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Konami’s X-Men Arcade Classic Headed For XBLA And PSN [Update]
At a Comic-Con New York panel, Marvel revealed that Konami will bring X-Men, its side-scrolling arcade beat-em-up from 1992, to the Xbox 360 and PS3 as a downloadable title. [Updated with the game’s Comic-Con trailer, see inside.] Fans of the game remember that you could play as one of six X-Men: Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm,…
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The Moneysaver: A Cooler Full Of Deals
Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to pay less than MSRP. If they cannot, it is their duty to exploit a coupon code, and find all dented Logitech boxes to the best of their ability. Hardware • Dell has for pre-order the Xbox 360 Slim 250GB with Medal of Honor…
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The Week In Review: Further Review
You never want to make the news and report on it, but the changes to how this site will now review games by far stoked the most interest and reaction of any topic on Kotaku this week. Crecente’s outlined the changes, their necessity, and the fact that there are some details of the format still…
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NBA Jam Dev Just Wants Us All To Get Along
Trey Smith, the creative director for the recently released NBA Jam, would like to see a kinder, gentler gamer culture. “If the people of PAX ran the world, it would be a much better place,” he told MTV Multiplayer. Asked for “the biggest problem [facing] current games,” Smith hit outat “the actions and attitudes of…
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Vikings Get A Boost In Madden’s Latest Update
Interestingly, the trade sending Randy Moss to Minnesota boosted the Vikings’ overall rating in Madden NFL 11 without diminishing the New England Patriots’. Not that this is necessarily a zero-sum game, but what gives there? New England, with no game this week, is now a receiving corps headlined by Wes Welker and Brandon Tate, with…
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NBA 2K11 Records A Dominating Performance — On Twitter
Few video games reach trending topic status on Twitter. It’s the sort of thing normally accorded to disasters, celebrities, and global news. NBA 2K11 has been a trending topic every day since Monday, for 57 hours straight at one point. For those who argue this year’s game has become a phenomenon, the Twitter numbers would…
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Backbreaker Studio Now Working On “Icebreaker”
NaturalMotion Games, the developer of the football cult fave Backbreaker, is now working on an ice hockey game apparently titled “Icebreaker,” according to a video profile by the BBC. In the video, you can see the U.K. studio’s animation team at an ice rink in Leeds, doing motion capture of hockey players. In the office,…
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This Week’s Madden Moments Are Free
A sponsorship with Verizon Wireless means the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are 100 percent free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, which are earned in online play or purchasable outright. Ordinarily, Madden Moments Live have asked you to rewrite history; two of them this week ask you to…
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Have You Seen This Wolf Pup?
Capcom’s official Okami Facebook page is running a giveaway; first three to spot this lost-dog poster in New York will get a plush Chibi. See the page for details on submitting your entry. The phone number is real. It connects to a voice mail asking you to bring Chibi to the address on the poster.…
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Awesome Kicks For Your Xbox Live Avatar
Preordering NBA 2K11 via GameStop delivered a free Chicago Bulls road jersey for your avatar; NBA 2K11 now has six different pairs of classic Air Jordan sneakers to help complete the look. The shoes, for 160 Microsoft Points (or two bucks) are the Air Jordan I, III, IV, VI, XI and XIII, makes that will…
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Duke Nukem Forever Walks A Fine Line — Of Decency
The studio in charge of Duke Nukem Forever asked that press not film a trailer featuring strippers,”the word f—-ing” in giant letters and an alien getting punched in the balls repeatedly, because it risks a harsh rating. Don’t film the trailer? You mean this one? Randy Pitchford, chief of Gearbox Software, which is now handling…
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Fox News Wonders If NBA Jam Is A Truly Bipartisan Game
EA Sports president Peter Moore appeared on Fox News earlier this day to talk about the unlockable political celebrities in NBA Jam, out now for the Wii, and artfully fielded a question that sounds loaded, considering the source. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comAppearing today on the network’s "Happening Now," Moore pointed out that Bill…
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Play Paper Football On Your Desktop
Remember paper football? I never learned how to properly fold up the notebook paper into a triangle. My older brother did. We played it on a coffee table given to my great-grandfather by an admiral in the Korean navy. Where was I? “The Paper Triangle Football Game” by Burak Kanber, a flash game he programmed…
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NBA Elite 11 Coming This Month — For iPhone 4
EA Sports’ decision to indefinitely delay NBA Elite 11 doesn’t affect plans for the mobile version of the game. It will arrive later this month for iPhone and iPod Touch, and will take advantage of the iPhone 4’s high-quality display. A news release issued yesterday said NBA Elite 11 will feature unlockable legends such as…
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Should The Xbox 360 Form Its Own Corporation?
Goldman Sachs’ analysts punked Microsoft’s stock rating and archly suggested that the company spin off the Xbox 360 division, saying such a sale could unlock hidden value within the unit and free it from the company’s more sluggish performance. The report, released over the weekend, downgraded Microsoft from “buy” to “neutral” (which, if a stock…
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Get A Hat And Frying Pan Free With Your Game Purchase
Those who own Team Fortress 2 can pick up an all-important hat – and a very useful skillet – free for use in that game if they go grab Left 4 Dead 2 before 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday). What’s more, the game is $6.79, (roughly 6.47 times the price of freedom), so you can see,…
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