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Madden Effect
This week, Newegg sent customers copies of Madden NFL 12 instead of Mass Effect 3. Whoops! Hey, they both begin with the letter M and are published by Electronic Arts, right? That gives me an idea … What if this really was the game they were supposed to receive? By that I mean a you-got-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Connor honed his assassin’s skill as an army surgeon, apparently. Good morning, and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments below. If you’ve got a good idea and the skills, take a shot at whipping up a #TAYpic. Post your masterpieces in…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics: Love Means Never …
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. Dueling Analogs by Steve Napierski published March 7.—Read more of Dueling Analogs Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
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Kart-ography: The Winners
A lifelike and life-size Mario Kart was the number one exploitable for the ‘Shop Contest this past week, We’ve got 20 winners inside, plus sciteach’s homage to one of the greatest driving sequences ever filmed. beans4028 blueTunic Brandon0151 Crinjin DarkNemesis25 GiantBoyDetective Gyaruson 2.0 halfbeast IndispensableNobody jersalv1 laxbenderman Nude_Eskimo pan1da7 Pedro Silva razrjab sciteach Snufkin TEL9021…
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The Saints’ Bounties Are Nothing New—to Video Games, Anyway
When something happens in real life sports, my first instinct is to see if I can replicate it in a video game. It’s partly why they exist, after all. But the New Orleans Saints’ infamous “bounty” system, which paid premiums to players who delivered devastating hits, would seem to be beyond the means of a…
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Whatever the Hell ‘Full Contact Bingo’ is, EA’s Trademarked It
Weekends were made for trademark applications, and Electronic Arts went to the trouble of filing to protect “Full Contact Bingo,” reports trademark/domain hawk Fusible. It’s definitely for a video game, per the terms of the application. What form it takes, who knows. Odds are this would be a Facebook game. If it’s a downloadable console…
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‘Stop Thinking You’re a Producer,’ Former Mass Effect Designer Tells Gamers
Christina Norman worked for BioWare on Mass Effect. She’s with Riot Games now. But she must have felt pangs of sympathy when BioWare got raked by gamer complaints about day-one DLC in Mass Effect 3. Because she basically gave them a double-barreled middle finger in a rant at GDC. “There’s no point in releasing DLC…
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Trine 2 Gets Six New Stages in DLC Release This Summer
Frozenbyte, the makers of Trine 2, informed the site XBLA Fans at GDC that the game will be getting six new stages plus other content in downloadable content to arrive this summer. The package will also include a new story and new character skills. Frozenbyte’s Mikael Haveri said fans should expect plenty of puzzles. Additionally,…
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Bethesda Settles Lawsuit with Mojang, Whose Next Game Can Be Called Scrolls
Over Twitter, Mojang founder and Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson said his company and Bethesda Softworks reached a settlement in their trademark dispute over Scrolls, the name Mojang has chosen for its next game. “The settlement is that we give them the trademark, get to keep the name, and won’t make an Elder Scrolls competitor…
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UncategorizedEven if the Audio is Faked, Fat Mega Man’s Street Fighter X Tekken Ending is Just … Bizarre
The guy who uploaded this admits the audio is dubbed over, but he says that it’s the English sound file from the the on-disc DLC of Street Fighter X Tekken This is the ending for Original Box Art Mega Man, who releases (with Pac-Man) for free on Tuesday, and he name-checks two major publishers, including…
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Expansion Plans
StarCraft II‘s next expansion, Heart of the Swarm is available for pre-order—at two different prices—so be sure to pick the one that’s about $20 less while it still lasts. That value, plus discounts on this week’s new releases, and next week’s too, highlight this 60-deal edition of The Moneysaver Software • StarCraft II: Heart of…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Another week survived! It’s particularly momentous because it was the Game Developers Conference all week, during which we brought you the most interesting segments, speeches, panels and news. First up, though, is the picture above which is a mashup of adorable Pokémon characters drawn by Olly Moss. Taken individually, they’re perfect for you phone background.…
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Total Recall Will Return Next Week
Happy Friday everyone! Unfortunately for Total Recall fans, Kirk is out and about at the Game Developers Conference. But Luke will be providing you with old school gaming goodness as soon as Monday. Sit tight! In the meantime, you can browse through past Total Recall articles. Oh, and in case you were wondering, that image…
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The Day the Dorito Shell Tacos Made Kotaku Nauseous
We get a bunch of weird things in the office, especially because we share the editorial space with our sister sites, like Gizmodo for instance. Today, Taco Bell brought Gizmodo a stack of boxes filled with a dozen tacos each. But these aren’t just any tacos. No. These tacos are wrapped in a Dorito chip…
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Can We All Please Ignore Roger Ebert From Now On? Thanks.
Let’s stop giving a shit what Roger Ebert says about video games, and art, OK? We’ve tried like hell to make him into a punching bag, and neither he nor the rest of America gives a crap for the fact we choose to feel so insulted every time he says something about video games. This…
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