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The Next Hollywood Blockbuster isn’t Mario Kart, but It Should Be
So, Aaron Paul’s big post-Breaking Bad victory lap is a nice payday and a starring role in a popcorn flick. But what if, instead of a gritty, growly movie adaptation for Need for Speed, Mario Kart got the treatment instead? Games Radar put together this shot-for-shot parody of the real movie’s official trailer, subbing Mario…
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Pokémon is the Latest Casualty of the Government Shutdown
In America, we’re 12 days into our government shutdown, and apparently everyone is cool doing without frilly things like benefits to military survivors or food inspections, because assigning blame for this stupid temper tantrum is terribly uncivil. But we draw the line when it affects our right to bear Pokémon, right?! This sign hit Tumblr…
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NYCC Cosplay: Zombie Mario, Wonder Tot, and … Adventure Time Bane?
Get ready for an action-packed crossover edition of New York Comic-Con cosplay, featuring a whole family of Mushroom Kingdom Deadpools, holding what appears to be the corpse of Knuckles the Echidna. OK … Anyway, here they are, presented for your enjoyment! And if you’re in the mood to see more cosplay, be sure to check…
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The Actors Behind GTA’s C.J. and Franklin Are Teaming Up—but for What?
Interesting response—or non-response, as it is—by the voice of Franklin in Grand Theft Auto V at a New York Comic Con 2013 panel. When he and his co-stars were asked which Grand Theft Auto character they wish they could have portrayed, Fonteno replied Carl Johnson—the protagonist of 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. According to…
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There’s At Least One Guy Who Never Figured Out How to Beat King Hippo
Mike Tyson never beating Glass Joe is one thing. He’s the first opponent in the boxer’s titular Punch-Out!!, so this means Iron Mike played the game once or twice, gave up, and went back to tending pigeons in his spare time. But not being able to defeat King Hippo is a different brand of shame.…
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The Calvin & Hobbes Documentary Stars Everyone Except the Artist
Bill Watterson, the Salinger-esque creator of what still may be the most popular comic strip in the United States even 18 years after it ended, does not appear in this trailer. For all we know, Calvin & Hobbes‘ artist will only communicate with the audience as he has for the past 30 or so years:…
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Poké-Proposal Makes Pikachu Giddy With Excitement
Look at Pikachu! I mean the little (well, big) fella looks legitimately fired up by this marriage proposal last night Nintendo World’s gala event for the launch of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. Fiancée, I choose you! This couple, Debbie G. and Jeff W. are the co-founders of Long Island’s StreetPass club. And yes, she…
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THQ May Be Dead, But It’s Still Filing Lawsuits
THQ, which went out of business and was liquidated by the spring, still exists in enough of a form to sue the UFC and Electronic Arts, to whom THQ sold the UFC video game license in 2012. A complaint filed a week ago in federal court, reported today by Polygon, alleges, that EA and Zuffa…
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XCOM‘s Top Soldier Finally Gets To Kick Some Ass
If we can’t see Council Man himself rolling up his sleeves and throwing the hell down, then Central Officer Bradford pistol whipping some bastard-ass traitor in XCOM: Enemy Within will have to do. We didn’t see Base Defense—in which the conflict comes home, literally—in Tina’s preview of XCOM: Enemy Within, this morning, but it’s definitely…
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BioShock Creator: Please Stop Making Elizabeth Porn
Look here, you nasty pervert horndogs. Ken Levine has seen all that filthy porn people are making with Elizabeth, from BioShock Infinite, and he wants you to know That’s Not Cool. “It’s like coming across a picture of your daughter,” he says. The BioShock creator was in a Reddit AMA yesterday, responding to a fan…
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Schools Give Kids Free iPads, Immediately Regret It
The Los Angeles schools’ billion-dollar big idea to give every kid an iPad has skidded to an embarrassing stop after the first recipients—including a valedictorian candidate—figured out a way to crack the security imposed on the devices to play games like Temple Run. L.A. Unified School District is now demanding the $678 gadgets back as…
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Curt Schilling is Selling His Nintendogs DSes in Bankruptcy Auction
Curt Schilling’s ill-fated games studio took down the state of Rhode Island with it, so it’s not much of a surprise he’s in personal bankruptcy, too, selling off all sorts of crap. Discerning video gamers will be interested in items No. 8 and No. 9 in this auction guide, but don’t overlook that pink Christmas…
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5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall
We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…
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The Ball’s in Your Court, NBA Live
The next six weeks will shine a bright light on a four-year question mark in sports video gaming: NBA Live. Every other team sport due for release this year has launched but this one. Like it or not, EA Sports will have the next month mostly to itself, and what it doesn’t say will speak…
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Unintentionally Awesome Moments In GTA Online
You really are a bastard, Ohcrapnick (I think that’s your name. That’s the what the guy called you at 0:28 of this video, anyway). But you’re one hell of a driver, straddling the highway barrier in Grand Theft Auto Online, I’ll give you that. Ohcrapnick’s daredevil antics, death by cash register, and a couple of…
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Don’t Buy This Grand Theft Auto App on Android
Friendly reminder, the “iFruit” companion app to Grand Theft Auto V is available, as of now, for Apple iOS devices only—and it is free. That hasn’t stopped some guy from selling one under the same name for $2.79 for Android phones and tablets. What’s more, users allege the name of the app was changed, from…
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Xbox One’s Top Marketer Brags to Advertisers About Kinect’s Abilities [Update]
Microsoft’s top marketer tossed a juicy hunk of red meat to his kind of people yesterday. While Xbox One isn’t selling the stuff Kinect collects from your living room to marketers right out of the box, the capacity is there, and it could be the kind of game-changer that makes ad buyers swoon. Let’s remember…
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‘Redbox Robber’ Looted Kiosks for Two Years Before Being Caught
Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He’s in the Empire Business PHOENIX—It took a combined…
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