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Far Too Soon For EA Sports To Tap Out
It was little coincidence that THQ and Ultimate Fighting Championship waited until Oct. 19 to announce an eight year extension to their exclusive video game pact. That was the day EA Sports MMA released. EA Sports MMA and UFC Undisputed are a rare pairing, being directly competing licensed sports titles with different ship dates. So…
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Screens Showcase Dead Space 2’s OPFOR
Get your talon-like hands on this batch of 15 multiplayer screens for Dead Space 2 that Electronic Arts sent out out yesterday. In addition to the humans, you can see a couple types of playable necromorphs. Dead Space 2 is due Jan. 25, and it blows me away that’s three months from now. Sheesh, where…
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“Super There Will Be Blood” Will Make You Laugh Like A Bastard From A Basket
This uproarious short – a finalist in Empire Magazine’s “Done In Sixty Seconds” competition – reduces all the key dramatic scenes and dialogue of “There Will Be Blood” to 8-bit presentation. Pick up that milkshake! “Super There Will Be Blood,” by Owen and Adam from tomfoolerypictures, had me snickering from Plainview’s first tumble down the…
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Box Scores: River City Ransom Basketball
When we say any sports game qualifies for Game of the Week, we mean it. That goes for Ganbare Dunk Heroes, in which Kotaku reader Skutarth finally triumphed over those no good hicks on the “Texas” squad. For those not familiar, Dunk Heroes is “essentially River City Ransom Basketball,” as Skutarth says. Released for the…
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Fallout Wiki Editors Have A Lot Of Time On Their Hands — And Use It
Fallout: New Vegas released 18 days ago. That’s 432 hours. Since then, more than 475,000 hours have been spent reading and editing the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. That’s 58 years. Over on Wikia, where numerous games’ wikis are tended by legions of fans, Fallout added more than 1,200 new pages since the game’s release, and…
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The Moneysaver: Back To The Coupons
Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t preorder Star Wars: STFU II with a free shipping coupon he’d melt my brain. The Moneysaver’s back from vacaycay, gang. We resume with our regularly scheduled coupons and deals, already in progress. Hardware • Xbox 360 2010 Holiday Bundle…
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The Week In Review: Kinect To The Court
Kinect arrived, bringing a means of controlling games by grasping at thin air. The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could change how games are sold, even made. It was a week that carried the scent of history. Our verdict on Kinect: it’s a winning piece of technology, albeit one in need of…
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APB’s Remains Remain Valuable, But Codemasters Isn’t Buying
“Nine months of hard work,” could salvage All Points Bulletin, the failed cops-and-robbers MMO, but don’t expect Codemasters to be the one doing the work, says the publisher’s online general manager. David Solari told Eurogamer that somebody will loot APB’s corpse, whether it’s to resurrect the game or – more likely – pick up and…
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Infinity Blade’s Knight To Shine On iPhone 4
This launch trailer gives you a good look at Infinity Blade, the role-playing game for iPhone 4 (and iPad and iPod Touch) being built by Chair Entertainment and Epic Games, whose Unreal Engine makes the whole thing go. Chair has said they think they’ve got the potential “best looking handheld game ever made,” and it’s…
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This Guy Beat Fallout: New Vegas With Zero Kills
NeoGAF user water_wendi started a couple of playthroughs in Fallout: New Vegas before deciding to try a complete pacifist run. Fifty-one hours later, he finished the game, with no humans nor animals harmed in the making of his story. He thinks it’s possible to go 70 hours in this game without killing anyone, too, calculating…
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Hope Tomorrow’s Race Isn’t Delayed, Too
Just to screw with you, GameStop’s put Gran Turismo 5, which was originally planned to release on Tuesday, on the hood of Joey Logan’s No. 20 Toyota for tomorrow’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Seen via GoJoeyLogano.com Logano has a 21-race sponsorship deal with the games retailer, and also drove with GameStop…
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Culture
Sunday Comics Deathmatch: The Winners
Last week we put our current Sunday Comics features and 13 new candidates up for a vote. The results are in and your new page arrives Sunday. Find out who stays, who goes, and who got invited! We picked the 10 top vote-getters overall. We didn’t assert any editorial prerogative, these are all your choices,…
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And Here’s NBA 2K11 In 3D
Those who dug out their 3D glasses for the last post, my attempt to show you Madden’s 3D mode fell flat. Here to save the day is Operation Sports’ MessenjahMatt, with a 3D presentation of Michael Jordan in NBA 2K11. This re-enacts Jordan’s no look, back-to-the-basket, over-the-head layup against the Knicks (in game, it’s not…
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Madden’s 3D: A Bag Of Chips And Not All That
Last week, Madden NFL 11 slipped in a 3D presentation mode through a promotion with Doritos. It’s the old-school red-and-blue 3D, and if it’s not entirely free, it only costs a bag of chips. Is it worth even that? Short answer: Not really. The biggest problem isn’t anything in the mode, it’s what isn’t in…
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NBA Elite 11 Available Now!
Have we done this joke? We have? We have. Alas. Well, Kevin Durant can tell Dwight Howard that he did in fact star on the cover of this game, even if it’s on the iPhone and not a console. And Mike Breen can tell his friends he’s still in a video game this year, too.…
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MAG DLC Escalates With 200 Percent XP Bonus
“Escalation,” the three-way battle among all the factions of MAG, is available now on the PlayStation Network and comes at a discount for those who bought the previous DLC installment, “Interdiction” before Oct. 28. Escalation is $9.99 to all, but $7.99 if you picked up Interdiction – again, before Oct. 28. The pack delivers three…
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