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South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets a Hilarious Trailer, but No Release Date
As irreverent and ribald as you expect South Park to be, here is the trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which premiered at tonight’s Video Game Awards. It gives you a look at the game’s playable classes, plus all sorts of cameos from the show’s long run, and elsewhere. No release date, though…
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Whatever It Is, The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense
The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That’s fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the…
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Watch The 2012 Video Game Awards Live Right Here!
Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain’t just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December. Gears of War: Judgment will premiere a trailer showing us…
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We’ve Hit a New Low In the ‘Angry Gaming Parent Kills Baby’ Story
Looking through our lamentable catalogue of stories in which a baby is killed when a parent or other caregiver has flown into a game-induced rage, most of them involve shaking. Two involved a strike to the body. In one, an infant was dropped on her head. Well, we have a new low in the realm…
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Think Hard About What You Want to Say In a Lovely Letter By Letter
My apologies to the guy I was playing this morning in Letter by Letter. You were assigned to me at random by the game’s server. You played “bole,” (a synonym for “trunk”) which was a very good choice. I didn’t have an S to tack onto the end of that and steal the whole thing.…
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Gamers of the Year
Kotaku, in its look back on 2012, will ultimately laud the best games of the year, the qualities that made them great, and those who made them great. But we also want to step back and recognize those who make video gaming, as a whole, great. The people dedicated to the ideals of this culture…
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A Big Name Barely Makes the Cover of His Own Video Game
Tiger Woods isn’t on the cover of the “Historic Edition” of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, the fifth such box—special or main edition—in which the game’s titular star has not appeared alone, or at all, in the past four years. Bobby Jones, who designed Augusta National Golf Course, and Bubba Watson, who won the Masters…
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A Kotaku 5-Player: Will the VGAs Announce a Flash Game? Or Wonder Woman?
As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they honor. Kotaku will be in Los Angeles on Friday covering the gala. Here is an internal chatroom discussion among Stephen Totilo, Luke Plunkett, Mike Fahey, Kirk Hamilton and yours truly as we try to…
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Zen Pinball and Its Merry Marvel Tables are Marching to the Wii U eShop
Zen Studios’ hugely successful pinball simulation lands on its third console, the Wii U, later this month via the Wii U eShop. The game will incorporate features specific to the Wii U’s GamePad, which includes controlling the plunger on the touchscreen, cycling through information displayed on the table’s dot-matrix readout, rotating camera views and a…
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Ex-Developer’s Rant Reveals Why Madden is a Dream Job, and Disillusioning
Nothing deleted from Twitter is ever deleted on time, and sometime between Monday and Tuesday, a disillusioned former Madden developer figured that out. By then, his unvarnished rant tossed a dripping slab of red meat to Madden‘s many Internet enemies, and it didn’t win the author much support from his old friends. “Delete your tweets…
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Game Falls $28 Short Of $50,000 Kickstarter Goal
This has got to be agonizing. DreamQuest games wasn’t looking for an insane amount of money when they put their planned game, Alpha Colony up on Kickstarter. All they wanted was $50,000 to develop the exploration, building and trading simulation for PCs and mobile devices. The detailed explanation, with screenshots, and a playable browser-based demo…
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Culture
Sunday Comics Needs New Strips. Give Us the Names of Some Good Prospects.
It’s been a year since we added a new comic to our Sunday Comics lineup, and as we are down to nine features, when we usually published 10, and some others have been updating inconsistently, it’s as good a time as any to roll out the Sunday Comics Deathmatch overhaul that we last ran in…
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Will Anyone Really Care If There’s No More Baseball on the Xbox 360?
The first week after Thanksgiving is typically when MLB The Show‘s publicity machine rolls out the first screenshots and begins teasing upcoming details for the game, and right on schedule we got them this past week. The Show has had no serious competition for five years. Next year it won’t have any, in name or…
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Culture
The Week in Games: Cry For Release
The release calendar perks up this week before its customary winter hibernation. Far Cry 3 is out for consoles and PC. The Mass Effect Trilogy is available on PS3 (correction: it’s already out on 360), and there’s the Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim on Xbox 360. Monday • Waking Mars (PC) Tuesday • Guardians of Middle-earth…
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Masters of Slenderman Terror Join Slender Sequel
Not with a gun to my head would I watch Marble Hornets. How much of a cowering, frightened ninny am I? I won’t even google it to get an abstract of what the YouTube series is about to cite in this lead paragraph. It is, on Kirk Hamilton’s recommendation to me, the most fucked-up frightening…
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Hate Using the Classic Controller on the Wii U? Use the PS2’s Instead.
A conversion kit going on sale soon in Japan allows gamers to connect a PlayStation 2 DualShock to the Wii U. It’s an alternative for those who don’t prefer the Wii Classic Controller to play old Wii games, and find themselves unable to use their good old GameCube controller because the new console lacks a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Chin Down Eyes Up: The Game
BioShock Infinite‘s underwhelming cover art revived the concept Mega64 brought to our attention three months ago: If you’re making a video game, chin-down, eyes-up is the way to go for every cover subject. Well, I think it should be the way all images should be presented, at least for this edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop…
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