-area teenager takes to the streets for PlayStation Network, in a photo taken “just minutes” before service was brought back online in North America (Photo: Christopher Kirkman | Media Geeks) The PlayStation Network Returns; Normalcy Won’t Across North America yesterday evening, PlayStation Network returned after a…
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Culture
Here’s the Juice
Rockstar’s cop thriller L.A. Noire dominates this coming Tuesday, though RPG enthusiasts on the PC will want to take note of The Witcher 2. For those picking up Noire two DLC extensions are available the day of release via PSN and Xbox Live. Clarification: These extensions are preorder premiums; they are not DLC available for…
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Next Resident Evil Movie Might Be Called “Retribution,” Says Milla
Milla Jovovich takes a bunch of fan mail via Twitter, yet actually responds to it. When someone jokingly asked the Resident Evil star if the next film would be subtitled “Begins,” (it was the name used in an April Fool’s Day joke this year) she answered seriously. no, its not called”begins”lol! it”began” 10 yrs ago!…
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PSN Service Now Being Restored in Europe, Australia, Latin America
Reactivation of PlayStation Network, completed early this morning for all of North America, is now proceeding in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and South America, PlayStation Europe said through its official Twitter moments ago. When PSN service is restored, users must change their account passwords. Sony has posted guides for PS3 and PSP users on…
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Oregon Trials
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. •Nine Things to Name Your Oregon Trail Family [The Hairpin] We had a Star Wars text adventure in the computer lab in 8th grade. My…
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Music to Set Your Mood for L.A. Noire
For your listening pleasure, Rockstar Games has uploaded nine cuts from the L.A. Noire soundtrack, including the game’s title theme (embedded below) and two other original compositions. The tracks are hosted at the social music site SoundCloud. They’re not available for download, but if you’re chilling out in front of your computer this Sunday it…
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The PlayStation Network Returns; Normalcy Won’t
Across North America yesterday evening, PlayStation Network returned after a 23-day total blackout. In a process spanning about seven hours, the PlayStation 3’s online capabilities gradually reactivated state-by-state, beginning in New York and ending in Texas. As gamers rushed to message boards to verify the news in their precincts, the evening had the feel of…
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‘Shop Contest: Welcome Back PSN
Sometime around midnight on the west coast, PlayStation Network came fully online in Canada and the U.S. That quick-and-dirty image up there was my no-talent ‘shop to mark the occasion, but it’s no way to welcome back our PS3s to the wonderful world of online gaming. So that’s where you come in. Let’s draw daddy…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
By giving you permission to talk here I maintain the illusion of control over you. Talk! I said talk amongst yourselves! About games! Please? Thanks to Prof.Gast for today’s WTAY image. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics. See this thread for directions on how to do a…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
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 May 9. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published May 9. – Read more of Nerf…
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PlayStation Network Back Online in North America
Shortly past midnight, U.S. Pacific Time, Sony announced that PlayStation Network service had been restored in Canada, all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. PSN, down for 22 days following a massive cyberattack on April 19, continues to be restored in stages in Europe and in other regions. Upon logging back in, PSN account holders…
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Sony Online Entertainment Also Begins Restoration of Services
Sony Online Entertainment, the publisher of PC MMO titles also shut down by April’s massive cyberattack on the PlayStation Network, has also begun the reactivation of its network services, according to a statement by SOE. Restoration will also proceed in phases, much like PlayStation Network. It will return “nearly all of SOE’s portfolio of online…
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Marketing Survey Leaks Cover Art for ‘Hitman: Subtitle’
Evidently circulated before IO Interactive settled on Hitman: Absolution for the title of the latest sequel, a marketing survey asked respondents how they felt about three potential cover designs for the game. All featured the wonderfully ironic Hitman: Subtitle, the naming convention for the game since Hitman: Codename 47 in 2000.
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Freestyle Championship Winners
Some people misunderstood me last week. I didn’t say Michael Phelps was a jackass, only that he looked like one in a picture of him playing Kinect. Truth be told, everyone looks like a jackass in still photos of them playing Kinect. That’s why they’re so useful for the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, which saw a…
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Study of ‘Game Transfer Phenomena’ Examines Why Some Get Tetris-on-the-Brain
If you’ve ever closed your eyes and seen tetrominoes falling into place, or Angry Birds slamming into stone walls, you’re experiencing “game transfer phenomena,” and it involves more than mentally playing a game long after it’s finished. The first ever academic paper on this condition is due to be published in the International Journal of…
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A Walk-On Who Made the Team Wants You to Know What It Really Means
Alex Howell was the only freshman in the tunnel that Saturday, his chinstrap so tight it fused his jaw shut, 89,000 people packed into to the last row at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium. Earlier in the week the graduate assistant tapped Howell on the shoulder and asked if he’d like to dress for the game against…
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