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Bad News, Everyone: Duke Wins NCAA Final 84-61
The entire country may be captivated by underdog Butler’s Hoosiers-esque tournament run, tipping off now on CBS, but not NCAA Basketball 10. The video game spit back a simulation saying Duke will romp to its fourth national championship. In the 84-61 win, which just played out in a CPU vs. CPU game on my Xbox…
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Red Dead Redemption an ‘Ambitious’ Game with Ad Budget to Match
Red Dead Redemption will be Rockstar’s “most ambitious game to date,” says a studio executive, which explains why it’s carpet-bombing TV and certain film audiences with a sizable pre-launch ad campaign. Speaking to MCV, Rockstar GM Neil Stephen said Redemption will get the company’s first ever cinema advertising campaign.”We think the cinematic nature of the…
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Mass Effect 2 Formally Introduces Kasumi Tomorrow
An April 6 release for Mass Effect 2’s “Kasumi” DLC is hardly a secret or a surprise. If nothing else, this video reminds you to get your grubby paws on it tomorrow. Billed as an homage to James Bond (warning, spoilers at that link), it delivers us Commander Shepard in some kind of astro-tux with…
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Swiss ‘Crackdown’ Sounds Rather Mild Now
Switzerland recently passed two acts meant to clamp down on violent video games, but has yet to enact them while the government determines the standards under which a game considered too violent. Apparently, only 12 titles would fit the description. That’s according to a prime backer of the law, who in an interview with a…
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One Hundred and Four Weekends
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Happy Early Easter Today marks my second year anniversary with the site since Brian hired me. Back in 2008, needing a weekend editor, he called me out of the blue and asked if I’d seen his post calling for applicants for the job. I was too ashamed to admit at…
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Super Street Fighter IV Confirmed for Arcade Release
Although unlikely to get an official release in North America, Super Street Fighter IV will get a cabinet in Japan, Capcom said at the recently concluded Japanese championships. Producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed the arcade release after presenting console copies of the game to the winners of 3-vs-3 tournament for original Street Fighter IV. You can…
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Week in Games: Easter Vacation
The week after Easter Sunday is typically slow for new game releases, but this one coming up is unusually so: Just four games going out, and the biggest one is the retail version of the Borderlands DLC. Two games for the DS and PC, one for the 360. Really, that’s all, folks. Enjoy your basket…
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“Resident Evil: Afterlife” Trailer Doesn’t Reinvent Game Movies As We Know Them
Now that you’ve seen the first images from “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” gaze upon the first trailer for the film. Let’s see: Swords vs. guns, Matrix-y bullet-time effects, driving rock score with fatalistic lyrics. Yep, it’s a video game movie. That zombie with that Little-Shop-of-Horrors shit going on with his face was kind of cool though.…
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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. •Top Ten Worst Instances of Video Game Music [VG Chartz] Marvel vs. Capcom 2’s “Take You for a Ride” is an obvious choice and makes…
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Game-Trading Service Adds Eight Old-School Consoles
Goozex is a swap-meet alternative to reselling that’s gotten pretty popular with cash-conscious gamers. The service just added 6,000 titles on several retro platforms, from the Nintendo 64 all the way back to the Atari 2600. Goozex traders can now trade titles from their NES, Super Nintendo, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Sega…
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Super Meat Boy Makes iPhone Into Tiger Handheld
After ranting publicly that the iPhone is “the Tiger handheld game of this generation,” Tommy Refenes saw his game removed from the App Store. He’s struck back, releasing a Tiger-ized version of Super Meat Boy for a dollar. Refenes, part of the team producing the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare title, apparently meant to…
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Religion in Games: Less a Leap of Faith, More a Suspension of Belief
I’ve no idea why, but it seems no accident that the week before Easter I went back to start over the original Assassin’s Creed, the only game I’ve ever played that is set in the Holy Land. Never have I been someone of faith. I’m a confirmed Episcopalian, a sect I’ve often trivialized as Catholics…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Easter Egg Edition
Hey there, smart ‘shoppers, break out your Paas coloring kits, because it’s Easter and it’s Sunday, and that means it’s time to roll some eggs across Kotaku’s virtual lawn. Your mission today is bounded only by your imagination – and your ‘Shop skills, of course. Beginning with the blank canvas of this white egg, your…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published March 31 PvPonline published March 30 ActionTrip published March 29. Digital Unrest published March 28 EXTRALIFE published April 1. GU Comics published April 2. Dotgif published April 2. Ctrl+Alt+Del published April 1. Dueling Analogs published April 1. Nerf NOW published March 31. Rooster Teeth published March 30. Monday Night Crew published March…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Easter and Baseball
Growing up, we got Easter Monday off from school, not Good Friday. I later found the reason why when I went to college. It’s because, back in the 1930s and 1940s, N.C. State and Wake Forest traditionally played a baseball game the day after Easter. This is back when collegiate baseball had a more mainstream…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: X-Ray Edition Winners
Last week’s ‘Shop Contest challenge was unintentionally a little tough. But you guys pulled through with quality entries that show X-rays of gruesome incidents can also be hilarious. Jason Jones gets into the party for the look of pain on Luigi’s face and his implied discomfort. I can’t decide if Kyosen, always a consistent performer,…
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Maybe This Is One Reason the Stimulus Package Cost So Much
At $3 per map, it was fair to ask what else you get for your money with the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package. The answer, apparently, is a big-ass marketing campaign. In the U.K. at least, Activision has spent £1m to flack the game online and over TV throughout the Easter weekend, MCV reported. Spending…
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Duke Nukem Forever‘s Gold Date Would Have Been April Fool’s
Had the farce of its development not abruptly dead-ended in May of last year, April 1, 2010 was to have been the date Duke Nukem Forever went to gold master – that is, was at last finished. The detail was revealed over Twitter by former Take-Two Interactive producer Jason Bergman on April 1, so, naturally,…
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