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Find Retro Atari Classics on the Back of Specially Marked Boxes of General Mills Cereal
It might not be the video game-branded cereal Lisa Foiles craves, but the Atari-classic branded General Mills cereal boxes popping up at Target stores across the country might have you bringing the box back to the breakfast table again. Five different cereals, five different games. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of video game pioneer…
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UncategorizedThe Many Helmeted Faces of Halo‘s Master Chief
The impressive array of Halo toys at the McFarlane Toys booth at the New York Toy Fair features Master Chief. And a bigger Master Chief. And a frozen Master Chief. And Master Chief with a gun. Happily, however, the franchise’s protagonist is not the only figure featured; the display contains a number of incredibly detailed…
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UncategorizedYuna’s Bobbling Bobblehead and Other Square-Enix Toy Wonders
The Square Enix booth at the New York Toy Fair doesn’t just figure the adorable and dramatic RPG figures one might expect. Among the many others, we’ve spied Nathan Drake looking manly, Meryl Silverburgh looking deadly, and Garrus Vakarian looking, frankly, badass. [music by Anitek]
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UncategorizedHow to Justify Putting a Video of Your Babies on a Major Gaming Website
While it may seem like a video of me singing to my two children as they bounce along to a song Will.I.Am did for Sesame Street a few years back, this is a video about SoulCalibur V Or possibly frog butt. As the proud father of twin eight-month-old boys, I am constantly looking for ways…
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UncategorizedTen Nine Games That Never Get Included in Top Ten Lists
Since the dawn of gaming there have been top ten lists. Lists of the best games; lists of the worst games; lists of the sexiest, most offensive, most family friendly, most humorous; there are top ten lists for nearly every game under the sun. And then there are the games that lurk where the sun…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Geekiest Role-Playing Game of Them All
The might warriors circle each other warily, keen eyes searching for the slightest chink in their foe’s armor. The tightness of an overtaxed muscle. The telltale twitching of an over-eager sword arm. An over-reliance on purple gems. We’ve a great fondness for the work of video game humor site Dorkly here at Kotaku. I’ve featured…
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UncategorizedGreat Moments in Video Game Humor: Let’s Make Out!
You want to know how Tim Schafer and Double Fine managed to generate more than a million dollars in Kickstarter cash? Look no further than this hilarious exchange from twisted platforming classic Psychonauts. Sometimes you just gotta make out. Expect to see plenty of Schafer and friends in our weekly Great Moments in Gaming Humor…
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Sonic the Hedgehog as You’ve Never Wanted to See Him Before
Welcome to the first weekly installment of Freaky Fan Art, an exploration of the peculiar, bizarre, and downright peculiar places gamers’ imaginations take them after the end credits roll. This week, Sonic the Hedgehog gets stuck in the toilet, cuddles the prince of the beasts, and finally grows a pair. Of breasts. Why do fan…
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Find Out Today if Zynga’s New Game Is Actually a Tiny Tower Rip-Off
Zynga’s controversial new mobile game, Dream Heights, is now available for iOS devices. The tower sim gained notoriety well before launch as back in January, the announcement of Dream Heights kicked off another round of the “cloning vs. inspiration” discussion that seems endemic to the social and mobile development space. Zynga faced accusations of blatantly…
By Kate Cox
