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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Flaws Winners
Last week, Kotaku ‘shoppers took red pen in hand to annotate the lesser appealing aspects of games’ looks and suggest airbrushing instructions. I don’t know that we made things any worse, but we did make them funnier. 8thR (1), Ambolee (2), KidFlik (13), Shanzay (14), soren121 (16), SP-Butters (17) and William Henry Harrison (18) all…
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Ratings Board Tips Metal Slug X, Front Mission 3 On PSN
ESRB certificates for Metal Slug X and Front Mission 3 indicate both titles will be released as PSOne Classics sometime soon. Both titles got ratings of T-for-Teen, for violence. Examiner, which spied the listings first, notes that Front Mission 3 was re-released on the Japanese and European PlayStation Stores in March 2009 and September of…
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Kinect Hacked To Play Super Mario Bros.
This unholy marriage of Microsoft technology and Nintendo software comes from Yankeyan, who probably just gave Shigeru Miyamoto an inspiration for the Wii’s next exergaming title. Yankeyan programmed this with OpenKinect drivers and Nintendo emulation, so that Kinect recognized his motions and virtual button presses onto the emulator. “I could have placed a simulated keypad…
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FarmVille Maker Settles Trade Secret Lawsuit With Disney
Zynga, makers of Farm- Frontier- and all things -ville on Facebook, slapped Disney with a lawsuit after it acquired social games competitor Playdom and, Zynga alleges, hired off ex-Zynga workers to learn its “secret sauce.” The matter is now settled. The lawsuit, settled for an undisclosed amount, accused Playdom of poaching Zynga employees and convincing…
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The Games For All Of Us
With respect and admiration for, if not apologies to, the late Ernie Harwell, here’s something adapted from his famous Induction Day speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Aug. 2, 1981, which itself was adapted from this 1955 essay Sports video games are the very first video game, a glowing ball bouncing back across…
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Rampant Cheating Results In Sonic Scoreboard Reset
Hackers and cheaters figured out how to post redonkulous (and bogus) times in Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1; Sega has informed the community that the game’s scoreboards are all being reset. Seriously, cheating at Sonic? This is something the community has been asking for since about three weeks after the game released. It’s not…
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Super Street Fighter IV’s Yun And Yang Also Delivering To Consoles?
Capcom’s official Japanese-language blog posted a few screens of new characters Yun and Yang in their Arrange Costumes, where they change from a mere skateboarder and rollerblader into a skateboarder chef and a rollerblader waiter. Additionally, EventHubs got a tip that new achievements for Super Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 show Yun and…
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Box Scores: BCS Buster
Two missed field goals effectively ended Boise State’s shot at a BCS title game bid. Bodies will hit the floor in college football’s penultimate weekend, but zillions of strivers are still alive – in EA Sports’ NCAA Football, that is. Reader Koda89 dusted off a copy of NCAA Football 2007 and challenged himself to take…
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Games That Never Existed But Should Have: Falling Down
Practically any movie released during the SNES’ lifespan was licensed into a video game – except the 1993 angry-man cult hit “Falling Down.” But Pete Curran of Firefly Productions has, uh, gameplay video from a, uh, review copy. No, really. As if that wasn’t enough for you, hang on to the end, where you can…
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The Moneysaver: It’s Not Over Yet
Holiday retail season is officially upon us, and the deals aren’t offered only on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We have a blimpful of them in this morning’s Moneysaver. No snazzy movie quotes – not sure any are recognizable in this 1977 tale of a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl. Black Sunday was a commercial…
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The Week In Review: Retail Therapy
We’re just 24 hours into the Christmas shopping season and we’re thankful there are no reports of tramplings, maimings or tear-gassings. Yet. Update: Apparently there was a Buffalo stampede. No, really. There was a trampling at a Buffalo-area Target. None were seriously hurt. All that said, all of the holiday shopping is not done within…
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Col. Sanders Phantasy Star Screens Are Phinger-Lickin’ Good
Back in September we learned that Col. Harland Sanders would be appearing in Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan. We now have five screengrabs of his secret recipe in action. The Colonel appears in game as a partner character. Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity is out…
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MLB 2K11 Gets The Numbers Right
The first screenshot of MLB 2K11 has been released and it – quite deliberately I think – shows that the hideous uniform numerals from MLB 2K10 have been corrected and made consistent with real life. Roy Halladay (pictured), the game’s cover star, also looks much better, as Pasta Padre’s side-by-side comparison shows. First MLB 2K11…
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Cops Zap PCP-Using Rock Band Enthusiast (With Video)
From the University of Maryland comes this tale of holiday cheer – starring GameStop, Rock Band 3, a guy on PCP, cops, and the requisite taser. A Maryland senior headed to a shopping center on Monday intending to get a new ATM card. Instead, he saw a guy alone inside a GameStop, game cases strewn…
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Will The Bell Ring Before Food Fight?
Enthusiasm for Microsoft’s Game Room, to be polite, well, plateaued soon after its spring debut. It’d be a shame if its 12th update is the last, because hackers say one of the best early-80s arcade games is due to hit. That would be Food Fight, which would join the excellent MIA: Missing In Action and…
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Sony Dev Rips Kinect Star Wars — And Outs Move Lightsaber Game?
A top engineer for the PlayStation Move backhanded Kinect’s upcoming Star Wars game as “scripted,” called its notorious E3 demo “faked,” and said a Star Wars Move game will “be damn better than Kinect’s.” Such a game hasn’t been announced. “I’m usually not very aggressive,” said Anton Mikhailov to Eurogamer. He then proceeded to be…
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Chicken For Thanksgiving, Courtesy of Castle Crashers
The mascot of The Behemoth, the studio behind the PS3 and Xbox 360 downloadable hit Castle Crashers, is a giant chicken. Fittingly, it’s pledging gifts of livestock to needy families in developing countries through the end of November. You may contribute too, the catch is they’re tying the donations to follows on Twitter or likes…
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