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At Long Last, The Masters Come To Video Games
Over the steady march of a dozen years’ progress, video games have brought us to all the sacred places in sports, awarded all their cherished trophies, and shared all their greatest traditions, except for one, A Tradition Unlike Any Other. This year, more than three years in the making – under unbelievable secrecy – EA…
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All Packed Up With Nowhere to Go
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Did You Keep Your 2010 Resolutions? I Almost did Some highlights from this weekend: Galaga World Record Falls Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network Taking Hiatus; More DLC Confirmed 2010: The Year In Gaming Red-Ringed Xbox 360 Faces Celebratory Firing Squad Lian Li PC-V2120 Full Tower Case Review Tactic 3D Sigma…
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Activision Threatens 600 UK Jobs Over Loss of Tax Breaks
Activision’s so incensed over the United Kingdom’s rollback of promised tax breaks for video games development that the publisher is considering the withdrawal of its 600-employee office from the country, according to The Telegraph. Though tax relief proposals had support from both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leadership in Parliament, the plans were scrapped in…
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Xbox 360 Toaster Is Part Of Your Complete Morning
The idea behind this casemod may sound ludicrous, but let’s think for a second. When was the last time a burglar went straight for a toaster? Of course, this is a toaster plugged into a TV, so maybe that’s a dead giveaway that this console mod does not in fact lightly brown slices of bread.…
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The Week In Games: Puzzling Prospects
The critically anticipated Lost in Shadow for the Wii (pictured), and the cheerful platformer ilomilo on Xbox Live Arcade highlight the first week of major releases in 2011. Tuesday (Jan. 4) Lost in Shadow (Wii) – Kotaku’s runner up for Best New Game of E3, Lost in Shadow is the journey of a boy’s shadow,…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
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. •Five Video Game Drinking Games That Are Worth a Shot [Joystick Division] As these involve drinking whenever Super Meat Boy dies or John Marston is…
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Any Dead Space Gamesave Gives You OG Plasma Cutter in Dead Space 2
Whether or not you’ve completed the original Dead Space, if you have any game save file from it on your hard drive, you’ll get Isaac’s original plasma cutter free for use in Dead Space 2, which arrives Jan. 25. Louis Gascoigne of developer Visceral Games told Joystiq that any upgrades to the weapon in the…
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Galaga World Record Falls
Galaga’s tournament-setting world record fell again, reclaimed on New Year’s Day by the previous record holder, Andrew Laidlaw of Washington state. Laidlaw’s 4,525,150 was certified on Friday by Twin Galaxies, the world sanctioning authority for video game high scores. Laidlaw set the mark on the tournament setting, which allows for five lives total on the…
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Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network Taking Hiatus; More DLC Confirmed
News updates from Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network will cease after the service marks its one year anniversary on Jan. 24. Updates will then come only with downloadable content – and one more package is on the way in 2011. Cerberus Network’s daily update has added background to the Mass Effect continuity, providing a short…
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The Moneysaver: The First Hangover of 2011 [Updated]
Don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug. But if he’s been murdered by crystal meth tweakers, well then we’re shit out of luck. Good…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tron-ify Everything
Tron: Legacy is a critical mixed bag at best – unless you’re Ian Bogost’s daughter – but it’s still useful for something: The first ‘Shop Contest challenge of 2011. Drawing from this poor cat and BossLogic’s awesome Street Fighter art, we’re going to transport games to the Game Grid this week. There’s an unintentional yo-dawg.…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Dec. 27 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 28 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Dec. 27 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Dec.…
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The Week In Review: Ringing Out The Old
The winner and losers; the highs and lows; the disappointing failures and the heartwarming successes of 2010, we covered it all as the Earth’s odometer rolled over another year this past week. Fahey supplied a gorgeous, poster-quality roundup of the 2010 timeline to roundup our recap. Other fan favorites included Crecente’s accounting of the past…
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Box Scores: Skill Beats Speed Down The Stretch
From Gran Turismo 5 comes our latest game of the week, a race pitting Kotaku reader Icegoat in a roadster overmatched by nearly 150 hp against the rest of the field, “I like a challenge,” writes Icegoat, who ran a BMW Z4 tuned up to 397 horsepower against a field of racers ranging in power…
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Fight Night Champion Serves a Standing Eight in the Joint
Anyone old enough to remember Marv Albert on NBC calling a James Scott bout live from Rahway State Prison will want to pay attention to this, the bareknuckle jailhouse fight within the “Champion Mode” of Fight Night Champion. Promised by EA Sports when Champion Mode was first revealed last month, this fight pits protagonist Andre…
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Report: Ubisoft Antipiracy Measure No Longer Requires Always-On Net Connection
Beginning with this summer’s release of RUSE, Ubisoft curbed the use of its atrociously executed antipiracy safeguards, which required a constant Internet connection for the game to function. Apparently, an online connection is now only required at startup. PC Gamer reports that the constant DRM checks on games like Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell:…
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The Year In Sports Video Games
Every year in sports has its winners and losers, but in sports video games, the results aren’t about pennants and trophies. And they’re not always clear-cut, either. We expect the routine with sports video games, the only genre consistently delivering sequels on an annual basis. And 2010 was like most years before it, with its…
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Career Mode, New Controls On Serve For Top Spin 4
Tennis sim Top Spin 4 teased more realistic controls when it was announced three months ago; a retail listing says it’ll continue sports gaming’s trend of moving commands to the right analog stick. A singleplayer career mode also is coming. “My Player,” which debuted in MLB 2K10 last spring and has been a moderate success…
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