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Black Ops PS3 Bundle Coming in Three Weeks
A pair of retail sources informs Kotaku that a Call of Duty: Black Ops PlayStation 3 bundle will be available in North America on May 24. The unit—which features a 160 GB hard drive—lists for $299.99 USD. Kotaku has reached out to representatives of Activision and Sony Computer Entertainment. Any comment will be updated here.
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Which One Is Worse?
At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death: Which is worse? Let’s leave aside the data breach, though it is one of the largest in history, and is the feature of this disaster that…
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Gears of War 3‘s Big Head Mode in Action
Gears of War 3 will offer a novelty big-head mode, and those in the game’s multiplayer beta saw it in action yesterday. In addition to quadrupling the dome size, COG and Locust will speak in higher pitched voices. This should make headshots a lot sillier. Click to view Xbox 360 Games – E3 2011 –…
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Modern Warfare 3 to Get a June Reveal
To no one’s surprise, there will be a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. (C’mon, when Electronic Arts’ CEO is talking tough about Battlefield 3 versus Call of Duty, he doesn’t mean Black Ops.) Official PlayStation Magazine‘s latest edition includes a teaser for the game’s big reveal in next month’s edition. See it here.
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The Zero-Dollar Perfect Game
2K Sports will give you a million bucks if you toss a perfect game, under a set of conditions that read like the terms of a hostage negotiation. So far, no one’s claimed that prize. But Box Scores can verify its first perfect game submission, worth exactly $0 – because it was thrown on MLB…
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Sony Scrubs Personal Data Published by Hackers
Reuters’ Japan bureau reports that hackers uploaded data they’d stolen from Sony servers during the PlayStation breach, but that Sony quickly had the unnamed website removed. The information concerned some 2,500 users and was at least 10 years old. The information was collected during a 2001 sweepstakes campaign and concerned names and partial addresses; no…
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Do You Have Happy Scrappy Hero Pup?
One second, I’m on the phone with the distribution house now. I need one of each of the following – You know, on second thought, let’s just skip the quote this week. (You can watch the scene here. Language NSFW.) Hardware • Any Xbox 360 console sold and shipped by Amazon (4GB, 250GB, or either…
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Gee, Kevin Butler’s Been Awful Quiet Lately
Kevin Butler, the voluble, if fake, PlayStation executive, has nearly 84,000 Twitter followers. His approval rating, if it was measured, would assuredly be sky-high among hardcore gamers. And he has been dead silent since the beginning of the PlayStation Network Outage, now in its third week with no signs of ending. Check his feed: April…
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China Unveils the iSec, Its First Game Console
China is closed off to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s consoles, meaning the first console available for sale in that country – aside from the knockoffs, of course – will be home grown. Today the iSec, renamed from the “eBox” announced last year, was unveiled. Made by a Beijing company that’s funded by Lenovo – China’s…
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The Family That Plays (Online) Together, Stays Together
Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a single member is gaming, it suffers greatly as the gaming becomes a substitute for healthy communication. That sounds like a call any counselor could make, but it’s an important finding in the changing nature of family relationships…
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PAX 2011 Sold Out of Three-Day Passes
Getting into Penny Arcade Expo’s flagship show in Seattle, on Labor Day weekend, is notoriously difficult if you trek up there without a pass. The three-day variety for PAX 2011 is now officially sold out, according to the expo’s official Twitter feed. They’ve been processing some refunds, freeing up stock incrementally, so there’s an off…
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UncategorizedCan You Spot This Guy’s Tell Playing Online Poker with Kinect?
If you can’t spot the sucker in the first 30 seconds of this video, then you are the sucker. In seriousness, Poker Listings’ “Positively Nerd Street” has cooked up online poker controls for Rock Band peripherals, so it was a matter of time before they did something like this. This is not proof of concept.…
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How Large is L.A. Noire‘s Map?
One of Mafia II‘s drawbacks was the extremely long driving times often required by a map that spread mission points very far apart. L.A. Noire will be twice the size – eight square miles to Empire Bay’s four – and will require 30 minutes to traverse by car. So let’s hope they place the mission…
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