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Bioware Tweets Reveal Figurine, Print Sale
Twitterers on Bioware’s Mass Effect and Dragon Age accounts had been dribbling out image fragments that, pieced together on Friday, tip off the return of the Commander Shepard figurine, plus another item. The Shepard figure seems to be the limited-release version that accompanied the original Mass Effect launch. The Dragon Age item – is it…
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Cardboard Tube Samurai Coming to Tekken 6?
How could this be anyone else? Tekkenbob, the official Twitter account for Tekken 6, uploaded this yesterday afternoon, and it looks like Gabe and Tycho are designing a costume for the game. I suppose the backlit dual-wield weaponry could be argued to be anything – but the Pac Man logo on the gi means it’s…
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City of Heroes Teases Power Customization in Issue 16
For those in the know, Positron’s post on the City of Heroes forums yesterday tips off a hugebigimportant development in the cape-and-longjohns MMO. As in power customization, a concept begged for from day one. Posi came in and, in the words of one commenter, threw a chair and left, with this: So there has been…
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Early Mass Effect Listing Confirms New Content?
An apparently accidental listing of Mass Effect in the rebranded “Games on Demand” category (originally “Xbox Originals”) was pulled quickly after getting out, but its RSS feed presence still lingers. And it’s a little curious. Mass Effect as a launch title for Games on Demand, which goes live in August, isn’t exactly a surprise. But…
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Olivia Munn Not Nude, Not for a Lack of Effort
No matter what was discussed, agreed, or signed, when you’re in front of a Playboy lens, the nudity negotiation never ends. Olivia Munn learned that after two days with one of their more persistent stylists. The stylist, whom she impersonated with a swishy, faux-frenchy accent, kept suggesting she try outfits that were plenty evocative of…
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Weekend Coupons: War, What’s It Good For?
About $25 on Steam this week, if you’re a fan of the Total War series. Toys R Us has a dea; if you’re already planning on grabbing one of this week’s new releases. Software • Toys R Us is pegging next week’s major releases to some serious savings on current titles. This is a pretty…
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Kotaku Originals: Bustin’ Makes Me Feel …
Sunday to Monday saw three separate references to Ray Parker Jr’s quasi-orgasmic catchphrase in the refrain of the Ghostbusters theme. Can I make it four in a week? Oh hell yes I can! This week’s roundup includes Bobby Kotick telling other people what to do with their business; Microsoft slapping down the Natal/”720″ rumors, and…
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Reviews
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Review: Survival Comedy
Ghostbusters: The Video Game comes to us bearing a twin-blockbuster burden: Both as a game, and also as the first true representative of a beloved franchise to come along in 20 years. The presence of Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the film’s original writers and two of its leading actors, lent weight to the game…
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Big Shi(r)t Sale
To: Luke From: Owen Re: E3 Done Got a really flattering phone call the other day, from the publisher of the Washington (N.C.) Daily News. I interned there in 1994 – it was my first news writing job, the summer before my senior year of college. They’re celebrating their 100th anniversary and asked if I…
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Week in Games: Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good
For my money, the years 1984 to 1986 might have been the greatest consecutive three -year stretch ever for summer blockbusters. In 1986, we got Top Gun, Aliens and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; 1985 was Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Goonies and Back to the Future; and 1984 saw The Karate Kid, Indiana Jones…
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Video of Live Action Pitfall!
Well, the video itself isn’t that intense, but if you wanted to see what live-action Pitfall! looked like, reader Chris took three videos of the event. The best sequences are ones requiring the rope swing; the rest of the time, you’re looking at people with tiny vertical leaps, if not waiting contestants’ backs. But thanks…
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Lots of Bad Career Choices in Fallout
A list of the 11 worst virtual jobs in video games gives us places three from the Fallout series in the top 8, including el numero uno. That would seem to make sense. If your country’s economy, infrastructure and landscape has been obliterated by nuclear warfare, then everyone’s job is gonna suck in some way.…
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Toothless People Can Still Be Cover Models, Too
The champagne from the Stanley Cup final is still fizzy and we’ve already named next year’s NHL 2K coverboy – it’s Washington’s Alex Ovechkin, sporting a grin a jack o’lantern would love. The burly Russian appears “with fists clenched and mouth agape in a celebratory scream,” says the Capitals’ official website. It looks like he’s…
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Old Atari Cart Remade Into Wallet
It is $55, however, the maker of this fine conversation piece says all of an Atari 2600 cartridge’s parts, except for one screw, are repurposed to help make it into a wallet. The maker, Nilesz, is running a win-a-wallet contest over on his site, which of course gives you the info on how to order…
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Final Fantasy Tactics Gets Rated, Likely PSN Bound
The guys at One Last Continue went panning for ESRB gold and found this nugget: Final Fantasy Tactics got a rating for the PS3, which likely means it’s going to PlayStation Network soon. Friday, Bash informed us that FF Tactics would be among the next batch of Square Enix “Ultimate Hits” releasing July 30, but…
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–> L@@K Nintendo GOLD Cartridge RARE Only $25K!!! <—
Last year some guy bought a Nintendo World Championship Gold Cartridge for $15,000. Only 26 were made, 11 known to exist. Now an eBayer is listing one for the superlow price of $25 grand. Seller unish25 admits he doesn’t expect to get the $25,000, but still listed it for the Buy It Now price, because…
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Here’s Your $300 Stick to Play a $15 Game [Updated]
So, Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram has a “devoted fanbase,” which in peripheral makers’ lexicon means “cash geyser.” The XBLA title runs $15; Hori’s custom stick costs 20 times that. But it misses a big point. Knoxximus at TheFour11.org notices the twin-stick layout is a little off. See, the label under the left stick says “D-Pad.”…
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L4D is NS4W With Nude Zoey Mod
I could be reading from the Nacogdoches phone book to you right now and you wouldn’t care. You saw “nude zoey” and clicked the link, right? Hope your boss/girlfriend/mom isn’t in the room. Modder Zaigo has painstakingly recreated Zoey as a quite deshabille zombie fighter. It goes without saying that if you go to L4D…
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