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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 Feb. 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Feb. 25 – Read more of Nerf…
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Kotaku Shop ‘Contest: Few Winners, One Loser
Well, that sucked. I’m not going to bullshit you – I picked a bad ‘Shop Contest topic. When you go from 900 comments to 300 in a week, that’s a pretty fair judge of the subject’s merit, and I failed. I probably should have just told you to exploit the image of J Allard, sitting…
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Rockstar’s Nutball Domain Names Can Only Mean Grand Theft Auto V
From Weasel News to Maibatsu, Tw@ to Logger Beer and, of course, the Degenetron, Grand Theft Auto’s games are well known for delivering a pitch-perfect satire of the times in which they are set. The registration of five zany Web site names by Take-Two can only be for a Grand Theft Auto game, and they…
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Scare Yourself to Sleep with this Dead Space Night Light
Dead Space 2 Isaac Clarke Lamp, by DeviantArt’s TeamLando. Sculpted for a contest and a friend, says the Lando bros. “Nothing fancy, just super sculpey, acrylic paint and LED-shoelaces, with 70 hours worth of batteries in the back,” say the creators.
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Your Guide to Video Gaming’s Sportspocalypse 2011
Sportspocalypse. Sportsmageddon. Spörtsnarök? Whatever you want to call it, the coming month is packed with sports video game releases – a seven-way showdown of licensed sports titles in a month that normally sees only two baseball games. How’d we get to this point? The seven titles here all took different paths for specific reasons even…
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Minecraft’s Creator Ponders Adding Achievements
Noting that a lot of people dislike achievements, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says he’s still a fan of them, and thinks they could be useful to his runaway indie hit as a type of guide leading newcomers through the game, rather than implementing a heavy-handed tutorial that stifles creativity. “I’ve had the idea to…
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Ratings Board Says Teens Would Find Swinger Game ‘Beneath Them’
Even though the game ratings authority in the U.K. says “the average 16-year-old would think everything in We Dare was beneath them,” politicians, parents and media there are apoplectic that Ubisoft’s ridiculous swinger-party game was rated a 12 – meaning suitable for kids. “I have a 13 year old daughter and if I knew she…
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Here’s the 3DS Already Running an R4 Cartridge
Not 24 hours since its release, here’s the Nintendo 3DS running the notorious R4 flash cart. It’s not that much of a surprise – probably doesn’t even qualify as a hack, as a 3DS is fully backward compatible with DS cartridges, essentially what this is. But this does let you know that, yes, for those…
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The Quadruple-Double
Only four NBA players have recorded a quadruple double – double figures in four statistical categories in the same game. All but one were centers. None was a point guard. Kotaku reader Sean took the Boston Celtics against Memphis in an Association mode contest, having recently completed a trade that, like in real life, sent…
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The Moneysaver: Fleshy Headed Mutant, Are You Friendly?
I was the last one left after the nuclear holocaust, eh. The whole world had been destroyed, like the U.S. blew up Russia and Russia blew up U.S. Fortunately, I had been offworld at the time. There wasn’t much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So’s I spent most of my time…
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Watch Women Beat the Crap Out of Each Other on a Plywood Floor
Supremacy MMA, the sports/fighter hybrid that takes a raw, underground look at mixed martial arts, made waves earlier in the week when it revealed two female fighters would appear in the game. Supremacy, pardon the pun, pulls no punches regardless of gender. A woman stands the chance of being beaten bloody, just as much as…
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Kinect-Rigged Robot Could Help With Future Quake Recovery
An earthquake fixed attention and sympathy this week on New Zealand, where more than 100 died and more than 200 still are missing. Authorities probing the rubble surrounding Christchurch find some buildings too unsafe to enter. A Kinect-enabled robot, developed by British researchers, could help in such situations. Engineers at the U.K.’s University of Warwich…
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No Modern Warfare 3 Reveal Next Week; Activision Says Countdown Site is a Hoax
Activision, the publisher of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, says a countdown website hinting at the announcement of a Modern Warfare sequel next week is a hoax, a company representative says. Activision has nothing to do with it or the mailing of novelty dogtags to the speciality press today, viral promotions that both…
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Needless to Say, This Bulletstorm Video is NSFW
While no character in Bulletstorm has the name, the game’s script does seem overly concerned with the activities of someone named “Dick.” Here’s a compilation – by no means exhaustive – of two-dozen references to aforesaid Mr. Richard, within the span of a minute. Last year, Mafia II easily beat the video game record for…
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And Dudes Dream of Electric Sheep
Even when you work from home you can still dream about work, though it does take that whole “I went to work naked,” anxiety dream off the table because hey, who’s around? I might be butt naked typing this right now. Think on that for a little bit. When you work in this space, though,…
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A Brutal Initiation to PvP — But One I Chose
I was adjusting my costume atop a skyscraper in Gotham City when a tour bus soared up into view and hovered there. There was a red diamond on my mini-map, meaning an enemy human player. Had I created Wile E. Coyote here in D.C. Universe Online, I would have cowered under a tiny umbrella, or…
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Team Fortress 2 Map Update Gives You the Li’l Chew Chew Who Could
Team Fortress 2 brightens your day with a title update that brings three community maps to the game, including an adorable payload affectionately dubbed “Li’l Chew Chew.” You get Nightfall, a payload race map by Aaron ‘Psy’ Garcha and Paul Good set in “a damp logging site, in the middle of the rain, in the…
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German Pols Have a LAN Party in the Reichstag
Germany’s government has a rather sensitive relationship with video games. Reports of official censorship often involve the country, either for violent content or the fact that Nazis are useful game antagonists – and you know how they feel about that. Sensational crimes with ties to “Killerspiele,” have stirred calls for outright bans of violent games.…
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