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Play Uncharted 2 Demo to Win Fortune Hunter Edition

It’s true, the Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter edition is priceless. Which means it has not yet been priced. But its price is free if you’re one of 10 randomly selected winners today and tomorrow. Just play the Uncharted 2 demo. PlayStation.Blog announced the contest yesterday. Here’s the deal – you need to play the Uncharted…

Achievements, 100 Percent, and Games: Fun or Compulsive Behavior?

Finishing a bad or uninteresting book might feel like a chore, or at least unsatisfying, but it’s nothing like playing to the end of a game you don’t care for. Why do so many still choose to do this? True/Slant’s Modus Pwned doesn’t understand it either. Breaking a game down to its utilitarian purpose, the…

Kojima Weighs In on Obama’s Nobel Prize

On his blog, Hideo Kojima found a tie-in, albeit a tenuous one, between his upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday. Here’s what the eminent games designer had to say: President Obama, who declared ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’ in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace…

It’s Not in the Game — Should it Be?

What do straight-ahead kicks, busted rackets and plaid jackets have in common? They’re all on a list of completely amateurish and uninvited suggestions for what should go in next year’s sports titles. This week’s release of NBA 2K10 and NBA Live 10 mean the major North American professional sports have all seen their video game…

Weekend Coupons: Bent Boxes

When I was in college, someone at a warehouse where one of my frat brothers worked dinged a sled of Pringle’s Cheezums and the whole thing was written off. We got like 250 cans out of it. After two months I’d eaten so many damn Cheezums that everything started taking on an orange hue. I…

Kotaku Originals: Porn

Porn, porn porn porn. Porn porn. Porn. Porn, porn porn porn – porn porn pr0n porn porn porn? (Porn porn.) “Porn porn porn,” porn porn, “porn porn porn porn porn.” Porn porn porn; porn porn porn … porn porn porn. The week that was in Kotaku originals: Porn So About Those Porn Stars And That…

Toad’s Gay? Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …

Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad’s sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. I guess the link to Sunday’s National Equality March in Washington D.C. everything cool, right? Brental (Mr. Floss) says he’ll be in attendance. You…

Christmas Is Just Around the Corner

As seen (and available) on Esty, via The Tanooki]

Patch Lets Left 4 Dead Out of the Closet

Steam put out a patch this evening solving a problem in the PC version of Left 4 Dead‘s Crash Course campaign, whereby rescue closet doors would not open to let survivors out in Versus mode. The patch was announced around 7:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. In addition to the rescue closet glitch, the patch allows…

You Want It, You Got It — College Lacrosse on Xbox 360

Great, Another sport I’ve never played in my life, but will have to review because, you know, I’m the sports guy. Here’s lacrosse, game of Native Americans, Jim Brown, and every Volvo-driving L.L. Bean family between Charlottesville and Albany. College LaCrosse 2010 is on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel and, yeah, yeah, my smirking…

PSP Minis Pay a Premium for ESRB Ratings [Updated]

Those who analogize the PSPgo, with its library of Minis titles, to the iPhone should remember that developing for both is not just about code. It’s also about the costs every Minis game must pay for an ESRB rating. Sergei Gourski, developer of the iTunes App Store hit Fieldrunners, said PSP development is “definitely more…

Eminem, Jay-Z Tracks Revealed for DJ Hero Renegade Edition

Activision gave Rolling Stone first dibs on the Renegade Edition tracklist for DJ Hero, featuring 12 cuts each from Jay-Z and Eminem – who recently endorsed the game by saying “the s—t is dope.” Jay-Z’s set is said to be the first best-of compilation of his career, Rolling Stone reports, although another is said to…

Borderlands Goes Gold, and There Was Much Rejoicing

With two weeks to go before its release, I suppose it would be more newsworthy if Borderlands had not gone to gold master by now. But it has, and so Gearbox has announced is officially on schedule to deliver you postapocalyptic offworld role-playing shooter action on Oct. 20. Considering the fourth-quarter triple-A delays we’ve seen…

NCAA Basketball 10 Finds Two Booth Teams Way Better than One

OK, I totally missed this yesterday. Remember the CBS Sports presentation package for NCAA Basketball 10? Looks like that’s for the postseason and your big Saturday afternoon national game. ESPN’s crew has you covered for Big Monday and Rivalry Week. This I honestly did not know. EA Sports is bringing in two different major networks’…

Bookie Lists Modern Warfare 2 as Favorite to Sell Most

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is offering a proposition bet on what will be the United Kingdom‘s top-selling game, giving Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 most-favored billing at 11/8 odds. Other contenders include Assassin’s Creed at 7/2 and FIFA 10 at 4/1. Core-gamer darlings such as Tekken 6, Brütal Legend and Left 4 Dead 2…

Marc Ecko Vows to Re-Make Hipster Graffito Game “Even If It Kills Me”

Hey, remember “Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure?” the brand-extension venture of apparel designer Mark Ecko? Remember its thudding reception, which he blamed on hillbilly gamers skeered of the big bad city? Yeah, he wants to do it again. Destructoid talked to Ecko and found he’s ready to reboot the story of how, with love and…

Chinatown Wars Gives it a Go in this Vid

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars arrives in less than two weeks for the PSP. The PSPgo guest stars in Rockstar’s debut trailer for the game. Try to refrain from touch the screen. Not that it’d do any good. Here’s the video. You can check out Totilo’s impressions of the game while you wait for it…

2K Sports Indicates NBA 2K10 Patch Coming in Two Weeks

Framerate and connectivity issues have plagued NBA 2K10 since its release date Tuesday, and 2K Sports have put out word that they are working to put out an update fast and correct multiplayer issues even faster. Many have complained of bad framerate issues that some say render the game almost unplayable, although I myself have…

iPhone Rock Band Delivers 20 Songs and Multiplayer

EA Mobile’s Twitter feed spilled the beans ast night, and the company made it official today by announcing Rock Band for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’ll feature multiplayer, vocals, and 20 songs, listed on the jump. A news release from EA mobile promises “live Bluetooth multiplayer” – OK, that part was all-capped, but we…

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