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Weekend Coupons: Card Sharks
So yesterday, Walmart slashed prices on Xbox Live subscription cards, and Amazon followed suit. Then everyone started offering $50 gift cards for Elite console purchases. This is madness! This is Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Walmart is selling a 12-month Xbox Live subscription card for $30 – that’s $20 off. Offer is good for the Internet…
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Steam Account Sells for $1,000 on eBay
Here’s a story amusing not so much for the games that were sold or their price, but the fact the seller managed to, essentially, resell used Steam games. Like 139 of them, for $1,000. (With free shipping, too!) Seller dave311freak estimated his collection’s value at $2,700 and said he wanted at least $500 for the…
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Kotaku Originals: Tonight’s Listings
Previously, on a very special Kotaku: Totilo speaks to Irrational Games about a change of identity. Nintendo is pleased by news of 2009’s hardware, and displeased by rumors of 2010’s. And a Kotaku editor dies! 900 times! (In VVVVVV). Top Stories Ken Levine Explains Irrational Switch, “Underwater Horse” Connection NPD: New Super Mario Bros. Wii…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Poor George will have to console himself with the fact that not everyone gets a mattress sale on their birthday. Well, Abe gets one too. Some housekeeping changes, before we get to the whatever-ya-wanna-talk-about. We’ve altered our publishing schedule on Saturday and Sunday, which means we’ve altered the times for our standing features and items.…
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Bungie Seeks Halo Heroes for Haiti
Bungie’s mobilizing the Halo community to join the Haiti recovery effort. On Wednesday, the studio encourages players to wear a special emblem supporting Haiti relief and pledges to donate up to $77,000 depending on how many participate. For every 1,000 players who don the emblem on Wednesday or Thursday next week, in either Halo 3…
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How Much You Bet These Guys Aren’t Talking About Hitting at All?
I don’t speak Spanish (pardon my grammar; I don’t speak no Spanish) but I halfway think that Seattle’s Felix Hernandez and the Angels’ Kendry Morales aren’t saying what’s in the subtitles. Or maybe I just wish it was that way. Also, way to tip off that you’re sitting on the fastball, Kendry. See if you…
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Original Aliens vs. Predator Coming to Steam
Rebellion’s original Aliens vs. Predator for PC, from 1999, will be released via Steam for “very cheap,” sometime before the updated version releases on Feb. 16, Rebellion’s CEO says. Update: It’s already available, and it’s $4.99. “It shows its age a little bit, but it is frightening and it is difficult,” Rebellion boss Jason Kingsley…
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Catan Seems Likely for North American PS3 Release
The ESRB shows a new listing for a PS3 adaptation of Settlers of Catan, the popular resource-allocation strategy board game. A version of this game by the same developer was released in Japan back in 2008. Game Republic developed the Japanese version of Catan; it’s listed as the studio for the new version rated by…
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Marble Madness Creator Selected to Hall of Fame
Mark Cerny, a developer known for his work with Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games – and for his 1984 arcade hit Marble Madness – has been selected to the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Cerny joins only Will Wright and Shigeru Miyamoto as developers honored by both the AIAS…
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Gamerscore for Corporate Achievement Whores
The motif isn’t exactly original but the execution is reasonably clever. Pardon me – lj.l.jbqr4 na aeg;ioab;-a3lasd rqzxcy – just trying to get "send an email with your feet" before I clock out. Xbox 360 Achievements in Real Life [Runaway Box on YouTube]
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NFL Antitrust Case Could Have Game Implications
This week the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case involving the National Football League and an exclusive license it granted. No, it’s not the license awarded to EA Sports‘ Madden franchise, but the outcome could conceivably affect it. At issue in American Needle vs. NFL is whether the football league is a single entity…
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Zynga Gamers Chip in for Haiti Quake Relief
Games on Facebook have joined the relief cause for Haiti, with Zynga’s FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker offering “limited edition social goods” for sale, the proceeds of which will entirely benefit funds serving earthquake victims in that nation. Zynga announced the fund drive on Thursday; it benefits the World Food Programme, whose emergency response…
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The Sims Beat Warcraft for Top PC Seller of ’09
June’s release of The Sims 3 bested World of Warcraft for the crown of 2009’s best selling PC game, according to numbers released today by the NPD Group. Modern Warfare 2, despite a November release, was a strong fifth. Dragon Age: Origins also saw a November release and also made the top 10, at No.…
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Arkham Asylum Gets its GOTY (Edition)
The British Board of Film Classification has listed a Game of the Year edition for Batman: Arkham Asylum, offering no details beyond the fact it’s a separate version under a different name. The game was approved with no cuts made, but that doesn’t really mean much as, of course, the original version passed review by…
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Three-Day Symposium will Examine the Art of Games
“The Art History of Games,” a three day public symposium devoted to investigating games as an art form, will be held in Atlanta in early February, followed by the monthlong display of three commissioned art games. Participants at the Feb. 4-Feb. 6 symposium will include John Romero, a designer of the original Doom and a…
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Irrational Pitch for a Zombie Shooter was Well Ahead of Its Time
Irrational Games had this idea for – hang with me here – a zombie shooter. Only thing was, it was back in 2005, and the studio’s creative director said its pitches were met with the sound of crickets. “I remember going around pitching it and the person would be ‘Zombies? Who wants to play a…
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MLB 2K10 Keeps Scandalized ex-ESPN Analyst
Steve Phillips, fired from his ESPN analyst’s gig after an embarrassing affair with a production assistant, remains in the commentary booth for MLB 2K10, according to the first previews of the game. It’s not surprising, nor can 2K Sports be blamed for holding its nose and keeping Phillips on. His scandal came to light in…
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Why Valve Took a Leak(er) Out of Left 4 Dead 2
Speaking to Official Xbox Magazine, Valve’s Chet Faliszek said the Left 4 Dead 2 team came up with a since-discarded special infected called “The Leaker.” He was axed not for doing something disgusting, but predictable. “With The Leaker, the idea was a kind of Boomer that could take damage, and shoot out spouts of goo.…
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Telltale Burninates “Trogday” with Free Game
The banks don’t close to honor Trogdor’s birthday, but the Burninator does get a free downloadable game. Telltale Games is offering the Trogdor-themed episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People for free for about the next nine hours. They picked today as “Trogday” because seven years ago the man – I mean, he…
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There’s a Reason Someone’s Wife Made This
It’s called, “try hitting on anyone while you’re wearing that thing.” That’s right, Harry Potter there is someone’s husband. So if this sweater makes him the world’s biggest geek, it also makes her the world’s most awesome wife. Reasoning that “knitting stitches are basically pixels, right?” The Happy Seamstress converted World 1-1 into a “ginormous…
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