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A Virtual Season Ends with Plenty of Unfinished Business
Looking back on the list of video games I finished in 2011, it’s an embarrassingly thin roster. It may be my least productive year ever, in terms of what I finished, what I was expected to play, and what I spent most of my time doing. It’s not a resume that really speaks of a…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
This Is the Last Time You Will Talk Amongst Yourselves in 2011
Today’s the last day of 2011, which means it’s the last day of the month and the last day you will see that goddamn righteous chicken in our TAYpic. I’ll be sad to see him go. Many thanks to SkyWizard: The True Creator for the final TAYpic of 2011. As the evening winds down, feel…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics: Friendship is Modding
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 Dec. 26.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 29.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Epic Mickey 2 Rumors Now Peg It for Fall 2012 Release
An online newsletter from Disney has again confirmed long-circulating rumors about Epic Mickey 2, and says the game will release on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii in Fall 2012, reports the site StitchKingdom.com. The original Epic Mickey, released in 2010, was a Wii-only title. Epic Mickey 2 will feature cooperative multiplayer play, according to the…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
Smash Mountain. Ricky Lee Kalichun. Mr. Shady Shades. A power adapter that looks like Mr. T. And so many more. It was an epic year for the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, thanks to your creativity and drive. Our 50 contests this year featured tons of callbacks to earlier hits, and so now we’re going to bring…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Most Pirated PC, Xbox 360 and Wii Games of 2011
This week, TorrentFreak reported on the 50 most searched terms on torrent sites, giving indications as to what may have been the most pirated things of 2011. Not a single video game title was among them. Well, now TorrentFreak has listed its top 5 most pirated games of the year, across three platforms. PC, Wii…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Politics of Just Dance: Winners
As we mentioned earlier, some things are getting moved around and pushed up to today because of the holiday weekend. So let’s go ahead and get in the last ‘Shop Contest roundup of 2011. It’s the story of President Obama and a man he met recently at the Best Buy. A man who looks like…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Endurance Run Fails a Third Time in Q*Bert Record Bid
If George Leutz hasn’t gone completely Ahab already, I’d advise him to let go of the Q*Bert world record. His latest assault on the mark, whose 33 million score is believed to require more than 70 hours of nonstop gameplay, ended in exhaustion after 57 hours, 40 minutes on a single quarter at the joystick.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Big Game Makers Take Names Off SOPA Support
The Stop Online Piracy Act, currently a bill before the Congress, is utterly detested by the Internet, in case you don’t read the Internet. Gamers don’t think much of it either, as it would have some rather stupid ramifications for how they enjoy that lifestyle and consume its products. So it’s of note that Nintendo,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Ring in the New
Tomorrow brings the new year, in all of its promise. One of those promises is new games. The final Moneysaver of 2011 has more than 60 deals on this year’s crop of games, and a couple for next year’s. too. Check them out! Software • Jan. 31 release Final Fantasy XIII-2 (360, PS3) is $44.99,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Holiday Programming Note
It’s the New Year’s weekend. While Kotaku does have stories and posts planned, we also get the day off. So we’re moving some things around. You’ll see some of our usual Sunday features publishing today instead of then. Happy New Year everyone, and thank you for reading Kotaku.
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UncategorizedA Multiplayer Role-Playing Game You Can Play in Swapnote
Savannah College of Art and Design game design student Ben “MNC Dover” Gray saw more than just a chance to draw dicks with Nintendo’s free Swapnote program for the 3DS. He saw a chance to draw +4 vorpal dicks. What Ben is proposing in this video is a nifty variation of good old play-by-mail Dungeons…
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