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What Colorblind Hackers See In BioShock 2
As Kotaku’s resident Pissed-Off Colorblind Gamer, I have yet to play BioShock 2, but I already knew the hacking mini-game would be bad news for mutants like me. Here’s a comparison of what colorblind gamers are up against. Negative Gamer took a screengrab of the hack terminal and ran it through a color contrast analyzer…
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The Day The Gamers Took Over Reselling
When it quietly went online for pre-launch testing early last year, Glyde was a reseller marketplace built with a midwestern, middle-aged book or music lover in mind. Then the gamers found it, and practically took over. “Even though we weren’t really aiming at gamers, one found it somehow, told someone else, and they told even…
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Rebellion: All Bonus AvP Maps will be Made Available
The four multiplayer maps included with the Aliens vs. Predator special editions will be made available to the general public, Rebellion has said. No date or pricing was discussed. Tim Jones, Rebellion’s head of art and design, told VG247 that the maps will be made available “soon after release.” Jones also hinted there will be…
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EA Will Still Distribute Green Day: Rock Band
Although Electronic Arts said it would be de-emphasizing its distribution of third party titles in the coming year, Harmonix has said that the publisher will still be distributing the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band. The title was not listed among EA’s upcoming key releases, and during a conference call Monday, CEO John Riccitiello said EA’s…
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New Borderlands Achievements Hint at New Level Cap
The achievement list for “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx” – Borderlands’ third DLC package – indicates the level cap in Borderlands has been raised to at least 61. Rumors also have it that the level cap raise will go to 70, which sounds plausible. It’s unlikely Gearbox would stop on an odd number. There…
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Final Fantasy XIII Gets Title Sponsorship of NBA All-Star Event
“The 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game Presented by Final Fantasy XIII.” That’s a mouthful of marbles, and we’ll get to hear ESPN announcers say it a bunch on Friday thanks to a promotional pact Square Enix inked with the league. Square Enix announced the sponsorship in a statement put out today. In addition to the…
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This is the Last Dance for NCAA Basketball
EA Sports has confirmed that it is discontinuing its NCAA Basketball franchise, which next year will leave the sport without a video game for the first time in 12 years. NCAA Basketball was left out of Electronic Arts’ list of key releases in a financial filing on Monday. Today, in a statement to Game Informer,…
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Electronic Arts Scaling Back Third Party Distribution Plans
Top-flight titles like Rock Band and Left 4 Dead are distributed by Electronic Arts but the association doesn’t mean as much to the company’s bottom line. The publisher will be moving away from distributing third-party titles in the coming year. “While we have great relationships with our partners we are modeling a reduction in our…
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Mass Effect 2 Predicts Super Bowl Winner — in 2185
No word on how Madden is doing with its predictions 175 years from now, but Mass Effect 2, via Cerberus Daily News, says the New York Giants, with a Krogan quarterback (pictured), beat the Beijing Dragons in Super Bowl CCXIX. The news item, as reported by the Mass Effect Wiki: “Earth nations gathered around their…
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Tecmo Recreates Super Bowl XLIV’s Clinching Play
Operation Sports’ Mr. NFL provides this recreation of the clinching play in Super Bowl XLIV – Tracy Porter’s pick-six interception of Peyton Manning in the fourth quarter – complete with CBS commentary. This is a modded Tecmo Super Bowl SNES ROM for 2009. You can see Reggie Wayne just telegraph that short in-route, and then…
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EA Working Up Penalty for FIFA Quitters
Ragequitting has been a strong topic of discussion as EA Sports Canada looks to FIFA 11’s development, with the studio envisioning a system of reward and penalty for those who complete matches versus those who quit from a losing position. In an interview with Eurogamer, the 2010 FIFA World Cup producer Simon Humber said the…
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Game-Inspired Lawsuit No Longer About Video Games
A lawsuit filed against the NCAA’s licensing authority by Ed O’Bannon (pictured), the former member of UCLA’s 1995 national championship team, will be allowed to go forward, but it’s already had its effect on college sports simulations. O’Bannon’s suit against the Collegiate Licensing Company, whose exclusive agreement with EA Sports makes that studio the only…
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Video Blog Hints at Player Ratings, New Features in Madden 11
EA Sports published a behind-the-scenes video blog at halftime of Sunday’s Super Bowl and, while it didn’t discuss specific details or features of Madden NFL 11, some screengrabs show what the team could be pondering. A forum post at ncaaStrategies has several frames, with annotations, showing whiteboards with the Madden gang’s brainstorming. Fight songs such…
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2K10’s Pitching and Hitting 101
Since we just got off this discussion of how hitting will work – now with check swings! – in MLB 2K10, here’s a video showing how at bats will play out in the game, for both pitchers and hitters. It also offers a good three-minute look at gameplay. While MLB 2K10’s visuals are not as…
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Check That — Check Swings Are Back in MLB 2K10
A mini-foofaraw stirred up after MLB 2K10 previews revealed the game had no check-swing mechanic. 2K Sports felt an improved batting eye and new “defensive swings” eliminated their need. But they’ve backtracked, and said check swings will be patched in. So you’ll now have four swings in MLB 2K10, all executed by the right analog…
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Hold the Phone, NHL 2K11 May Not Be Dead After All
After telling everyone that NCAA Basketball and NHL 2K might be getting passive cancellations, I’ve been sent this tip from an anonymous reader: According to an ad listing, 2K Sports is seeking artists for an NHL 2K11 soundtrack. The listing, at Sonicbids – a music gigs site pairing artists with clients – 2K Sports was…
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The Madden Sim Bags Its Sixth Victory in Seven Years
For the sixth time in seven years – and the first time picking an underdog – EA Sports’ Madden Simulation has correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner. But it’s not as simple, or as complicated, as one might think. It’s a no-frills simulation, said Anthony Stevenson, senior product manager on the Madden NFL team. This…
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EA Sports 2010 Releases Do Not Include NCAA Basketball
NCAA Basketball is not listed among key sports titles due for release in Electronic Arts’ coming fiscal year, fueling speculation that the poor-selling franchise has been discontinued. In its filings today, EA notes that the list is not a complete picture of all titles to be released in the coming year. However, NCAA Basketball typically…
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Screw It, The Game is On
To: Luke From: Owen What the headline said. Though I will add that Jim McMahon’s appearance in the Super Bowl Shuffle spoof ad for Boost Mobile got the first big laugh out of me for this year’s ad slate. This weekend’s highlights: Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Proto-Natal Edition Unsurprisingly, Dante’s Inferno Not Available in Middle East…
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Care Packages On The Way for Xbox 360 Modern Warfare
Modern Warfare 2’s “Care Package” patch already has released for PS3 and PC; via Twitter, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling says it was submitted on Friday to Microsoft for certification on the Xbox 360. The fixes and changes this patch will provide: • Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed…
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