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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Everybody had their fill of turkey and shopping? Good, we can all kick back and get back to talking—amongst ourselves, in Kotaku’s official open thread. Discuss anything you like here, so long as it’s about the vidya. Big thanks to Pan1da7 for today’s TAYpic. We had to reach back a week to find one. It…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Culture
Sunday Comics: By Any Other Name
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 21.—Read more of Awkward Zombie 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. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 25.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published November 27, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tanooki Suit Riot Winners
As PETA picked a peck of pickled trouble with Super Mario 3D Land‘s use of the Tanooki Suit, it figured to be a good time to ‘shop up a Tanooki-clad Mario enthusiast who’d rather cosplay than go naked. We’ve got 20 winners inside, including Zigzagoon—who also made ‘Shop Contest history! Leading off, Deadphool (4) had…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is “Morning Wood” Really a Map Name in Modern Warfare 3‘s First DLC?
Grain-of-salt territory here, but rumors have it that Modern Warfare 3‘s first set of premium downloadable content will feature five maps entitled “Morning Wood,” “Concrete,” “Park,” “Italy,” and “Overwatch.” The title of the first, and the fact “Overwatch” was a map in Modern Warfare 2, calls for some healthy skepticism. Modern Prestige has what it…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Sony Working On its Own Smash Bros. Game?
It seems Sony could well be working on its own take on Smash Bros., Nintendo’s beloved first-party fighting game series. Called (or at least code-named) Title Fight, the project, supposedly in development at SuperBot Entertainment, features a range of Sony’s first-party mascosts squaring off against each other in a fighting game. Some of the characters…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Magneto’s Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Suit is Again a Royal Pain for Spain
About six years ago, Marvel needed to give Magneto a uniform befitting a head of state for his appearance in The Pulse: House of M Special. It was, as that image above suggests, a straight copy of the duds King Juan Carlos wears as World’s Most Interesting Man Captain General of the Armies. The royal…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Games for All of Us
With respect and admiration for, if not apologies to, the late Ernie Harwell, here’s something adapted from his famous Induction Day speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Aug. 2, 1981, which itself was adapted from this 1955 essay. Stick Jockey published this last year on Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve updated it for this year,…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lawsuit Dropped with “Jew or Not a Jew” iPhone App’s Removal
If someone was going to sue over an iPhone app called “Jew or Not Jew,” I would have expected it to be an infringement claim coming from Saturday Night Live, or Al Franken, the Minnesota senator who wrote a sketch by that name which aired in 1988 here in the U.S. Instead, it was an…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedEA Sports Delights in Signing Away Pro Evolution Soccer‘s Three-Time Cover Star
Back in January, one of Lionel Messi’s teammates on FC Barcelona let slip that the football superstar greatly enjoyed playing EA Sports’ FIFA series. At the time, he was the three-time cover star of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, from its 2009 to 2011 editions. So it wasn’t much of a surprise, then, when Cristiano Ronaldo…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get a Sneak Peek at Gears of War 3‘s New Multiplayer Characters
RAAM’s Shadow, the second downloadable extension to Gears of War 3, is due to arrive Dec. 13, but its six new multiplayer skins have already been exposed through the game’s character-selection stage. Kotaku reader Jestin snapped shots of the new skins with his phone camera but says he didn’t try to download them out of…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nexon Says Huge MapleStory Breach Did Not Compromise U.S. Players’ Personal Info
The second-largest data breach in South Korea’s history compromised the personal information of more than 13 million subscribers to the Nexon MMO MapleStory, but none of those accounts are held outside of Korea, the publisher said Saturday. A Nexon spokesman told the Yonhap News agency that the game operates separate servers for each country. The…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Black (and Blue) Saturday
If you’ve survived the stampeding, rioting, body-slamming, pepper-spraying madness that marked Black Friday here in the United States, then pick yourself up and dust yourself off, there are 29 more shopping days until Christmas. Prepare for the long march ahead with this weekend’s roundup of the best gaming hardware, software and accessory deals—and get ready…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Want To Read All the Skyrim Books? Like, Right Now?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim doesn’t only boast a vast in-game world. It also has a vast array of in-game books. They might be only a couple pages each, but the total amount of text for you to peruse in Skyrim is mind-boggling. Website Capane loves reading the books in Skyrim, going as far as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Overdose on Plastic Figures, M’Kay?
Starting today, the Tamashii Nation 2011 figure event kicked off in Akihabara. Wrapping up on Nov. 27, the event showcases upcoming plastic figurines. “Tamashii” means “soul” or “spirit” in Japanese, and Namco Bandai’s Tamashii moniker brings that passion to toys and figurines. On display, there were Namco Bandai toy properties like Gundam, Kamen Rider, and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gamers Pepper Sprayed During Black Friday “Competitive Shopping”
Customers shopping for games at the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch, San Fernando Valley got a little more than they bargained for last night when they were blasted with pepper spray amidst scenes of commercial chaos. Here’s the thing, though; the spraying wasn’t done by police or security. It was the result of one crazy woman,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2011 -
Uncategorized“If Hollywood Won’t Make a BioShock Movie…”
The BioShock movie isn’t happening. Blame the special effects, blame the water, blame Hollywood. Whatever. It’s Dead. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bands of eager filmmakers roaming the internet, making fan films and trailers, like the one right up there. Because there are. And what they lack in special effects and money, they make up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ghost Recon Game Skipping PC Because of, you Guessed it, Piracy
There’s a shiny big Ghost Recon game, Future Soldier, coming to consoles. It won’t be coming to PC, though. PC users instead get a free-to-play game called Ghost Recon Online. Why? It’s Ubisoft. Take a guess. “We are giving away most of the content for free because there’s no barrier to entry”, Ubisoft’s Sébastien Arnoult…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Japanese Wii Commercial Is Just Mean to Grandma
New Year’s, the time with extended families come together, is just around the corner in Japan. When grandma and grandpa come over, perhaps the kids want to play videos games, instead of talking to their elderly relatives. Heck, I know I did! The first commercial is not what this post’s title refers to. It’s the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
An Annotated Map of Skyrim Big Enough to Put on Your Wall
To celebrate the launch of a new Skyrim-themed section—and to get you to come check it out—Game Banshee has built a nice-looking annotated map of the northern kingdom. There’s even a version at resolution high enough to be suitable for printing on your wall. There are light spoilers if names and locations are something about…
By Joel Johnson Published November 25, 2011