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Battlefield May Allow Stats Transfer Between Console Generations, Too
Earlier this week, both FIFA and Madden said their upcoming versions on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will be able to transfer their Ultimate Team rosters to Xbox One and PS4 once those titles launch. Their cousins over at Battlefield say they’re looking into doing something similar, too. That comes via Battlefield‘s official Twitter on…
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Baseball Video Games Don’t Decide Who’s Left, Only Who’s Right
Yesterday a reader sent me a screenshot in MLB 13 The Show of Nick Markakis, the Baltimore outfielder, taking his position at shortstop after pinch-hitting for J.J. Hardy. To a casual fan, it sort of sits there, waiting for you to guess what’s wrong. Here’s a hint: In real life, Markakis throws lefthanded. No lefthander…
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Mechwarrior Honors a Young Fan with Special Mech for Charity
Mechwarrior is selling a special mech, dedicating all the proceeds to a Canadian cancer research charity in the name of a five-year-old girl who enjoyed playing the game with her father. Sarah Marie Alida Parries of Vancouver, B.C. died in May, ending her fight against inoperable brain cancer. She played the game with her dad,…
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Live-Action XCOM Series Asks: Booze or Gun? How About Both.
So, I told you the kid would buy the farm. That seemed obvious in the first installment of the live-action YouTube series for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. Then we found out it was Agent Cole’s wife and boy. Since his life is one big country music song now, what do you think he’s going to…
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EA Loses $11 Million Madden Lawsuit
A jury today found that Electronic Arts used code and features developed by the designer of the first John Madden Football throughout Madden games published into the mid-1990s without crediting or paying him royalties, and required EA to pay damages that could start at $11 million and potentially reach much higher. Robin Antonick, credited on…
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FIFA and Madden‘s Ultimate Teams Can Transfer to Next-Gen Versions
In separate announcements this morning, EA Sports said gamers who begin Ultimate Teams on Madden NFL 25 or FIFA 14 for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 may transfer all their cards to those games’ versions on Xbox One and PS4, once those consoles release. The transfer is not without limitation, but it’s an acknowledgment that…
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First Batch of Free Uniforms Arrives for NCAA Football 14
Twenty teams get new alternate uniform sets in NCAA Football 14 on Xbox 360, thanks to the first free offering from the game’s Uniform Store. This video showcases them all. These are the 20 teams, and the timestamps in which they display. Otherwise the video is kinda, well, boring. It’s 20 minutes of uniform changes…
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Tekken Revolution‘s Next Character is a Vampire—Not a Giant Fish
If you were hoping to seea giant, flopping, egg-spewing salmon as the next character in Tekken Revolution, I have bad news: Of 10 concepts they could have picked, Tekken fans picked perhaps the sanest and most predictable: Female Vampire. Female Vampire, as yet unnamed (described on the official Tekken site as, “a young girl, long…
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Oh My God, Look at This Enormous Shark in Assassin’s Creed IV
Shark Week is right around the corner, and Los Angeles just finished recovering from the sharknado so, of course, the latest batch of screenshots for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag would feature a couple of big-ass sharks prominently. They’re the assassins of the sea, after all. What you don’t see above is the guy is…
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Saints Row‘s Canceled Expansion Resurrected as DLC
First it was an April Fool’s Joke. Then it was real. Then it was going to be a standalone expansion to Saints Row: The Third. Then it was going to be part of Saints Row IV. Now Enter the Dominatrix is officially announced as DLC, and will arrive in October. Volition made the announcement at…
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PS All-Stars‘ Journey/Gravity Rush Stage Left on Cutting Room Floor
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale at one point had plans for a Gravity Rush/Journey crossover stage, according to images leaked by one of the game’s artists. Whether it was meant to be DLC is kind of a moot point, as the only post-release support the game is now getting is online match-making. PlayStation Euphoria noticed the…
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If You Know What the Hell is Going on in This XCOM Video, Let Us Know
I can tell you what the hell’s going to happen after this video. Little Kevin is going to get vaporized by aliens. Seriously, I can’t figure out why the clown is in hot water with the G-Man. Or why it’d be prudent to close down a kid’s show this way. The video is part of…
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Animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series Gets a Game in October
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will get a second game this year, one based on the Nickelodeon TV show, Activision said yesterday. It’s going to be for a younger audience, so that probably means Michelangelo won’t be kicking bad guys in the jewels. Simply called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the game will be released Oct.…
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EA Sports Didn’t Need the NCAA’s Logo, and Maybe It Didn’t Want It
If you want to see a relic of sports history, dust off a copy of College Football USA ’96. In its final season, the old Southwest Conference appeared for the first and only time in a video game. The next year, four members split to form the Big XII. This game is one of the…
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Wasteland 2 Got Too Big For Its Own Good, and Is Now Delayed
Wasteland 2, like Double Fine’s adventure game, is one of Kickstarter’s greatest video game project successes. And, like Double Fine’s adventure game, it’s also run into a snag because, well, y’all just gave it too darn much money. The game is six weeks behind schedule, says developers inXile entertainment, and the reason is the “increased…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Comic-Con Cosplay Extravaganza
As has been the tradition for the past three or so years, when we go to Comic-Con, we come back with cosplay, and then we turn that cosplay into your ‘Shop Contest. So that’s where we’re headed with this week’s challenge, brought to you in part by our friends at io9. Fahey was kinda busy,…
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EsportsAll the Memories of an Unforgettable EVO 2013 Are in This Superb Video
It’s been a week since EVO 2013 , and while you can revisit any of the Grand Finals, or an anthology of the best combos, sometimes it takes a video like this to unify the themes of a chaotic, energetic eSports spectacle that crowns nine champions. Edited and uploaded by evo2kvids yesterday, it’s as good…
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CultureSunday Comics: Barter Economy
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published July…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Grand Theft A-Hole: The Winners
GTA V‘s moment of sibling discord provided the grist for us in an otherwise quiet week for timely exploitables. The result was a number of entries I haven’t seen in two years. The 20 finalists you see inside really earned their way into this edition, most especially overall No. 1 Homeless_Zombie! arniejolt billysan BlackRainbowFT Brandon0151…
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Here’s the Way the Ball Bounces in NBA Live 14
Revealed a month ago at E3, NBA Live 14 is the series’ next-gen only re-entry into the market, and will rely on something called “BounceTek” to distinguish its gameplay as truer to life. BounceTek got a nice hype reel in Los Angeles, but now we can see a little more clearly what it means in…
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