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Those Two New Legendary Pokémon Have Names, You Know
Spied at the end of the announcement trailer yesterday, two new Pokémon in the upcoming Pokémon X and Y have been confirmed as the game’s Legendary Pokémon and named. The Pokémon company has included a handy pronunciation guide. The one at left above is Xerneas. Say its name like this: “ZURR-nee-us.” The one at right?…
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There Will Be Baseball on the Xbox 360; Major League Baseball 2K13 Returns
2K Sports surprised everyone with its announcement this morning that MLB 2K13 will release this year on Xbox 360. Pitcher David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays is the cover star. The game will be on shelves March 5. 2K Sports’ MLB 2K series, long a money-loser and critical underperformer, was widely expected to be…
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Firefly MMO Studio Push Back At Suspicions That Their Game Is a Hoax
The studio claiming to have the blessings of Fox Entertainment to proceed with a Firefly themed MMO have disputed our reporting over the weekend which suggested their project was a hoax. The suspicion was drawn from the logo and the presence of an endorsement purportedly from The Yes Men, an activist group that has impersonated…
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The Speakys—Your Games of the Year—Have Been Named, Now Pick the Best
The votes are in, and you have spoken. The second annual Speakys, the Kotaku community-voted awards organized by GiantBoyDetective, have named their individual category winners. From here, the category winners will be faced off in a vote to determine the Speakys’ overall game of the year. Remember, tomorrow Kotaku will be conferring its Game of…
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Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better in 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90—which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project—than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly. This isn’t proof…
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The Week in Games: A Long Winter’s Nap
The Week in Games is back but, as is expected in January, we don’t have much to share. The western release of Anarchy Reigns is the lone console title. It doesn’t look like things pick up again until next week, when DmC: Devil May Cry arrives. Monday • Sesame Street TV – Season 2 (360…
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1993: The Birth of DLC
There’s a past-is-prologue quality to a lot what wwwtxt curates and sends out over its Twitter feed, exemplified by this nugget published on Friday. wwwtxt is not a bot. It’s Daniel Rehn, an artist and “media archaeologist,” who culls discussions before 1995, the beginning of the commercial Internet as we know it. The sources include…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Balloon Snake
It’s been a while since we’ve had this kind of an it-shops-itself exploitable: Solid Snake made out of balloons, with a mesmerizing stare that could be made to express any emotion or fit any situation. Some folks already got a head start on this when Tina posted the image on Friday. We’ll let everyone else…
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Author of The Warriors, Cult Film Adapted to Hit Video Game, Dies at 88
Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel “The Warriors” was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick’s work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasis, which chronicles the journey of Greek…
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Sunday Comics: Some of My Best Friends are …
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 31. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Jan. 4. Read more of…
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We’ve All Been Fooled by the ‘Firefly MMO‘ [UPDATE 2]
If you think there’s going to be an MMO based on or “inspired by” Firefly, well, you’re not alone. So did I yesterday, and we’ve all been trolled. [Update] This story has taken a few more turns. The upshot is that it may not be a hoax after all. For the latest, check out this…
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A Note About Sunday Comics
Nerd Rage, by Andy Kluthe, has joined our lineup, beginning today. We haven’t gotten rid of Nerf This, which many of you have pointed out doesn’t carry much of a gaming theme. That said, it was voted in by the readership, and I don’t feel like being a dick to Nerf This creator Scott Ferguson…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
Anything goes and anything went as we asked you to revisit the exploitables and callbacks of the year that was 2012. halfbeast’s bitchin’ fightstick leads our roundup of overall finalists, with hat-tips to all-stars sciteach, uscg_pa, and returning champ Pan_1da7. Thanks to all who participated. There’s a ‘Shop Contest tomorrow, etc. AirCairo azureguy Galogon halfbeast…
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GLaDOS Did Appear in Pacific Rim‘s Trailer, but Won’t Return for the Movie
When Pacific Rim‘s latest trailer (above) went out last month, a lot of people thought, “Wait! I know that voice!” And indeed, it sounds like Jax Teller reading from “The Life and Death of Sam Crow” as an enormous sea monster destroys a bridge. Oh yeah, GLaDOS from the Portal series can be heard as…
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Report: Warner Bros. Interactive Interested in Bidding on THQ’s Assets
A bankruptcy judge yesterday did not approve the bidding procedures THQ proposed in selling off its assets, which THQ’s creditors had complained was rigged to sell the whole thing to a private equity firm for $60 million. Now comes a report that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an interested buyer. The word comes from Distressed…
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The Moneysaver: Walking in a Winter Download-land
Digital downloads lead the list of offers this week, particularly as Steam’s always-popular holiday bonanza is closing down gets an encore lasting through Monday. Green Man Gaming has discounts on 10 preorders between now and April, and a coupon code currently on offer will stack on that, so give it a look if what you…
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Why XCOM: Enemy Unknown Should Be Game of the Year
April 16, 2015 Location: Sapporo, Japan Operation: Extraterrestrial Terrorism Response Codename: Lost Spark Mission Parameters: Failure will result in the immediate loss of resources and support from Japan. This would deal a devastating blow to the XCOM project. Project Goal: Save the Earth, and all who call it home. This mission, which comes from a…
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Creditors Call THQ’s Bankruptcy Deal Rigged, Want It Stopped
Creditors don’t expect to get everything they’re owed when a company enters any form of bankruptcy, but THQ’s say they’re getting screwed in the publisher’s arrangement to sell off its assets and start over. Three creditors have filed objections, reports Gamasutra, and so has the government trustee overseeing the bankruptcy The creditors allege THQ and…
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