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UncategorizedA Game So Frustrating I Can’t Stop Playing It
When I was 16, in an effort to improve my feeble hitting, I sawed off a broomstick, taped both ends with grip, and would spend hours in the back yard hitting driveway gravel at the galvanized roof of our horse barn. I was quite good at it. Still am. Unfortunately, pitchers my junior year did…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Moneysaver: Aprés le Déluge, le Deals
What are we calling it, is it Hurricane Sandy still? Technically that wasn’t a hurricane when it started smashing into things and bringing down power and flooding out datacenters and spawning the Kotumblr and canceling a marathon. Hurricane Sandy, Superstorm Sandy, whatever, it can’t bring a halt to the engines of video game commerce, and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Best of Kotumblr, This Week
Welcome to The Best of Kotak…Kotumblr! Our temporary digs while we wait for our sites to turn back up. That’s right, Hurricane Sandy. Flood our servers, take down our sites, strip us from power and chase the NYC writers out of our city, and we’ll still be posting great content. In your face, storm! Video…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Halo 4 Reviewers All Glad That The Fight’s Not Finished Yet
Players jumped in by the millions to finish the fight in Halo 3, back in 2007. And yet, like many a franchise before it, the one-time trilogy of Halo games finds itself with a new fourth sibling, years later. This year, the old franchise-Halo first launched in 2001-found itself in new hands, no longer developed…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
The Week in Gaming Apps: Rumbly Tumblr Edition
Welcome to the first (and hopefully final) Tumblr edition of Kotaku‘s Week in Gaming Apps, where we look fondly back at the mobile games that touched our lives during this trying time, except for the one from Monday that we can only link to via Google cache. Since our normal format won’t work here, I…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Borderlands 2 Developers Bringing Back The Claptrap Webseries
It’s come to the point where I’m getting excited about any opportunity to see more of the characters of the delightfully silly Borderlands franchise. And apparently Gearbox is heeding my call, because they’re bringing back the Claptrap webseries, which, if you’re like me and haven’t even watched season one yet, you can watch all of…
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Treasure Isle and FishVille Are the First Zynga Games to Die
Last month Zynga revealed that 13 of its lesser-performing Facebook games would be closed in order to make the social side of the company less of a massive disappointment. Yesterday players of FishVille and Treasure Isle were informed that those games would be closing up shop on December 5. What, there was a FishVille? Not…
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