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Owen’s Good Walk Spoiled is Tomorrow at 2
If you want to see me get smoked over the first nine of Augusta National, I’ll be facing EA Sports’ Justin Patel in a mini tournament being streamed live tomorrow at 2 p.m. EDT. Justin and I will be playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters and discussing the game. You can watch live…
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PAX’s Creed
Everyone did so well ‘shoppin’ up that Gameface of Blizzard’s founders at the NASDAQ that we’ve decided to stick with the theme of mostly weird people playing video games. This is supposed to be Altaïr Ezio playing Killzone 3 at PAX East, but it really looks like the Shmoo if he was an NFL defensive…
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Triforce Johnson Was First in Line After All
Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson, the Power Glove-wearing superfan whose attempts to start the 3DS launch line as early as Tuesday were thwarted by zealous security and suspicious cops, was in fact the first person in North America to be sold a Nintendo 3DS. Here he is receiving it at Best Buy’s 3DS launch event in Union…
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Sunday Comics
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 March 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 21 – Read more of Nerf…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Blizzard Hits the Street Winners
Blizzard’s cofounders paid a visit to Wall Street earlier this month, providing us with a very exploitable image for the latest ‘shop contest. See who really runs the U.S. financial system in our gallery of 20! We had a number of particularly strong entries this week. At least 20, by my count. Matching Frank and…
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Metacritic Now Rating Humans
Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they’ve worked on. For an industry obsessed with applying arbitrary numbers to the subjective appraisal…
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Ten Days of Grace Brings Golf’s Church to the Masses
Most golf fans, if they’re lucky, will get to spend four days in early April at the venerated Augusta National Golf Course, scene of The Masters Tournament. Shannon Yates was on the course, sunup to sundown, for 10 straight library-quiet days, coming to understand it in ways even a professional golfer never will. “There were…
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UncategorizedWhat If Michael Bay Directed an Angry Birds Movie?
When Rooster Teeth swivels its main guns onto a particular topic, you can count on that sucker being blasted off the map. And here is a comprehensively excellent faux trailer that reframes Angry Birds as an action drama about secret wars fought with advanced technology. Or a slingshot and birds. It’s got the mandatory Wilhelm…
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What 3DS Games Are You Buying Tomorrow?
There are 16 games available when the Nintendo 3DS launches in North America tomorrow. Now, the 3DS itself does come with a lot of fun stuff in the box – augmented reality games, 3D video, etc. But this is a games console. Games are sold separately. Which ones do you plan on buying? We’d like…
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These Are the Least Favorite Pokémon
With the fifth generation of Pokémon monsters introduced (in North America) earlier this month, the bestiary is up to nearly 650. That’s a lot of Pokémon, and it figures not every one of them is recognized as much as, say, Charmander, Snivy, Pikachu and, yes, Mudkip. A series of five surveys, four with extremely large…
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From Garbage Time to Prime Time
When the Chicago Bulls’ Brian Scalabrine checks into a game, the contest is over. It was over long before he entered it, too. The definition of a trash-time mop-up sub, Scalabrine has appeared in 18 of the Bulls’ 71 games this year, averaging four minutes. Reader ultimateado decided to see if he could make Scalabrine…
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One More Delay for Duke Nukem Forever Isn’t Really a Trick, Swear
When they heard the news Duke Nukem Forever would be delayed until June, many folks thought what I did, frankly: Maybe Gearbox and 2K Games planned all along for a June release, but gave it a May date so the game, 14 years in development, would get one last round of “Duke is Delayed” buzz…
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Do You Know Where the Menudo Concert Is?
This block is being designated a Neighborhood Watch Area. There’s a guy up here named Snake. He’s wearing garage-sale clothes and the top of his head looks like a parakeet. He also has $50,000 in small bills in a briefcase. As his neighbors, it is your responsibility to make sure there are no suspicious characters…
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UncategorizedThe Art That Takes a Bazooka to Bullshit Art
Jeff Koons, if you know anything about modern art (you don’t? Doesn’t everyone?) is quite the polarizing figure. His specialty is the grandiose reproduction of a kitschy object – balloon animals, for example. He’s sold one such piece for $25 million. That pisses off people, some so much they want blow up his work with…
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The Drill Plus is a Little Bit of Fun
The premise of The Drill Plus, a top down, uh, drill-em-up, is your scrawny hero transforms into a drill in times of need, in this case, an invasion of monsters who look like they came from a Frankenberry commercial. This is like Beck lyrics. Actual words strung together in a grammatically correct fashion that make…
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