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Kotaku Originals: Rated C for Creepy
Impertinent remarks – calling Sony’s motion controller “Arc” and the ESRB’s bluntly accurate description of the activities in Dead or Alive: Paradise – highlighted our front page this week. Dante’s Inferno sneaked in underneath it. Our original news coverage: K Monthly – January 2010 Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories We Shall Mourn The Following Xbox…
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Brock Lesnar Gets UFC Undisputed Cover
THQ has announced that UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will grace the cover of UFC Undisputed 2010, probably the closest he will come anytime soon to a head-to-head competition Fedor Emelianenko, on the cover for EA Sports MMA. Fans have pined for both cover fighters to duke it out in real life, but that is…
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Tetris Gets Its Own Satellite TV Channel
And not as hot, tetromino-on-tetromino Spanktravision pay-per-view either. For $2.99 a month, DISH Network subscribers will get access to a Tetris Channel that allows them to wham on their remote button seven times just to rotate the block counterclockwise once. According to a news release from Englewood, Colo. based DISH, Tetris is being delivered through…
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EA Sports Planning Facebook Version of Madden
Speaking to Bloomberg Television, EA Sports boss Peter Moore said his division will soon introduce a version of its Madden NFL game to Facebook users, saying it is essential that the football simulation be made more accessible. Moore told Bloomberg that a Facebook Madden would deliver a “simpler experience” than the console game. Following up…
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All is Forgiven, Miss America
So Caressa Cameron, crowned Miss America on Sunday, opened her yearlong reign with some alienating things to say about video games. Chalk that up to extemporaneous speaking. Here she assures Major Nelson she wants to learn how to play them. We mentioned that Cameron’s first post-coronation comments were intended to motivate parents to set better…
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Betting on the Super Bowl in Zelda Rupees
Because it’s so taboo to acknowledge that people gamble on sports with real currency, newspaper touts often use “units,” “simoleons,” “sirignanos” or “guineas.” For the Super Bowl, Matt Sussman, a writer and friend of sister site Deadspin, is using rupees. Some of Suss’s wagers, on actual money lines for actual prop bets. Much more at…
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Keep An Eye On MLB 2K10
Fifteen more images for MLB 2K0 showcase the game’s new two-player animations, adjusted batting eye, and progression screens for the My Player career mode, all of which we previewed a couple weeks ago. The batting view (above) gives a clearer example of how you’ll work the count in this year’s game. As you can see,…
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Olbermann, Ripping Me Softly For This Column
Keith Olbermann has called me down to the union hall to surrender my liberal card. The MSNBC commentator disagrees with Saturday’s Stick Jockey, about replacement players from the 1995 baseball strike being denied an appearance in video games. Olbermann does call the piece “a fascinating, well-researched, reasonably-argued article at a top video games site.” He…
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Megadeth’s “Rust In Peace” Hits Rock Band Store Next Week
All the tracks from Megadeth’s iconic 1990 album “Rust In Peace” will be added to the Rock Band Music Store on Tuesday, Harmonix has announced. The tracks will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii versions of Rock Band. The album is available for the 360 and Wii on Tuesday (Feb. 9), and for…
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Cover Candidates Announced for Madden NFL 11
A Doritos/EA Sports promo is giving fans the vote on who makes this year’s Madden cover. The candidates are Minnesota defensive end Jared Allen, New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, and Indianapolis wide receiver Reggie Wayne. Of the three, Brees – a Super Bowl quarterback – could be considered the front-runner. Allen’s candidacy is remarkable, and…
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Poll: 80 Percent of Teens Have Game Console
A new poll by the Pew Research Center – you should know them, they’re like the NPR of polls and stuff – finds that 80 percent of American kids between ages 12 and 17 have a game console, and more than half have a handheld. The findings were reported Wednesday by the center’s Internet &…
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Reviews
KrissX Micro-Review: Fun With a Purpose
I keep wanting to pronounce this game “Chris-Ex” but I’m reminded it’s “Kriss-Kross.” Whatever the case, it’s a set of brain-teasing acrostics with goals and rewards that shrewdly incentivize their completion. It’s just a little young for most tastes. Loved Smart Words: KrissX draws on a strong vocabulary any mother would be glad to hear…
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There Shall Be New New Vegas News Tomorrow, Apparently
Three different tweets from three different Bethesda Softworks sources hint at some sort of big Fallout: New Vegas info dropping tomorrow. From Bethesda’s Pete Hines: “if you’re into Fallout or want to find out something, anything, on Fallout: New Vegas…well, tomorrow, it begins.” From community manager Nick Breckon: Tomorrow will be a big day for…
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Latest Dante Stunt Buries ASCII Art In Our Source Code
Checked the source code of our front page lately? We didn’t think to until we got a tip. Dante’s Inferno ASCII art is buried with in it – along with one of six clues to unlock some kind of download. Loyal reader Kyle K. pointed us out to the ASCII art in the front page…
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Blood Bowl Review: No Fun League
Nearly 25 years old as a board game, Blood Bowl has a strong history among fantasy gamers for presenting quasi-football in a turn-based, strategy framework set in the Warhammer universe. But does any of that translate well to a console? Short answer: No. Loved The Release Date: The fact Blood Bowl came out a month…
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Warcraft App: Block This Application, or Block This Friend?
As if we don’t see enough lost sad cows and free poker chips spamming us on Facebook, now The Armory has put out a Warcraft Facebook app that will publish a constant feed of everyone’s heroic deeds. The Armory says the app supports up to five characters and will publish accomplishments like level gains, achievements…
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Activist Investor Picks Up Another Million Shares of Take-Two
Carl Icahn, whose 11 percent ownership of Take-Two Interactive was by itself enough to restart buyout chatter, has grabbed another one million shares of the publisher according to a securities filing last week. Icahn’s enlarged stake, to 12 percent, comes a week after “shareholder pressure” forced a shakeup in the Take-Two board, notes GamesIndustry.biz. Although…
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