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UncategorizedSOG Teams Up With Medal of Honor to Create Bad Ass Blades for Charity
SOG makes knives, Danger Close makes video games featuring men who use knives. Seems like a perfect fit, no? SOG’s latest line is both inspired by and featured in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. It features a knife, multitool and a tomahawk designed specifically for the game – the Voodoo Hawk. All proceeds from sales of…
By Dave Oshry - Uncategorized
Brotaku West Starts Now!
Just kidding. Well, kinda. Dave Oshry here. You may remember me from when I filled in for Owen back in January or you may have seen me hanging around the likes of VG24/7, PC Gamer, Gameranx or my old homestead, RipTen. Perhaps you know me from Twitter? Or maybe you have absolutely no idea who…
By Dave Oshry - 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 was drawn just a few hours after the Pyro trailer was released. You can find more of Kovah’s work over on the dedicated deviantART page Moving on to our Best Of content…
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UncategorizedWarning: Dating A Jedi Might Lead To Him Force Choking Your Teddy Bear
Note: the language here is a bit NSFW, so proceed with caution. Personally I think dating a Jedi would be pretty damn cool. I’d tell my Jedi boyfriend to play pranks on people all day. But we’re through if he ever force chokes a teddy bear. There are some lines people just should not cross.…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
This Collection of Mass Effect Prints Makes For Fancy Wallpaper
I’m always on the hunt for awesome new desktop and/or phone wallpaper (until recently when I settled on forever having it be of my cat). And I imagine you all find yourselves in a similar position, too. If you fit that description and are also a Mass Effect fan, I believe I have some wallpaper…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
No DLC Can Ever ‘Nerf’ This Awesome Mass Effect Nerf Gun
This won’t help you take out Reapers. And it’s probably not such a good choice against Cerberus, either. At least, not if you want them to stay dead after you shoot them. Because this? Is the best Nerf gun ever. It’s Commander Shepard’s favorite Nerf gun on the Citadel. It’s a Nerf gun painstakingly handmade…
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The Last Thing I Want to Do is Push This Button
This week Zynga released its The Sims Social clone The Ville on Facebook. This morning I started up the game with the intention of doing some quick impressions. I logged into Facebook, got to the character creation screen… …and I sat there for nearly ten minutes, my mouse hovering over “Save and Exit”. I could…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Here’s How You Can Play Roger Ebert’s Favorite Video Game
A few days back, I posted a video essay asserting the merits of an obscure adventure game called Cosmology of Kyoto, a game that film critic Roger Ebert reviewed for Wired in 1994. See, the old Mac version is busted, and even the Windows version can be a pain to get to run, mainly because…
By Chris Person - Uncategorized
The Most Magical Gathering of Gaming Apps Ever Assembled
After years of smaller collectible card game publishers porting their decks to iOS and Android devices, enjoying a relatively Wizard-free reign, Magic: The Gathering swoops in and plucks mobile victory from their hands. On the bright side, we’ve got a game called Velocirapture. Velocirapture! I’m taking a few days off early next week to spend…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
That’s a Mighty Big Box for a Mighty Small Memory Card
Video games and the consoles we play them on may use a significant amount of materials. But even when going digital, it seems we can’t get away from the waste. Reddit user firstmarker ordered a PS Vita memory card. The Vita is a handheld. Memory cards for it are not large. And little tiny memory…
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