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Nike Stuck a Sonic Minigame in its Strange Web Ad
Yesterday, Nike’s football division—that would be football football, not American football—cranked up “My Time is Now,” which looks like the big campaign it’ll have going during UEFA Euro 2012 in about three weeks. It shows a soccer pitch, the locker room, a team dinner all overrun by ordinary joes. OK, I get all that. What’s…
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The Throne of Games
Fantasy RPG Game of Thrones and fantasy MMO TERA Online already are seeing modest discounts. The upcoming RPG from Capcom, Dragon’s Dogma likewise is getting about $10 off from one retailer. These and another 50 discounts, credits and savings can be found in this week’s Moneysaver below! Software • Game of Thrones (360, PS3) is…
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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, as seen this week. First up is the image above, which is an awesome rendition of Max Payne himself, mid shoot-leaping. I swear, he’s gonna shoot his foot off one of those Bullet Times. Image is by deviantART user PatrickBrown Moving on to our Best Of content this week,…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
So I complained about moving cords through the back of my entertainment center in this post. Then I talked about playing a terrible seven-year-old game on the Xbox in this post. Now tying all of that together is this post, where we all turn out our pockets and tell everyone what we’re playing this weekend.…
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UncategorizedThe Games that Got Me Through the Worst Year of My Life: Playboy: The Mansion
My worst year on earth may well have been 2005. I had gone from a blood-and-guts newspaper writer to headcount hire sitting in a cubicle with nothing to do for weeks on end. I’d once been the coolest guy at the cocktail party, now I was just another stiff with a badge around his neck…
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UncategorizedHitler Recaps the Week in Video Games: Special Diablo III Edition
Godwin’s Law states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” As basically all video game discussion takes place online, let’s just cut to the chase and give der fuehrer’s take on recent topics of interest to gamers. I wanted to rage about Blizzard’s indefensibly…
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I Despise You, Xbox 360 Eject Button
Today I had to move my Xbox 360 console out of the way while I fooled with cables going through the back of my entertainment center. This happens frequently because of how I have to do video capture. As I grabbed the 360 and shifted it, I guess my thumb got within 5 millimeters of…
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UncategorizedHow a Pro Athlete’s Video Game Studio Came To Owe Rhode Island Millions
In a week filled with video-game related drama, one of the main stages has starred 38 Studios. The developer, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is evidently out of money, and can’t repay their loans. Worse, the loan in question was from the state of Rhode Island, potentially leaving taxpayers footing the bill for incomplete MMO…
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UncategorizedLike Any Good Army Training Film, This One for Sniper Elite Features Grotesque Damage to the Testicles
The series “13 Ways to Die” just took up the subject of Sniper Elite v2 and, though we’ve seen exploding testicles and other grisly slow-motion demises already, they weren’t presented in the form of a propaganda film from dubya-dubya-eye-eye, with a jaunty ragtime accompaniment. It’s a cracking good morale booster for our boys over there.…
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UncategorizedWhen a Briton Announces the NBA, the Result is Comedy Genius
When I run my mouth about international soccer, I sound like a complete and total imbecile. When a Brit does the same thing about basketball, it is 100 percent comedy gold. Riffing on the American tendency to force catch phrases into sports commentary, CPU vs. CPU comes up with a bathtub full of lines that…
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UncategorizedNHL‘s Gameplay Upgrades Sound Rather Similar to FIFA‘s
Going on about five years now, EA Sports’ FIFA and NHL series have been reliably acclaimed, strong-selling titles, a remarkable run for a video game genre and publisher so henpecked by hardcore gamer criticism. Both games have smart, motivated, multinational communities that greatly value evangelizing for their sport in North America and appreciate what these…
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