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The Week In Review: Duke Nukem Finally?
The rumor that Duke Nukem Forever might arrive at long last raises an interesting question. What thrills us more, the game’s release, or the thought of it? Duke Nukem Forever hardly needs an introduction. It’s the eternal vaporware sequel to a single game, published in 1996. Its constipated development, a case study in perfect being…
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Reflecting On Multiplayer In Halo: Reach
Ah, Team Slayer. Halo: Reach packs new multiplayer modes like Stockpile and Invasion, but in the beta, even those typically devolved into Slayer-esque battles of headshot-and-revenge. Here’s five minutes of Slayer on “Reflection,” inspired by “Ivory Tower” from Halo 2. At 2:43, watch him wait for Jimmy to come out of Armor Lock before patiently…
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Namco Registers Site For “Antiques Roadshow: The Game”
I love PBS, and not in a snobby way – History Detectives does an amazing job proving or disproving family myths, always in a very respectful manner. But an Antiques Roadshow video game? That’s like watching old people fuck. Namco has registered a domain for just such a game and while it is proof of…
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Past Meets Present In NBA 2K11’s Latest Hype Vid
Snoop Dogg provides the theme, custom-fit to NBA 2K11, in a montage 2K Sports gave exclusively to IGN earlier today. Jordan on Kobe, the Bad Boys bringing it up, LeBron in Miami, Ewing with the up-and-under. It’ll fire you up. This is pure publicity, not gameplay. But it does show this year’s game, thematically, will…
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Monday Night Combat Review: The Happy Warriors
Turrets. I can’t stop building and upgrading them in Monday Night Combat. Oh, they do a great job mowing down bots and other players. But it’s really because I’m a Southern boy and a born sucker for Pitgirl’s saucy accent. Monday Night Combat, the class-based shooter from Uber Entertainment and the latest “Summer of Arcade”…
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Prank Redecorates Sega Desk As Green Hill Zone
Aaron Webber, Sega’s community manager, went on a three weeks vacation, and came back to find his cubicle completely remade into the Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog. Check out the video, the attention to detail is impressive. The best part is the rings hanging in midair, followed by the blue Robotnik/Sonic sign that…
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NHL 11 Demo Is Out On Tuesday
NHL 11’s developers revealed today that the game’s demo will be released on Aug. 17 in North America and Aug. 18 in Europe. With it, you’ll also get to play a demo version of the new Hockey Ultimate Team. The announcement came in a developer chat earlier in the day. Operation Sports reports that Hockey…
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Give Your Avatar A Free Jordan Jersey
Preordering NBA 2K11 from GameStop will land your Xbox Live or PlayStation Home avatar a Michael Jordan No. 23 Bulls jersey for free. I hear if you pre-order Rock Band: Lollapalooza you get a Gary Trent Miami Heat model instead. Home gets the white Home jersey (get it? Get it?) Xbox Live gets the red…
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Seacrest County Is Serious About Speeding
Apparently the recession has not hit Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s Seacrest County. Or the sheriff and the county commissioners are gonna face a recall election for giving the deputies Dodge Vipers instead of the good old honey-brown Crown Vic. Then again, you can’t have a game called “Hot Pursuit” if the pursuit is supplied…
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Bad Dad Steals And Sells Son’s Games
A Cincinnati-area father took bad parenting to a new depth this past weekend by swiping his 9-year-old son’s console and games and trading them all in for cash. What for exactly wasn’t said, but the guy has a drug problem. Joseph Phillips, 28, was visiting his son for the weekend at his ex-wife’s home when…
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Madden: The Official Shoes Of The Game
The diagram of a successful touchdown play from the New Orleans Saints Super’ Bowl XLIV victory is lasered into the heels of the “Madden 11 Air Trainer 1.2” by NIke, only 500 of which will be made available at retailers. By my untrained eye, that looks like Fox 2 Halfback Screen Strong, scored by the…
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Landon Donovan Gets America’s FIFA Cover
Sure, I called it. Then again, any eight-year-old watching him bang home the winner in stoppage time of the U.S.-Algeria match could tell you Landon Donovan would be making his third appearance on the cover of EA Sports’ FIFA series. Donovan, easily the most celebrated footballer in the United States, will grace EA Sports’ FIFA…
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Jordan Gets His Own Career Mode In NBA 2K11
Ten great games and eight great teams from the zenith of Michael Jordan’s career were not enough. NBA 2K11 will feature a singleplayer mode allowing you to take the game’s greatest superstar into today’s league – if you’re good enough. 2K Sports today revealed that “MJ: Creating A Legend,” a special singleplayer mode that will…
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Get Ready For Some Football — With Kotaku Talk Radio
Madden Gras was Monday, but Phil Frazier wasn’t there. The Madden NFL 11 senior producer was watching the telemetry as folks chugged back from the store at midnight and went online. And this morning, he was on Kotaku Talk Radio. This year’s game upgrades its cooperative multiplayer mode to “Online Team Play” of up to…
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Madden: It Only Does Family Counseling
You know, when my friend wanted Madden and a console over his wife’s objections, he just bought the thing and lied about it. He didn’t concoct some scenario where an all-pro tight end showed up like the magical Madden Fairy. Folks, this is “Justin” and if you’re thinking that you don’t just get surprised by…
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Six Years’ Worth Of Game Time Destroyed In Pirate Raid
For several reasons, EVE Online subscriptions – “pilot license extensions” – have become an in-game item to be bought and sold among players – and stored in cargo holds of the sci-fi MMO’s ships. You know where this is going. Seventy-four “PLEXes” – these 30-day subscriptions – were in the cargo of “a lone Kestrel…
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NBA Jam Checks Off Its Creator’s “Hit List”
When Mark Turmell – the lead designer and programmer on the original NBA Jam – came to EA Sports’ reboot, he brought a list of 60 things the team needed to get right to make a true Jam. The series’ creative director explores what “The Turmell Hit List” and another original Jam personality – announcer…
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A Bit More on Monday Night Combat’s Second Certification
Sunday we reported that Monday Night Combat passed certification twice when Uber Entertainment found some things not up to snuff after it went gold. Penny Arcade learned it’s because of the game’s ability to tune itself without a patch. Jerry Holkins was intrigued by the claim that Monday Night Combat can make balance adjustments “on…
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Talk Football With The Madden Man Tomorrow
Madden NFL 11 is on shelves now, and tomorrow we’ll have the series’ senior producer, Phil Frazier, take us inside this year’s game and how it was built. Plus a special guest appearance by yours truly! Frazier will be taking our questions and your calls, hopefully fully recovered from whatever hangover “Madden Gras” delivered down…
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