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Need For Speed Flick Gets a Hot Date
They’re already talking about February 2014 as the release window for Need For Speed the movie, which tells you everything you need to know about this venture, even 18 months away. Movies released in late winter, specifically February, are fucking terrible. Critics expect them to be fucking terrible. Their makers expect them to be fucking…
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UncategorizedWho Needs a Dragon Shout When You Have a Rapping Bard?
There’s nothing quite like a bard in a tavern, strumming his medieval proto-guitar of choice (here a mandolin, there a lute, sometimes a harp) and humming dulcet tones. Then there’s this bard. He’s a little more 21st century than those other minstrels and troubadours. As he says: “You see, I bear some rare amazing information…
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Madden Challenger Closes Up Shop for Good
Once cited as proof—by no less than the boss of EA Sports at the time—that Madden NFL in fact had competition, the free-to-play browser-based sports management game QuickHit NFL is done for good as of the middle of next month. Bought out by Majesco a year ago, the QuickHit operation declined to renew its NFL…
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ReviewsNCAA Football 13: The Kotaku Review
NCAA Football 13 arrives at a particularly nostalgic time in my life. I’ve moved back to my hometown—in a house literally across the street from the five-time state champion high school I graduated. Revered names like Jeff Hayes and Mike Chatham, Harry Jennings and Richard Grissom, and Clarence Edwards (pictured above, somewhat idealized) are flooding…
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Uncategorized60s Robin Is A Hilariously Unsuitable Sidekick For The Dark Knight
The new era of Batman might be a little too…dark for the likes of 60s Robin. 60s Robin is the kind of guy that poses with his hands on either hip. His lines are full of cute puns and childish cuss words. I mean, his outfit doesn’t even match the glossy black of Batman’s. How…
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UncategorizedHoodwink is the Biggest Con Job I’ve Played This Year. And That’s a Good Thing.
Slow jazz? Check. Disheveled office? Check. Intimations that someone will walk through the door at any moment? Check. All the signs of a classic film noir-inspired game are well in play. Except our detective seems awfully young. And grabby. And in fact not detective-like at all. Really, the whole opening of the game is a…
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UncategorizedThis Is What A $30,000 PC Gaming Room Looks Like
I am not what you would call a hardware fetishist. I came to be a PC gamer because when I was a child and, later, a student and early twentysomething, I never had the money for consoles but there was a computer in the house. I came to it from convenience first, and only later…
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