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Fold Paper Like a F***ing Badass With Duke Nukem Forever Papercraft
Hey, chumps, if you’re not dropping the hundy on Duke Nukem Forever‘s “Balls of Steel” special edition, you can still get your hands on its macho-iest component, that being the papercraft. That there, what looks like a Minecraft skin of Duke, is the special papercraft you get if you buy the special edition. But there’s…
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This Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question was Good for $100,000 Today
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,” every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such. Yes, “I don’t think it’s…
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Little Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
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A Winner is Akuma in NES’ Pro Wrestling
Answering the bell in the NES classic Pro Wrestling is Street Fighter’s Akuma, who deploys the dreaded Shun Goku Satsu instead of a fork to the face like The Amazon. More images at the link, showing Akuma in-ring and his badass victory pose. Akuma: Pro Wrestler [pseudoroom design]
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Naming Rights
Don’t know about you, but when I see a name on a building, I usually think either that person or business built it, paid a lot to build it, or that person was dead at the time it was built. Otherwise, there’s really no prestige in having a building named for you. Today, Oakland-Alameda County…
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Nine-Year-Old Creates iPhone Game as PopCap Grants a Wish
We’re all familiar with the Make-a-Wish Foundation, who it supports, and why. With that out of the way, PopCap Games today announced that Allied Star Police, by the Seattle-area games designer Owain Weinert (pictured) will soon release for all iOS devices on the iTunes App Store. Weinert, a newcomer to the games development scene, is…
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Madden Gets in Trouble for Outing a Team’s New Uniform
EA Sports recently uploaded – then quickly yanked – a YouTube video teasing Madden NFL 12. Madden junkies love to pick these things apart for clues about this year’s new features. In so doing, they also found the Buffalo Bills’ new uniforms – a design not yet announced. You can see it in that image,…
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F.E.A.R. 3 Delayed A.G.A.I.N. [Corrected]
F.E.A.R. 3 (F.3.A.R. if you’re a dick) was originally planned for a winter 2010 release, then pushed to March, then pushed to May. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is pushing the PS3/PC/360 release yet again, to June 21 in North America, June 22 in Australia and June 24 in Europe.)
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And the PSN Outage’s First Class-Action Lawsuit is Already Filed
If the Great PlayStation Network Blackout is going to cost Sony $24 billion, as some estimate, you bet some hunk of that is going to be paid to lawyers, and already they are lining up. A California law firm today filed a lawsuit that seeks class action status, alleging Sony didn’t follow industry practices to…
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Peyton Hillis is Madden NFL 12‘s Cover Star
Fans selected Peyton Hillis, the Cleveland Browns running back, to grace the cover of Madden NFL 12. Hillis prevailed in a five-week, tournament style vote-off that drew nearly 13 million votes, and was a landslide winner over Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick in the final round, 66 percent to 34, with more than a million…
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Gravity Guy‘s A Fast Call — Up or Down
Melding the core distinctions of two of my favorite iPhone titles – Hoggy and Canabalt – is Gravity Guy by Miniclip, which released in December and was updated last week to introduce multiplayer. Like Hoggy, Gravity Guy is a platformer where you invert gravity to navigate obstacles, rather than jump. Like Canabalt, it’s a one-touch…
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Hay Days
Hay Days | Last Sunday I published a photo by Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros, a friend of mine going back nearly 20 years. Chris, a seasoned combat photojournalist, was killed Wednesday in Libya while documenting rebel fighting there against the Gaddafi regime. This picture is of us on March 3, 1997, on Hay Street,…
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The Real Story of ‘Chickey Cantor’
Well, I blew it. Monday Night Combat and Uber Entertainment dropped a story with perfect Easter ties in everyone’s lap on Friday, and I missed the point. Chickey Cantor, the crazy clucker you can rodeo-ride for big buxx in the game’s new title update, is not in fact named for Monday Night Combat P.A. Mickey…
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Going Dark
Holiday weekends in the U.S. typically foreshadow light weeks in game releases and the coming seven days is no different. Darkspore, for PC, is the top drop on Tuesday. There also is some DLC coming for Shift Unleashed and Outland, a downloadable title for PSN and XBLA. Tuesday Darkspore (PC) – ‘Diablo in Space’ is…
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Xbox Live Reacts To PlayStation Network Outage
Some have noticed that PlayStation Network is down and out at the same time Microsoft is running a free-to-play weekend for all Xbox Live account holders, across all of Europe. Electronic Theatre asked an Xbox Live rep how the company felt about the timing of such events: “Of course it’s regretful that Sony is encountering…
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Top 5 of 10: Game Show Games
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. •TV Game Shows Ideal for Kinect/Move [Megabits of Gaming] Sort of a wildcard topic here, but I’ll play along. Hole in the Wall is a…
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Advertisement Unlocked!
A couple weeks ago we were introduced to Kiip, at the forefront of an exciting new opportunity I’m sure you are all fascinated to participate in: Advertising. When you unlock achievements. Though Kiip seems to be focused on the mobile games sector for now, the prospect of getting a coupon for a free Jumbo Jack…
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When Your Favorite Game Is Proposing Marriage, The Answer Is ‘Yes’
She said yes. You’re dying to know, and Kotaku can confirm that for you now. Even though her marriage proposal came from a smart-aleck robot and contained references to herpes and, well, the big A, last night Tora told Ben yes, she will marry him, The proposal, delivered by Borderlands’ comedy-reliefbot Claptrap in a video…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Happy Easter, everyone. You know what I love about Easter? The premise of its secular observance proves children have no more intellect than that of an extremely drunk person. Think about it: “Hold on … now … OK … no, no hold on, wait a sec, so, you’re telling me – shut up … a…
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