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Box Scores: A Shooting Suspect
Word to the wise: If you’re playing a ranked match of NBA 2K11, leading by two with less than a minute left, and your opponent calls timeout to bring in someone you’ve never heard of, good chance he’s the shooter. Whomever had the Lakers against Kotaku reader Mobile Vulgus‘ San Antonio Spurs learned that the…
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The Moneysaver: Smokey Deals
Well, thank you, Mr. Bandit. And as the pursuer, may I say you’re the goddamnedest pursuee I’ve ever pursued. Now that the mutual bullshit is over, where are the coupons, you sumbitch? Hardware • Sony Playstation 3 160GB Console plus $50 Amazon Credit for $299.99 with free shipping. Held over from last week, the deal’s…
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L.A. Noire Trailer Leaked; Releases May 17
Someone leaked the L.A. Noire trailer that was supposed to go out on Monday. Too late, we now know that Rockstar’s crime thriller will arrive May 17. You’ll solve many crimes in the game; here we learn about the biggest. A serial killer is an unusual direction for a story set in 1947. People have…
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The Week in Review: Greatest Of The Year
In this week Kotaku offered its four nominees for Game of the Year and engaged a public discussion of which deserved the honor. Hundreds of you joined the fray, which was the purpose all along. The arguments for the nominees were, roughly speaking: Most fun (Black Ops); Best in class (NBA 2K11); Best of two…
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The Resolutions
I’m not a fit guy, partly because I eat like crap and drink like a carp. But I go to the gym, if only to burn off the bad calories. And January is the worst month for going. We’re on Jan. 21, which means another three weeks, at least of “The Resolutions” monopolizing the cardio…
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Which One Of These Pitchers Is Not Like The Other?
Roy Halladay and Dallas Braden threw perfect games last season, the first time two occurred in the same year. Joined with Mark Buerhle’s perfecto in 2009, that’s three in 365 days. What’s Tim Lincecum doing in this MLB 2K11 spot? The fifth pitcher here, Justin Verlander, threw a no-hitter – not a perfect game –…
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StarCraft Modder’s Tense Week Gets A Storybook Conclusion [Corrected]
A week ago, Ryan Winzen was a college student with another year and half until completing his degree. Today, he’s the mod community’s Cinderella story, with a foot in the door at one games studio and a pat on the back from another. [Correction] An earlier version of this story misidentified Winzen by his last…
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PS3 Missing Homefront DLC Because Sony’s Focused On Killzone 3, Says Studio
All downloadable content for the America-under-siege title Homefront will come to the Xbox 360 first, similar to extensions for other major titles in the past. Homefront’s developer said the PS3 missed out because, well, Sony’s not interested. “Sony really didn’t come to us and say, ‘We want to support you and get behind you.'” Kaos’…
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NASCAR 2011’s Delay Isn’t Due To Points System Change
Earlier this week Eutechnyx, the studio behind NASCAR’s revival on console gaming, delayed NASCAR 2011 to March 29. Then word passed that the racing series will refining its championship points structure for the next season. Were the two related? No. At least according to Gregg Baker, the Eutechnyx community leader. Speaking to Operation Sports, Baker…
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How Dead Space 2 Tuned Its ‘Meat Cello’
Nearly a year ago, the Dead Space 2 production team crowdsourced one of the game’s signature kill animations, in which the player and a necromorph are locked in combat. “Meat Cello,” which you’ll see when the game releases, was chosen. Daniel Emmerson of Cornwall, England, was named winner last April. He spoke to Asylum about…
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MLB 2K11’s New Broadcast View Features Kotaku’s Camera Work
As you tour the 30 ballparks of Major League Baseball 2K11, you’ll see games there from a center field camera view unique to each stadium. I can vouch for this feature’s authenticity – because I did the work behind it. MLB 2K11 will feature a new broadcast-style presentation in which the angles of the center…
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Virtua Tennis Returns With Rare Triple Crown In Motion Gaming
Virtua Tennis 4 will support Kinect when it arrives this spring, making it just the second sports title with versions supporting all three motion gaming flavors: Wii, PlayStation Move and Kinect. By my reckoning there is only one title with currently available versions supported by all three devices – and that’s Zumba Fitness. Brunswick Pro…
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Not Much Bounce In Bouncing’s Step
Bouncing, a rather straightforward knock-out puzzle game from JRSoftWorx, confounded me for a solid 30 minutes until I realized the problem wasn’t the game, it was me. Again, colorblindness rears its head in gaming. In Bouncing, your job is to clear the board of bubbles colored in five different hues. Any grouping of three or…
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Facebook Game Satire Continues With ‘Cow Clicker Blitz’
Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers “seamless bovine integration.” Cow Clicker Blitz is a proof-of-concept of the robust leverages it can architect. Or something. Ian Bogost, the games scholar who built Cow Clicker, delighted in sending us an embargoed…
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“World of StarCraft” Will Go On, Likely Under A Different Name
Click to viewA YouTube takedown and a call from a top lawyer for a major games publisher notwithstanding, what happened this week to the programmer leading a fan-made StarCraft role-playing game must be the secret hope of many a modder. “World of StarCraft,” led by modder Ryan Winzell, will not be shut down by Activision…
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