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Madden Effect: The Winners
A shipping screwup last week sent Madden to Mass Effect 3 customers. We asked you to imagine a mashup of both games, and everyone came through in the clutch against a pretty tough concept. This week sees our first ever roundup with two artists getting two finalist berths apiece, but they didn’t win out overall.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
XCOM: Enemy Unknown‘s PC Version is Getting Extra Special Attention
There is no way Firaxis would build the PC version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown to accommodate the console version’s system of command prompts. “No, no, no. Nooo. Oh man, no,” Jake Solomon, the game’s lead designer told PC Gamer. “I wouldn’t do that to you, are you kidding me? No.” That’s good news for PC…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Ten Disasters Under the Covers of Sports Video Games
This week, the Portland Trail Blazers released Greg Oden after a five-year, injury-tainted marriage that was star-crossed before he could show up for his first training camp. Oden is one of the most ill-fated athletes ever to appear on the cover of a video game, starring on the cover of College Hoops 2K8. It got…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Portal 2 is Best Game, and Battlefield 3 Wins Three at BAFTA Awards
Last night, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts held its awards gala, and Portal 2 took home Best Game as one of three video games to win in multiple categories. Battlefield 3 was honored with best online multiplayer, audio achievement and the public-voted GAME award; Batman: Arkham City was the top action title,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
You Wish You Were This Good At Draw Something
Perusing Draw Something‘s Facebook page, you’ll notice some very impressive drawings from players. Take a look at the gallery for some of my favorites pulled from the submissions on the app’s Facebook page. If you read up on our Gaming Apps of the Day, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Draw Something. Even…
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UncategorizedBit of War, a De-Made God of War, is Now Available—and Free
It took more than five years, but Bit of War, which is God of War reduced to an 8-bit style platformer, is finally out, and it’s available for the low, low price of zilch. Holmade Games, the shop responsible for this, said the project has been going on in some form since 2007, and that…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Mass Effect‘s Producer Promises ‘We’ll Keep Listening’, and New Content that Brings ‘Closure’
Casey Hudson, the executive producer of Mass Effect 3, responded yesterday to the boiling-over outrage of longtime fans of the series disappointed in the game’s conclusion. Hudson’s full statement is free of spoilers, so worry not about that. In short, it sounds like he is promising extensions to the story, through DLC, that offer outcomes…
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UncategorizedIs Super Mario Bros. History’s Greatest Masterpiece of Surrealism?
The surrealism of Super Mario Bros. would seem to be self-evident but, as PBS’ Idea Channel on YouTube says, perhaps it has been around for so long that its non sequiturs are taken for normal. Its wide acceptance (and a catalog of work spanning more than two decades) may make the Super Mario Bros. franchise…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Up-Armored Savings
Three new releases—Armored Core V, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, highlight our weekly roundup of savings, bonuses and values to be found in video gaming. We’ve got them and more than 50 other offers inside! Software • Amazon has 19 Ubisoft PC download games DRM-free in a “Buy 1 for $5,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to another week of The Best of Kotaku. For this week’s best image found on the Internets, we have this Pokémon artwork done by Reddit user Jord-UK It’s my personal hope that I am continuously making you all change your desktop background, so here you go. Or save it for a rainy, “I can’t…
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UncategorizedAfter 13 Years the Original EverQuest Goes Free-to-Play
One of the longest-running subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing games has finally succumbed to the sweet, sweet lure of the microtranscation-based business model, as EverQuest celebrates its 13th anniversary by going free-to-play. I never thought I’d see the day. Over the past few years subscription-based MMOs not called World of Warcraft have doing their best…
By Mike Fahey
