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Capcom Apologizes for Not Telling Users of Final Fight DRM
Capcom acknowledged that copy protection in the PS3 version of Final Fight: Double Impact requires an always-on Internet connection to play the game, and apologized that a notice of such DRM was not given at the time of purchase. PS3 users who downloaded the bundle of 1990s arcade classics noticed that the game quits completely…
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Remember to Register Your Ratings for Next Year’s Madden Rookies
The first round of the NFL Draft is by now winding down, but remember that EA Sports’ ratings guru Donny Moore is considering community feedback when he sets attributes for this year’s rookie class in Madden NFL 11. Donny Moore, the studio’s ratings guru, posts his projected ratings in the position’s relevant as each pick…
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Rise and Fire! New Madden Vid Teases … Gus Johnson?
Gus Johnson’s unpredictable intensity has made him an ironic favorite of many. The CBS broadcaster has done some voice over work for a Madden video, raising hopes we’ll hear him losing his shit as the game’s new play-by-play man. The video in question is on this Facebook page teasing Drew Brees’ selection as the Madden…
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Best Wishes Bridge Tecmo-Itagaki Rift
In February, Tecmo Koei and renowned designer Tomonobu Itagaki settled a lawsuit arising from their nasty split in 2008. The two are back on social terms, with Tecmo’s boss sending congratulations to Itagaki’s new studio, and the studio posting it. “Congratulations on establishing a new company,” Kakihara Yasuharu, the new chairman of Koei Tecmo holdings,…
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Free-to-Play Football Sim Signs Another Big Name
Today’s football news isn’t entirely about Madden or the NFL Draft. Quick Hit Football, a free-to-play, browser-based football simulator, picked up Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss to appear in-game for Quick Hit’s second season. Quick Hit, whom I’ve written about a few times before, can’t use the entire roster of active NFL players or any…
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Brees — and New Orleans — Grace the Madden NFL 11 Cover
New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees was, as anticipated, named the Madden NFL 11 cover athlete today, appearing over a montage that honors the team and home city as well as the player. The Saints’ triumph in Super Bowl XLIV was, like it or not, a national feel-good story considering the city’s history in the aftermath…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Ruh Roh, Mom’s on Facebook
Well, the party’s over. Mom joined Facebook this week, which means I officially have to dial it back and be nice, also sit up straight, ask to be excused, and not clack my teeth on the tines of my fork. Mom did so reluctantly and only because a group she’s involved in set up a…
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Danica Patrick Enlightens Us on the Concept of ‘Power-Ups’
Indy’s It-girl Danica Patrick has a role in Activision’s Blur, which I didn’t know before today, and Danica’s giving interviews to highlight the fact gamers now race online “against people in different places,” which she didn’t know before today either. What’s more, “It’s not just cars against cars,” Patrick told USA Today. “It’s cars against…
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Drew Brees — To No One’s Surprise — Looks Like Madden 11‘s Cover Man
Drew Brees, quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, has a couple of TV talk show appearances booked for Thursday and Friday. Know what else happens Thursday? EA Sports announces its Madden NFL 11 cover athlete. Pasta Padre earlier today noted that Brees was scheduled for a Friday appearance on Live with…
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Halo: Reach Multiplayer: Playing a Role in a First-Person Shooter
The loadouts have names like Operator, Airborne, Grenadier, indicating their main weapon and a unique battlefield talent. I suggest that Bungie’s bringing a touch of class-based combat to Halo, and the designer winces, then chooses his words. “I don’t want to call it class-based, but we do want people to be able to fill a…
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A Sightseeing Tour of Halo: Reach
Today Bungie lifted the lid on the upcoming Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, which means we’ve got four dozen new images of the game, its maps and new game types that we can now show you. Screenshots of three of the game’s four new maps have already gone public. This gallery leads off with the fourth,…
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Halo: Reach Multiplayer Preview: A New Game, But Not Unfamiliar
In 10 days, Halo: Reach gets its multiplayer beta – and consider that last word. With four different game types, new abilities and weapons, this isn’t some preview of the rest of a new game. It is a new game. Yes, the Halo: Reach beta will deliver another four maps and the standard game modes,…
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This Drunk Driving ‘Game’ Actually Has a Message
As Kotaku’s resident deplorable alcoholic, expectations for me are low enough that not only can I post something this reprehensible, it’s practically expected. So here’s the problem of drunk driving imagined as a 1990s-style game – note, this game doesn’t exist. Brooklyn comedy quintet POKYPAC is responsible for this foray into dark humor, produced last…
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Team Fortress 2 Tweaks the Drop System
Items in Team Fortress 2 will drop more frequently under changes Valve just rolled out, ones that the publisher hopes will discourage standing around idly in the game waiting for them to happen. The old system would determine, at random intervals, if you would experience an item drop. Now it determines at random when the…
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Guru, Rapper Who Portrayed Grand Theft Auto III‘s 8-Ball, Dies at 43
Keith Elam, a hip-hop artist who performed under the name Guru, died Monday after ending a long battle with cancer. Elam voiced 8-Ball, the demolitions artist with whom the protagonist escapes at the very beginning of Grand Theft Auto III. Rockstar Games noted Elam’s passing in a brief obituary on its newswire today. “Guru was…
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Atari 2600 Emulator Built for iPhone; App to Follow?
The folks behind an officially licensed Commodore 64 emulator on the iPhone are also working on an Atari 2600 emulators for the device, meaning more plink-plonk classics from the early 1980s could be on the way to you. That’s a tech demonstration of Space Invaders, Berzerk and Frogger for the 2600, played over virtual controls…
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Tecmo Bowl Throwback on Xbox Live Next Week; on PSN ‘Soon’
Tecmo’s reboot of the console classic Tecmo Bowl arrives on Xbox Live on April 28 for 800 Microsoft Points, but there’s no word yet on when PlayStation owners get in on the fun. A news release from Tecmo said only “A release on PlayStation Network will soon follow.” Throwback will deliver an old-school 2D mode…
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Jetpacks Let You Jump All Over Battlefield Heroes’ New Map
Battlefield Heroes, the zany, free-to-play combat game from EA DICE has a new map, a new game mode to play on it, and jet packs to get you around it. The map, “Midnight Mayhem” sets the Heroes in a nighttime environment – the ruins of a military compound. The game mode, V2 Vengeance, is a…
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Two Voice Actors Out Arkham Asylum 2 Villains
Mister Freeze and Talia al Ghul, daughter of Ra’s (Ra?) will be foes in Batman: Arkham Asylum, according to two voice actors’ comments on a podcast and via Twitter. First up, Talia. Stana Katic, who stars on ABC’s Castle, tweeted on Friday that she’d “Just recorded a character voice on the next Batman video game,”…
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It’s Not Saturday Yet, but It’s Getting Closer in NCAA Football
Some earlier screenshots gave us an idea of the lighting and detail upgrades due for NCAA Football 11. Now footage just released by EA Sports shows what it all looks like in motion. The game gives good visual treatment to its subjects, but right now, things still look a little floaty in some of the…
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