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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hipster Sixty-Fourrr
On NeoGAF late last night, someone discovered that the awful warehouse of pretension Urban Outfitters was selling cloned Nintendo 64 controllers. This can only mean one thing: Hipsters have discovered that console generation and will now commence to telling everyone they enjoyed it before you did, but now they don’t anymore because everyone notices that…
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Sunday Comics: Hit Me, Dealer.
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 Oct. 22.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 24.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sexy Video Game Halloween 2.0: The Winners
What the hell do you do when Halloween’s on a Wednesday? Do you have your costume party that night? Hell no, people gotta work the next day. Do you have it the following weekend? Hell no, it’s November! We’re going to have our sexy costume party now, with our Kotaku ‘Shop Contest finalists, and overall…
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Must Scrub a Mention of Allah from the Floor of Its ‘Saudi Arabia’ Stage
The “Saudi Arabia” stage of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 features some Arabic script on the floor. The Arabic script is the name of Allah. This is an incredibly bad thing, because just showing someone the soles of your feet in Middle Eastern culture is considered rude. Walking all over a representation of something communicates severe…
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Note to Xbox Live: This Is Chong, Not Cheech.
Reader Edfire77 sends this in. In the TV & Movies section of Xbox Live, one of the tiles points to movies celebrating Hispanic culture. Great. But this stoner is Tommy Chong, not Cheech Marin. Chong’s dad was a Chinese immigrant, his mom was of Scottish-Irish and French descent, and they all lived in Canada, which…
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Zynga’s Bringing Farmville to Online Gambling
Shortly after firing about 150 people, Zynga has even better news for investors. It’s getting into a sure-thing moneymaker, online gambling. Gamasutra said on Thursday that Zynga saw a decent bump in its stock price after revealing plans long hinted at. They’re getting into a partnership with Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, an Austrian online gaming operator.…
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What Works Better: DRM? Or Just Being Nice to Pirates?
Earlier this week, Hotline Miami released and very quickly became the indie flavor of the minute. Then the story emerged that the game’s maker went into the forums at The Pirate Bay, home of, well, pirates, and provided technical support to people who were, technically, stealing the game. Naturally, Jonatan Soderstrom reaped some goodwill for…
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Pass Fail: One Man’s Quest to Get His Medal of Honor Download Code [UPDATE]
We’re not EA customer service, but sometimes shedding a little light on silly stuff like this can help get results. More importantly, the news appears to be that some copies of Medal of Honor: Warfighter have gone out with cards that don’t have proper download codes printed on them. Those codes, as this card says,…
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If You’re Getting the Basic-Size Wii U, You May Buy a Digital Copy of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Download Half of It [UPDATE]
Unless you’re planning on adding an external hard drive to your Wii U—either model—it would make almost zero sense to get the downloadable version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and that’s even if a North American digital release gets the discount that the Japanese eShop is going to offer. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 clocks in…
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The Moneysaver: War on the Cheap
Now that we’ve slogged through the release of Medal of Honor: Warfighter it’s on to the next front—Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which is on the way in about two weeks. Savings on both games’ PC versions highlight this week’s Moneysaver, jammed full of more than 70 bargains and sales. Be sure also to…
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Video Game Experiment Teaches Angry Kids Not to Rage Against the Machine
There’s a new insane study of children and video games out there, and it makes me grateful the Wii died without that ridiculous Vitality Sensor ever coming to market. Let’s say you’re playing a video game, a space shooter (can’t tell if this is top-down or side-scrolling). Your job is to shoot down enemy spacecraft…
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Backhanded Box Quotes: Medal of Honor Gets a 10
Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere. What are you dressing up as for Halloween? I’m going as Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s Metacritic score. No, make that Sexy Metacritic Score for Medal of Honor. Because the real one is ugly enough to…
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38 Studios’ Sell-Off So Far Amounts to an $830,000 Drop in the Bucket
This auctioning of assets belonging to 38 Studios, the makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, brought in a combined $830,000, reports Joystiq. Sounds … good? Well, according to the Associated Press, that will barely dent the $100 million taxpayers may eat in Rhode Island, which guaranteed the loan for which someone gave themselves this award…
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Find Tricks and Treats This Weekend in Madden, NHL‘s Ultimate Teams
A two-day-only sale, currently into its second hour, offers a super card pack in NHL 13‘s Ultimate Team mode, comprising 32 cards in all, 18 of which are guaranteed rare items. I don’t think you get any actual ethereal players, as shown in that trailer above, nor any enormous Zdeno Chara. He’s already large enough.…
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Abusive Player Editing Shows We Can’t Have Nice Things in Madden
When it released, Madden NFL 13‘s new “Connected Careers” mode forbade the editing of any player. This was somewhat understandable, as the roster is used by others online and changes can affect the outcomes of games elsewhere in your league. It was still rather Draconian, as it meant you could not edit your own created…
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The Stylish Totem Runner is a Worthy Savior in a Dark Time
Forgive me, this will sound like damnation by faint praise, but I almost didn’t know what to do with myself after completing a level in Totem Runner. I can’t remember the last time a new mobile game didn’t use the intermission to sell me something I didn’t want. Most importantly, Totem Runner is good on…
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It’s a Thursday, So Capcom Must Be Having a Problem With Street Fighter X Tekken DLC
Those who preordered Street Fighter X Tekken on the PS Vita didn’t receive all of the downloadable content bonuses—alternate costumes and additional characters—promised to them. It’s been three days without a definitive answer for what the heck is going on, although Capcom, via Twitter, acknowledged over Twitter that “we’re aware of the DLC redemption issues…
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ChrisWarcraft’s Weekly NFL Quest, Level Seven: Repel the Pewter Plunderers of the Southern Coast
Football is a role-playing game. That’s how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We’re going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. This Thursday…
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