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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is $20 for the Rest of Today
Electronic Arts knocked $10 off the PC download of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – and someone else found a promo code that takes an additional $20 off – for any game – making it $19.95 until the end of the day. The offer is good over the EA Store; enter PAXEAST842 in the promo code…
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Tetris: The Anti-Nightmare Fuel
Playing Tetris shortly after traumatic experiences helps accident victims and war casualties ward off traumatic flashbacks, British researchers have found. Sounds silly, but given how much of your brain Tetris can end up controlling – to the point of seeing it when you close your eyes – it’s not that farfetched to me. A team…
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Can Video Games Be Campy?
In a culture so infused with irony, the appreciation of campy works – outrageous movies, terrible art, worse music – is absolutely mainstream. Does it apply to games? Can games strive to be campy? Or are they already so? Michael Clarkson, writing on his blog Discount Thoughts, considers games like House of the Dead: Overkill,…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: X-Ray Edition
Our week began with a nightmarish image, even in x-ray – a giant butcher knife plunged through some unlucky wallhacker’s cranium. Sensitive bastards people that we are, this is great fodder for the latest Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Don’t worry, we’re not going to show you the super-gruesome real life image. But as we have dozens…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published March 24 PvPonline published March 22 ActionTrip published March 22 Digital Unrest published March 22 EXTRALIFE published March 23 GU Comics published March 24 Dotgif published March 22 Ctrl+Alt+Del published March 22 Dueling Analogs published March 22 Nerf NOW published March 23 Rooster Teeth published March 23 Monday Night Crew published March…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Yeah, I Dig ‘Em
A few months back I left my car in neutral and it rolled out of the garage, down the hill and destroyed a bush. I worried that the landlady would notice the missing shrubbery. Then the plumbers showed up yesterday. They’re replacing some damaged sewer pipe, which requires them to excavate all the way down…
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Netflix Disc Comparison Says PS3 is Slower than the Wii
So maybe I was a little hard on the loading times for streaming Netflix movies on the Wii yesterday. It could be worse; it could be the same service on a PS3. Not only did this comparison show the PS3 taking 2:53, start to finish, to load up a preview clip (compared with the Wii’s…
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Snubbed Cover Candidate Says “No One Else” Deserves Madden Box But Him
Madden NFL 11 has put its cover athlete up for a vote. The Tennessee Titans’ Chris Johnson, who is not a candidate, says there shouldn’t even be a vote. “No one else deserve to be there but me,” he said. Now, that’s the kind of product spokesman I’d want! Gee, wonder why EA Sports didn’t…
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Left 4 Dead 2 DLC Won’t Release This Month, Will Cost 560 MS Points
A video broadcast to U.K. Xbox Live subscribers confirms suspicions that Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing” DLC won’t be available by March 31, with the date moved to a more vague “Spring.” But it will cost 560 Microsoft points. The U.K.’s Xbox Live team says Valve officially confirmed the pushback and the price to…
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Dead Space 2 First Look: Isaac on a Train
About 30 seconds of gameplay from the upcoming Dead Space 2 was just shown at PAX East during a panel discussion of the game. In it, Isaac flies through a few runaway train cars and zaps a necromorph. If you want to see it, skip ahead to 23:50 of the video below. It’s a somewhat…
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Vegas Kicked My Ass, but I Returned the Favor — With a Video Game
Two weeks ago I simulated the NCAA Tournament on my Xbox 360 and vowed to bet its first round predictions “like a message from the future.” My friends called that the stupidest thing they’d ever heard. They were right. But I did it anyway, hitting Las Vegas for a bachelor party with a sheaf of…
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Just Cause 2 Won’t Have Multiplayer, Just ‘Cause
The director of Just Cause 2 is loud and proud about the fact they built a single-player game, and shut down thoughts that they could be cooking up multiplayer downloadable content for this game. Still, Magnus Nedfors told Eurogamer that his studio, Avalanche, has had “lots of good ideas” for a multiplayer Just Cause, but…
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Stargate Resistance Sold Off as Bankruptcy Guts Original Publisher
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment started reading Chapter 11 last month, and now a court-appointed official has taken control of the company’s assets, which includes Stargate Resistance. The game has been sold off and will continue to be supported. Cheyenne Mountain, however, sounds like it has gone clank. It has less than $10,000 in the bank (so…
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Scott Pilgrim vs. These Screenshots of His Game
The soundtrack composer for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim adaptation (of the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie) debuted one of the game’s songs at PAX East, and screengrabs taken from that video give a glimpse of what to expect in the game. Anamanaguchi, the chiptune punk band that purports to create its songs with a hacked NES,…
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Weekend Coupons: Keep On Rockin’ in the Free and Reduced Price World
Sometimes the deals here are so rockin’ I start nodding my head like yeah, yeah, keep on with those Weekend Coupons! And then I start shaking my head like no, no, no don’t stop those Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Of special interest to plenty of you, I’m sure, is the 250 GB hard drive for…
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Kotaku Originals: Still Pocket Size
Until PAX East kicked in Nintendo’s new handhelds – the upcoming 3DS and the arrival of the DSi XL – told the tale of the week’s big news. Paid DLC, as always, also pushed buttons among the week’s top stories. Kotaku’s PAX East Coverage Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mornin’ gang. Anyone else have an unusual Friday evening? Then again, what the hell is your usual Friday evening? If it includes video games, gab it up here while I make coffee and power on the weekend news-o-tron. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
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Whenever the Next Half-Life Comes Out, It Had Better Be Scary
Games have “gotten away from genuinely scaring the player,” and Half-Life, whenever it deploys its next episode, needs to get back to doing just that, the game’s boss said. Gabe Newell, the Valve honcho, was asked if the game’s tone has matured along with its audience’s over the past 12 years. He told Edge Magazine…
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Netflix on the Wii Features Some Nice Long Load Times
The Netflix discs enabling streaming video over the Wii are already in the mail and one reader’s uploaded this video, showing us what we can expect – in this case, 30 second loading times to browse the catalog. By this video, booting up the service takes 33 seconds. After registering the device, it’s another 33…
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