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UncategorizedVideo Games Tell Us Who”ll Win the NBA’s Christmas Tipoff and College Football’s New Years’ Bowls
Pro basketball resumes on Christmas Day; college football will begin staging its major postseason contests eight days later. This has, perhaps unintentionally, engendered competing five-game simulations from 2K Sports and EA Sports, makers of NBA 2K12 and NCAA Football 12. Want to know who wins the big matchups? We’ve got the results predicted by these…
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Madden Picks Up a Top Designer from The Show
Free agent signings are big news in sports video games, not just the leagues they simulate. Today, EA Sports picked up Kolbe Launchbaugh, a senior designer for Sony’s universally acclaimed MLB The Show baseball simulation, and he’ll start work on EA Sports’ cornerstone Madden franchise in a couple of weeks. Launchbaugh himself revealed the news…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Club Nintendo Calendar Invents a New Month
Announced this summer, Club Nintendo’s gifts were customarily dumped on, then turned out to be not that bad. For the platinum level, anyway. Elite level members had to settle for a desk calendar. And one containing a new month, between October and December, named “Nobember.” Whoops. Nintendo has noticed the goof and in an email…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The PS Vita’s Memory Cards Cost Less Than Expected, but Still Essentially Mandatory
The bad news is you still have to buy a new proprietary memory card for your PS Vita. The good news is it won’t cost as much as originally feared. Of course, the better news would be that you didn’t have to buy them at all. Alas, you still do. But the official pricing, included…
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UncategorizedAsuka Leads a Girls’ Fight Out in This Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer
What do you get when you mix Chun-Li and Cammy of Street Fighter with Lili and Asuka of Tekken? I don’t know, some sort of giant woman creature with eight arms and legs? Spider-Woman? Forget it; it was a stupid question. Just watch the video. I’m not really sure what’s up with all of the…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
There’s No Stopping the Epic Call of Duty Lawsuit
Denying request for summary judgment, the Los Angeles Superior Court gave Activision the green light to go to trial with its $400 million contract interference lawsuit against Electronic Arts over Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella. The gist of the lawsuit is this: Activision Publishing alleges that West and Zampella of development…
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It’s the World’s First Gaming Laptop Delay
Originally slated for release before Christmas, Razer’s ambitious Blade gaming laptop has run into supply issues pushing shipping back to mid to late January. Don’t cry, they’re throwing in a free gaming mouse. You can’t cry when there’s a free mouse involved. In a comment posted on Razer’s Facebook page earlier this week, company CEO…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Come Talk About Skyward Sword Before You Get Any New Games!
Welcome to the Kotaku Game Club! Today will be our third meeting to discuss The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword This week, we’re discussing the events from where we left off last week: the end of the Ancient Cistern through the Fire Sanctuary dungeon. As always, the conversation takes place in the comments below the…
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GameStop Says The Last Guardian is Canceled, Sony Says It’s Not [Update]
Customers of the world’s largest dedicated video game retailer were shocked today when an automated phone call went out declaring the cancellation of Team Ico’s eagerly-anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Guardian. Say it isn’t so, Sony! Update: GameStop apologizes for the mistake. While it is true that The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda recently…
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The Bittersweet Triumph of the Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas Tree
Celebrating 20 years of Sega’s blurry blue mascot, this Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas tree from 8BitFix’s Beatboxtaun stands as both a monument to video game culture and a reminder of those who won’t be with us this holiday season. We’ve featured Tanya “Beatboxtaun” Valdez’s creations on Kotaku several times over the past couple of years,…
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