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Read All About It
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Duke Fucking Nukem When I was a kid, Labor Day always evoked a certain kind of dread, because I was a paperboy and the biggest edition of the year was published on the first Monday in September. These were commonly called “progress editions” at the community papers I worked for.…
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The Week In Games: Face Off
A lively week of releases kicks off the stretch run of Labor Day through the holidays; EA Sports ships two hockey titles; the first PlayStation Move game arrives and a couple of strong handhelds round out the week’s cattle call. Monday, Sept. 6 Aion: Assault on Balaurea (PC) Photo World DSi (DS) Tuesday, Sept. 7…
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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 9 Worst Employees in Video Game History [Ranker] In honor of Labor Day, here are nine characters (or classes of them) who were the…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Weekend Circular
Friday at PAX 2010, Capcom rented out a joint in downtown Seattle and turned it into a Dead Rising hardware store. They passed around this bogus ad circular to hype the party. Now we go to work on it. Part of the charm of the Dead Rising series is using everyday items to deadly effect…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 1 PvPonline published Sept. 2 ActionTrip published Aug. 30. Digital Unrest published Aug. 30. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 3. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Sept. 3. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 2 Nerf NOW published Sept. 1 Rooster Teeth published Sept. 4. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 30. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 3. Little Gamers published…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Our #TAYpics Derby winner is MrSnuffles, who has a less cuddly concept of Kinect-enabled pets management. I shudder to think what he envisions for Milo. You too can have your remixed image featured in TAY! Just submit it in the comments and hashtag it #TAYpics. Or simply enjoy the company and conversation of your fellow…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Antiques Gameshow Winners
We took the contest to Antiques Roadshow-land last week and discovered that one man’s trash is another man’s ‘Shop. We had another 700-entry contest, check out the 20 best below! Asked to mind-meld video games with heirloom appraisal, you guys did a damn fine job. 4lk4linetri0 and SonanceSpark supplied the requiste TF2 entries; L3G10N and…
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Conduit 2 Makes Way For GoldenEye
Conduit 2, a game that’s actually been in development for the Wii instead of talking about it, got a reminder of the pecking order for Nintendo shooters when Sega moved it to 2011 to stay out of GoldenEye’s way. Nintendojo reports that Sega and High Voltage Studios confirmed that Conduit 2 will be moved to…
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It’s Got A Gun — You Wanna Say It’s Not A Sports Game?
What is and what isn’t a sport is an endless, often pointless argument, typically involving figure skating, stock car racing, bowling and even ballroom dancing. But what is and what isn’t a sports video game is rarely debated. The settled nature of that discussion – if it is even discussed, really – reflects the position…
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Box Scores: Grillin’ Hot Dogs
Once again, there is nothing more American than taking down some hoon playing America’s Team in Madden online. Especially when you do it on a 4th and goal with no timeouts, instead of kicking a tying field goal. Kotaku reader Ant06 encountered said hoon in a Madden quickmatch and decided to send America’s Other Team,…
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The Moneysaver: Before There Was Duke
Just wanted to remind y’all who said it first. Now I’m giving you a choice. Either click on these coupons or start eatin’ that trash can. Hardware • The Logitech G9X Laser Mouse (yes, dented box but it’s new) is $47.99 with coupon from Logitech. [Dealzon] • Dell dropped the price by over $200 on…
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The Week In Review: Kicking A Hurricane’s Ass, Chewing An Earthquake’s Bubblegum
Duke Nukem Forever was Twitter’s No. 1 worldwide trending topic yesterday, over two global natural disasters. You’d better believe it’s the biggest news here, even against three other stories that would have carried a week by themselves. By those, I mean the PlayStation Move review, previews and impressions; news that GameStops on U.S. military installations…
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A Look At Matchups In NBA Elite’s “Legendary” Mode
This year NBA Elite 11 introduces a singleplayer “Become Legendary” career mode. The crux of your advancement seems to be outperforming the best player on opposing teams, according to this video examining the mode’s matchups. Experience points will be on the line in these games – to be earned or taken away, depending on how…
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MLB’s Latest Flamethrowing Phenom Takes The Video Game Stage Today
Cincinnati’s Aroldis Chapman will be the second rookie to debut as the fastest thrower in all of video game baseball when he and his 103-mph heater are uploaded to MLB 2K10 sometime later this evening. Chapman, consistently clocked at more than 100 mph, will arrive on MLB 10 The Show with next week’s roster update,…
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NFLer Opens Up About His Games Addiction
Quinn Pitcock, the once promising defensive lineman who washed out of the NFL in 2008, citing games addiction, has opened up about his dark days in front of a screen. His game of choice was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Interesting, as many typically associate compulsive games-playing with MMOs. Pitcock, however, numbed his depression and…
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NBA Elite 11 Gameplay Video Officially Surfaces
Gameplay video for NBA Elite has been conspicuously rare up to now. Yesterday, Operation Sports got its hands on directly captured gameplay video from EA Sports, giving five minute looks at the flow of the player-vs.-player and player-vs-CPU action. That first video above is a player-on-player game, which OS says took place between NBA Elite…
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Answering Questions About NBA 2K11’s Postgame Q&As
Many sports gamers imagine backstories and outside-the-lines interactions for their created players. NBA 2K11’s servicing that this year with “My Career,” a narrative hub for the game’s singleplayer career mode that offers a chance to create a public persona. 2K Sports today put up that video demonstrating how these types of interactions affect how you…
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Madden’s NFL Predictions — And A Few Of Our Own
Madden NFL has an impressive record picking Super Bowl winners; it also takes an annual stab at the much less exact science of predicting the season, which a simulation says ends with Baltimore and Green Bay as conference champions. Running a one-shot sim in Madden NFL 11’s franchise mode, EA Sports returned ties for the…
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