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UncategorizedApril Fools! All of These Announcements Are Fake—but Which Ones are Funny? [Updated AGAIN]
Alright, it may be a Sunday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day, a very special day in video gaming, and many of its companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here! MetaMeta Critic (Paradox Interactive) The developer of of PC…
By Owen Good - Culture
Feel the Force
Kinect Star Wars is the highlight of April Fools’ week, which is traditionally not a big sales holiday. For anything. Xenoblade Chronicles releases in the west on Friday. Tuesday • Fallout 3 and Oblivion Double Pack (PS3, 360) • Kinect Star Wars (360) Wednesday • I Am Alive (PSN) Friday • Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) •…
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Here’s the First Look at a Super Meat Boy Completely Rebuilt for Mobile Devices So ‘It’s Not Shitty’
When Team Meat set out to create a Super Meat Boy version for touchscreen mobile devices, creators Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen vowed they wouldn’t just slap a virtual gamepad on the thing and do some half-assed port of their downloadable hit for PC and Xbox 360. They’ve fleshed out their vision more, and offered…
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UncategorizedThe Silly, and Sentimental, Appeal of Playing Golf as Toddler Tiger Woods
I’ve played video games as 7-foot-centers and hulking first basemen, I’ve probably pitched to or hit against the virtual counterpart of every Hall of Fame ballplayer who has appeared in the last 20 or so years. The idea of playing a sport as someone famous has well lost its novelty in the modern era of…
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Draw Something CEO Backs Down When Notch Calls Out His Uncalled-For Twitter Rage
Shay Pierce made it clear why he turned down steady pay and benefits when Zynga bought his old employer, OMGPOP, the makers of Draw Something. He was concerned that his ownership of a personally developed and published game on the iTunes App store would be a conflict. He chose not to join Zynga with the…
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Lamborghini Bat-‘Shop
What? What. Oh, come on. Like you couldn’t see this one from a mile away. Look, that’s the goddamn Batman, getting pulled over by regular police. Not Gotham’s either. Do they even have jurisdiction? Whatever, I know that we do here in the first Kotaku ‘Shop Contest of April. For those who are neither Batman…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
April Fools. We don’t yet have a new image, we’re still using March’s because kaploy9 barely beat the deadline and submitted the last TAYpic for the month late yesterday. Good morning, and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. However, we need a new TAYpic image, and that is no joke. We’re taking suggestions in the…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 26.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 28.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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TIE Attack: The Winners
Alongside thousands of used cars, Craigslist last week sold this impressive, 1/3rd-scale TIE Fighter. It’s probably doing something boring right now, like sitting in someone’s garage. So Kotaku‘s smart ‘Shoppers stepped in to give it a more exciting epilogue. We’ve got 20 winners inside, including SirNinja! GiantBoyDetective (9), who is, like, a teacher or something,…
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Notch’s Next Game (Really, Trust Us) is ‘Mars Effect‘
A couple weeks back, Markus “Notch” Persson said he wanted to explore the possibility of a space-trading Firefly-inspired sandbox game akin to Firefly. It now appears that was a huge put-on. For April Fools’ Day, Mojang has launched the hoax website Mars Effect “After playing around with names like “Elight”, “Wind Commander”, and “Steve Online”,…
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Assassin’s Creed‘s Newest Hero Shares the Name of a Kentucky Janitorial Supply Company
The American Indian name for the hero of Assassin’s Creed III is “Ratohnhaké:ton.” Somehow, that Anglicizes to “Connor Kenway.” His last name came to light this week, and it’s there on Ubisoft’s official site. So there you go: La’Ahad (Altaïr), Auditore (Ezio) and now … Kenway. Sounds like an appliance to me, though I realize…
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Skyrim Gets Patched—Just Not for the PS3, Yet
PC players of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim got another crash-resolving update, an incremental uptick from patch 1.5. Xbox 360 and, more importantly, PlayStation 3 gamers? They remain stuck at 1.4, a patch now going on two months old, and for the PS3, still subject to a “bad memory situation,” which means a crash. That…
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