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Assassin’s Creed II Coming to DS?
VG247 is reporting that a DS version of Assassin’s Creed 2 will be released with the other platform versions on Nov. 20. Amazon’s got a product page up about it, too. Ordinarily, retailers listing a game with an unconfirmed platform version shouldn’t rate much attention. It could be mis-entered into a system somewhere. But VG247…
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11-Year-Old Exposed to Contra for the First Time, Hates It
The old-school gamers at Nerdballoon sat down with a slightly uncommunicative 11-year-old and asked him to describe his first experience ever with a platform shooter – the beloved Contra. Predictably, he hated it. The graphics “suck,” the music is “boring” and – I’m not sure if this is a positive or a negative – “it’s…
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About This Nascent Modern Warfare 2 “Boycott”
Someone ran a poll and, guess what, two out of three people hate paying higher prices. This is called a potential boycott of Modern Warfare 2, unless Activision lowers the $60 price for PC versions. Total Gaming Network, citing its own poll of the situation, says 68 percent of respondents “will not support the newer,…
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Booth Babe Hauls Off on Dante’s Fiasco
“The brass BALLS on EA to put a bounty on OTHER booth girls,” writes one woman, a costumed rep fed up with the predictable reactions to EA’s “Sin to Win” promo at San Diego Comic-Con. “Iola,” commenting on Ars Technica, one of the first and loudest to decry the Dante’s Inferno “Acts of Lust” contest…
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Week in Games: First Resort
Swordplay, archery and skydiving are on tap as of today with the release of Wii Sports Resort. Also, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 hits Xbox Live Marketplace and Bionic Commando arrives on the PC. This week’s count: six for PC, four for DS, three for Wii, two for 360 and one for PS3 Sunday (July 26)…
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Today’s Punishment: We Cheer, in Japanese
This has a run-up of about 30 seconds, but immediately after that, you’ll be running for the nearest bottle of Texas Pete. To pour it on your eyeballs. I tap out at about 41 seconds, right when the Hey!-ing stops and the singin’ starts. How long can you last? BTW, I haven’t done a great…
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Dogmeat, the Emotional Center of Fallout
Fallout originally did not plan on having NPC followers at all. But the original game’s designer figured out how to make a system work. Thus was born one of the franchise’s most iconic characters. Not only that, the original design of Fallout 3, by Black Isle, there were no plans to include Dogmeat. But Bethesda…
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Insert Kopeks to Enjoy This Goat-Carcass Polo Game
Jason Torchinsky tried to import a Polish automobile; he got this instead, Ulak-Tartysh, a video game about the Central Asian sport of buzkashi, in which polo is played with the headless body of a goat. Torchinsky, the guy who built a gigantic functional Atari joystick for the I Am 8-Bit art expo, breaks down the…
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Dragon Age “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” Features Night-Vision Sausage
This unboxing spoof of the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition foofaraw shows you what you get if you pony up for Dragon Age’s “ultimate collector’s edition.” Like both the PC and 360 versions. And sausage. Specifically, it’s “from dwarven butcher shops.” Makes sense, don’t dwarves have infravision? I guess that’s why one bite bathes the…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Another thing I want to do with our expanded weekends is this: The List of Lists. Each week throws off several new lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial – Top 6 Phallic Objects in Video Games; Top 12 Most Hated Non-Human NPCs from 1990s RPG, you get the idea. Rather than run one…
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Bungie Says It’s ‘Close’ to Signing New IP Deal
Earlier this week, Bungie’s Lars Bakken strongly implied that Halo: Reach would be the last Bungie-made Halo title. Bakken now suggests that the studio is close to getting a publisher for its new, non-Halo IP. Says Bakken to Eurogamer: I think internally we’ll know sometime soon. I don’t handle these things, but I’d imagine we’re…
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London, Mapped in Warcraft Style
A programmer showcasing the capabilities of an open-source, dynamic mapping framework has rendered the entire world – in a Warcraft II motif. You can head over to Cartagen, the mapping utility, and see for yourself. It runs in HTML5 and does not require Java or Flash. Punch in a landmark and off you go. (I…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 22 PvPonline published July 24 ActionTrip published July 20 Digital Unrest published July 20 Least I Could Do published July 20 Little Gamers published July 22 EXTRALIFE published July 20 GU Comics published July 22 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published July 22 Dueling Analogs published July 20 8-Bit Theater published July 23 Awkward Zombie…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Enjoy a more standards-compliant Weekend TAY, now that we’ve got an image and dialogue that conforms to the one-and-only Kotaku open thread that runs midweek. P.S. No, you weren’t seeing things. Or not seeing them. My screwup this morning delayed your TAY. Rest assured everything is now fully on schedule. Confused about commenting on Kotaku?…
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Two More Brütal Legend Gameplay Videos for You
Gametrailers TV’s latest episode threw out two WORLD EXCLUSIVE (natch) clips of Brütal Legend gameplay – filled with guitar powerslides, headbanging followers, and good old fashioned beat-em-up asskicking mayhem. For an original IP, Brütal Legend is going off with some uncanny expectations. Please be good. Please be good. OK, I think it will. Brütal Legend…
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Custom Make “Any Game” as an NES Cart Necklace Charm
We do a lot of free ads for Etsy craftspersons, yeah, but this is pretty good: Old school NES carts are available as mini-sized necklace charms, in hypoallergenic silver if you want to upgrade. Artist Laura Swingle makes the charms; her page features Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Zelda, Zelda II, Super Mario Bros. 2 and…
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Star Trek D-A-C Coming to PSN, PC
More than two months after the movie that everyone’s now forgotten about, Star Trek D-A-C will arrive on the PlayStation Network, promising a new ship class and “updated gameplay features.” That is according to a news release, but it couldn’t get any more specific about the release date than “late summer 2009.” The release also…
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Valve’s User Forum Foreshadowed “Spitter” Months Ago
On May 31 – before anyone knew Left 4 Dead 2 was coming – user Walking_Target gave a detailed description of a special infected he and a friend wanted to develop with the L4D SDK. “After spending an hour chatting about it, we came up with the idea of ‘The Spitter’ ” Walking_Target writes. He…
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Wimpified Bionic Commando: Rearmed Patch is Now Live
You also get trophies with this patch, which reader Alex L. said went up on the PlayStation Network today. When news of the patch spread last month, Capcom didn’t give a date for its release. We heard it got approved this week, through the company’s official Twitter feed. It is now out, so run go…
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Footage Leaked of XBL Avatar Golf Game?
Four user videos up on Gametrailers show what looks like an avatar-based golf game for the Xbox 360. From the footage it looks like the project is still under development. But with Xbox Live releasing Joy Ride – an avatar-based racing game – it’s not out of the realm of possibility they’d do something like…
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