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EA Sports’ Next Facebook Offering To Feature Real-Time Gameplay

EA Sports is set to deliver its third Facebook game, but unlike Madden and FIFA Superstars, this one will feature skill-based, real-time gameplay, instead of a build-your-club management style. The EA Sports PGA Tour Golf Challenge, coming soon to Facebook, offers an experience-and-level-up career format similar to how clubs are developed in the Superstars games,…

Backbreaker Sequel Headed To iPhone Soon

Backbreaker’s iPhone version – a port of the popular “Tackle Alley” minigame from the console title – flips the script in a sequel that tasks players with stopping the computer runner. New moves and “super showboating” will also be featured. NaturalMotion Games announced Backbreaker 2: Vengeance (and also Jenga) today. Vengeance mode puts you on…

Backbreaker Vengeance Screens

How To Have A Frank Discussion With Your Kids About Star Wars

Click to viewParenting in the information age is difficult; children today are exposed to things that their parents never saw at such a young age. Such as Jar-Jar Binks (who killed grandma). This well written (and acted) sendup of uncomfortable-conversation PSAs comes from Asylum. Seen via Star Wars: The Old Republic Strategies PSA: Talking To…

Canada Truck Heist Nets $1 Million In PSPs, PS3s

What the hell is going on in Canada this week? A freight heist outside Toronto bagged $1 million worth of PS3s and PSPs from two tractor trailers. Cops are looking for the suspects. Maybe it’s the Canadian Army? Police in a region west of Toronto say that on Monday, someone made off with truck hauling…

What The Hell Does The Canadian Army Want With $25,000 Worth Of Video Games?

A Canadian military garrison has a rush order out for 500 video games, a requisition that a headquarters spokeswoman admitted is “strange.” The government tender, which closes Dec. 2, asks for Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Assassin’s Creed 2, in addition to rhythm gaming titles, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, and X-Men…

You Write It, Mr. Boomshakalaka Delivers It

NBA Jam on the 360 and PS3 hit shelves yesterday; today EA Sports is taking a page from the Old Spice YouTube campaign that drew raves. The announcer, Tim Kitzrow, is reading off Twitter-submitted catchphrases. Apparently mine (above) wasn’t objectionable. Kitzrow, as we mentioned before, is all about the fan service, so he’s perfect for…

The New Medium Where Writers Are Trying To Make It

What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $100,000? Maybe you’d get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $10,000 to $20,000, writes The New York Observer. It’s one of the more interesting did-you-knows cropping up in a collection of anecdotes about solid writers who…

UFC Undisputed Comes To iPhone, iPad

Following EA Sports MMA into mobile gaming, THQ’s mixed martial arts franchise UFC Undisputed will hit the iPhone and iPad this week, a company executive says. Via Twitter, THQ’s Danny Bilson says the game hits the two devices via the iTunes App Store tomorrow. “Gives Tap Out new meaning,” Bilson, THQ’s president for core gaming,…

Get To The Gym With DiRT 3

Gymkhana, the “car rodeo” YouTube video phenomenon, will join the redoubtable Rally in DiRT 3 next year. Loosely described, gymkhana features a start and finish line and some obstacle to negotiate. Codemasters dropped several screenshots illustrating both modes today. A news release from Codemasters says that DiRT 3’s rally will feature “more than double the…

Dirt 3 Rally and Gymkhana Screens

Admit It, You’ve Always Wanted To Use A Dildo On A Zombie

Lemme tell ya, I have, that game was called “my third marriage.” Hey-oooo! But seriously folks, the ESRB summary for Dead Rising 2’s DLC mentions a wieldable sex toy. I thought that was the paddlesaw! Bang, pow, zoom … Per the ESRB on Dead Rising 2: Case West: “One game area-a lounge with neon ‘XXX’…

Clueless Sports Writer Is Very Serious About This Black Ops Ad Controversy

Click to viewHey there! Are you a busy person on-the-go and don’t have time to get stupider? ESPN has a six-minute solution: Gasbag Skip Bayless, opining that Kobe Bryant should be disciplined for appearing in that Call of Duty: Black Ops ad. Bayless, who seems to relish his role as ESPN’s go-to asshole on any…

Blaster Master Rolls Into Super Mario Bros. Crossover’s Next Update

Well, that’s one way to get rid of the Hammer Brothers. If blasting away at everyone with Lance’s spread-fire wasn’t enough overwhelming firepower, SOPHIA the 3rd from Blaster Master will arrive in late November. SOPHIA will have almost all of her abilities from the game, reports Crossover creator Jay Pavlina, but will be the first…

NBA Jam Tries Not To Rub It In Too Much, Wii Owners

“Look Wii, it’s not you, it’s just, it’s me. I need to see other people. I need to see them in high definition, I need to see them online … But I’ll always remember the good times …” So that’s why my Wii’s sulking on the couch, digging into a pint of Edy’s Double Fudge…

Brave Black Friday In Old Navy, Get Free Dance Central

Well, not entirely free. You’ve got to spend $25 there first, but the bonus is yours if you do, per the clothing retailer’s Black Friday ad. The promo follows last year’s giveaway of Lego Rock Band. True, if you don’t have Kinect, this winds up costing $175 for a free game. But if you’re shopping…

The Original Entertainment System

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Tomorrow, I’ll Play A Video Game In A Car Whenever the time changes back to standard time, that first week I always sleep a ton. I’ve had two 10 hour sleep days since the change. What’s weird, though, is that I find myself waking up, feeding the cat, getting some…

GoldenEye Cheats Resurrect Big Head Mode [Updated]

An intrepid Kotaku reader found three working cheat codes for GoldenEye 007 on the Wii, but, so far, we only know what two of them do. Update: The third unlocks Big Head mode (pictured) in local multiplayer. WireX, the reader, dumped the data out of the main executable file and found three codes, which must…

The Week In Games: Rome, Built In A Year

A year after Assassin’s Creed II, the story of Ezio Auditore shifts to Rome with Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the week’s major core console drop. Others of note include Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Sonic Colors, and NBA Jam in high definition. Sunday (Nov. 14) Dood’s Big Adventure (Wii) Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem (DS)…

Sly 4 Teased In Sly Collection Trailer

A teaser trailer has been discovered in Sly Collection, which hit streets Nov. 10, and it seems rather definite that a Sly 4 sequel is coming. When? Well that’s probably what the question mark’s all about. Reader tatermoog filmed the trailer and stuck it on YouTube. It seems to be an unlockable but he’s not…