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The devil’s in even more details from Grand Theft Auto V: Last week, YouTube’s GermanScientistTV provided his first look at little things like rumble strips and flip flops in GTA V. But have you also noticed details like your mobile phone screen saying “Connected” once the call is answered?
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Meat Puppets
Government shutdown? Too political. Pokémon tombstone? Too sad, and even I am not that tasteless. Time to go to the Dayshot archive for this week’s exploitable. In this case, a big Mega Man made of tasty ground beef. That’s the work of Epic Grinds, whom we featured on Friday morning, along with a bunch of…
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PlayStation 4 Controller is PC-Compatible ‘for Basic Functions’
The PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller will be compatible with PCs for “basic functions” without a driver, PlayStation’s president of worldwide studios said over Twitter. While “basic functions” weren’t further defined, that’s still better than the DualShock 3, which needs a whole lot of work to perform any functions. Shuhei Yoshida tweeted the news yesterday…
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Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The comics enlarge by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Oct. 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: No-Stick: The Winners
Everything was fine with our ‘Shop Contest until the power grid was shut off by stickless here. Valve’s oddball controller flooded us with so many great ‘Shops that I waived the 20-finalist cap and just threw in everything that looked hilarious—along with overall No. 1 Snake56! One note, you may be wondering what’s so funny…
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SNK Orders NeoGeo X Maker to End Production and Stop Selling It
The NeoGeo X, the handheld NeoGeo platform, is no more. SNK Playmore, the owner of the NeoGeo hardware, terminated its license with manufacturer and distributor Tommo Inc. effective Oct. 2, according to this notice on SNK’s web site. That means the end of the NeoGeo X Gold Limited Edition, and six volumes of games (NeoGeo…
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We Didn’t Want to Kill NCAA Football, Say College Players’ Lawyers
When EA Sports shuttered its NCAA Football series about a week ago, it cited ongoing lawsuits brought by current and former college football players. Lawyers for those players say killing off NCAA Football was never a goal of their action, and they’re not opposed to the series returning. “We would be fine if they published…
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Favoritism Charged as Select Few Get a $700 Spaceship in EVE [Update]
This is by far my favorite type of story to cover on weekends: The EVE Scandal! They’re fun because they tend to involve big-ass space ships or wads of in-game currency that convert to mind-boggling sums in real life. This latest allegation features both So, let’s introduce the players this time. (Incredibly, Goonswarm is not…
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Konami Apologizes for Glitch Paralyzing PES 2014‘s Multiplayer on 360
Konami says it is still investigating why some Xbox 360 players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 are unable to connect to its online multiplayer services, but the problem is large enough that the company has apologized to users. The publisher still doesn’t know exactly why the problem is happening. Those affected are finding that they…
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Retired Pilot Stuffs a 767 Cockpit Simulator Into His Bedroom
Even after Michael Black retired from his gig as a commercial pilot, he took his work home with him—in the form of a partial Boeing 767 cockpit and flight simulator packed into a bedroom in his Oregon home. Black built his homebrewed simulator from authentic Boeing aircraft parts, supported by five computers and four flat-screen…
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How Often Does a Player Get Paralyzed in Madden?
This is the rara avis of outcomes in Madden NFL—the career-ending injury. It is the sports video game equivalent of permadeath, and yes, it’ll actually happen in your living room, although I have never seen this myself. EA Sports’ Madden NFL Twitter retweeted that image earlier today. A fan named Tyler said he’d “played madden…
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The Bureau Adds New XCOM Missions Next Week, but Only for Xbox 360
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified regroups on the Xbox 360 with its first new downloadable missions, which will be exclusive to that platform. In it, players will explore events before the extraterrestrial attack on Groom Range that kicked off the main game’s story. They’ll be doing so with Agent Nico DaSilva, as “Hangar 6 R&D” takes…
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Why Peeks at Sports Games’ Next Generation are Usually Underwhelming
Yesterday, 2K Sports and EA Sports released looks at NBA 2K14 and Madden NFL 25 on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. At best, both are whelming—maybe not under-, certainly not over- . Madden, however did show a little more. Still, here’s why these teasers leave me cold: They may be showing actual gameplay footage…
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Fans Seem to be Waiting for Big-Name Sports to Launch on New Consoles
The third of three sports titles releasing on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at launch arrived on shelves today—NBA 2K14—but if reviews and sales figures for its peers are any indication, fans appear to be waiting for the next console generation before they buy the sports titles closing out this one. If at all.…
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