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MLB 2K13‘s Million Dollar Challenge Fixes Exploit That Tarnished Last Year’s Contest

MLB 2K13 has been blasted for beinglittle more than a re-skinned edition of last year’s game, but 2K Sports did correct one of its most glaring exploits, at least—the means of altering an opponent’s lineup during a Million Dollar Challenge game to better your chances of throwing a perfect game and winning a huge cash…

Whatever It Is, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is Looking More and More Bizarre

This Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon thing simply will not quit. Yes, I know today is April Fools’ Day, but god damn, whatever this is—a film, a game extension, a fantastic hoax—Ubisoft did get it rated by the freaking Australian Classification Board (where it got an 18+ for a “high impact sex scene.”) Now, it…

Pilots, you are required to maneuver straight down this Death Star trench, constructed within Minecraft, and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide.

Play Halo‘s Atari 2600 ‘Port’ With This Cartridge Now On Sale

Almost three years ago, Ed Fries—a Microsoft executive instrumental in acquiring Bungie and making Halo the definitive Xbox series—created Halo 2600, a flash game demake that imagined the game on an old Atari VCS. Now, AtariAge.com is putting the game’s ROM on a proper cartridge, with period box and label art and an instruction manual.…

Winners Always Quit, and Quitters Always Win—If It’s in a Video Game

After he carded a seven, then got the dreaded snowman on a par 5, then a six and a double-bogey on a par 3, I half expected to see Rory McIlroy slink off the green, feigning tooth pain. He’d come into this final round atop the leaderboard at 10-under par, and now saw all of…

StarCraft Turns 15 Today, and Blizzard Wants You to Celebrate

March 31, 1998. StarCraft launched, soon becoming a landmark of the real-time strategy genre and a bulwark of the modern eSports scene. The game turns 15 today, and its publisher, Blizzard, is offering a few goodies to help fans celebrate the anniversary. Beginning today and lasting until April 17, fans need only to play one…

The Week in Games: Inna Gaiden a Vida, Baby …

Tuesdays after holidays typically don’t see much in the way of new releases in North America. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, which was the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3, now gets ported back to the PS3 and Xbox 360. There’s DLC for Borderlands 2 and some oldies but goodies on PSN, plus an…

Chris Hecker Rants at GDC Without Saying a Word

It’s revealing that at first I didn’t get the point of this, which is Chris Hecker’s rant at Game Developers Conference 2013. So much of the nonstop big budget press conference bullshit you hear in this business all sounds alike, forcing me into a kind of weird active listening where I’m trying to decode pabulum…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk

Everyone had so much fun annotating little Samael Henkel’s Arma II table yesterday that I figured it had to be good for our latest ‘Shop Contest. Look, I know it’s just a table, but this is where you guys come in. If you can make that funny, you can make anything funny. And I have…

Is It OK to Take a Free Game When the Company Selling It Makes a Mistake?

As I was packing up for some time off about 10 days ago, someone sent an email to me and others who had review copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 that all of the game’s downloadable courses were already on Xbox Live, and none of them had a price. It was $67 worth of…

Sunday Comics: The Day the Music Died

Welcome to the all new, Kinja-fied version of Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics. The features will enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner of each image. Another Videogame Webcomic by Phil Chan and Joe Dunn. Published March 29. Read more of Another Videogame Webcomic Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Xbox 360 golfers, the Stick Jockey Country Club is now accepting membership applications in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and we’ve waived the initiation fee and credit history check. Search for “Stick Jockey” among the game’s country clubs and use the password jockey317stick to join. Please remember that Stick Jockey CC is a very exclusive…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Habemas Pope Francish

So, here we go, the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest debuts under the site’s third design in the four-year history of the feature. Thanks for your patience while I was away last week; today, we round up a look at the latest leader of the Ecclesiastical Church of St. Games, Francis, the lisping, PC-gaming ragemonger who had…

Forza Horizon‘s latest batch of new cars—the Top Gear Car Pack—arrives on Tuesday. It offers six more rides for $5.

‘Warzone’ Multiplayer is on Gears of War: Judgment Disc Thanks to Stray Code

Earlier this week Gears fans figured out how to trigger Warzone—it has to be done from a private Team Deathmatch, while hitting the A and B buttons simultaneously in the match’s parameters menu. Warzone’s exclusion and mysterious reappearance led to rumors the mode was going to be included later as paid DLC, but an Epic…

Yetizen, co-host of a party featuring scantily clad dancers at the Game Developers Conference, has released a statement on the controversy. YetiZen’s CEO says the IGDA’s director approved the dancers’ costumes.

The PS2 versions of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories arrive on PSN next week for $9.99 each.

So, It Seems Lil Wayne is Sampling Assassin’s Creed Now (not Mass Effect)

This is “Trigger Finger” from Lil Wayne’s newest album I Am Not a Human Being II, released Tuesday. But Mass Effect Assassin’s Creed fans should recognize that opening sample, before it lights up a bowl and rolls into the filth-flarn-filth lyrics (so, yes, NSFW warning if you’re listening around others over speakers.) [Update] Reader SRTMH…

A Six-Year Old is Modding Arma II, and He Made This Table

No, this isn’t particularly spectacular for a mod, much less one for ArmA II, but it is one made by a six-year-old boy, who was curious why his dad spent so much time in front of the computer. When Myke Henkel told his son he was making things for a video game, son Samael insisted…

This Week in the Business ‘There is Strong Purchase Intent for the PS4’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week, brought to you by Steve Peterson of GamesIndustry International QUOTE | “[There is] strong purchase intent for the PS4.”—Tony Bartel, president of GameStop, talking about the interest that GameStop’s already seeing for PS4 at this early stage, as well as “disappointing” Wii U sales.…