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For Madden‘s Director, an Eye for the Game Comes from an NFL Sideline
“Everybody assumes I go to the Super Bowl every year,” Mike Young says, but he didn’t this year. Friends figure it’s just a perk of his job. Young is the creative director for Madden NFL, and has worked on the franchise for six years now, and the past 10 at EA Sports. As the Super…
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The Week in Games: Keep Our Honor Clean
PC, PS3 and 360 gamers are proud to wear the title Aliens: Colonial Marines this week. The turn-based gangster strategy game Omerta also looks to carry out its own Valentine’s Day Massacre on PC and Xbox 360. Today • Brain Age: Concentration Training (3DS) Tuesday • Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC, PS3, 360) • Omerta: City…
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Three Months After It Launched, the Wii U is Irrelevant to Sports Gaming
For sports gaming, the Wii U wasn’t looking much better than its predecessor even a month after release, and there are no signs the console is going to be a full partner anytime soon. The signals sent by sports’ dominant publisher indicate it just has no interest in building for the console. It’s not just…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let Me Google Iwata For You
Yep. This promotional shot for the new Google Wii Street U is exploitable gold for the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. After the image of Nintendo honcho Satoru Iwata wearing a Google Street cam popped up on Wednesday, so did the ‘shops, especially one of him wearing a FLUDD. We can do a lot better than that,…
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The Reaction to a Console Rumor Explains Why Some Gamers Aren’t Buying
The rumor going around earlier this week wasn’t really anything new. The console that locks out used games is an anticonsumer bogeyman going back years and though the technology to do it exists, it’s yet to come true, for whatever reason. Still, a report this week repeated the same year old rumor about the next…
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Sunday Comics: No Respect
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Feb. 8. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Feb.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Horsing Around With Gabe: The Winners
Gabe Newell went to Texas last week and ended up in quite a compromising pose—and not just because of the horsehead mask a student handed him. Overall paparazzi No. 1 dummysystem caught Valve’s chief with Michael Jordan guaranteeing Half-Life 3—as soon as Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats win an NBA title. Which will happen first? One thing’s…
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Knights of the Old Republic II Studio Has an Idea for Another Star Wars RPG, if Disney is Listening
If you enjoyed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and hate Electronic Arts, then this next sentence should make your heart flutter: Obsidian Entertainment, the studio that gave us Fallout: New Vegas and an unfinished KOTOR II have pitched another Star Wars role-playing game set between Episodes III and IV Even with the…
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Here’s Super Hexagon Recreated in LittleBigPlanet 2
I have no idea how this was done, but then, I fell off the LittleBigPlanet wagon a long time ago. This is “Hyper Hexagon,” an adaptation of Super Hexagon rendered within LittleBigPlanet 2. Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh knows about it; he retweeted a link to the game yesterday. Enjoy. Super Hexagon Meets LittleBigPlanet In…
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Ubisoft, Now Totally Desperate, Promises Rayman Legends Gets a Wii U Exclusive Demo
Disappointment over a six-month delay of a video game’s release may be a first-world problem. But there’s a good case Ubisoft is holding Rayman Legends back from Wii U while it gets the newly announced PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions ready for a September release. Going multiplatform here isn’t raising garden-variety console fanboy butthurt.…
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Yep, Bungie’s Still Answering Halo Fan Mail
Though Bungie no longer is the steward of the Halo franchise, after five games and a dozen years, it’s hard for some to let go. Or, well, if your Halo gaming career begins with ODST, perhaps you’re not that plugged-in to begin with. But the guy did draw an awesome picture, and Bungie does promise…
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Half-Life, Portal Movies Are In Early Development Stages, J.J. Abrams Says
Appearing with the director J.J. Abrams at D.I.C.E. Summit today, Valve’s Gabe Newell said the company would “find out if there’s a way we can work with you on a Portal and Half-Life movie.” Polygon reports that things may be a little further along than that. Speaking after the panel, Abrams told Polygon “We are…
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We’re Liveblogging Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams’ Talk at D.I.C.E. Summit
Gabe Newell, the president and cofounder of Valve Corporation, and J.J. Abrams, the newly minted director of the next Star Wars film, are together for a keynote talk kicking off the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas. The talk isn’t being livestreamed, but Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo is in the room, and will be liveblogging what…
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Sandy Hook’s State Rep Proposes a Sin Tax on M-Rated Games
The nation’s freakout over scary scary violent video games shows no signs of abating. We’re back to Connecticut again. Debralee Hovey, a state representative there, has proposed an additional 10 percent tax on the sale of M-rated video games. The idea has been thoroughly discredited everywhere else it was brought up, but as Hovey’s district…
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Monopoly Scraps Iron, Says Hello, Kitty
The exclusive fraternity of Monopoly tokens, bridging many generations with the shared childhood memory of fighting over who got the racecar, added a new member to its ranks today, and got rid of that stupid flat iron once and for all. What’s new? Well, as this was voted on by the Internet, there was no…
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