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True to Its Word, Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Sends Out Its Specialization Codes
Anyone who played multiplayer in Halo 4 before Nov. 20 is now getting access to six class-based specializations previously available only to those who purchased the game’s Limited Edition. Emails with download codes went out Friday evening, according to tipsters. “Specialization Priority Alpha,” is the codename for the DLC package unlocking the modes. You earned…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
City of Heroes Says Goodbye Forever Tonight
More than eight years old, City of Heroes says goodbye tonight. In five hours—at 3 a.m. EST Saturday—NCsoft will pull the plug on both the superhero MMO and its developer, Paragon Studios If you still have an active account, there will be a final Unity Rally in one hour (11 p.m. U.S. EST) at Atlas…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Battlefront III was ’99 Percent’ Done When LucasArts Scrapped It
If you didn’t already hate LucasArts enough for needlessly canceling Star Wars: Battlefront III, wait until you hear this: They shitcanned it when the game was “99 percent finished,” said the co-founder of the defunct studio behind the game. All it needed was “bug fixing,” Steve Ellis told gamesTM magazine. That’s it. Ellis earlier complained…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘I Wish They Would Do a HD Remake of Blood Money‘
Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic. Coming to the end of the year’s major release calendar, we still have no shortage of righteous indignation and implacable disappointment in the world of user reviews. Hitman: Absolution Released: Nov. 20. Critic: monkeylion (Metacritic) • “My…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Clay Balls, Eyeballs, Pixels and Falls: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Every weekday we elevate a particularly entertaining mobile game or game by-product to Gaming App of the Day status. This week we have six. I blame the balls. It was a very ballish week here at Kotaku. There were clay balls rolling down hills. We had eyeballs bouncing all over the place. We had ball-shaped…
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UncategorizedThere’s No Shame in Imagining Comic-Con as a First-Person Shooter
Plenty of FPS-parody videos have been filmed since, well, close to the beginning of the FPS genre. But my favorite aspect of this one? (Apparently filmed at New York Comic-Con last month.) Once this enters “Deadpool mode,” the shame-o-meter goes to zero. YouTube video uploaded by Lumberjack Films. (h/t Joel M.)
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Your First Look at the Only Baseball You’re Getting in 2013
The only baseball you’re getting a console, anyway. These are the first screenshots released for MLB 13 The Show, which had competition in name only for about the past five years, as MLB 2K ran a distant second with an expensive license that was exclusive in name only. What does that mean? It means if…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Herd Outsider’s Guide to the Brony Phenomenon
Why can’t you escape the colorful cartoon ponies? Over the past two years the rising tide of adult male fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon have invaded the internet, seeding internet forums, Facebook, YouTube and pop culture conventions with proof of their passion for animated equines. Don’t understand the appeal? Perhaps…
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