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Valve Drops MMO “Code” into TF2 Update
Earlier this week we brought you the delightful Team Fortress 2-as-RPG screens. Valve’s returned the favor, dropping some “code” in the latest patch to troll the more gullible players among its base. Because every TF2 patch gets picked apart within minutes of its release, Valve didn’t have to wait long for someone in its forums…
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Kotaku Originals: The Count of Monte Carlo
Man, how bad ass would it have been for Crecente to show up in Monte Carlo behind the wheel of a Monte Carlo? Capcom should have given these cars as swag. Hell, GM’s going bankrupt. Even better, they could have hired Rod Roddy to do it, “Price is Right” style. Except Rod Roddy is dead.…
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Iowa Town to Announce Plans for Game Hall of Fame
Billy Mitchell, the world record holder in Donkey Kong and one of gaming’s original stars, will be in Ottumwa, Iowa today as the city announces its intention to create a video games hall of fame. Mitchell, according to Walter Day of the Ottumwa-based video game sanctioning body Twin Galaxies, is lending his name and support…
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Is This Battletoads?
To: Luke From: Owen Re: It’s Been a Year Already? No, it’s Doom III. But you should see these motherfuckers ride a jet ski. What you missed while you were gone: Kid Wanted DS, Got a Rock Director: “Microsoft/Xbox is the Most Dreadful, Non-Talent Friendly Company” Warcraft on an iPhone, but is It Coming to…
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Week in Games: It’s Wolverine, Bub.
The five-platform splash of X-Men Origins: Hugh Jackman Wolverine is the highlight release of the coming week. Banjo-Tooie is on Xbox Live Marketplace; Stalin vs. Martians mmmmaybe comes out; Velvet Assassin is another one to mind. This week’s count: 10 for PC, six for Wii, four for 360, three for DS, two for PSP, one…
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Magazine Covers That Don’t Exist, But Should
Visitors to The -Minus World haven’t seen any updates since being told “BRB” on April 11. Well, there’s one change – B Miggs and Agent B went to GameSpy, where they cooked up this feature. The premise – “Seven Game Magazine Covers We Wish Existed.” I guess that would mean anything on the cover of…
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DSiCade Takes Browser Games on the Go
If you’ve run through your DSiWare points budget and you’re still looking for something to do, point your browser over to DSiCade, a site for fan-made browser games. It’s only at a beta-stage so far, so you can choose among a Simon-style memory game (pictured) a Missile Command-type game (which I couldn’t get to work)…
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Call of Juarez: There Will Be Blood
When the Union army burns your plantation and kills grammaw in her bed, some might consider that cause for revenge. But first the Confederates McCall head to Mexico to find the loot that’ll bankroll their blood debt. Along the way, they kill a U.S. marshal (demonstrating a showdown engine for the game?) and run into…
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Euro Xboxers, Xtival is Back
Not sure what “free Gold membership for the weekend” means other than “free multiplayer” – and maybe taking advantage of the deal of the week. But all European gamers get it May 1-4. The annual event promises to offer gallons (sigh … Imperial gallons) of fun with all of your favourite Xbox multiplayer titles. In…
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Kid Wanted DS, Got a Rock
This sounds like something my Dad would do, just to watch me lose my shit. However, it’s real. A 16-year-old unboxed his birthday present DS to find nothing but rocks and Chinese newspaper. Because she’s a cool mom, Jody Wykle, of Lake Wales, Fla., gave her son Guitar Hero: On Tour even though he didn’t…
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Vesperia Bonus is Soundtrack: Volume 2
If you bought Tales of Vesperia‘s special edition and saved your secret code for eight whole freaking months, now you may finally have your “special bonus.” It is slightly above “underwhelming,” but not exactly “whelming.” Namco’s put up the redemption site where you can claim the prize. It appears to be volume 2 of the…
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The Rules for 360 Achievements (Partially) Explained
Microsoft’s only on-the-record guidance on how Achievements are approved came more than two years ago, and the maximums it set then have been easily surpassed. Xbox360Achievements.org says it’s learned of new policies on Gamerscore ceilings. X360A’s Alan Pettit noted that the new batch of Fallout 3 achievements broke, once again, the stated maximum of 1250…
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Ubisoft Trademarks New Driver Game
What do you with a derivative IP in a saturated genre that has continually disappointed since its first sequel more than six years ago? Why trademark a fourth sequel, of course! Sorry, but this franchise hasn’t done anything particularly well since 1999, which was the original Driver: You are the Wheelman on PlayStation. That was…
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Director: “Microsoft/Xbox is the Most Dreadful, Non-Talent Friendly Company”
James Gunn, one of the directors signed on to last year’s “Horror Does Comedy” original content series on XBox Live, says Microsoft rejected his first film and “cut the living shit” out of the second. To be fair, Gunn calls “Humanzee” the “most balls-out, fucked-up thing I’ve ever shot.” But he says the XBL folks…
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Warcraft on an iPhone, but is It Coming to Yours?
Yesterday, word spread that Warcraft was OTW for the iPhone, thanks to the app that ran Second Life on an iPhone last year. Skeptical, I held off, but I can’t explain why, exactly. I watched this yesterday morning, looking for any tipoff this was a quicktime movie with cleverly timed gestures – it’s four minutes…
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Tetris Lessons Available, 2 Hours for $40
Shawn Elliott (2K Boston) tweeted this this past week. Some wit up in Vancouver is offering Tetris lessons “at affordable rates,” one of those things the un- or underemployed will now rush out to imitate. According to the Craigslist poster (and if it gets flagged and removed, you may read it here and here) the…
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Get Drunk on Boomer Bile
Sidling up to the bar at a trendy club and explaining how one makes “Boomer Bile” would identify you first as “disgusting” and then, after further explanation, “disgusting and a huge nerd.” But it’s one of seven extremely complex (and dramatically backlit) cocktails that Official Xbox Magazine commissioned “a leading cocktail bar” to develop. The…
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Hotfix Patches Up GTA IV Stuttering Problem
A mini-foofaraw sprouted this week over the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, when a Windows Live update either introduced or worsened a stuttering issue in some players’ computers. That’s been fixed in lightning-fast time, according to Microsoft. “Thanks for your patience, a new update is avaible that addresses the stuttering issue with GTA…
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Feast Your Eyes on Muramasa: The Demon Blade
GameTrailers assembled a comprehensive look at Muramasa: The Demon Blade, the latest iteration in the cult-hit series that’s due out for Wii in late July. You can get a long look at the art direction and gameplay, and both qualities seem very deep, 2D platformer or not. As the video indicates, its predecessor Odin Sphere…
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ESA’s Lobbyist-Womans is Gone
A little over two months after being named the “senior v.p. for government affairs” (read: top lobbyist) for the Entertainment Software Alliance Association (this is not Star Wars), Jennifer A. Manner is now gone. Her experience, touted by ESA chief Michael Gallagher when she was hired, turned out to be lacking according to some reports.…
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