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Is This Kinect Ad More To Your Liking?
This video just popped up on YouTube, purporting to be the debut advertisement for Kinect once its television marketing campaign begins. Ads that leaked out before this one were “unfinished.” It’s certainly professionally edited, and contains some footage we haven’t seen in the previous three rough cuts. It still keeps the visual focus on the…
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Awesome NES Coffee Table Up For Sale on eBay
Matt, the guy who built the stunning, giant-size Nintendo Entertainment System coffee table we showed you about a month ago, just listed his masterpiece on eBay. Bids open at $400. Besides one hell of a conversation starter, the coffee table includes some pretty smooth functionality, such as power outlets where the controller ports would be,…
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NBA Live 10 Roster Update Available Now
With NBA Elite 11 indefinitely postponed, EA Sports promised to continue supporting NBA Live 10 with a fully updated roster for the 2010-2011 NBA season. All the league’s players are included, but there are some features the update won’t have. Most importantly, while this year’s rookies will be included they won’t have “cyber face” support,…
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A New Kind Of Busch Beer
Alcohol references of any type usually mean an ESRB rating stricter than E. This isn’t new to NASCAR games. But it’s amusing to see Kurt Busch, driver of the Miller Lite No. 2. get his own brand of beer. Eight new screenshots for NASCAR The Game 2011, due next year from Eutechnyx, show us some…
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NBA Jam On 360/PS3 Listed For $49.99
GameStop today listed the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of NBA Jam for $49.99 with a street date of Nov. 16. The game will feature all of the content available in the just-released Wii version, plus online multiplayer. NBA Jam on the Xbox 360 and PS3 was originally to have been a free downloadable game…
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The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Cinematic Introduction
Here’s the cinematic introduction to the Cataclysm expansion pack, due Dec. 7, and it features one pissed-off, tormented dragon. The video is 2:30 long. Not sure if this is the same thing that Blizzard said will be broadcast during the Cowboys-Vikings game currently in the first half. We’re capturing video from that and if it’s…
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Comic Junker
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Half a Dozen Flags We’re in the process of remaking the Sunday Comics, something well overdue for some new strips. This morning we put out a call for suggestions and in the next week we’ll be putting together a list of candidates for the community to vote on Sunday. We’ve…
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The Week In Games: Everything’s Ring-A-Ding
Fallout: New Vegas is assuredly this week’s top drop for the core, but Kirby’s Epic Yarn and EA Sports MMA also are worth a look for fans of Nintendo scrollers and simulation fighters. Today Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii) – A Kotaku editor’s choice, this side scroller returns everyone’s favorite pink blob to a beautifully rendered…
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How To Keep Your Man: Play Video Games
Cosmopolitan, which formerly advocated unplugging your man’s console to improve communication about feelings, now gets on the games bandwagon as a relationship builder. The survey it cites is three years old. From this month’s edition, seen via GamePro.
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List Of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 PC Games That We All Want On a Console. [Planet Xbox 360] This is a good list but I tell you, if they…
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Kinect’s Solved Its Sitting-Down Problem
The subject of much gumflapping post E3, Kinect’s ability to handle players who are sitting down has been more finely tuned, Eurogamer reports. It’s now calibrated to focus on your neck-al area rather than your ass-al area. The “base node” used to create the skeletal models that the controller recognizes has been switched from the…
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Watch Owen Get Destroyed By Yahoo! Games In EA Sports MMA
I can speak highly of the authenticity of EA Sports MMA’s Live Broadcast because, were I to fight a mixed martial arts bout in real life, I’d get wrecked exactly this bad, too. This is a demonstration of a Live Broadcast, an innovative and highly entertaining feature in EA Sports MMA, due on shelves Tuesday.…
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Think We Need New Comics? We Agree. Tell Us Your Favorites.
The tree of video game webcomics must be refreshed from time to time with new blood. Sunday Comics, begun more than a year ago, has held the same crop of features for about that long, dropping out some strips that either closed, went entirely off message, or didn’t update reliably enough. What you’ve seen today…
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ReviewsReview: Super Scribblenauts
Think it, write it, see it. That was the premise of 2009’s Scribblenauts, which turned a 20,000-word dictionary into a puzzle-solving toolkit. This year it returns with adjectives to prove the pen is a mighty, giant, flaming magic sword. Super Scribblenauts is the sequel to 2009’s Scribblenauts, which won wide acclaim and peals of delight…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mine Rescue
The rescue of 33 miners trapped below the earth for more than two months riveted the world’s attention earlier this week. Namco apologized for its video games tribute to the moment, but we won’t. This week’s assignment: ‘Shop up another game-themed commemoration of this joyous moment. Below is one of the first (likely the best)…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Oct. 15. PvPonline published Oct. 12. ActionTrip published Oct. 11. EXTRALIFE published Oct. 13. Dueling Analogs published Oct. 14. Nerf NOW published Oct. 14. Rooster Teeth published Oct. 14. Virtual Shackles published Oct. 13. Little Gamers published Oct. 14.
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Who’s the thread that won’t cop out when there’s games to talk about …? TAY! You daaaaaaaamn right. Shadowstep is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics hashtag. Now, shut yo mouth. Unless…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pinkwashing Winners
I’ll confess to some trepidation offering up last week’s subject – Breast Cancer Awareness – but you folks impressed me. We had a ton of great submissions treating the subject with humor, candor, and even sentiment. For starters, Sodrohu’s “Titris” is absolutely not out of line. Given how many cute “Save the Tatas” messages you’ll…
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