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Weekend Coupons: Bundles of Joy
Big-ticket items lead the latest roundup of values and savings, but if you’re just here for the games, we’ve got plenty of deals there, too. Onward Weekend Coupons! Hardware • As McWhertor pointed out yesterday, Amazon’s cranking out a value-added Xbox 360 Elite bundle on Tuesday; it gives you the console plus Halo 3: ODST…
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Microsoft CEO Hints at New Forms, Options for Xbox 360
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was supposed to be talking about cloud computing on Thursday, but an offhand remark during a Q&A session hinted that additional “form factors” for the Xbox 360, with price points to suit them, are being considered. By “form factor” Ballmer evidently means something vastly different from a hard drive or HDMI…
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Kotaku Originals: Insanity Ward
The onslaught of news this week was enough to send anyone to the nuthouse. Activision sacking Infinity Ward’s founders takes the gold, the PS3 clock error the silver, and Portal 2 a hard-fought bronze. The week in Kotaku’s original reporting: Activision vs. Infinity Ward Founders Ex-Infinity Ward Heads Claim “Orwellian” Moves By Activision Infinity Ward…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
If this image looks familiar, we had some technical difficulties delivering today’s version of the Talk Amongst Yourselves art. Which sucks, because I had a hell of a joke worked out. Anyway, the starter image is like the frame of a painting. You guys are that painting. Enjoy your canvas for talking about anything in…
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This Gaming Rig Has Four Tires, Multiport Fuel Injection
At least dad here doesn’t look like a doofus flailing the Wiimote. He’s still got the swervy hands and overbite that indicate the the guy was told to look like he’s playing a video game, not actually play one. We’ve seen N64’s played in a minivan, but it’s control scheme was pretty straightforward. I have…
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Games Provide Comfort to Chilean Woman Pulling Through Quake
A Chilean woman coping with the devastation wrought by last week’s earthquake has looked to games to provide some comfort and normalcy, and a fragile World of Warcraft collectible that somehow managed to survive is her symbol of hope. Karen, the gamer, was not near the worst of the shaking – she’s in Santiago, some…
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Twin Galaxies Founder Retires
Walter Day, a former oil industry executive so captivated by the video game craze that he founded an arcade that would later become the international sanctioning authority for record high scores, has retired from his creation, Twin Galaxies. Day, 61, has chosen to leave to pursue a music career, an avocation featured in Day’s appearance…
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Majesco Faces NASDAQ Delisting — Again
Majesco’s share price has again wandered south of Wall Street’s Mendoza line, prompting NASDAQ to tell the maker of Cooking Mama to get it back north of $1 or face delisting from the exchange. Sound familiar? Majesco got the same notice back in August 2008. The company’s share price closed today only marginally below a…
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Jaffe: Sony Lawyers Should Start Sending Out Some Letters
On his blog, David Jaffe writes that similarities between Microsoft’s upcoming Scrap Metal and Sony’s Twisted Metal, as well as the film title “War of the Gods,” should both rate “a sternly worded legal letter,” from Sony’s lawyer-mans. Jaffe, the designer who directed both Twisted Metal and God of War emphasizes that he doesn’t own…
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Study: Wii Can Alleviate Elderly Depression, Too
The benefits of the Wii and exergaming to patients in hospitals and elder-care facilities has been discussed nearly since the console’s release. Researchers in San Diego now say that Wii games can combat the onset of depression in elderly persons. A pilot study involving 19 subjects with subsyndromal depression – not full blown depression, but…
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Introducing Monday Night Combat‘s ‘AmmoMule’
Uber Entertainment’s gunning for a macho future where class-based FPS death is televised live, with sponsorships. No doubt taking a page from Bud Light’s fake “Grooler” and “Foozie” we have something that keeps your ammo fresh and your bacon crispy. If you can’t get enough of shotgun shells and fried meat and need something to…
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First Claims Laid to Million-Dollar Perfect Game
Barely two days after release and MLB 2K10 players are boasting they’ve pitched perfect games – worth a $1 million bounty to the first to do so, verifiably. But cool your jets, we won’t know for sure for a while. To recap: 2K Sports has offered a cool million for the first player to go…
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MMO Parents Take Care of Virtual Toddler While Real One Starves
A Korean couple is said to have neglected their infant – to the point of starvation – while they fed their own online gaming addiction in Internet cafes. The Sun‘s reporting this, so, let’s get our sensationalism detectors on. The couple allegedly raised a virtual toddler in a game similar to Second Life, called Prius…
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Multiplayer Problems Persist in MLB 2K10
We’re in day three of MLB 2K10’s release, and also day three of MLB 2K10‘s multiplayer problems. While player-to-player game invitations are said not to be involved, many are having problems connecting to ranked matches. The solution requires a patch. That’s according to a 2K admin as of today. What happens in ranked match connections…
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Revisiting The Great Class Dash: TF2’s Side-Scroller
Yesterday we were tipped to a video of Team Fortress 2, imagined as a side-scrolling platformer. Today I checked back with the creator for more details on this game and was assured he’s serious about completing the project. Dylan “Steaky” Loney (that’s “Steak-y,” as in the cut of meat), says his 2.5D Team Fortress 2…
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Mega Man 10 Gets the Band Back Together — With Bass
Absent from Mega Man 9, Bass, Dr. Wily’s thumpin’ creation reunites with Mega Man and Proto Man as a playable character in Mega Man 10. Bass is available for download on all three consoles April 5. Bass possesses the eponymous “Bass Buster” weapon that features a higher rate of fire and seven different firing directions,…
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Video Game Hall of Fame to Enshrine First Class in August
Less than a year after it was first conceived, the International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum at Ottumwa, Iowa has announced its first class of enshrinees, who will be inducted during a four-day gala event in August. At this time last year, the idea for a Hall of Fame had barely taken root…
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Blur Challenge Messages Can Be Sent Over Xbox Live, Too
The Twitter-integrated challenge system in Blur allows players to send friends times to beat, regardless of what platform they use. Bizarre Creations says they’ll also be sent as Xbox Live dashboard messages, allowing for some multiplayer without a Gold account. The difference, of course, is the challenge doesn’t take place head-to-head. Friends get a message…
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Insomniac Working on Two Games Right Now, Won’t Say What
Big speculation is that tomorrow’s “surprise Sony Sequel” is Resistance 3, but if it is – a) Insomniac’s community manager is not saying and b) even if it were, the studio is also working on a second game. “If you’re hoping that I will announce a future title here, you will be disappointed,” writes James…
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