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Culture
Sunday Comics: Pie in the Sky
Welcome back to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, and enjoy our weekly roundup of webcomics whose lineup was chosen by our readership. The comics will enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner of each image. Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie. Published April 3. Read more of Virtual…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk: The Winners
When I drew on a table at age six, I was suspended from recess—on the first day of school. Little Samael Henkel does it and he gains worldwide fame and he sits for a dignified portait in front of our Kotaku ‘Shop Contest shoppers. We have a dozen finalists inside, plus overall No. 1 and…
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Report: Chinese Gamers Think Chinese Games Pretty Much Suck
We as Westerners complain about the quality of video games all day long. At least we are not subjected to state-run tracts like I Carry Shit Up the Side of the Hill for the Commune Simulator 2013 or whatever it is that China’s propaganda ministry is cooking up these days. Even Chinese gamers hate it,…
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Hey, I Just Hacked You, and That Sounds Crazy, but RockBand.com is Offline, So Change Your Passwords Maybe
Hackers appear to have struck RockBand.com and DanceCentral.com right as the games’ maker, Harmonix ended a 281-week run of offering new songs to both rhythm games. While that may seem late to the party to some, to others, closing down a service might be a great time to harvest user names and passwords and try…
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Which One of These Things is Not Like the Other?
Fuse is developed by Insomniac Games. Fuse is a third-person co-operative shooter. Fuse will release May 28. Fuse will not have an Online Pass. And Fuse will not have any microtransactions. But Fuse will be published by Electronic Arts. Hey, maybe everyone was wrong about all that Worst Company in America stuff after all? Fuse…
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Xbox 360 Used as a Weapon in Strange Florida Murder
In five years of writing about weird crime here, I’ve heard of gaming consoles being involved in violent crime in just about every way possible—except as a weapon itself. That’s one of the many bizarre features of a murder in Florida last Sunday. The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale reported this week that cops in Broward…
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Madden‘s Cover Vote Sees Two Nominal Upsets, but the Favorites Still Rule
Madden NFL 25‘s tournament-of-champions cover vote saw its first real-but-not-really upset in the third round of voting as Houston running back Arian Foster dismissed Colin Kaepernick, the upstart San Francisco 49ers quarterback who had been seeded first in his grouping. By seeding, Barry Sanders’ triumph over the newly retired Ray Lewis also should be considered…
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A Thousand Voices Cry Out for LucasArts, in Eulogies of 140 Characters
LucasArts, a nearly 30-year-old cornerstone brand in video gaming,said today it would cease all development. It was more than a publisher of Star Wars video games, like Dark Forces or X-Wing. LucasArts gave us point-and-click adventures from the halcyon days of the genre, like The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion and Full…
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Hard-Luck Hurler Tosses a Perfect Game in MLB 2K‘s Million Dollar Contest
T.J. Brida, one of Kotaku‘s Gamers of the Year, and the hardest of hard-luck losers in MLB 2K’s Million Dollar Challenge last year, finally threw a perfect game. He did it today with Cole Hamels and his beloved Philadelphia Phillies, against the Atlanta Braves. With 10 strikeouts and 81 pitches, he should be well positioned…
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NCAA Football 14 Promises It Won’t Give You the Same Old Line This Year
You can load all the physics, all the momentum, all the jukes and trucks and fakes you want into running the football in a video game, but it all unravels when the right guard just watches as a free linebacker strolls into the backfield and cleans your transmission. No matter how good the rest of…
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NCAA Football 14 Will Add an Ultimate Team Mode, but How It Will Work is a Mystery [Update]
According to the game’s listing at GameStop, NCAA Football 14 is getting an Ultimate Team mode. This is a highly unusual development, given the card-trading game’s reliance on real players in titles like FIFA and Madden, and the fact using real college players’ names not only is forbidden by the NCAA, but also EA Sports’…
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This Stop-Motion Post-It Note Tribute to Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Took 96 Days to Make
Do you hate spending weekends in the office? Talk to Michael Birken. He spent nearly a year’s worth of weekends and holidays at his, filming this ridiculous post-it note stop-motion homage to arcade classics Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong The project took a total of 96 days spread out over 11 months, Birken says, using…
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WWE ’13 Predicts Some Big Upsets—but not the Biggest One—for WrestleMania XXIX
Hey, wrestling fans! Too busy for three hours of bodyslamming, atomic-dropping, suplexing action in New Jersey this weekend? Too poor to pay the PPV freight on WrestleMania XXIX? You can watch it all for free right here, right now! Team Always Godlike, a group of 13 fighting game enthusiasts from across the U.S., simulated all…
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Hack Exposes War Z Players’ Data, Takes the Game Offline Again
The kazoo still blows for The War Z, the Benny Hill theme of game that saw one of the most inept launches in PC gaming history back in December, a game so bad it was yanked from Steam for about two months. Now the entire game is offline after hackers breached the game’s databases and…
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Reviews
Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel: The Kotaku Review
Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel drifts in a Lagrangian point of video game mediocrity. No force pulls it toward being a contemptible or even bad effort, but nothing budges it into the orbit of entertainment, even as a guilty pleasure, either. Its experiences are the most indistinct I’ve ever had in the wide world…
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