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Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Jan. 10 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Jan. 10 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Jan. 10 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Jan.…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is Kotaku’s official forum for you to talk about video games. This paragraph also is a palindrome. Emordnilap a si osla hpargarap siht. Semag oediv tuoba klat ot uoy rof murof laiciffo sukatok si siht. I didn’t say it was a palindrome composed of more than 50 percent actual words. Hisilarn is the weekend…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Backstage at Nintendo World Winners
Our efforts to meme-ify a moment from the big 3DS public event in Japan last weekend bore prodigious fruit – more than 600 entries. But we still haven’t answered who that guy was. First, the inevitables Andy Bane (5) gives us Antoine Dodson, Berd (7) and Zigzagoon (20) gave us good treatments of Team Fortress…
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Belgian Postage Stamps Honor — New Super Mario Bros. Wii?
bpost, the postal service of Belgium, will put stamps featuring New Super Mario Bros. Wii on sale beginning Monday. Looks like it offers Mario with three different powerups, plus Yoshi. A sheet is €4,99. [via Polygonal Lawn, thanks Philip]
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Fight In The Shade Of 600 Arrows Launched By This Minecraft Contraption
Wait, we forgot to mention those arrows are on fire. Minecraft user ScottyDoesKnow built this dispenser array as a monument to overkill. The framerate only slows down when it shoots eggs. Or eggs and arrows. [thanks Trakata for the tip.]
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Boxing Is The Past; Long Live Boxing
Two years ago, EA Sports president Peter Moore called boxing “the past of fighting.” Mixed martial arts was the future, with his company hard at work on that game. Thursday, Moore wrote, “let me be clear, boxing’s not dead.” Moore also acknowledged the sport “clearly is not the cultural fixture it once was,” and is…
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Kinect-Controlled Gundam Mech Stands On Its Own One Foot
In the evolution of Kinect-controlled robotics, we’ve gone from a Roomba in November, to a robot moving its arms in December, now to one that may stand on one foot. We should be slaves to our robot overlords by May. This is a Kinect-controlled V-Sido humanoid robot, dressed to resemble a Gundam mech. Sort of…
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Can Sports Close Facebook Gaming’s Credibility Gap?
The coda for Facebook games, among serious gamers anyway, normally begins with a sneer at the idea and then an accounting of all the ways it’s not a video game. Would a sports title make any difference? Probably not. Well, not right now, anyway. Earlier this week PGA Tour Golf Challenge went live on the…
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Minecraft And Team Fortress 2 Is Like Comparing Weapons And Cows
Tuesday, a reader compared Minecraft and Farmville. Heresy! Would Team Fortress 2 be more apt? Both involve crafting, but where five cows equal one hat in Minecraft, the cost is more ridiculous in TF2. Very large infographic, by SplitScreen, inside. Minecraft vs. Team Fortress 2 [Split-Screen; higher-quality .png available there.]
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Box Scores: Beast Mode
Everyone saw Marshawn Lynch go 67 yards through the entire New Orleans defense to put away the Saints on Saturday. No more than 12 hours later, JuGGerNaut6372 performed his salute to Beast Mode with this run in Madden NFL 11. That’s the Raida Organization’s Brandon Myers on a 60-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter against…
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Glasses-Free 3D Solution …
This video is comprised of: English in a French accent, 38 seconds; what the hell is he putting on his face, 22 seconds; and HOLY GOD STOP DOING THAT TO YOUR EYES, 55 seconds. François Vogel, an innovative filmmaker and visual artist, here demonstrates why you should never complain about 3D glasses again. Interesting, definitely…
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The Moneysaver: The Devil’s Greatest Trick
You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it’d be a 3-for-2 used games deal and free shipping. Nominate your favorite movie to lead the next Moneysaver, and get starred if we use…
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The Week in Review: Crosshairs
Video games are not responsible for the mass killing in Tucson, Ariz. a week ago. But the suspect’s deranged ramblings in an online game’s forums put them in the spotlight. Gamers have, justifiably, long mistrusted their portrayal in these stories. The blame script is exceedingly familiar to the community by now, and it’s propagated by…
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The Invisible Batter of Baseball on the PlayStation Move
MLB 11 The Show will get PlayStation Move support but I wouldn’t put high hopes on it. The only supported feature will be a Home Run Derby mode, shown here, and that weird floating bat just strikes me wrong. CtrlAltKill brought this back from CES. The game has foregone the representation of a hitter, just…
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Minecraft’s New Musical “Note Blocks” Are Already A Triumph
Note blocks, which play a tone in one of two octaves, were added to Minecraft with the PC hit’s update yesterday. Already someone’s figured out how to make them play the introduction to the Portal theme “Still Alive.” YouTube poster Tritex989 made the music machine, which plays automatically thanks to redstone powering each note block.…
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In Letters From The Front, The Solemn Words Of Angry Birds
“I’m having trouble making sense of all this,” writes Red, from the War of Porcine Passive Aggression. “They tell me I can come home after we get three stars on 3-18.” Yeah, well, it ain’t gonna get no better on 3-19, corporal, I can assure you of that. Chris Riebschlager, a Kansas City web developer,…
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Getting A Casual Flick From Your Phone
FlickBuddies has a cheeky name that resembles another word if you glance at it quickly. The game does provide good, clean fun, though it still is a casual encounter. Two people can play this 99-cent iPhone game (even four on some of its 12 boards) but for large groups the iPad version (which costs a…
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