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Alfie Patten, You Are … Not the Father!
Remember Alfie Patten? The Saints’ Row II-playing toerag whom the British tabs said became a father at age 13? Well, everyone can stop worrying about little bastards who father little bastards. He ain’t the daddy. A DNA test cleared Alfie of fatherly responsibility, but rather than celebrating his freedom by spending the diaper money on…
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Weekend Coupons: Gamecube? Really?
Everyone form a nice orderly line because – are you sitting down? – Gamestop is offering 20 percent off. Games. Gamecube games. Used Gamecube games. The offer expires April 2. Of this year even! Other deals for frugal gamers out there: • Beginning tomorrow and lasting through April 4 (next Saturday), Sam’s Club is offering…
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Midway’s Wheelman Devs Getting Right Back to Work
Midway’s European operations are not part of its chapter 11 reorganization, which means the devs there, having finished up on Wheelman, are looking ahead to other things. Like an open-world game expanding on Wheelman’s technology. In an interview with Play.tm, Simon Woodroffe of Midway Newcastle said his team is pressing on under the assumption that…
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Kotaku Originals: GDC Overload
This is when the gig starts to scare me, because there were forty-leb’m-million billion things coming out of GDC this week, and somehow I’m supposed to follow that act. Let’s start with an originals roundup. For starters, if you want to recap all of our fine corinthian GDC coverage, there’s two ways to do that:…
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Reviews
geoDefense Micro-Review: All Hands, Battle Stations
Last week gave us geoDefense – tower defense rendered in a Tron-esque, vectorized look and feel. Apple mobile gaming is paying off for good, simple ideas delivered with high production values. Does geoDefense qualify? Loved Challenge: Well, more like “seriously respected” the challenge. geoDefense can get downright frustrating at times, but tower defense, done well,…
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Week in Games: Spring has Sprung
We’ve got the most titles in a single week since Black Friday, which makes me wonder: We just had the first day of spring, why is everyone pushing games when we should be outside playing? Today we experienced the mayhem of Pokémon Platinum. Big names rolling out in the coming week include Wheelman, the Vin…
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Ohio Cops Haul In Recidivist Guitar Villain
Robert Snively of Port Clinton, Ohio, should be having a moment of clarity right now, because the dude is headed for town court over freaking Guitar Hero. Snively, 33, was jamming on the game late at night this weekend, pissing off his neighbors for the last goddamn time. They sicced the fuzz on him, and…
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Metallica’s Hetfield: Games are “Gateway Drug” to Music
Metallica frontman James Hetfield continues the payday publicity blitz in an interview with Rolling Stone that comes straight out of the celebrity endorsement playbook for music games. There seems to be a formula to these interviews: 1) Genuflect to rhythm games as a whole, citing at least one quality that inspires music appreciation. 2) Tell…
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Team Rocket Sent Blasting Off from Poké-Launch
Some bogus flyers promising “exclusive Mystery Gifts” caused quite a foofaraw at yesterday’s Pokémon Platinum Launch in New York. Team Rocket is being blamed for the disturbance. Yes, really. The slightly ‘shopped flyer mentioning gifts (above) went up outside the Nintendo World Store launch party yesterday. Why, who could be behind such a plot? None…
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Bad Economy Casts Pall Over GDC
The Associated Press writes up an advance on GDC09, using the sour economy to set up the conference, which opens tomorrow with sessions like “Surviving the Squeeze” and “Stability in the Stormy Weather.” While some 50 studios and publishers will have booths in the conference’s career pavilion, most of the big names at the conference…
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Sunday Timewaster: Dropping the Ball
Physics games are like National Geographic maps. I could stare at them for hours and feel like I learned something even if I couldn’t articulate what I had been doing all this time. This is Ball Droppings, which, despite its unfortunate name, is a good way to kill time before dinner if you’re bored with…
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German Cops’ Union Boss Issues Tired Plea to Ban Games
Heini Schmitt (pictured), head of the Hessen German Police Union, spouts ignorance about “killerworlds” and “killergames,” two terms I’ve never heard before, but apparently describe a grave public health and safety menace in Germany. Of course, that’s where there was as shooting rampage (amoklauf) nearly a couple weeks back, which because it involved a teenager,…
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Does Witcher Screen’s Nipple Slip Get a Rise Out of Your White Wolf?
Here’s three new screenshots of Witcher: Rise of the – WAIT A MINUTE, IS THAT BOOBIE? Before the significant increase in atmospheric oxygen almost all life that existed was anaerobic, that is, the metabolism of life depended on a form of cellular respiration that did not require oxygen. Free oxygen in large amounts is poisonous…
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Gamers Well Represented at Blood Drive
Who showed up to Capcom’s blood drive for RE5? A guy who wears a PowerGlove as a fashion statement. Someone cosplaying a merchant from Assassin’s Creed Resident Evil 4. And a self-described "shut-in" who drinks forties all day. Yes, people of Los Angeles, if you get in a nasty-ass wreck on the Harbor Freeway, you…
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Super Nintoaster — It’s for Breakfast Now!
The Nintendo toaster modder is back at it, deiivering a Super Nintoaster that is part of your nutritious breakfast, assuming you already serve nutritious breakfasts in your home. Modder Vomitsaw (I went back to the original source on this, just so I could share that word with you) on the Ben Heck forums gets the…
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The Old Republic Introduces Bounty Hunters
The Old Republic’s Web site has put up a bio for the upcoming game’s bounty hunter class, giving us all a look at a proto-Fett who activates his jetpack with a wrist-worn laptop or something. Of course, what would be a Star Wars universe without bounty hunters, whose presence have been felt in all of…
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The Most Deranged and/or Offensive NES ROM Hacks, Ever
Warning, a few on this list make Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em look like Metal Gear Solid 4. But there are some genuinely hilarious winners among a mostly despicable list of deranged NES ROM hacks. The -Minus World swears that none of these are made up. Which is good, because No. 20 is a joke…
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Alyssa Milano Starring in Ghostbusters Game
Alyssa Milano is your female lead in the upcoming Ghostbusters title by Atari. Her character, a museum curator, takes the place of Sigourney Weaver as the damsel in distress. Says Milano, the inspiration for Ariel in ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the star of the cringe-inducing, tongue-scraping “Teen Steam” stressbusting workout series on VHS: “Obviously, fans…
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