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How Many ‘Easter Eggs’ Can You Find in MLB 13 The Show‘s Latest Trailer?
Sony released this trailer today for MLB 13 The Show, and producer Ramone Russell vowed that “about 10 Easter Eggs are included in it.” Operation Sports’s community has gone dissecting it frame-by-frame; here are some of their readers’ guesses: • “So RttS and HRD now both have some “personal lock on ball” view with a…
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Rumors of PS4 Restricting Used Games Send GameStop Stock Tumbling
GameStop’s stock price closed lower by $1.30—a five percent loss overall—after word this morning that Sony had applied for a patent on technology that could restrict how used games are played on its next console. Used games are, of course, a cornerstone of the GameStop customer experience, whether trading them in for store credit toward…
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On Further Review, Notre Dame Leads the Voting for NCAA Football 14‘s Cover
So, we know a little more about how NCAA Football 14 is handling its social media vote-off to determine the game’s cover subject this summer. Apparently there were some other polls on the game’s Facebook page factoring into a school’s overall vote popularity. While that means Penn State and Kentucky are not actually No. 1…
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Sony Patent Could Stop You From Playing Used Games, Possibly on the Next PlayStation
A patent application published today resurrects the rumor that Sony’s next gaming console will suppress the playing of used games, and outlines how such a scheme would be accomplished without the use of an always-on Internet connection for verification. In short, an RFID ID stamped onto the new discs would track their usage history and…
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Of Course Penn State is Leading EA Sports’ NCAA Football 14 Cover Vote
Ostensibly put up to a series of fan-voted Facebook polls, NCAA Football 14‘s cover also will be influenced by other, as yet unexplained, social media forces. A field of all 126 Division I-A Football Bowl Subdivision teams was supposed to have been thinned to 32 candidates after Monday, but we don’t yet know who the…
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What’s Your Game of the Year? Vote in the Second Annual Speakys
Speak Up on Kotaku may be no more, but its legacy lives on in The 2012 Speakys, organized by and voted on by our readers. Longtime commenter GiantBoyDetective is administering the voting once again. (He also made the logo.) Votes are being tallied for best games on all platforms, with write-in options if your favorite…
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EA Sports Server Shutdown Next Week Means NBA Live is Finished
NBA Live 10 is one of six EA Sports titles that will lose online support on Jan. 11., according to a notice from Electronic Arts. While retiring online features for sports titles more than a year old is not uncommon for any sports publisher, killing multiplayer support for NBA Live 10, which released in 2009,…
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Four Stories to Follow in a Pivotal New Year for Sports Video Gaming
2K Sports hasn’t said specifically when its infamous exclusive pact with Major League Baseball ends, but it’s a good bet that day comes on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. If someone picks up that license, it’ll be the first big story of the year for sports video gaming. If no one picks up that license, it’ll…
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Black Ops II‘s First DLC will be a Timed Xbox 360 Exclusive
Images purportedly of in-store promotional materials suggest that Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s first map pack extension will be a timed Xbox 360 exclusive arriving on Jan. 29. Five maps are included. “Revolution” sports five maps, one of which—”Die Rise”—appears to be a zombie map. The others are named Hydro, Grind, Downhill and Mirage.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
B.A. Baracus. The Michael McDonald Fight Stick. Some dude taking a 3DS picture of himself smoking pot. We’ve had some ups and downs with the ‘Shop Contest this year, but we still have a ton of good memories—10 of our most popular exploitables, to be specific—to look back on in an All-Star Extravaganza closing out…
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Some Germans Said They Want to Burn Video Games in Front of the Bundestag [Update: It’s a Hoax.]
There’s a movement afoot in Germany to hold a mass burning of “killerspiele,”—their word for violent video games—in front of the Reichstag in Berlin on Jan. 27. Leni Riefenstahl died eight years ago, so if this really happens, someone else will have to film it. [Update] As has been pointed out by many, this “movement”…
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CultureSunday Comics: Development Hell
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. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Dec. 26. Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 24. Read more of…
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How Long Will EA’s CEO Sit on the Hot Seat in 2013?
The company’s share price dropped by a third in the past year, and expensive incursions into mobile and social games development haven’t yet panned out. Adding insult to injury, Electronic Arts was booted out of the NASDAQ-100 Index for poor performance. Figure in the continuing decline of video game sales on traditional platforms, and John…
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Free, Fan-Made Mega Man Christmas Carol is Back to Wish You a Happy 20XX
If you didn’t take a crack at Mega Man Christmas Carol when it released two years ago, give it a shot now (.zip, 16 MB). The fan-made game reimagines the Ghosts of Christmas (plus miserable old Marley) as boss showdowns in Mega Man. Sprites, Inc. has remade its first game with a new engine, and…
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