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Lego My Mario
Lego My Mario | A childhood friend of mine fooled around with his wife’s LEGOs and came up with this, working without any notes. (Full size here) Image and LEGO Mario by Richard Tysinger. Watch a WWE Legend Burn Down a Village in Skyrim I believe the famous professional wrestler, given name Randall Mario Poffo,…
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UncategorizedTwo Call of Duty Gamers Ponder the Easiest Kill They’ll Ever Get
[EXT—ROOFTOP—DAY] Two soldiers are wearing ghillie camouflage suits to blend in with the urban setting. Their adversary is frozen in a mysterious forcefield. Ghillie Suit No. 1: “Whut th’ hail you think’s goin’ on?” Ghillie Suit No. 2: “Looks like he’s in one-a-them Force Grips, you know whar the Sith choke you and stuff?” Pending…
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Diablo III Has Not Been Dated for Release, Says Blizzard
Micah Whipple, the Diablo III community manager, says that rumors the game will suddenly release on Feb. 1 are false. “Diablo III does not have a release date, Whipple said via Twitter about an hour ago. “Any store or person claiming otherwise is guessing.” [h/t Dave O.]
By Owen Good - Culture
Zen and the Art of Pinball
The new year is still getting off to a slow start. Highlights this week are entirely downloadable titles, for PS3, Xbox 360 and on the 3DS eShop, where Zen Pinball releases on Thursday. Tuesday • Choplifter HD (PC, PSN) Wednesday • AMY (XBLA) • Choplifter HD (XBLA) Thursday • Zen Pinball 3D (3DS eShop) Sources:…
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Petition for PC Dark Souls Actually has Legs; Will Namco Listen?
“Internet petitions” rank right up there with “zillion dollar Xbox Live DLC” on my list of favorite subjects. We could spend all day writing about them, and they’re still worth the paper they are printed on*. That said, a drive to get Dark Souls ported to the PC has traction, thanks to a Namco Bandai…
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The King of Rock and Roll, in Video Games
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top Five Video Game Elvises [Houston Press] On a cold and gray January mornin’ another video game Elvis is born in the Top 5 (in…
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EA Invokes First Amendment Protection for Video Games in Trademark Dispute with Helicopter Maker
Electronic Arts is asking a federal judge to rule that it has a First Amendment right to depict real-life military helicopters in video games such as Battlefield 3 without the permission of the aircraft’s maker. The action, basically a pre-emptive lawsuit against Textron, the parent company of Bell Helicopter, comes after discussions between the two…
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Minecraft‘s Mobile Version is Getting an Update in February
A free update due to arrive in February will bring Minecraft: Pocket Edition closer to the Survival Mode of the game’s wildly popular PC version, says Daniel Kaplan of Minecraft maker Mojang. Kaplan wrote that the Mojang team plans on submitting an update for its iOS and Android versions on Feb. 8. Once approved, the…
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Bullet Blender
Welcome back to the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got another exploitable that should become an all-star callback in 2012 like the ones we just saw yesterday: The Bullet Bill Blender. Less talky, more ‘Shoppy, so let’s do this, mkay? Source Image: Custom Bullet Bill Blender by Mustard Seed Dreams; image by Bake With a Vengeance.…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
In the morning, in the evening, ain’t we got TAY … We do now, I guess. Welcome back to our call to do something you already do: Talking amongst yourselves. Big thanks to ‘Shop superstar Pan1da7 for today’s TAYpic. We just got a new one of those, so everyone should be eager to ‘shop it…
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Sunday Comics: The Safety Dance
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 Jan. 2.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Jan. 6.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Is Diablo III Coming Out February 1? Best Buy Seems Pretty Sure [Update]
According to an elaborate display that popped up at a Best Buy in Rochester, Minnesota, Blizzard’s eagerly-anticipated third entry in the Diablo series is hitting stores in a little over three weeks. Yikes. Joystiq snagged a photo of the display in question after a Canadian Twitter user noticed it while on a shopping trip to…
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All-Star Finale Winners
Last week we closed out the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest for 2012 with an all-star reunion, tasking our elite contestants with bringing together as many of 2011’s top exploitables as possible. We’ve got 20 all-pros in a gallery inside, plus overall winner Kazaxat, inside! To recap, for New Year’s Eve, I gave the ‘Shop Contest community…
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Please Stop Sending Me Links to Zillion-Dollar Xbox Live DLC
Jan. 1 happened exactly six days ago, and as of then, gun props for Xbox Live avatars were prohibited for sale. Problem is, plenty of people either already bought or acquired those items (by, like a code in a special edition or something) well before that policy went into place. These customers are entitled to…
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Maybe It Isn’t a Sport, But Is Pinball a Sports Video Game?
I’ve tried to be open-minded about what constitutes a sports video game, largely because the genre has so few new titles or competing products in a given year. Pinball FX 2, one of my favorite games of 2011, has struck me as a quasi-sports video game for a while, I just couldn’t really articulate why.…
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The Old Republic‘s First Major Update Adds New Bosses and a Raid
If you rolled a character on Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s public test server, go check out the game under its first major patch. BioWare pushed it out today, and it includes new bosses and mini-raid. “Kaon Under Siege” a level 50 flashpoint—a smaller raid limited to a group of four—has been added to the…
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Price of PSN Game Is Put Up to a Poll, but There’s a Catch
The creepy survival-horror game Amy, about a psychic girl caught up in a zombie-like pandemic, is due for release on Wednesday on Xbox Live, where it will cost 800 Microsoft Points. Alright. It’s due out on Tuesday on PlayStation Network, for a price of $12.99. That means the game is effectively $3 more on the…
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Call of Duty Dominates Xbox Live’s Top 10 Most Played in 2011
The three most recent editions of Call of Duty went one-two-three in the top 20 of Xbox Live’s most-played titles, as measured by unique users connected to the service, reports Major Nelson. The only thing in the top 10 that wasn’t a shooter or sports title was Skyrim, at No. 6. Black Ops was No.…
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UncategorizedWhat the Hell is Sonic Doing in a Car Insurance Ad?
This is appropriate. Every time I’m out speeding around and run into something, I feel like I’ve lost all my rings, too. Apparently Progressive Insurance is starting an ad campaign featuring Sega’s mascot getting a scolding from Flo (cosplayed at DragonCon 2010.) Why exactly, who can tell. If they actually took a look at Sonic’s…
By Owen Good