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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Big Head Mode
McWhertor’s shot yesterday of the Twilight cosplayer – wearing a giant mask that matched his skin tone, making him look like he was in big head mode – is the last-minute inspiration for a ‘Shop Contest everyone can enter. Big Head Mode. And that’s really it. I’m not sure why we haven’t done this before.…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 21. PvPonline published July 23. ActionTrip published July 19. EXTRALIFE published July 23. Ctrl+Alt+Del published July 21. Dueling Analogs published July 19. Nerf NOW published July 19. Rooster Teeth published July 24. Monday Night Crew published July 23. Virtual Shackles published July 19. Little Gamers published July 20.
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Street Fighter and Tekken: Two Great Tastes That Kick A Lotta Ass Together
Street Fighter? Tekken. Tekken? Street Fighter. Chocolate? Peanut butter. Me? I’ll leave and let you enjoy this trailer and 33 screens, taken from the gameplay and cinematic of the newly revealed Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter.
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Kotaku Shop Contest: Kinect Goes to China Winners
The inevitable counterfeiting, bootlegging and knock-offing of Kinect in certain Far East markets was the inspiration for last week’s contest, and many enterprising ‘shoppers joined the cause to create glorious images for the benefit of all. Let’s take a look. For some reason, the less I could tell what was going on with a box,…
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New Mass Effect 2 Weapons Pack Will Precede “Broker”
Astute Mass Effect fans noticed that, in the screens accompanying news of the upcoming extension “The Lair of the Shadow Broker,” Shepard’s packing two weapons currently unavailable. BioWare’s confirmed a new weapons pack is coming, earlier than this next DLC. BioWare’s Jarrett Lee took to the forums to confirm what people were seeing was authentic.…
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And Now For The Rest Of The (Beginning Of The) Story …
If you saw that 30-second teaser on Thursday and wondered what the heck was going on with Batman’s costume and Superman’s lack of a shave, this six-minute video setting up DC Universe Online’s story should answer a lot of questions. Thanks to Antiterra for the tip.
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Tomb Raider Avatar Items Available For Plunder On Thursday
If you’ve ever wanted to cross dress your avatar as Lara Croft, your chance is coming. The tomb raider’s super-tight shorts are among a set of themed outfits hitting Xbox Live Marketplace on Thursday. Right now, a premium theme celebrating Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is already available on the marketplace. That’ll be…
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Digital Distributors Dispute NPD Rankings
Impulse and GamersGate are two pretty well known digital download services – we feature them every week in The Moneysaver – but they didn’t show up in an NPD assessment of digital versus brick-and-mortar sales. Earlier in the week, NPD Group claimed that digital download sales of PC games had almost caught up with games…
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The Future Is The Past, But Not For Long
Thursday’s news of “The Jordan Challenge” coming to NBA 2K11 certainly felt like a trip down memory lane – of video games, as well as His Airness’ career. In the days when Michael Jordan was the premier athlete in the NBA, if not the world, sports video games were on the whole not fully licensed,…
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YouTube Easter Egg Lets You Play “Snake”
How long this has been available, who knows, but someone just found an Easter egg in YouTube that allows you to play a game of Snake on the video while it’s paused or plays. I’ve confirmed this for myself – it takes some doing, and maybe it’s because I’m using a Mac, but if you…
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British Tab’s Bogus GTA Story Brings Bigtime Apology — and Damages
The idea that Rockstar Games was making “Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury” – whether or not a ghastly crime was committed there – was so sensationally ridiculous that when The Daily Star alleged such a plan, I ignored it. Rockstar didn’t. The studio has now extracted a remarkable apology from the U.K. tabloid, which last week…
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Box Scores: The Rich Get You-Know-What-er
Not because he’s a Duke fan – heavens, no, really folks – but Kotaku reader Shwing apparently felt that one of college sports’ A-list Haves should also Have a major bowl bid. And the Orange Bowl committee sighed. Duke’s major bowl history is – you see this every goddamn year in their media guide –…
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The Moneysaver: Untouchable Bargains
You wanna know how you do it? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way, that’s how you get coupons! Hardware • Amazon is taking pre-orders for the new Xbox 360 4GB Slim Console bundled…
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The Week in Review: Hot Fun in the Summertime
When I was a kid, summer meant saving up my paperboy money for two things: Fireworks and video games. Both necessities converged in 1985 – which staggers me to realize it was 25 years ago. Growing up in a newspaper family, the big deal each July was the North Carolina Press Association’s “Summer Institute.” NCPA…
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THQ Blames RDR for MIA UFC
UFC Undisputed 2010’s poor sales, earlier reported to be down more than 50 percent from last year’s breakout hit UFC 2009 Undisputed, now have a reason: THQ says Red Dead Redemption sucked up all the oxygen in May. “Our sales were softer than where we would have liked them to be,” THQ’s Jon Rooke, the…
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Kane & Lynch 2 Achievements! Kane & Lynch 2 Achievements Here! Who’s Ready?!
As we reported earlier, the Kane & Lynch 2 demo is already available for PlayStation Plus subscribers, with the rest of you rabble getting it on July 27. IO Interactive also released the full game’s trophy and achievement set today. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days releases on Aug. 17. Here’s all the glory you’ll…
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Thor Kicks a Puppy in Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Were I Thor, this isn’t the debut I’d want to make, being paired against Amaterasu from Okami. Because if you win, which he is, briefly, you’re a god beating the crap out of a dog. And if you lose … We’d heard earlier that Thor and Amaterasu would be a part of the lineup. That…
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