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Reviews
Tecmo Bowl Throwback Micro-Review: Retro-Rockin’ Football
Today, a sports title without real players and teams has a hard pitch to make. If any franchise can close the deal, it’s the one that started it all: Tecmo Bowl, trading on 20 years of nostalgia with Tecmo Bowl Throwback. Packing new 3D player models and cutscene animations, Throwback bluntly leaves its core unchanged…
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Quit While I’m Behind
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Armor’s Armor Rather than try to outdo that Double Down review for humor, I’m gonna bid you a good Monday evening in Australia, everyone else here a fond farewell, and get myself to the couch to commence my recovery. Some of what you missed: Activision Claims World Record in Double…
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ReviewsActivision Claims World Record in Double Down Speed-Eating
Two Activision game testers staged a speed-eating competition of the KFC culinary profanity known as the Double Down, with the winner polishing it off in 57.97 seconds. Video inside, plus my review of the “sandwich.” Kotaku received this exclusive video on Friday. This result has not been verified by Twin Galaxies. I corresponded with the…
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Week in Games: Stark Choice
Iron Man 2 hits both theaters and consoles this week, the game landing on Tuesday and the movie premiering on Friday. Modern Warfare 2‘s Stimulus Package also arrives for PS3 and the PC. Others of note; Picross 3D and Dementium II on the DS, Fat Princess on the PSP, and Zeno Clash comes to Xbox…
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Kotaku’s Top Five 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. •Our List of the Worst Video Game Lists [The Kartel] Wait a minute, how come we’re not on it? •Five Video-Game Characters That Would Face…
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Meet Your New Ops Com for SOCOM 4
This is Cullen Gray of NATO’s International Security Force. He’s going to be the lead performer in the upcoming SOCOM sequel. Sony published a small batch of screens, plus a profile of what makes the new Operations Commander tick. Gray’s profile says he possesses a service record that is “the stuff of legend” and has…
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Give a Major Award to the Maker of this Atari Lamp
One year later, the Atari 2600 Joystick Lamp gets a worthy companion – this combination of a dead VCS, 10 cartridges, and a boxart lampshade. Put it in the living room window so people can see it from the street! The Most Amazing Atari Lamp You’ll See Today [Hawty McBloggy]
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Collect Quite a Bounty With Red Dead Redemption’s Achievements
The achievement set for Red Dead Redemption is out, giving another look at what you can do in its lawless open world, which is basically anything. The game incentivizes cowboy-up stuff such as bustin’ horses, winnin’ poker, and shootin’ people. There are 48 achievements rewarding the standard 1,000 Gamerscore for a full title. I checked…
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When Will You Reach the End of Gaming?
A week ago, we pondered the chance of living to 100 and still playing games at that age. But even as the gamer demographic trends older, many feel like the time will naturally come when they’ll put down the controller. Sean Sands, writing at Gamers With Jobs, is one of them. He’s always been a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Merit Badge Edition
This week word spread that the Cub Scouts were now offering video game badges. Unlike everyone else, we treated the subject seriously and sensitively at first, but now the time has come to follow the rest of the pack. Many of you suggested this, and indeed, this is amazingly fertile soil for a ‘Shop Contest:…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published April 23 PvPonline published April 28 ActionTrip published April 26 EXTRALIFE published April 26 GU Comics published April 28 Dotgif published April 30 Ctrl+Alt+Del published May 1 Dueling Analogs published April 29 Nerf NOW published May 1 Rooster Teeth published May 1 Monday Night Crew published April 30 Virtual Shackles published April…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: The Sounds of Spring
For me, it’s not songbirds in the trees, but lawn care. Yesterday the property manager sent folks to mow and trim the grass and shrubbery, and it lasted all afternoon. Believe it or not, I like this. I am a connoisseur of white noise, and that goes from air conditioners, fans and TVs on a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Madden Curse Edition Winners
Luke updated his debunking of the Madden Curse this week, but I still think there’s some correlation between misfortune and box art. And after griping robustly about a sports topic, y’all got down to business and proved me right. 3pmdsgn’s rookie entry wasn’t perfect, but it was timely, and anything about the Barfing Phillies Fan…
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Sony Registers ‘Infamous2TheGame.com’ Whatever Could That Mean?
I think it means the sequel to Infamous is gonna be called Infamous 2: The Game Dot Com! Look, we already knew that the PS3 exclusive had started casting voice acting for a sequel. And while it was a new title, unless the thing completely sucks a heavily hyped new IP is more likely to…
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Someone Scissor this Glitch From UFC Undisputed, Pronto
Look, I know that the “sweaty dickpunching” joke is so old, but this kind of glitch definitely does not project an image of mixed martial arts as a scientific, action-packed and, moreover, manful sport Reader Joshua J. was playing the UFC Undisputed 2010 demo as Rashad Evans, trying to put Rampage Jackson in a submission…
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Fallen Earth Studio Loses 75 Percent of Workforce
The makers of the post-apocalyptic MMO Fallen Earth lost 75 percent of their workforce in a steep “restructuring” put into effect yesterday. The studio is down to 28 employees from 110. Icarus Studios followed up with Kotaku to say that the studio remains open, and that development for an upcoming patch for Fallen Earth: Blood…
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With Baseball Stats, Trying to Synthesize Real, Fun
The more true-to-life the machine simulation, the more repulsive humans find it. That’s the “uncanny valley.” After hundreds of games I realize baseball on my Xbox 360 and PS3 will always battle that conundrum – and not in their visuals. MLB 10 The Show is acclaimed and marketed as the most realistic baseball simulation on…
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Crappy Demo No One Wanted May Be Worth a Ton Now [Update]
At the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, fans received discs with the demo for a PlayStation game called NBA 2-Ball. The game was pretty bad – possibly defective – but it’s extremely rare. So a surviving copy may be extremely valuable. A New Jersey man provided pictures of the disc to a blog that a while…
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