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Weekend Coupons: Boxed Up
There’s a long list of games you can trade in for a free Fight Night: Round 4 at GameStop, but of course, these are high value targets. The rest of the week’s values seems to indicate a post-Dad’s Day lull, with retailers clearing off stock and offering regular bundles as major value-adds. Eh, whatevs, let’s…
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Announcement: There Will Be No Mass Effect DLC Announcement
Earlier this week, Evil Chris on the Mass Effect Twitter channel told us to expect some ME1 DLC news by Friday. Well, Friday happened, so what’s the word? Tweeted Evil Chris yesterday: “Due to circumstances beyond my control (me being stupid on timing), any news of more ME1 DLC will have to wait. Sorry folks.”…
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Kotaku Originals: The Beer Frame
We learned some important lessons about the physical world this week, notably that Fallout sees no difference between a tall frosty cold one and a device used to rip out nosehairs. Yes, unbeatable refreshment. In addition to the behemoth study of video game weights and measures, we gave a look at Nintendo’s major goods and…
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Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures Studies Fallout, Physics, Also Beer
About a year ago, you may recall, my brother and I attempted to derive the product of Pac-Man’s metabolic functions. In that spirit, Kotaku has now created its own Bureau of Weights & Measures. The Bureau’s mission: To needlessly expose the wide gulf between video game physics and the laws of the real world; to…
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For Everything There is a Purpose
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Happy Father’s Day! This … “knife” has bugged me ever since I got down here nearly four months ago. It’s for certain one of my grandmother’s old kitchen implements but I can’t figure out what it is for. It can’t be a filet knife, because it has a rounded tip…
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Week in Games: Answer the Bell
Wii core gamers get a sop this week with The Conduit and Resident Evil: Archives deploying on Tuesday; fans of the sweet science can tap gloves with Fight Night: Round 4 on the PS3 and 360. There’s also about a zillion Transformers games dropping, like there’s a big movie out this week or something. Is…
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Achievement Unlocked: Read About Easy Achievements
The first time you press a button in Ghostbusters – assuming you run straight to the fire pole – you get 5 Gamerscore. Plenty of other games will fatten your total for not much work. I haven’t played Prototype, haven’t played Red Faction: Guerilla yet, but of the new games out there I scarcely see…
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Call of Dookie: Modern Walmart
Something about this story is a little too perfect. But let’s take it at face value. This guy went into a Walmart customer bathroom and found the commode bowl filled with Call of Duty. Writes blogger Kevin Gannon: I was looking at the guns and huge knives while Carlos was in the bathroom. He came…
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Pac-Man Scarf Costs More Than PSP Go
PSP Go at $249? Yeah, who’s gettin’ ripped off NOW? Yesterday’s foray into high fashion leads us now to this, Pac-Man, ported over to fabric at a cost of $298. Of course, this is a limited edition, hand embroidered number, courtesy of Fummel & Kram. Why, it even comes with a tag that says “If…
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Peter Moore Challenges Obama to a Fitness-Off
President Obama again referred to video games as a family-life negative in his Father’s Day message. But Peter Moore – grabbing for publicity – challenges him to drop the rhetoric and see what they offer. Moore, the EA Sports honcho, was motivated to pose a 30-day EA Sports Active Challenge by Obama’s recent comments to…
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More Proof that Anything + TF2 Soundfile = Comedy Gold
About 30 seconds in you see the clip that probably inspired this 5 minute masterpiece: “I must stop little baby!” Readers soccerboy33 and Hugo M. tipped this collection of nut-shots, bike crashes, failed stunts and America’s Funniest Home Videos runners-up, which of course are infinitely funnier when set to an antic soundtrack and narrated by…
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Playing Larger than Larger-than-Life Gears of War 2
Every year some yoyo goes and builds the world’s largest TV, but it’s not every year some yoyo gets to play Gears of War 2 Halo on it. According to Engadget, the Jonas Brothers’ video director managed to hook up a console to this behemoth at the new Cowboys Stadium, home of a 160′ by…
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iPhone C64 Emulator Submitted, Denied
Manomio’s C64 emulator wasn’t refused for licensing reasons. It was refused because “an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means.” That means booting ROMs, which is the whole point. Touch Arcade points out that “a number of apps in the App Store” already violate that provision, including: […] CHIP-8…
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The Father of Cartridge-Based Consoles
Overshadowed in popular culture by the Atari VCS, the Fairchild Channel F is little more today than the answer to a trivia stumper: the first game console to use cartridges. And this man built it. Reader Knoxximus passed along this interview, from February, with Jerry Lawson, who was the director of engineering and marketing for…
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Desert Bus Creators Take on Jack Thompson
This trailer for Penn & Teller: Bullshit – an unabashedly biased take on the talking points of various agenda pushers – puts our favorite disbarred lawyer in the crosshairs in the upcoming season. Looks like they’re going after the idea that video game violence begets real world violence, specifically Thompson’s claim that games represent “the…
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Modder Builds USB Adapter for SNES Carts
The SNES is old enough that any hankering to play Super Mario World can be satisfied entirely by emulator. Still, here’s a USB hack that lets you plug old carts to a PC. Hackaday reader Matthias rigged up this solution, which makes the cart show up on a PC as an external drive with the…
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Silent Hill Models the New Fall Collection
Apparently Pyramid Head got tired of the 9 to 5 butcher gig, got a personal trainer and an agent, and now has made it big as an emaciated eurotrash model for a Swedish label. In what will likely be the only time I ever link to any site with more than one circonflexe in its…
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Breaking Down Assassin’s Creed 2
.html Just because a trailer is entirely CGI doesn’t mean it can’t tip off clues to gameplay features and story arc. Sure, there are gameplay trailers out there, coming from E3. But Gametrailers’ breakdown of what you can expect to do in the game likely done with Ubisoft’s assistance is nonetheless a thorough and enjoyable…
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Hero Cop Popped in Video Game Ripoff
A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. Ryan Sayler allegedly pocketed just $526 in the scam, an extremely cheap way to earn more than a dozen charges of wire fraud. He’s accused of buying…
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