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A Force to Recon With
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier arrives this week, giving Dragon’s Dogma a tough act to follow. PlayStation Move title Sorcery also finally arrives on shelves. Today • Mario Tennis Open (3DS) Tuesday • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (PS3, 360) • Dragon’s Dogma (360, PS3) • Sorcery (PS3) • Men in Black: Alien Crisis (360,…
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Drive Yourself Nuts Trying to Guess the “3 to 4” Undiscovered Secrets Still Left in Arkham City
If you thought you had discovered everything in Batman: Arkham City or, if not, it could be found on GameFAQs or in some other corner of the web, well, that’s not so, says the game’s studio. There are still “three or four” secrets in the game that no one has yet found, the game’s director…
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The Shrinking Numbers of the Games That Put Up Video Game Numbers
It drives me nuts every time I hear it. A professional athlete delivers a gobsmacking statistical performance, whether for a single game or a longer span, and a commentator or a columnist inevitably describes him as “putting up video game numbers.” When the Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton unloaded nine home runs and 15 RBI in…
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They’re Just Trademarking the Hell Out of Everything in Skyrim
If you’ve got any Dragonborn T-shirts, bumper stickers or other crap up on Cafe Press or Etsy, now might be the time to hold a clearance sale. ZeniMax Media just submitted a trademark application for that term, joining the recent filing it made for “Fus Ro Dah,” presumably for the same purposes. They’re not screwing…
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Back From Hell: The First Seven Days of Diablo III
Diablo III‘s long-awaited release this week—and its unfortunate launch-day server problems—demonstrated that PC-only titles have not lost the ability to dominate all of video gaming’s conversation. And this was in a week that saw the release of Max Payne 3, another title that fans had been looking to for a very long time. For better…
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Madden NFL 13 will Feature “Tebowing”
This is sure to rankle a ton of axe-grinders, which makes it remarkable the development team for Madden NFL 13 chose to poke this snake. But there will be a “Tebowing” celebration animation in the game this year, according to Mike Young, the game’s creative director. When one Tebows, he drops to a knee and…
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UncategorizedSpider-Man’s in a Rush in his Newest Gameplay Trailer
Not sure how I feel about “web rush” having seen this latest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. I’m sure everyone’s going to call this a quicktime event mechanic, and that sequence where Spidey taps the stooge on the shoulder and then wraps him up does look scripted. But as the game’s executive producer explains, “web…
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Shoppin’ Cats and Dogs
Pancake, the Official Weiner Dog of Borderlands 2, meet Cosplay Cat from Journey. You two look so adorable, we know you’re going to have a great time together in this week’s edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. So, to recap, on Wednesday, thatgamecompany discovered someone in Japan had not only created cat cosplay for Journey,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
The bucket-on-the-head gag from Skyrim helps Pan1da7 steal #taypic honors once again. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Want a piece of the TAYpic action atop this six-day-a-week post? Grab the base image here, provide a funny variation on it, and post it in the #TAYpics thread. Keep your image in a…
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Sunday Comics: A Hell of an Error
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie published May 18.—Read more of Virtual Shackles Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published May 14.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
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Image Suggests Wii U Controller Will Have True Analog Joysticks, Not Nubs
An image published to Twitter, and since taken down, by a QA tester for LEGO developer Traveler’s Tales, depicts a WIi U controller with traditional twin analog joysticks, not analog pads similar to the 3DS’, as had been shown in earlier images of the controller. Games Radar, which first reported the picture, notes that the…
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Are You ‘Shop Enough? The Winners
Time magazine’s ridiculous breast-feeding cover was all the talk last week. On Mother’s Day, Kotaku’s legion of photoshoppers smoothed the last shovelful of dirt on this ridiculously desperate concept. We have 20 smart ‘shoppers inside, plus overall winner DarkStar! Leading off, anzicurt (2) spent a hell of a lot of time on this box shot,…
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Come to Think of It, the Original NFL Blitz Did Have a Dirty-Sounding Playbook
The fine football satirists at Every Day Should Be Saturday caught on to something that eluded me during NFL Blitz‘s launch back in January. Not only are late hits stripped out of the game, the playbook has been toned down considerably. Not in terms of play dynamics—you still have “Da Bomb”, and all sorts of…
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Are the Diablo III Servers Working? Ask This Android App
Though we seem to be through the worst of Diablo III‘s humiliating server outages at launch this week, who knows when those things will need to be worked on again. Logging in to Battle.net and waiting for the credential verification to time out is a long and stupid way of being told you can’t play…
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Starfox–Metroid Team-Up Rumored for Wii U
It reads like fan fiction and the rumor’s original reporter—who uncovered PlayStation All-Stars six months before it was announced—concedes that nothing about it is confirmed. But Retro Studios is said to be working on, or at least to have considered, Star Fox-Metroid Fusion Saga, a mashup of third-person action gameplay with aerial/space combat. Paul Gale…
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UncategorizedWatch R2-D2 Go on a Hilarious Death-Dealing Rampage in Grand Theft Auto IV
This clever Grand Theft Auto mod is pretty funny for the first 1:45 then HOLY SHIT does this little droid turn into an engine of destruction. And if you think that is hilarious, my God, turn off the annotations and wait until 3:43 for one hellacious surprise. Just cover your keyboard, or don’t be drinking…
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Furious 4 Trademark Snafu is Not a Sign It’s Been Canceled, Insists Gearbox
We haven’t heard much out of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, a game announced a year ago at E3, one that is quite a departure from the tone of other games preceding it. That, coupled with the lapsed trademarks surrounding the game, sent out the rumor that the game was canceled. A spokesman for Gearbox…
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Max Payne 2 Download Now Working on Xbox Live
Whatever was bothering the Xbox Live Marketplace download of Max Payne 2, which some purchased to brush up on the series during Max Payne 3‘s release week, the problem is now over. Users report the title now downloads fully, which I just confirmed for myself. If you bought the game and your download froze, go…
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