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UncategorizedSuck It Wolverine, Here’s the Deadpool Game’s Announcement Trailer
Let’s see: Voices in his head? Crude humor? Breaking the fourth wall? Swearing? High Moon and Activision are sending a very strong message that the Deadpool video game, just announced at San Diego Comic-Con, has everything a fan of the character will want. Really, though, is that Nolan North voicing Deadpool? No launch date was…
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Give ‘Em a Hand: The Winners
OK, we didn’t make it to the full 20 this week. I was prepared for some backlash against the new commenting structure. The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has published weekly for more than 2 1/2 years, weathering another redesign that brought on a lot of the same moaning and groaning we heard last week. Still we…
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UncategorizedSonic Adventure 2 Gets a High-Definition Re-Release This Fall
At San Diego Comic-Con today, Sega abandoned all pretense of a surprise announcement—which is good, because this leaked a month ago—and confirmed that a port of Sonic Adventure 2 would be arriving this fall on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Joystiq points out that the game briefly had a listing on the Xbox Live…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Back a Bad Dudes Sequel?
For nearly a quarter century, this video game has posed the ultimate hypothetical question of one’s manhood: Let’s say, perchance, the head of government of the United States of America is abducted by masked assassins: Do you embody the qualities of a highly motivated, results-driven person who can effect his safe return? If Joe Modzeleski…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Is a Deadpool Game Being Announced Today? My Common Sense is Tingling …
I mean, look, that’s a clock, it’s gonna hit zero at 6 p.m. EDT. The URL is “deadpoolgame.com,” and the background is the titular antihero from the Marvel universe. High Moon Studios, which has handled three Transformers games for Activision, is listed along with the publisher, and Marvel. There’s a Deadpool game coming out sometime…
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Outraged Torchlight Maker Calls Out Blatant Ripoff Sold on—Where Else—iPhone App Store [Update]
Armed Heroes Online, a game released last week to the Canadian iTunes store, is one of the most blatant cases of theft I have ever seen in an iOS app or game, and considering the shitshow of fakes and ripoffs that store is, that’s saying a lot. Nearly every visual asset in this game is…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend Includes Free MLB.tv in the U.S.
It wasn’t as heavily promoted as Free Gold Weekends have been in the past, but Xbox Live’s “Summer of Sports” event means in the United States, every holder of a Silver (free) Xbox Live account enjoys all the perks granted to Gold (paid) subscribers this weekend—online multiplayer, streaming Netflix, everything. Included with the weekend is…
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This Fan-Made Game Might be the Best G.I. Joe Game of All Time
This was completed sometime back in early spring, but only yesterday became known to the public at large: It’s Attack on Cobra Island a fan-made G.I. Joe video game that shows a lot more effort and love than previous check-cashing G.I. Joe adaptations. Attack on Cobra Island‘s first stage is shown above in this 10…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Owen’s Talking About NCAA Football 13 on Sports Radio Right Now
If you live in broadcast range of Dover, N.H.’s WTSN-AM 1270, I’ll be discussing NCAA Football 13 with host Justin McIsaac in this hour. If you don’t live in range of that signal, tune into it through their website. (Just click on Listen Live.) They’re talking baseball as this is published; the NCAA segment should…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
A Summer Struggle for Steam Supremacy
Amazon isn’t taking the Summer Steam Sale without putting up a fight. The retailer is running its own summer digital sale with steep discounts on some recent releases. There are also savings to be had on a preorder of Halo 4 if you act before the end of the weekend. Software • Amazon has a…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Medal of Honor Preorder Said to Offer Beta Access to Battlefield 4
Briefly listed, then quickly replaced, was a billboard on Electronic Arts’ own Origin store saying that a preorder for Medal of Honor: Warfighter included “exclusive Battlefield 4 Beta Access.” It’s not mindblowing that there would be a Battlefield 4—the president of EA Labels, Frank Gibeau, himself referred to Battlefield 4 as far back as November.…
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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. First up is the image above. Imagine you’re an everyday dude, mowing his lawn. How confusing/awesome would these discoveries be? Unfortunately you can’t buy the shirt anymore, but you can still gaze at the pretty image, which was found…
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Holy Crap, Is There a Lot of Stuff in Street Fighter‘s $150 Anniversary Edition—for PS3
The Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set releases on Sept. 18, and both its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions are a deluxe-o package featuring four full Street Fighter games and a slew of other goodies. The PlayStation 3 version, however, packs in four more games (all three Street Fighter Alpha games as PSOne Classics,…
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UncategorizedLadders, Knives, and Kids Really Can Be Pretty Ridiculous in Call of Duty
It’s true: the guy with the knife always has far more power than he should. And a handgun is just as effective as a well-placed sniper rifle, when it needs to be. And then, of course, there are the difficulties posed by that incredibly complex piece of equipment, the ladder. You don’t have to be…
By Kate Cox
