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Kotaku Originals: SafeSearch is ON
I wanna know how long (and where) Crecente looked for the right “safe” pic to illustrate his porn/PS3 post. Yes, I know of “SFW Porn” but I don’t think that fits. I’m also not linking it, because it’s still NSFW. Alright, enough of that. From PAX Flu to Courtney Love, this week was the Emerald…
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Papercraft Link is Enormous, Lifelike
Are there plans and printouts for this life-size Link? You bet there are. There are also plans on the Internet for atomic weapons – doesn’t mean I could build one of those either. Holy Hyrule this thing defies words. Haywan of PaperCraft Museum is responsible for this. Looks like it even has a detachable shield…
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Producer: Halo Natal will be Done ‘When It Makes Sense’
For those wondering if Microsoft’s Project Natal motion control automatically means they’re working on Natal-enabled Halo titles, Halo 3: ODST producer’s says, not necessarily. “We are committing to only doing it when it makes sense,” Alex Cutting told VideoGamer.com. “We are not going to produce a gimmicky feature that just takes advantage of motion controls…
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MMO Maker: Big Names Drive Small Fish to Free-Play Market
MMOs smaller than the ones made by the heavyweight players – which is to say most of them – have fled for the U.S. free-to-play market, the co-founder of MMO-maker Reality Gap told Gamasutra. Reality Gap, whose free-play offerings include the MMO Monato Esprit (above), also faces competition in ports coming over from the more…
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NFL Hitched to the Oregon Trail
To salute the NFL’s opening night, Slate cooked up this video: The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail. Mike Vick goes hunting, Donté Stallworth crashes the wagon, and of course, everyone gets dysentery, the end. The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail [Slate via 100% Injury Rate on FanIQ]
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Gabe Newell Boycotting L4D Modder’s Campaign [Update]
A 19-year-old Aussie emailed the Valve boss to complain that he wasn’t flown in for the boycott-bustin’ playtest of Left 4 Dead 2. Gabe Newell’s reaction, allegedly (and in fun), was to announce a boycott of his own. The modder, Joe of Joe’s Modding Menagerie, is putting together a campaign for Left 4 Dead (pictured,…
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An Inconvenient Truth — ’09 Holiday Releases are Endangered
Overfished waters? Melting polar ice? No, the hidden shame of our ecosystem is the virtual disappearance of 2009 holiday releases, Noted ecologists LoadingReadyRun have put together this documentary on the plight of a species no one’s talking about. Let’s not spoil any of the punchlines, so, enjoy this and pay attention as you do so.…
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Concept: Xbox 1080 Portable Looks Like Blaster from Transformers
OK, not literally, but enough that Soundwave’s Autobot colleague was the first thing I thought of. Him, or a shower radio. But that’s not negative space at top, or a handle. It’s the screen of an “Xbox 1080” portable concept created by Carl Archambeault of Milwaukee, so standard concept disclaimers – not real, does not…
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Level 80 Dwarven Priest Running for Lt. Gov. of Guam
That headline’s like Beck lyrics. They’re actual words, forming a complete and grammatically correct sentence, but they just make no sense. Until you remember it regards Ray Tenorio, serious Warcraft gamer, and member of the Guam Senate. In a game-centered candidacy announcement, to GamePolitics, Tenorio said he’s on the ticket led by fellow Sen. Eddie…
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Eidos Confirms Arkham DLC is for PC, Too
The PS3 news ticker this morning said Batman: Arkham Asylum is due for some free DLC on Sept. 17. In its forums, Eidos has confirmed the package will also arrive for PC and the Xbox 360. An Eidos forum admin said simply, “I’m happy to inform you, it will arrive at the same time,” when…
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Sony’s Motion Controller Explained — The Sequel
In a 7-minute video chat, Anton Mikhailov of Sony Computer Entertainment America takes us on another tour of the PlayStation Motion Controller, whose prototype he reveals was assembled from some spare parts bought up at a Home Depot. If he seems familiar, Mikhailov, of SCEA’s Research & Development unit, was part of the controller’s original…
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Sony Divides Up MAG Factions for Pre-Order Bonuses
MAG’s rolling out some exclusive in-game character models should you be of a mind to pre-order the game. GameStop and Game Crazy get two of them, the third is TBD. Amazon’s confirmed for … meh … access to a PlayStation Home space. The exclusive S.V.E.R. character is yours if you lay your $5 down at…
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Week in Games: Ticket to Ride [Updated]
John and George croaked, Ed Sullivan’s dead, Shea Stadium was should have been imploded (and also declared a SuperFund waste site with a half-life expiring in the year 9967) but instead was dismantled. But The Beatles return on Thursday Wednesday. Dirt 2 is the big drop occupying the traditional Tuesday spot. Other Tuesday values in…
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UC-Irvine Establishes Games Research Center
The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds. Twenty faculty members from the university’s computer science, humanities, education and other departments will collaborate on its work. The mission of the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds, according to a university statement,…
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PS4 Concept: Spider-Man Font Fail
Someone forgot to tell acclaimed designer Tai Chiem that Sony bagged the Spidey typeface with the PS3 Slim. But the rest of this concept – that means This Is Not Real – is super-futuristic cool. Wait, where’s the $24 kickstand? It’s one of three concepts he did; including an “Xbox 720” which looks like –…
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And Now It’s PS3 Games’ Turn for a Best Buy Sale
As speculated in our Coupons comments yesterday, Best Buy has indeed begun a two-for-1.5 sale on all PS3 titles. The bonanza lasts until Sept. 12. The deal involves “qualifying games” but with 140 on the list, it’s practically all PS3 games priced $59.99 or less, It does not cover preorders. Basically, you pay full price…
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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Reads ‘The Book of Enforcement’
Stephen Toulouse gave a presentation at PAX that, like most of his outreach, leavened the dirty work of running Xbox Live’s banhammer ops with comedy. His sermon is about how the wicked “Poonhunter” came to be banned from Battlefield 1943. Stepto’s presentation continued well after the above excerpt. The rest of the address is full…
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Rockstar’s AGENT Arriving Next Year?
File this rumor in the slip-of-the-tongue category. In a Rockstar roundup of reader questions, AGENT, the 1970s-era espionage game unveiled at E3, is lumped in with two other titles for a 2010 release. It’s sooooo flimsy, but then, Wikipedia’s already cited this Q&A in giving Agent a 2010 release window, and if Wikipedia says it,…
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FCC Report Praises Video Game Ratings
Remember how news about a week ago that the FCC was looking into a universal ratings system spooked the video game sector? Relax. A report delivered to Congress expresses a rather high opinion of how games are self-regulated. Quoting the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the report, published Aug. 31, says ESRB ratings are “in many…
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