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New DLC Available Now For Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
Two months back we scented the rumor that Castlevania was due for downloadable content, specifically a new map set inside a pyramid. That’s confirmed with today’s availability of “Beauty, Desire Situation Dire,” for 400 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Marketplace. “Beauty, Desire Situation Dire,” (may I call you BDSD?) is the first extra map for…
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NBA Elite’s Cover Star Learned Of Postponement Over Twitter
Kevin Durant, the cover athlete for NBA Elite 11, “spoke with noticeably more sullenness” in his first comments since EA Sports indefinitely postponed the game. Hearing the news first via Twitter probably did not help his mood. “They said it wasn’t as up to par as they wanted it to be,” Durant, the all-star forward…
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Pricetag On NBA Elite’s Delay: $60 Million And Counting
Yesterday, we reported that a delay of NBA Elite 11’s release lasting past the end of the year jeopardizes the sale of as many as 1.1 million copies. Today, the analyst offering that estimate put a dollar figure on it. In a note to investors today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter said to expect Electronic…
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ESA Canada: Just 5 Percent Of Parents Aware Their Kids Play Online
More than three-quarters of kids ages six to 17 play video games online. No surprise. Just five percent of parents of kids those age say they’re aware that they do so. That kind of abysmal inattentiveness is surprising. That is the finding of a survey commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, which queried…
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You’re Effing Downloaded: The Kenny Powers App
Kenny Powers, the washed-up lout protagonist of the sports comedy Eastbound & Down on HBO, has his own 16-bit inspired home-run derby game, free on the iPhone. You can use a donkey to distract him into throwing a meatball pitch. This game also is desirable because it is not for those under 17, which means…
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New NASCAR Game Confirmed [Update]
As was rumored last week, Activision will publish a NASCAR-licensed game and racing-focused studio Eutechnyx will be building it, according to an official site launched today with a countdown clock that hits zero in five days. EA Sports had published NASCAR games from 1996 to 2009, ending with NASCAR Kart Racing on the Wii, the…
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Nintendogs Blamed In Attack By Real Dog
A British newspaper claims that the barking sound effects from Nintendogs were responsible for bull mastiff mauling a 9-year-old girl playing the game. Megan Walker told The Daily Mail that on Sept. 19 the dog had dragged her from the couch at a friend’s house and bit her face, tearing off a part of her…
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Death Visits The Resurrection Of NBA Elite
The most fateful day for NBA Elite 11 was not Monday, Sept. 27, the day it was postponed indefinitely. It’s Sept. 21, the day it was crucified. As a metaphor for withering criticism, the kind hardcore gamers dispense every day, “crucified” is an especially apt word covering both the substance of and response to a…
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Pitgirl Pornstar [corrected]
Adult film actress Bobbi Starr – E3 2009’s DiRT girl, remember her? – does her impersonation of Monday Night Combat’s Pitgirl. Seen on her Twitter. A second NSFW pic also is available. Correction: On further review, we mistook Ms. Starr’s caption to be specific to Monday Night Combat. it is in fact a common moniker…
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NBA 2K11 Adjusts Crummy Rating After Player Complains
Washington Wizards’ starting center JaVale McGee (pictured, far right), miffed that NBA 2K11 rated him a 59, complained about it last week over Twitter. 2K Sports responded today that it’ll goose up his overall number to at least a 64. Not only that, 2K Sports Community Manager Ronnie Singh seemed to invite more complaints from…
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Mock Trial Calls Violent Games Case For California
A panel comprised of some of the nation’s pre-eminent jurists, legal scholars and court observers pondered California’s violent video games statute, which goes before the Supreme Court Nov. 2, and concluded the high court will decide 6-3 for California. Details are sparse, provided to Game Politics by an attendee of the moot court this weekend…
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Go High Five The Wall
The makers of Monday Night Combat were taking suggestions for official wallpapers; unsurprisingly, Pitgirl – the game’s booty-shaking NPC – figured prominently. They’re still taking requests and have turned it into a contest. You don’t have to create the wallpaper or even draw anything. Just give Uber Entertainment an awesome concept. For example, Support riding…
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NBA Elite 11 Delayed; NBA Jam To Ship Separately By Holidays
Just one week before it was scheduled to hit shelves, EA Sports on Monday indefinitely delayed NBA Elite 11 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, indicating that quality concerns raised by the demo’s dismal showing necessitated the postponement. Rumors spread quickly when several major retailers either dropped or changed the game’s release date to 2011.…
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From North Carolina … At Guard … No. 23 …
With a week to go until NBA 2K11 cannonballs the pool, 2K Sports is dropping all sorts of hype and gameplay vids, highlighted by this one stitching together in-game footage from “The Jordan Challenge.” Mild spoiler alert. I throw the SA warning because in the 10-game Jordan Challenge, when you hit milestones in recreating cover…
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Mom’s Getting Me A Stripper For My Birthday
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Operation Angry Birds Today I was working with headphones on and missed two calls from my mother. My birthday is tomorrow. About 3 p.m., Mom sent me a terse IM asking that I call her immediately. “When are you going to be home tomorrow?” I apologized for missing the calls…
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Easy Credit Ripoff In Halo: Reach
This guy says he’s found a wash-rinse-repeat way to rack up 20,000 credits in Halo: Reach inside of 10 minutes. I promise, I promise, I promise Naughty Bear is not going to jump out and say boo. Boo. OK just kidding. Per YouTube user TheresPooOnMyShoe Here’s the five-step process annotating that video above: Step 1:…
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The Week In Games: The Beautiful Games
FIFA 11, Dead Rising 2 and Guitar Heroes: Warriors of Rock headline the final week of the fall quarter, with Borderlands’ latest DLC and Lara Croft’s arrival for PC and PS3 highlighting the downloadable titles. Monday, Sept. 27 Farm Frenzy: Animal Country (DS) Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii) The Sims 3 Deluxe (PC) Tuesday, Sept. 28…
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Kotaku’s Top Five 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 Xbox Indie Games You Should Be Playing [Planet Xbox 360] No. 1 is Soulcaster, not I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 (which is…
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