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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rosemary’s Babies: The Winners
With a face only a mother could love—or a psychopath—My Little Baby 3D adorably spit up on the 3DS last week. We gave you several blood-curdling screenshots and asked you to do your worst. Happily, you kept the really gruesome stuff to a bare minimum. There are 17 finalists inside, including overall No. 1 Docherty!…
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Cuba Actually Had Arcades. Today They Were All Shut Down.
Cuba has formally cracked down on its nascent arcade businesses, specifically forbidding their operation after they had opened and operated in a gray area uncovered by the law there for the past three years. Arcades and movie theaters are banned—”immediately”—Cuba’s government said on Saturday, according to the CBC. These establishments are not among the 200…
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Charity Gaming Marathon Site Taken Down by Hackers [Update: It’s Back]
Earlier in the day, Extra Life, an annual fund raiser held by Sarcastic Gamer was down for more than an hour because of a DDoS attack, organizers said. The site returned around 5:15 p.m. Extra Life benefits the Children’s Miracle Network, and has been held annually since 2008, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars since…
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Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer
You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…
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Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode
Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…
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Feds Say Microsoft Contractor Made $500K Trafficking Modded Xbox 360s
A Washington man made almost half a million dollars selling Xbox 360s modified to play pirated games, the FBI alleges, but here’s the kicker—he did so while he was a Microsoft contractor, and even after he was sued by Activision for pirating its games. Shawn Guse, 27, of Bothell, Wash., five years ago paid Activision…
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Meet BaneDad—the Inevitable Arch-Nemesis of BatDad
Surely you have heard of BatDad by now. He’s had a Today Show appearance. He’s had a ‘Shop Contest. He even has an agent, or so we’ve heard (from said agent). But every superhero needs an archnemesis. That’s why we now have BaneDad. BaneDad is the alter ego of New York comedian Anthony Apruzzese. Nobody…
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“Warcraft RTS: Alliance and Horde”—which one modder, tired of waiting 10 years for Warcraft IV, quit his job to build—just got its 1.0 release. Made with the StarCraft II editor, it’s a richly detailed mod that returns the series to its long-forgotten RTS roots. Lots of details and screens here.
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Forget About Titanfall Ever Coming to PlayStation [Update]
In a conference call to investors, Electronic Arts’ Blake Jorgensen just said that Titanfall is, “for the life of the title,” exclusive to Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. So the game is not a timed exclusive to Microsoft platforms. Titanfall’s Microsoft exclusivity has been well known since the title was announced at E3 but…
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Electronic Arts has budgeted $40 million to settle lawsuits brought by college football players against its NCAA Football series, which EA Sports canceled last month. The publisher reported the figure to investors today. Though the settlement has yet to be made public, the figure is consistent with rumors reported in late September.
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How EA Sports Made The Best Golfer In The World Irrelevant
The end of Tiger Woods as the face of video game golf was set in motion years ago, and it had nothing to do with Perkins waitresses or a nine-iron through the rear windshield. It had nothing to do with a two-year winless streak or a drought, now spanning five years, without a major championship.…
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The ESRB Brings You This Unbearably Cute Reminder About Game Ratings
Man, I don’t have kids (that I know of) and I’m dawwwwwing all over this PSA that the ESRB just put out. It’s a reminder that it can be hard to say no when your kid’s so excited for Ninja Attack!, or whatever they’re clutching, and you want him or her to be happy. But…
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Halo: Spartan Assault is Coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Halo: Spartan Assault—the top-down, twin-stick shooter released over the summer for Windows 8 PCs and mobile devices—is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One by the holidays, Microsoft said this morning. The game on consoles will feature a new online co-op mode, and new missions showcasing the mode. The Flood will also be an…
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Tiger Woods and EA Sports Part Ways, Ending 16-Year Run Together
The Tiger Woods PGA Tour series will end its 16-year run in 2013 as EA Sports announced it has parted ways with the star golfer. EA Sports will continue a golf simulation under PGA Tour branding on next generation consoles, the publisher said today. Daryl Holt, the vice president and general manager for golf for…
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Pikachu Gets a Speaking Role in Upcoming Pokémon ‘Detective’ Game
Last week, Japan broadcaster NHKteased an upcoming program featuring a new Pokémon game starring Pikachu. That show has now aired and it shared more on the game, which appears to be a detective-type puzzle game with Pikachu as your partner. And he’ll talk. Siliconera reports that Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of the Pokémon Company, told…
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Gamers More Numb to Pain, Others’ Misery, Say Scientists
I’m not sure what to make of this study, by researchers in Germany and Australia. On a literal level, RPG gamers are better than others at fishing paper clips out of a container of ice-cold water. Scientists think that means they’re desensitized either to pain or, going further, important life events, even. The study, recently…
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Ryse is Gonna Beat the Truth Out of You. Or Stab It, Whatever Works.
If Ryse’s main character, Marius Titus, is on a truth-finding mission, as this live-action trailer for the Xbox One game suggests, then he has a rather confrontational approach to conducting an inquiry. No, I think this is more a sword-and-sandals tale of vengeance. Come on, once he confronts Nero (or whoever that is at the…
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