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The Moneysaver: Guild and Gridiron
Two big releases highlight the coming week, one of which, Guild Wars 2, is offering early access to those who preordered the game, beginning today. If you didn’t and want to get in on the action, you can grab it for $12 to $14 off, depending on which version you want. Madden NFL also offers…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. I sure do feature a lot of Mario in these Best of round-ups. That just speaks to how iconic Mario remains, that so much art is based off of him and his games. Well, here’s Mario mashed up with…
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Well, One Guy Kept His Job at OnLive
That would be the CEO, Steve Perlman. More than 200 other employees were summarily dismissed when the cloud-gaming service caved in last week, though a corporate statement said half would be hired back, and others offered consulting gigs. That doesn’t exactly shut down speculation that this “rebooting” of the company was meant to vaporize employees’…
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Nintendo Wants to Celebrate Kirby’s Birthday With Chewing Gum
Kirby’s 20th birthday is this year, and Nintendo plans to observe it with a stunt at PAX Prime on Sept. 1. They’re trying to get more than 304 people together in the same place to collectively blow chewing-gum bubbles, which would set a Guinness World Record. Given how solicitous Guinness is of video game companies…
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The Official Guild Wars 2 Mouse and Headset are Freaking Adorable
Guild Wars 2 launches in the wee hours of the morning tomorrow, and I am almost completely prepared. I’ve got my collector’s edition. I’ve got my caffeine. I’ve got SteelSeries’ gorgeous mouse and headset combo. Let me tell you about those last two before performing an emergency formatting of my hard drive and then attempt…
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President Obama Isn’t In Madden‘s Championship Scene—But He’s Still On For NBA 2K13
One feature I was keen to check on in Madden NFL 13 was its treatment of the Super Bowl postgame. The past two years have included a trip to the virtual White House, complete with an in-game President Obama, for the winning team. That doesn’t happen in Madden 13 The reasons are very understandable. One,…
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UncategorizedMadden NFL 13 Delivers the Ultimate Throwback Look: No Facemasks
Creating my player in Madden NFL 13, I was startled and confused by the new helmet options. There was the Riddell TK, and the Wilson F2000. Neither had a facemask. You could put a modern-day visor on them, in clear plastic, smoke or dark, but still there was nothing standing between Brian Urlacher’s forearm and…
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ReviewsMadden NFL 13: The Kotaku Review
The question is asked every year and yet it seems irrelevant for a franchise with no competition: “Is this the best Madden ever?” It’s a high and a low bar at the same time. Of course it should be the best Madden ever. They had a year to update and improve the last one, after…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Check Out This Week in Gaming Apps Before the Flesh-Hungry Moles Devour Us All
One of our writers has been deathly afraid of moles all of his life. He says one of this week’s Gaming Apps ‘o the Day cured him of that fear. I say no so fast. One does not simply brush aside a fear for Earth’s diamond-clawed tunnel rats. He can find brief solace in Hello…
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Researchers Make a Video Game for Fish, Because Serious Science Can Be Very Silly Sometimes
Somehow it just seems inevitable, really. There have been virtual worlds for mice and iPad games for cats So sure, why not: science has now taken video games to sleep with the fishies. The BBC reports that a team of researchers from Princeton University designed a video game to use to research behavior patterns in…
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UncategorizedEA Sports Gets to Work Putting Assassin’s Creed Canoeing Into Madden
Best Buy got a little too enthusiastic with its promotional copy for Madden NFL 13, promising features such as “slow-motion chain kills,” pickpocketing unsuspecting victims, and a new pursuit system involving a canoe. Truly, this is how you innovate in the sports genre. Yes, obviously, some Best Buy web manager accidentally copypasted a bullet point…
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