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Club Nintendo Gifts Suck Less Now That You Can Download a Free Game
It happens every July: Club Nintendo announces its loyalty gifts for members who reached gold or platinum status in the past year, and everyone craps all over them. Well, if you don’t want another poster or desk calendar (and I quite enjoy mine, thank you very much) now you may pick a free game from…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Street Fighter X Tekken Puts Its On-Disc DLC on Sale at the End of July
A dozen new fighters in Street Fighter X Tekken will go on sale July 31, Capcom said yesterday at EVO 2012. It’ll cost 1,600 Microsoft Points/$19.99 to unlock them from the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 disc where they reside. Now, those with a PS Vita may still wish to wait, as its version of…
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UncategorizedGame of Thrones‘ Jaime Lannister and Eddard Stark Fight With Lightsabers
YouTube user Joel935M was fooling around with rotoscoping in After Effects and picked a duel from Game of Thrones as a test case. A hundred thousand views later, he’s beset by demands to rotoscope other fight scenes from the show. “Hey, I know this guy (distracted him constantly throughout the making of this video),” says…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Is Paul McCartney Writing Music for Halo‘s Original Studio?
Back in January, Paul McCartney—yes, the former Beatle—said he was working on music for an unnamed video game. It now appears that video game is being made by Bungie, the original studio behind the Halo franchise. McCartney today Tweeted that image above (and posted it to his Facebook page) with the caption: “I’m really excited…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Persona 4 Arena is Region-Locked Because the Dollar is Weak Against the Yen
Many did a double-take when Atlus confirmed Persona 4 Arena is region-locked on the PlayStation 3—that means, only Japanese consoles may play the Japanese version; North American consoles can only play a North American version. It’s the first time since the PS3’s release in 2006 a game has featured complete region-locking. (The Xbox 360 version…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Forward-Looking Deals
The Moneysaver returns this weekend with a long look at things to come—such as PC games releasing in August that can be preordered now at a discount. For the here and now, Best Buy is running a combination sale, and Max Payne 3 is down to $40 on the consoles. Software • Best Buy has…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
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 which, if you’ve gotten to know me virtually since I started here at Kotaku, you’ll know I can’t resist a good Adventure Time reference. You might have seen our Facebook page littered with…
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UncategorizedCan’t Wait For The Dark Knight Rises? This Low Budget Edition Is Out Now.
Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises won’t be out until later this month, but if you’re fiending for an early hit before then, you can try this low-budget film. I think it captures the essence of Batman and the other characters quite well. The heated conversation between Bane and Batman might be the highlight of this…
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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…
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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…
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