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The Speakys Have Spoken; This is Your Game of the Year
Though Speak Up on Kotaku became one with the Force back around September, the reader-voted GOTYs it spawned lived on in the second annual Speakys, which longtime reader GiantBoyDetective organized this year again. The votes have been tallied, and it’s a clean sweep for 2K Games in both chambers of Kotaku‘s congress: Borderlands 2 is…
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The Moneysaver: Pre-Order in the Court!
I will never not laugh at that picture, now 4 1/2 years old, of Old Snake showing up in The People’s Court. Or, well, someone unintentionally cosplaying him, that is. Anyway, it’s preorder season for the big games of 2013’s first four months, and a discount coupon combines with some existing deals at Green Man…
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GameFly Prevails Against Postal Service Once Again, If Anyone’s Still Renting Discs by Mail
In court today, GameFly triumphed once more in its seemingly never-ending fight against the U.S. Postal Service, which GameFly alleges has shown favoritism in how it sorts Netflix mail going all the way back a time when people actually rented movies by mail. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia told the…
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Massachusetts Orders Light Gun Video Games Pulled From State-Operated Rest Stops
Massachusetts’ Department of Transportation pulled a Time Crisis cabinet and seven other light-gun video games from rest-stop arcades along the Massachusetts Turnpike, after the parents of a 12-year-old complained they were inappropriate, reports The Boston Globe. The removal was attributed to the Dec. 14 gun massacre in Newtown, Conn. The move will strike most gamers…
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What’s In a Name? A Racing Game With a Nutty Finish
It’s been a silly week for mobile games with suggestive names. First there was this. Then Fahey handed me something called “Noble Nutlings” for the iOS. Its icon was a beetle-browed, bucktoothed squirrel. I had no idea what to expect. Turns out this is a racing game (iOS, free download), from Boomlagoon, some ex-Rovio guys…
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Comic Books’ Disastrous Self-Censorship Offers a Lesson for Games Publishers, Too
“Censoring violent comic books did not reduce juvenile delinquency or increase literacy,” reasons the International Game Developers Association. “It decimated the production of one of the few kinds of literature that at-risk youths read for pleasure.” The IGDA, the foremost group representing video games developers, wrote that to Vice President Joe Biden in a letter…
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Tomb Raider‘s Collector’s Edition Controller Comes Pre-Distressed
As we’ve seen in trailers going back to E3, Lara Croft gets the crap beat out of her trying to escape from the bandits’ camp in the Tomb Raider reboot, though to be fair, she gives as good as she gets. That must have been on the mind of whoever came up with this design…
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Promotional Video Slip-Up Gets GameStick’s $200,000 Kickstarter Taken Down Briefly [Updated]
GameStick, a prospective Android gaming platform that easily surpassed a $100,000 funding goal within days of being listed on Kickstarter, has had its fund drive pulled by Kickstarter in light of “an intellectual property dispute.” That decision is per Kickstarter itself. Engadget reported that a support email sent out by PlayJam, GameStick’s management, said they…
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All Four of Golf’s Major Tournaments Will Finally Appear in a Video Game
All four major tournaments of men’s golf—The Masters Tournament, The United States Open Championship, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship—will appear in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, a detail practically lost among other features announced for the game, such as nighttime golf and the debut of the LPGA Tour. While the career mode of…
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Midweek Moneysaver: This is Fargin’ (Price) War
This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Best Buy Wii U Sale ends this Saturday and Amazon has price-matched. Below are titles that hit new lows or tie best-ever prices. • Batman Arkham…
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You May Spend $199 to Unlock Everything in Marvel Heroes Before the Game Even Launches
Marvel Heroes may be a free-to-play MMO, but that doesn’t mean you can’t spend money on it. In fact, Marvel and developer Gazillion Entertainment hope you probably will at some point. They’re giving a head start, too, offering three “Founders Packs” that deliver a bunch of in-game content for free. One costs $199. The $200…
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NCAA Football‘s Cover Does Include Plans for Putting an Actual Human On It
BCS National Championship Game curbstompee Notre Dame finished in first place, overall, in the first round of NCAA Football‘s anything-goes cover voting contest currently running on Facebook. Defending national curbstomper Alabama also is in the list of 32 finalists, and currently is the top vote getter in the second round of balloting, ahead of perennial…
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What Can We Expect from MLB 2K13? Not Much, Probably.
2K Sports isn’t saying anything more today about the surprise resurrection of its MLB 2K series. When asked for an interview, a representative told me today’s news release is all we’re getting for now. So it’s time to speculate on what this game may deliver, and my gut feeling is if we see anything more…
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