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New Poster Set Traces the Evolution of Link
Just up in Club Nintendo‘s rewards catalog is a three-poster set, one of which depicts the twelve iterations of Link, beginning with the original Legend of Zelda in 1987 continuing through the Phantom Hourglass 20 years later. The poster is 16.5 by 28.7 inches, accompanied by two 22 by 28 inch promotion posters for Phantom…
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Alright, Who Invited the Elf to the Party …
Meet Zevran. You can tell he’s an elf because of the pointy ears. You can tell he’s an assassin because of the curvy blade. You can tell this is Dragon Age: Origins because it’s got nekkid people by the fireside. Click to view Dragon Age Origins City Zevran Trailer HD [GameVideos]
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Borderlands’ Unique, and Semiofficial, Preorder Bonus [Updated]
Mikey Neumann, Gearbox’s creative director, wants you to commit to Borderlands now. If his tweet is to be believed, send in a picture of yourself preordering the game today and he’ll play with you day one and drop some loot. Neumann declared today “OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PREORDER DAY,” in this Tweet. “Today is OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PRE…
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Week in Games: Rocket in Your Pocket
Gran Turismo on the PSP and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS highlight a busy week for titles outside the traditional core console drops. Dead Space Extraction hits the Wii and Beaterator comes to the PSP (and iPhone). Others of note: Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga arrives for the Wii and Fallout 3’s Operation Anchorage…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. • Top 10 Most Overhyped Games Ever [VGChartz] Is it just me, or is this Top 10 list subject overhyped? Seriously, am I the only…
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The Wii’s Officially $199 Today, and Amazon Offers the First Deal
Alright, it’s Sept. 27, time for some $199 Wii action, right? Amazon hopes you’ll do business with them, laying a $25 gift card on top of it. This deal is good through Saturday, Oct. 3, and it applies only to Wiis sold by Amazon, not any of its third-party vendors. The gift card is a…
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New Street Fighter IV Info “Maybe Monday”
Street Fighter fans are on tenterhooks, convinced these pics show fragments of a Super Street Fighter IV screen and logo. One hit up Capcom’s Twitter to ask if any news was coming this weekend. The reply: “no. but mebbe monday.” Stoking the fire is that pic above from GamePro Germany. It’s captioned as “Yoshinori Ono…
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A Nitpicky Easter Egg — and Spoiler — in Halo 3: ODST
This comes with a strong spoiler alert up front. Only watch this, or read further, if you have seen the conclusion to Halo 3: ODST, or don’t mind seeing it revealed. With that advisory out of the way, reader Scazza filmed this Easter Egg (discovery credited to Loose on the Gamefaqs forums.) Hear that clicking?…
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NFS: Shift Crashes at PlayStation Store Screen — on a 360
Calling it “the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times,” one blogger writes of his frustration when the game crashes on a PlayStation Store loading screen. Well, here’s your problem: He has the Xbox 360 version. “This could be the most embarrassing fail of all,” posits enigmax at Freakbits. When navigating…
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Reebok Giving Away the Madden AFL Pack for PS3
Madden’s AFL Legacy Pack became available for download this past week, and official league apparelista Reebok is giving away the PS3 version for entering their sweepstakes. Just drop in your name and email and the code’s yours. It really is that simple. Well, it assumes you have both the PS3 version and a PSN account,…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 23 PvPonline published Sept. 24 ActionTrip published Sept. 21 Digital Unrest published Sept. 21 DotGif published Sept. 21 EXTRALIFE published Sept. 24 GU Comics published Sept. 21 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Sept. 25 Dueling Analogs published Sept. 24 8-Bit Theater published Sept. 24 2P Start! published Sept. 23 Nerf NOW published Sept. 23…
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Microsoft Confirms that 2 GB is the New 50 MB
My how they grow fast, don’t they? Originally, Microsoft said that Xbox Live Arcade titles should be 50 megabytes or less. Today they’ve bulged well past the 1 GB barrier. Microsoft has confirmed that 2 gigs is the new max. At Tokyo Game Show, IGN brought up the ballooning size of XBLA games in an…
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Kotaku Approval Ratings: Issues of the Day
After a week’s hiatus, Kotaku Approval Ratings has returned to measure your opinions on certain games, concepts and controversies involved in the news over the past two weeks. This week we seek to measure your attitudes on the PSPgo, whose pre-release has been marred by retailer unhappiness, criticism of its price point, and disappointment in…
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Halo Hoodie Practically Begs to be Teabagged
Without getting close enough to see the UNSC sleeve patch (or the obnoxious “NOOBS GET PWN3D” crest) , I’m not sure this $88 Marc Ecko-designed Halo-themed hoodie really says “Master Chief” to me. I suppose you can cinch up the hood and create a semi-Spartan helmet visor look with it. Still, this garment seems to…
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DS Games Help Send Florida’s Lamest Fugitve Back to the Can
Not sure who looks worse, Lee Co., Florida, for being unable to catch this guy, or Daniel Larson himself, their No. 1 fugitive, caught after he strolled into a Walmart and stuffed a bunch of DS games down his pants. Because shoplifting is just textbook How-to-Lay-Low, just a shade less subtle than what the Duke…
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Giant PSP Turns Up on Vegas Strip
Sony removes one giant PSP in New York, and puts a new one up outside New York, New York. As in the Las Vegas casino. Sharp-eyed reader xRIOT spotted this while wandering the strip recently. Another pic on the jump. Update: Sharp-eyed reader Tim G. emails to tell us that the PSP is not new.…
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Shut Your Mouth — I’m Just Talkin’ ‘Bout Subject Zero
Her origin doesn’t mention any childbearing, but regardless, Subject Zero is a bad mutha. Her own word choice is a bit more coarse. The tatted-up Zero is a pro Biotic, supplying firepower and sexual tension in Mass Effect 2. [via GameSpot]
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Netflix CEO: “We Want to be On All the Game Consoles”
Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix, told Reuters his company wants a presence on all video game consoles, but reaffirmed their contract limits them to just the Xbox 360. For now. Reuters asked “what about the PS3 and the Wii?” and here is his full answer: Eventually we want to be on all the…
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Pick Up Viking Costumes for Sackboy — Free
Apparently thanks to a cross-promo with a Sony Pictures “Family Zone” promo site, U.S. PlayStation Network account holders can make their Sackboys and Sackgirls all Ride-of-the-Valkyries with a free-to-download Norse Mythology costume pack. Go here, punch the giant “REDEEM” button (be patient) to generate your code, and then redeem that through the PlayStation Network and,…
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