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Activision CEO Sees Call of Duty as a Form of Social Media
Speaking to CNN earlier this week, Activision’s CEO noted that more people play Black Ops, daily, than watch the late night hosts Leno, Letterman and Fallon, combined. No offense, but that would seem to be an easy goal to beat. No, network television isn’t the yardstick Bobby Kotick uses to measure Call of Duty as…
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Sunday Comics
Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 23 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Dec. 20 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Dec. 20 – Read more of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things Rooster Teeth by Griffon…
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The Moneysaver: You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
Scut Farkus! What a rotten name! We were trapped. There he stood, between us and the alley. Scut Farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes! So, help me, God! Yellow eyes! Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense. Lord help me that’s my favorite line…
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The Next Soulcalibur Is Already Under Development
Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada and the new Soulcalibur director Daishi Odashima confirmed yesterday that the latest offering in the venerable fighting series is under development. That image accompanied a tweet from Odashima saying “SC is back!” on Christmas Eve; Harada followed late last night with “Soul Calibur is back!!” We’ll take that as confirmation. No…
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The Week in Review: What Goes Around Comes Around
With just seven days left on the calendar, we’ll soon begin the retrospectives on 2010, but let’s start first with a week in which the news took no holiday. Totilo kicked things off with two profiles of those who drove the games discussion of in ways you may not have noticed: Greg LoPiccolo, of Harmonix,…
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GameStop Accepting Nintendo 3DS Preorders
Happy Boxing Day. A little birdie told us that GameStop is now accepting preorders for the Nintendo 3DS, taking a $50 deposit to reserve the device. We confirmed this with a call to our local store, but be sure to check yours. The Nintendo 3DS is due for a March release in North America.
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Get what you wanted for Christmas? Get what you didn’t want? More importantly, what did you give? If you gave or got a Nintendo 64, welcome to 1996! And to TAY, Kotaku’s official open thread. kaploy9 is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured.…
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Marty McFly’s Actor Infuses His Voice With ‘Artificial Nervousness’
Here’s the demo reel for A.J. LoCascio, whose dead-ringer Marty McFly voice highlights the Back to the Future game now out for PC. LoCascio gets into character by remembering how he’d ask a girl out in high school. “If I was asking out a girl, I would sound too much like Marty and it was…
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How Mötley Crüe Helped Save Christmas
Everyone knows that skoad who stole gaming consoles from a children’s cancer ward was just arrested. We didn’t know that, in addition to industry samaritans, Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx was one of the secret Santas replacing the kids’ games. Electronic Arts and Microsoft’s Halo Waypoint team were among those contributing game care packages to the…
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Texas GameStops Robbed, Re-Robbed, Robbed Some More
Bandits have struck three San Antonio-area GameStops this week, two of the incidents involving armed confrontations and the latest ending with employees duct-taped on the floor as the thieves raided the till. Police aren’t saying how much money the suspects got in this instance, which happened Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. But the spread of circumstances…
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Tekken Washes Away The Gray, But Don’t Touch The Hair, OK
Heihachi Mishima finds some jet-black locks in the men’s hair care section; but Tekken’s evil patriarch would kindly prefer that you not punch his hairdo. Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada sent this latest trailer for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 out over Twitter yesterday. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (TTTT?) will release sometime in 2011. New Tekken…
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Super Meat Boy’s WiiWare Release Canceled; Disc Release ‘Looking Grim’
The creators of PC and Xbox 360 hit Super Meat Boy have aborted the game’s WiiWare release, saying they’re unable to fit a quality version of the game under the size limit Nintendo imposes on titles for the download service. Team Meat’s struggles to pare down Super Meat Boy delayed its originally planned November release.…
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Brother Against Brother In Fight Night Champion
After watching the latest trailer Fight Night Champion’s new narrative mode, Champion, four times, I’m still shaky on what’s going on here. Andre Bishop, the protagonist, I recognize. His brother, I know, ends up in the ring. Who’s scorpion guy? Fight Night Champion producer Brian Hayes filled in IGN on the mode’s themes and features…
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Oh, Great, QWOP Just Got 4000 Percent More Impossible
QWOP’s staggering, shambling sprinters have entertained and infuriated us in a flash game for two years. How can we make this game even more frustratingly difficult? Why, let’s use the iPhone’s multitouch and accelerometer controls in concert! QWOP’s now out on the iPhone (it went up on Monday). If you don’t know what the joke…
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Arcade Legend Sets Joust Tandem Record — With His Son
Steve Sanders, one of the first competitive professional gamers during the 1980s arcade boom, now holds a world record in his best game: Joust. He and his son, Isaiah (pictured), recently set the tandem high score record, with 745,000. Sanders reached the current world No. 3 (then No. 2) on Joust after coming out of…
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Gaming Addicted Woman Strangles Toddler, Leaves His Body On Floor For Three Days
Here’s a story full of holiday cheer: A Korean woman, who’d just finished a four-hour social gaming session when her 3-year-old urinated on the floor, strangled the toddler and left his body to decompose in the home for three days. How many of these kinds of stories are we up to for 2010? There are…
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Smackdown vs. Raw’s Second DLC Pack Available Now
A classic Lex Luger skin (pictured), and The Nexus stable’s Wade Barrett, David Otunga and Justin Gabriel are included in the latest DLC extension for WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, available now on the PS3 and Xbox 360’s download services. Also included are British Bulldog, the diva Layla, the NXT arena, and Shawn Michaels. The…
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Inevitably, The 8-Bit Halo De-Make Lands In January
The de-make craze shows no sign of abating. Pixel Force, following its successes with Left 4 Dead and DJ Hero homages, will reduce Halo to an 8-bit platformer (with top-down Warthog driving) next month. But, erm, about Cortana … Promising all of the action – and extra-curriculars with the cutscenes – of the original Halo,…
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