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Week in Games: a Date of inFamy
Playstation 3 exclusive inFamous is the AAA highlight for the coming week; it releases on Tuesday. Codemasters’ alternate-reality Damnation leads a light week for 360. For DS, I’m all about Imagine: Boutique Owner, baby. Also, for those who don’t know how to walk, there’s a game on the DS that’ll teach you how to do…
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Yanks Gate Crashing Canada’s 1 vs. 100 Beta
Deux-deux-deuxs and Cuban cigars are joined by the 1 vs. 100 closed beta on the list of semi-forbidden indulgences Americans are sneaking from across the great northern border. Virtually of course. Update: The Canadian Beta closed tonight, rendering some of this moot. Sorry about that. Kotaku reader Tai Youkai Sama figured out how to do…
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Army Envisions Future with Master Chief-ified Soldiers
Or, maybe they’re Mass Effect-ified. But the U.S. Army’s concept for a soldier in the year 2030 definitely looks video game-ified – especially with its strength-enhancing exoskeleton and … combat drugs? Maybe it’s Helghast-ified? The “Future Soldier 2030” being planned at the Army’s Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., is the subject of much oohing-and-ahhhing…
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Signs of Snow in Downtown L.A.
Last year this building – around the block from E3 – was plastered with Robert Downey Jr. in blackface for “Tropic Thunder.” Now it sports the visage of Bret Michaels Snow from Final Fantasy XIII. Pulling back (at bottom) we see Snow getting his Rock of Love on with Vanille and Lightning. As you can…
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Bee Swarm Traps GameStoppers Inside NYC Store
Employees of a GameStop in Union Square were trapped inside their store by thousands of bees outside, super pissed-off that the hive’s code for the early Fight Night demo wasn’t working. The store was shut down for about 2 hours while someone figured out what to do about the swarm, which was also hoppin’ mad…
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Bend Over for Bionic Proctologist
Anyone with a dad over 50 has gotten the proctologist story, which strives to make the most florid description of ass pain imaginable while bragging that he’s still a tough bastard and survived it. Helpfully, Capcom’s Seth Killian provided a video that dads can use to impress upon their kids how prudent it is to…
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Bethesda: Whoa, Uh, We Said Nothing About Bill Clinton
Word that President Clinton was sort-of asked to be the voice of Fallout 3’s President Eden arched eyebrows and dropped jaws. But Bethesda’s top spokesman put the kibosh on that ever being a serious idea. Lev Chapelsky of talent firm Blindlight said they inquired, and received a polite “no,” regarding the 42nd president’s interest in…
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FUEL Release Delayed One Week
FUEL, originally scheduled to drop May 26, has been delayed to June 5, VG247 has reported. They say Codemasters confirmed it to them. Maybe this explains why I haven’t gotten my review copy yet. Of course, Joystiq points out that VG247 is a UK site, so it’s not clear if the delay covers Europe only…
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Is Kojima Working on Lords of Shadow?
The stream of vague reveals and teases regarding Hideo Kojima’s next game continues to trickle out. Here’s the cover of a page from the latest PSW magazine, purportedly showing in silhouette the new game’s main character. Of course, to get answers, PSW wants you to come back and buy next month’s issue.” Konami has been…
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Weekend Coupons: Honor the Fallen Prices
Memorial Day means sales, and more than just tires, bedroom furniture and vinyl siding. Let’s check in on the value-added shopping you can do this long weekend. Hardware • Typically the 160GB PS3 bundle runs you, what, $499? Well, here’s one for $399. Plus, the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune bundle comes with free shipping. Anywhere else…
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Kotaku Originals: Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3’s DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments. Highlighting the rest of our original coverage, Stephen recapped last year’s E3 promises. Too bad Capcom won’t be there this…
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Indie Devs Turn To In-Game Ads After Piracy Strike
Nearly 24 hours after it went out in mid-April, John Warner checked on the numbers for Raycatcher – a game he and a partner designed and distributed over Steam. The first day, it sold 1,000 copies for $5. But pirates had also made 35,000 copies for free. Warner, 25, an environmental artist who had worked…
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Reviews
Top Gun Micro-Review: Affirmative, Ghost Rider
Last year, Days of Thunder quickly asserted itself as a serious arcade racer on the iPhone. Paramount’s back with Top Gun, looking to do the same for combat flyers. Top Gun puts iPhone and iPod Touch owners in the flight suit of a new recruit under the guidance of Maverick and Ice Man—you choose your…
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How to Dismantle an Atomic Weapon
To: Luke From: Owen Re: LA EX As I surmised, Granddad’s interest in “visual games” (he’s started calling them that, I guess it sounds more legitimate to him) has only increased during my visit. It still feels weird playing games in his house though, so I pretended this week that I had to review Fallout…
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Week in Games: All Hands on Deck
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel and Battlestations: Pacific headline the week. Wii owners may opt for dodgeball featuring ninjas vs. pirates, if the latter are not too occupied in the City of Abandoned Ships. The week’s rundown: Six for DS, five for PC, four for Wii, three for 360, three for PS3, two for PS2, zero…
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Halo 3 Box Art De-Make
The original Mega Man must represent the widest disparity in game greatness and box art awfulness. It could only be eclipsed by, say, another groundbreaking title done in exactly the same hideous style. Agent B and B Miggs are back on the case, whipping up this first class homage to sixth-rate design. It looks like…
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Prototype Opening Cinematic Seems Vaguely Familiar
.html Here’s the rundown for the opening cinematic to Prototype: Zombies, check; faceless soldiers that look like combine/Helghast, check; antihero in a hood who poses like Altair, check; gratuitous babe in garters and stockings, check. Here again, we bitch about sequels, and then snark the new IP. But of the motifs in this thing, it’s…
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Another Rushmore — Console Only
About a month back everyone argued the concept of a theoretical gaming Mt. Rushmore. A man who ran a store in Battle Creek, Mich., soon wrote me to say he’d commissioned just such a work. NewAge Arcade (a gaming store, but no longer operational) had this mural, depicting four characters singularly identifiable with each of…
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Punch-Out!! Documentary Ad Walks the Dog
Mac is back, sweeping up smack packs in this documentary-style ad that may seem inspired, but is definitely brilliant. Doc’s aphorisms aren’t any more decipherable in live action, sorry to say. He also mispronounces correctly pronounces the hell out of Pissin’ Hurricane Piston Hondo. I missed the memo on that one. But is anyone else…
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