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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: NASCAR Edition Winners
It’s a tribute to the Kotaku community that you guys were able to come up with 20 good entries to my utter fail of a ‘Shop Contest subject. I promise a better contest tomorrow. First, last week’s winners. Since we hadn’t heard much lately from NASCAR driver Joey Logano, whose No. 20 Toyota on the…
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Latest Transformers Game Reboots the Robots of Your Youth
Man, have I lost touch with the Transformers. I never knew they had an evil dinosaur that could transform into a city. When the hell did they start doing that? That’s Trypticon, at least, it’s how he appeared on Cybertron in Transformers: War for Cybertron, due out June 22. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. My…
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Results are in on PAX’s Booth Babe Ban Poll
I don’t know this means the ban on scantily-clad booth babes at the Penny Arcade Expos necessarily gets any stricter, but the policy – put to a poll of Penny Arcade’s community last week – is definitely getting more descriptive. The biggest inclusion the PAX community wanted to see in the policy is that a…
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Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms
This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…
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The Beauty of Human Error, Committed by a Computer Umpire
It’s the bottom of the fourth and that SOB Dallas Hodges is squeezing the zone low and away, again. Strike three went by like a freight train and Hodges just stared at it like a cow. This ump’s a disgrace. This ump also isn’t even real. He’s one of 10 in MLB 10: The Show,…
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MotorStorm 3 Goes Post-Apocalyptic?
The French site PS3Gen claims to have gotten its hands on “stolen” images of MotorStorm 3, purporting to show the PS3-exclusive racer set in a San Francisco of collapsed buildings and raging fires. Quite a departure from the series first three iterations, which set loose the fleet of cars, trucks and things that go in…
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His Airness in Defeat, in Victory, and in NBA 2K10
Back in April, Operation Sports’s MessenjahMatt put together this excellent recreation of famous Michael Jordan performances in NBA 2K10. As Jordan is confirmed to be playable in NBA 2K11, it’s potentially a look at what that might entail. Although 2K Sports was mum on the subject speaking with me (and everyone else), ESPN reported earlier…
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Box Scores: The Vacant Confines
Some rivalries are played before sellout crowds, primetime exposure and adoring nationwide coverage. Others finish past midnight with a couple dozen disinterested people left in the bleachers and only two more watching on the TV. The latter would be the final audience for Chewblaha and his Cubs vs. Mike Dukakis’ Mets in a 12-inning affair…
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EA Sports Active Slapped with Trademark Lawsuit
The Active Network has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA Sports Active, alleging the fitness title’s online use of scheduling and fitness goals covers purposes for which it holds the trademark “Active.” GameSpot got a look at the suit, which claims The Active Network has since 2008 held the rights to the word “Active”…
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Weekend Coupons: You’re Gonna Eat Lightning, and You’re Gonna Crap Coupons
You shoulda seen me when I knocked Giny Russell outta the ring. Outta the goddamn ring. September 14, 1923. The same night that Firpo knocks Dempsey outta the ring. Who gets the publicity? Dempsey. Know why? Because he had COUPONS. Hardware • The new PS3 Slim 250GB “Father’s Day Bundle” with the LittleBigPlanet Game of…
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The Week in Review: Promise Keepers
The weeks before E3 see lots of speculation about what it will take for one of the big three to “win” this year’s gathering. Stephen Totilo instead recounted the promises of last year’s showing, to remind everyone someone’s keeping score. Nintendo – forget such head-scratching reveals as the Wii Vitality Sensor – shone through with…
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Paralyzed Gamer Soldiers On in Modern Warfare 2
Iain Hanson, a 19-year-old from Scotland, broke his neck in a bouncy castle amusement four years ago, losing all function in his fingers. Still he plays Modern Warfare2 on the PS3 – better than I can, for sure. Iain (his account on Twitter) writes that he broke his neck when he was 15, but the…
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Raiders Maintain Commitment to Crapulence in Madden Ratings
The at-launch team ratings for Madden NFL 11 were revealed earlier today and the Raida Organization, despite shoveling 260 pounds of No. 2 from its roster, improved not one whit from last year’s game to this. Oakland’s 71 represents zero improvement over last year’s rating, which must make Jason Campbell, the Raidas’ new quarterback, feel…
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Porn Empire Can’t Penetrate the PS3
Back in September, porn behemoth Vivid Entertainment approached Sony about streaming its porn all over the PS3 (snicker). Vivid’s boss says that thrust (haha) is over, and they’re now fantasizing about Microsoft. Speaking to CVG, Steve Hirsch, Vivid’s founder, said conversations with Sony “didn’t lead anywhere.” However, “If we could get further than we did…
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UFC Undisputed Hits a Sophomore Slump?
The breakout hit of 2009, both in sales and acclaim, UFC Undisputed 2010 followed up with plenty of strong reviews but nowhere near the cash register performance of its predecessor, according to an analyst. Gamasutra notes that Lazard Capital Markets says UFC Undisputed 2010 is “tracking below our expectations at retail,” and mentioned that Amazon…
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NBA Elite 11 to Include Standard Controls Alongside New Analog Set
EA Sports put out three more screens of the newly renamed NBA Elite 11, and series producer David Littman – you might recognize that name from NHL 10 – gave an interview explaining how the new controls will work. Littman told GameSpot that NBA Elite will include a standard button control set for those comfortable…
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Monday Night Combat Says Screw Everything, We’re Doing Five Six Blades
If you’re going to do up a class-based team shooter like a televised sporting event, you gotta bring the shaving products advertisements. Monday Night Combat finally found just such a sponsor. Now on to natural male enhancement and mutual funds! Unfortunately, still no word on when Uber Entertainment’s title, for Xbox Live Arcade, will be…
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Donkey Kong Mod Gets a Cartoon Makeover
In the early arcade days, games often looked nothing like their cabinet art. A modder’s taken care of that for Donkey Kong, producing a cartoon-based PC remake you can pick up for free. Mick Farrow is the guy behind the remake, which looks to be based off another port of the game. It includes new…
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