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Drop The Chalupa
I’ve been obsessed with this XXL Chalupa, getting a lot of airplay in Taco Bell ads during the playoffs. But it looks like it would decompose about as naturally as a Happy Meal. Especially with that nuclear orange cheese sauce. So today I had a great idea. I would make my own. I’d do it…
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Monday Night Combat’s Title Update Rolls Out
“Rolls on,” more like, as the big update hit early yesterday for Monday Night Combat, the class-based shooter on Xbox Live Arcade. For those who don’t have it, the demo time trial has been extended to 60 minutes from 30. The title update delivers a ton of fixes – some esoteric, some critical depending on…
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What Do You Want To Know About Super Scribblenauts?
The sequel to Scribblenauts, last year’s quirky, creative hit for the DS, is in our hands and we’re playing it for review. You can help out by letting us know what you want to know about Super Scribblenauts. In an effort to ensure that Kotaku’s reviews are better informing you about the content, the gameplay,…
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Someone’s Not Having Fun Here
Playing FIFA 11 in a pool in a stretch Hummer driving through LA? Hell of a home-console advantage for the Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash, sure. But is that really cause for Landon Donovan to call him a bleeping bleep? This is part two of a series being produced and directed by Nash and Ezra Holland,…
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Mafia Wars Offers President Obama Masks In Time For Halloween
Fresh off cameos in NBA Jam and NBA 2K11, President Obama and his two predecessors are appearing in Mafia Wars. As novelty masks, anyway. A bank heist weekend offers the chance to get them, and a badass machine gun. If you play the game, you know how this Zynga stuff runs – bug everyone in…
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EA Sports Confirms Disc Release For NBA Jam On 360, PS3
NBA Jam’s Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, originally meant to be a free digital download included with the now-delayed NBA Elite 11, will be a retail disc release, an EA Sports representative told Kotaku. In an email this morning clearing up two weeks of speculation on the arcade slamfest’s form factor, Jen Riley of EA…
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Drug Dealer Gets Three Years In Wii Bowling Case
A Florida man whose home was notoriously raided by undercover detectives who stopped to play Wii bowling has agreed to a plea bargain that will send him to prison for three years. Michael Difalco, of Lakeland, Fla. was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in the state pen and surrendered a ton of property under…
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This Week’s Madden Moments Also Are Free [Updated]
Last week’s sponsorship with Verizon Wireless carries over to this week, meaning the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, earned in online play or purchasable outright. All three this week apply the rewrite-history mode to nailbiters from the NFL’s Week Five. They’re…
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Ousted Tampa Bay Rays Can Get Back To We Farm Now
Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Rays succumbed to the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. We’re not blaming iPad Farmville clone “We Farm,” but David Price, who made a costly fielding misjudgment in that game, is a big fan of the game. So are fellow starting pitchers James Shields and Matt Garza, who with Price were a…
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Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide
Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. An email sent this week to customers says games are coming in “late October.” The rentals will be $2 a day; DVDs are a dollar-a-day. Redbox’s site…
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Career-Mode Jordan Available With This NBA 2K11 Code
The incentive for completing NBA 2K11’s “The Jordan Challenge” is “Creating a Legend,” which allows you to take Michael Jordan through the game’s career mode. If you can’t beat all 10 challenges, an unlock code out there will bypass it. The code is icanbe23. Enter it by going to Features from the main menu, then…
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Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc [Updated]
GameFly has listed NBA Jam’s PS3 and 360 version for release Nov. 18 and while that’s most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service lists the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download. EA Sports has yet to confirm its intentions for NBA Jam on PS3 or 360;…
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Bac-Pac
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Review Review My best friend Richard and his wife have a new home – it’s the house where he grew up, back in our hometown. They’re in the process of moving, cleaning, rearranging, sorting out what goes where and all that. Down in the basement Richard stumbled across that –…
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Patent Application Hints At Vitality Sensor’s Games
A patent application filed by Nintendo mentions a Wii Vitality Sensor game in which players control the flight of a cartoon character with a combination of Wii remote gestures and – wait for it – breathing. In the patent filing, found by SIliconera, it appears the Vitality Sensor will measure something called your “relax fluid,”…
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Mega Man 8 Bit Deathmatch Released; It’s Free
Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch, the fan-made Doom mod, at least released on Friday. The FPS, stuffed full of Mega Man characters, weapons and other assorted sprites, is free. CutmanMike and his team of rippers, spriters and modders spent more than a year building the game. You can see all of their names in that credit…
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