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UncategorizedPlayStation All Stars Borrows Two Fighters from Street Fighter X Tekken
Billed as a big reveal tonight during the Evolution Championship Series, the next two fighters on the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale roster sound a little familiar. That’s because Heihachi Mishima and Toro Inoue were both in the lineup for Street Fighter X Tekken Still, both have long and noteworthy ties to the Sony brand. Heihachi…
By Owen Good - Reviews
You Don’t Need to Spend $200 on a Custom Xbox 360 Controller, But You Might Want To
Back in May I praised the looks of a custom Xbox 360 controller created especially for Kotaku by the folks at The Controller Shop, and the verdict was nearly unanimous — that’s an ugly controller. Speaking as the man that selected the color scheme, everyone was wrong. But I’m not here to review the gorgeous…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
LEGO Is About The Best Way to Make 8-Bit Video Game Art
LEGO and video games to together perfectly. The blocky, pixel-based aethetic of retro 8-bit gaming is ripe for recreation in squared off blocks. One gamer out there has the time and the LEGOs to make it all happen, and the tumblr for showing it off. Meufer’s recreations range from the iconic to the nearly unknown,…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
Backhanded Box Quotes: Zeroes Aren’t Hard to Find
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. Spec Ops: The Line Released: June 26. Critic: hcookie (Metacritic) • “Incredible storyline. The Apocalypse Now for the next generation.” • “Gameplay is fantastic and a great story. “ • “Do not…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Piling On: Four Hundred Games I’ll Never Finish, and Counting
Tuesday afternoon I got the Internet connected in my new home. From Wednesday morning until Thursday afternoon, my PlayStation 3 was downloading every free title due to me as a PlayStation Plus subscriber. Since I moved, that console has literally spent more time acquiring games than I will likely spend playing them, or any game…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
This $1,238,099.99 Video Game Auction Boggles the Mind [Update]
For a minimum bid starting at a more than a million dollars, a collector is offering his entire catalog of video games for Nintendo home systems from the NES/Famicom through the GameCube, plus the full lineup of every game released on any Sega system—all of it in the box with original instructions. Easily numbering more…
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CultureTreat Yourself to a 1990s NBA Jam Session While We Await Word of 2K’s Major Announcement
2K Sports has told us to keep on the lookout for a huge announcement—biggest ever in the label’s history—and so far we haven’t heard anything. The reveal of details for the “Dynasty Edition” of NBA 2K13 was not it—that much was confirmed by a 2K Sports representative to me, earlier this week. Whatever they have…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Trollin’ Up the Score in NCAA Football‘s New Heisman Mode
Hand it to EA Sports, its marketing of the “Heisman Challenge” mode of NCAA Football knows exactly what you’ll do with it. Given the means to put an all time great on any college team, you’re more apt to pervert history than recreate it. Ads have shown Eddie George in Michigan’s winged helmet, Robert Griffin…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The 120 Stars of Super Mario 64
deviantART artist kitsovereign created an awesome montage of the 120 stars of Super Mario 64. Meaning each star mission, represented visually here. After making its rounds on the Internet, this Reddit user decided to partition and categorize them by mission. For ultimate nerdiness. And factiness. Check them out down below. Don’t forget to expand both…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
A Very Special Fourth of July Week in Gaming Apps
There are many ways to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Some people host massive cookouts. Some shoot off fireworks. Others still throw parades. Here at Kotaku, we celebrate by limiting our daily gaming app spotlight to only four amazing games. Some might tell you this is because we were…
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Another Week, Another Comment of the Week
Hello Kotaku! Welcome to judgment day. Where you are the judges. And I guess I’m kind of a judge, too. Please post your Comment of the Week submissions down below, with a link to said comment. Vote ’em up if your favorite is already there. And when your brain starts angling towards “I said something…
By Tina Amini
