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Madden 11 Bundles Up with the PS3

Loyal reader [redacted], a Best Buy employee, passes along not only this SKU-mor, but how new products on double-secret probation work for one major retailer. BB’s listing a Madden NFL 11 250GB PS3 bundle with the same street date as the main game, Aug. 10. Right now, it’s listed in a dead category in Best…

How the Free Agency Turnover Affects NBA Jam

The NBA’s tumultuous offseason involved far more than LeBron James jumping ship to Miami, and basketball video games, which release Oct. 5, will have to react to that on short notice. NBA Jam seems the most affected by the rosters remade by free agency, as only two players are on the floor in the arcade-style…

The First Named Roster is Out for NCAA Football 11

PS3 gamers with NCAA Football 11 only had to wait one day after release for the first custom, fully-named roster to become available. Xbox 360 rosters are still being written, and we’re told they’ll be available shortly. To get rid of those unsightly HB #3 and SS #21s, or those autonamed rosters that cause you…

MLB 2K10 Resolves Server Problems; All-Star Achievement Still Available for Today

2K Sports says it’s resolved freezes and server outages in MLB 2K10, which came as gamers went to collect a rare Achievement/Trophy timed to the All-Star Game. Users still have until the end of today to pick that up. The publisher says the server outage beginning the mess was not related to any rush caused…

LeBron Takes His Talents to NBA Jam

Will NBA Jam accommodate the new free agent signings the league saw in the past week? Yep. The game released three screens today showing Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh and, yes, LeBron James, all wearing their new threads. Does this mean Dwyane Wade is out of the Heat roster? Nope, you can see him in all…

Someone’s Fired Up About His TF2 Class

Seen via Reddit.

Existence of Black Ops Controllers Confirmed [Updated]

Shots of MadCatz’ new line of Call of Duty: Black Ops peripherals have surfaced and well, yes, the controllers are in fact black. The lineup was announced way back at E3; earlier today Josh Olin, the Treyarch community manager, tweeted a link to the controller bling. The images actually come from Games Radar, a week…

Mad Catz Call of Duty: Black Ops Peripherals

The Xbox 360 controller is $49.99 and offers a “precision aim” mode that slows down the analog controller’s input to allow players to line up tighter shots. Some features also are re-mappable, and it comes in two designs. The wireless PS3 controller is essentially the same except for the ability to charge it via USB…

Mom Cleans Up Beatdown, Gets Back to Frontierville

An hour after hosing blood off the street and ordering a bystander away from the guy her twins had beaten into a seizure, according to cops, a Staten Island mom was back in Frontierville in search of tools and hardware. Deborah Berardi, 55, faces felony gang assault charges along with her two sons, Thomas and…

ESRB Apologizes for Email Leak

Calling it a “truly disappointing” mistake, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has apologized directly to those whose email addresses it exposed in a reply concerning Blizzard’s now-abandoned plans to require forum members to use their real names. The reply, sent to all who were on a list of about 1,000 who complained about Blizzard to…

Your Only Chance to Pick Up This Achievement Comes Tomorrow

Like an eclipse or an obscure comet sighting, tomorrow is the only day on the calendar you may pick up this Silver PSN trophy or 40 Gamerscore Xbox Live achievement, in MLB 2K10. So be ready when it comes. The trophy/achievement is “Mid-Summer Classic,” and all you have to do to collect it is play…

Hero of King of Kong to be Enshrined in Hall of Fame

Steve Wiebe, the protagonist of the documentary The King of Kong, famous for his pursuit of Donkey Kong’s all-time record, will be enshrined alongside the game’s creator with the first class inducted by the International Video Games Hall of Fame. Wiebe, an algebra teacher in Kirkland, Wash., is currently the holder of the No. 3…

Just Don’t Get Kicked Out of the Circle in NHL 11

There’s plenty you can do on a faceoff other than spam the controls and look like a fool. NHL 11 wants to give you more options this year, as shown in new screenshots released today. As we saw in a video yesterday, you’ll be able to tie up your opponent and kick it back, tie…

Big Patch Accompanies NCAA 11‘s Arrival Tomorrow

Not many people game completely offline, but you’ll want to be connected if you’re bringing home NCAA Football 11 tomorrow. It gets a a day-of-release patch that fixes and tunes a ton of features. I can confirm this is already present; EA Sports put it on the server last Wednesday. The patch not only corrects…

Well Alrighty, Then: Here are the Madden 11 Achievements

The full achievement list for Madden NFL 11 is now out in the open. It includes “Laces Out,” which gives you 40 Gamerscore for kicking a 60-yard-field goal. That sounds makeable – provided Dan Marino’s not holding. Aside from making homages to 1990s comedies, developers use the achievements and trophy sets to condition gamer expectations,…

España Gana la Copa

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Breaking Congratulations to Spain for the first World Cup won in the history of a first-rate footballing nation. They won with eight goals in seven matches. That’s a record low for a Cup champion, and about as few as you could possibly score going this far. I’m no keen observer…

On the Ice, the Hits are Like Snowflakes

No two are alike with the game’s new real-time physics, promises EA Sports. Broken sticks, glove- and skate-passing, more face-off options and the Canadian Hockey League round out the package of upgrades in NHL 11, due Sept. 14.

Celebrity Look-Alikes of Video Game Stars

As a weekend timewaster, this idea was so good I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it first. GamesRadar plugged seven high-quality screengrabs into those find-my-celebrity-lookalike sites, and came back with some hilariously inaccurate – and surprisingly accurate – matches. Kanye West as Nathan Drake? Barack Obama as Commander Shepard? Johnny Depp as John Marston?…

The Week in Games: The Old College Try

It’s back to school two months early with NCAA Football 11 on Tuesday. Dragon Quest IX is already out today, and DeathSpank slaps down on Tuesday for PSN and Wednesday for Xbox Live Arcade. Sunday, July 11 Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS) – The wildly popular RPG, a huge seller in…

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. •The Greatest Video Game Porn Parodies Ever [Ranker] “Left 4 Head” we know, but did you know that there’s a Brain Age porn parody? Say…