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The First Perfect Game on MLB 2K10 Wins $1 Million
2K Sports is offering a $1 million prize to the first player to throw a perfect game in MLB 2K10, laying down the bounty as a statement of confidence in the authenticity of their game’s revamped pitching controls. The million-dollar prize is believed to be the largest ever offered for this type of contest –…
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No LAN or Dedicated Servers for BioShock 2 Multiplayer
How dare 2K Games turn its back on the PC multiplayer community that made BioShock … oh … uh … that’s right. Well, they confirmed that BioShock 2 won’t support LAN gaming or dedicated servers anyway. In a Q&A on multiplayer posted at the Cult of Rapture, 2K explained their absence as a matter of…
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Firemint Plans Dedicated iPad Version of Popular iPhone Game
Firemint, maker of Flight Control for the iPhone and iPod Touch (reviewed by Gawker boss Nick Denton in December), has announced it will bring an “optimized and re-imagined version” of that game to the iPad, announced today. In a statement, Firemint pointed out that the existing version of the game available in the App Store…
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Seven More Screens to Showcase the Pageantry of the World Cup
EA Sports released another seven screenshots of its upcoming FIFA World Cup 2010, offering a look at the Italian, Spanish and American sides, and some wacky French fans. French fans. That’s not a glitch, just some confetti floating across their faces. Italy and Spain walk on to the pitch. The Italian and Spanish sides are…
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BioShock 2’s ‘Scout’ Plasmid, Explained
Though MAG and Mass Effect 2 dropped today, it’s still t-minus 2 weeks to BioShock 2‘s release, and 2K wants you to watch this teaser trailer in anticipation of the plasmid powers awaiting you. In “Scout” mode, you release your astral form (I guess) to examine what dangers lie ahead – but it’s not just…
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EA Sports Confirms FIFA World Cup 2010
EA Sports made its World Cup edition of FIFA 10 official today, although the title was entirely expected and its release date was telegraphed by retailers before Christmas. The game, for Xbox 360 and PS3, will feature all 199 countries that competed in the World Cup qualification stage and allow players to take any of…
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“Piece Walker” Meaning Revealed
The meaning behind Konami’s “Piece Walker” teaser from last month was revealed today. And it’s not a portal, nor a demo or a new project. It’s just some jigsaw puzzle. Well, the puzzle hasn’t launched just yet, but that’s what it’ll be, likely a Flash game. It gets going at 3 p.m. Thursday (Japan time,…
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How Madden is Raising a New Generation of Football Player
When Denver’s Brandon Stokely caught a game-winning pass against Cincinnati earlier this year, he veered parallel to the goal line en route to the end zone, to both burn time and celebrate. He told Wired it was a Madden-inspired move. It’s one of the more jaw-dropping anecdotal instances of how sports video games – specifically…
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Upper-Crust Games Satire Features Glaring Continuity Error
Disney’s forthcoming, darker reboot of Mickey Mouse caught the eye of the Shouts & Murmurs satire column in this week’s New Yorker, the second time in three months the highbrow mag has deigned to poke fun with a video-game purpose. Major continuity error though: “When Mickey is shown starving to death after the nuclear disaster,…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Mildly On-Topic
Earlier today we were wondering what would be the onomatopoeic spelling of the Xbox Live Achievement Unlocked sound.. At first I suggested “bloo-ick” but Fahey corrected that with “bo-deet.” Now I think it’s more like “buh-plock.” This is the kind of crap you think about after an eight-hour drive up I-5, beginning at 6 a.m.…
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Classic Stadiums Will Be Unlockable, Won’t Be Easy
This makes me feel like your 88-year-old grandpappy, but MLB 10 will have the old Polo Grounds. Back in the day, its centerfield ad read “Always Buy Chesterfield,” a cigarette. Guess SCEA didn’t want a T rating for tobacco reference. As we mentioned earlier, the Polo Grounds will be available as preorder DLC for MLB…
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Dr. Phil Scolds Farmville Addict
I don’t completely disagree with everything Dr. Phil says for once. Confronting a Farmville-obsessed mom in danger of neglecting her kids, he said, “You have a ridiculous addiction to a ridiculous computer game.” He got that last part right. The mom, named Teresa, evidently unplugged her home’s wireless router to boot everyone from the family…
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No. 1 Xbox Live Indie Game Made Six Figures
Major Nelson released a list of the top 20 Xbox Live Indie Games more than three weeks ago, but self-reported sales data from the creator community puts the first full year of the service in greater focus. While full numbers for sales, trial downloads and revenue are not available for all titles, the developers of…
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Jackpot Trivia
To: Luke From: Owen By far the highlight of my week back in the Bay Area came Tuesday night at Beckett’s pub in Berkeley. My team of six – three of us from Columbia, so suck on that, Cal – cleaned up the weekly trivia contest and took the jackpot. I’m happy to report that…
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Mass Effect 2’s Sex Scenes Already Revealed [Update]
Looks like someone with an early copy of Mass Effect 2 has skipped straight to the money shots, digging up four steamy-yet-clothed scenes involving male Shepard and three of his office conquests. Update: The blog Empire State Gamer found these originally. Commenter ItotheCtotheE found three of ’em up on YouTube. The one above is probably…
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Nomura: Still No FFVII Remake, but Maybe Cloud Cameos
Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura reiterated the no-plans watch for a Final Fantasy VII remake any time soon, although it would take much more than the nuanced way he said it to put to rest the speculation on this game. In the current Famitsu, Nomura, who designed the game’s much-beloved characters, says: Fans are looking…
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Week in Games: MAG Effect
The first big release week of 2010 arrives with Mass Effect 2, MAG, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and even some Phoenix Wright and No More Heroes thrown in. That gives you major console exclusives on the 360, PS3 and Wii all on Super Tuesday, with Blood Bowl (likewise a 360/PC exclusive) thrown in. This week’s count:…
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