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The Week in Evil DLC
Downloadable content. Everyone hates it—but everyone buys it. Yes, even you in the comments, smart guy. Here’s a look at the latest package of extensions and pre-order bonuses designed to crowbar the last dollar out of your wallet. Can you still respect yourself if you buy it? Street Fighter X Tekken: The Dirty Dozen Available:…
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Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘I’d Rather Be Sodomized’
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. This week, Backhanded Box Quotes could have given over the entire feature to the fanboy backlash against Mass Effect 3. There are many day-one complaints against the space-opera RPG below, and also…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Blizzard Tables Diablo III PVP in Favor of a Timely Release
In its continuing quest to release Diablo III sometime before the rabid fanbase burns the building down, Blizzard has decided to drop the game’s player-versus-player arena combat feature for release, adding it into the game via patch at a later date. Diablo III maestro Jay Wilson made the announcement earlier today via the Diablo III…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Biff Tannen’s Special Tournament Edition Gives You All the Conference Champions Right Now!
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
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ReviewsMLB 12: The Show: The Kotaku Review
When you have done so much right for so long, to the point that very little needs to be changed, the paradox of your success is that what you offer risks becoming stale. For years, MLB The Show has been one of the most universally acclaimed video games, regardless of genre, and its improvements—while observable—sometimes…
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One of the Worst Features of Mass Effect 3 Is in this Week in Gaming Apps
It’s Mass Effect 3 week, and BioWare’s latest is so powerful and compelling it even made it into a Gaming App of the Day post—and a fairly negative one at that. Oh well, at least we’ve got Snake Mass Effect 3 tie-in Infiltrator did not make a good impression on Evan Narcisse, so much so…
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Console Companies Continue to Keep Inspectors Out of Factories
We’ve written many times before about the working conditions at Foxconn and other Chinese plants at which nearly all of the electronics used for gaming are manufactured. The short version is, its not great. Factory workers manage extraordinary hours for very little pay, living in cramped conditions. Following a spate of suicides in 2010 and…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
You may have noticed that we’ve stopped running out daily notes. And you also may have noticed last week’s “The Best of Kotaku, This Week” feature. Well, this is going to be a regular thing. Part of this thing includes nominating a Best Comment of the Week. That’s you guys. We want to highlight the…
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Barbara-Freaking-Gordon Proves How Clever She is in this Batgirl #7 Preview
Back in action years after being crippled by the Joker, Batgirl’s biggest problem in DC Comics’ New 52 reboot seems to be all the men in her life worried about her getting hurt again. Batwoman doesn’t have to deal with this crap. After a tense confrontation with Batman in issue #6, writer Gail Simone explores…
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UncategorizedShepard Makes A Last Stand Against The Infamous Mass Effect 3 Reporter [Minor Spoilers]
If you’ve played any of BioWare’s Mass Effect titles, you might have come across Kalisah Bint Sinan Al-Jilani, a reporter that you meet on the Citadel. She’s abrasive, though masked by her cool and collected reporter skills. Of course, Shepard has his/her own way of dealing with the conflict. Kirk was hoping that the reporter…
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Former LulzSec Leader a Troublemaker Both Offline and Online
It’s now a well-worn adage that online, each of us can be anyone. You recognize an individual by their typed words and actions. It’s possible to get to know someone very personally indeed, and yet know virtually nothing about their daily lives. Where do they work? What city do they live in? How do they…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Wario and Waluigi Paint Their 8-Bit World, And Then Dance Around It
Graffiti artists Edertron Onerski and Kid NES have teamed up to present this awesome mural. But for the sake of hilarity and a little bit of fun, they danced around in Wario and Waluigi costumes while painting it. Even Gumby makes an appearance to spin tracks for the painting/dancing party. The mural was made as…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
NFL Kicker Is Up, and It’s Good
I figured I had the perfect last name for an NFL placekicker. I’d come in and toe an impossibly long game-winner in the Super Bowl, and the next day, over a picture of me with both arms raised, the banner headline would read “IT’S GOOD.” Of course I am. The truth is that the breed…
By Owen Good
