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UncategorizedThe 3DS, Spörtsnarök, and the Instant Ham Sandwich
A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. It’d also indict me for making this. The Nintendo 3DS’ Time is Now The 3DS isn’t just another Nintendo portable. It’s the successor to the Nintendo DS, one of the most successful gaming machines ever. A big act to follow. Next month the 3DS will go on…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Fight of Your Life
EA Sports’ raging bull crashes into shelves on Tuesday, with an M-rated look at the sweet – and brutal – science. Monday (Feb. 28) Bit.Trip Flux (WiiWare) Tuesday (March 1) Fight Night Champion (Xbox 360, PS3) – EA Sports’ storied fight franchise brings 50 boxing greats and an all-new, gritty narrative, “Champion Mode,” in which…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Top 5 of 10: Easter Eggs and Presidents’ Day
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Top 10 Video Game Easter Eggs [Perez Start] Easter is more than a month off – it’s April 24 this year (I had to…
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UncategorizedIt’s Not Overdoing It Unless Freddie Wong Overdoes It
Can you really overdo these things, though? Raining guns, spawning cars, banishing planets, master moviemaker Freddie Wong – behind such videos as Real Life Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger, rocket jumping, aimbots, the Portal Gun and others – shows everybody it may be our world, but he’s just rendering in it. [thanks a.sievewright]
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Nikkei Says Japan Retailers Sell Out Their First 3DS Shipments
Some 400,000 units of the new Nintendo 3DS sold on Saturday, reports Nikkei, veritably selling out the first shipment and requiring reinforcements on Sunday. Long lines for the device were a common sight on debut day. Andriasang, which noticed the Nikkei report, noted that stores in Tokyo’s famed Akihabara district, didn’t disclose they had units…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Another Use for the Konami Code
Some who have wrangled with Netflix customer support are aware of this, but it isn’t widely known. When it came time to give the movie service’s PS3 application a bailout menu to de-list the device from an account, they used the Konami Code. A modified version, that is, as there’s no B or A on…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Source of the Call of Duty Hoax is Revealed [Update]
The source of the stir created by a Modern Warfare-themed countdown site – believed to be announcing another sequel, or a competitor’s – has been traced to a Canadian troupe set to debut a Modern Warfare film next week. Geoff Keighley of GTTV reports that “We Can Pretend,” a Toronto-based artist’s collective, is behind both…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: 3DS Warnings
The Nintendo 3DS arrived in Japan Saturday, bringing with it a couple dozen hee-larious safety warnings, in the kind of universal visual esperanto-for-illiterates that you see on airplane safety cards. If this isn’t the most exploitable batch of drawings we’ve ever offered, we should just stop having ‘Shop Contests. Browse that gallery for one you…
By Owen Good - Culture
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 Feb. 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Feb. 25 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku Shop ‘Contest: Few Winners, One Loser
Well, that sucked. I’m not going to bullshit you – I picked a bad ‘Shop Contest topic. When you go from 900 comments to 300 in a week, that’s a pretty fair judge of the subject’s merit, and I failed. I probably should have just told you to exploit the image of J Allard, sitting…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Rockstar’s Nutball Domain Names Can Only Mean Grand Theft Auto V
From Weasel News to Maibatsu, Tw@ to Logger Beer and, of course, the Degenetron, Grand Theft Auto’s games are well known for delivering a pitch-perfect satire of the times in which they are set. The registration of five zany Web site names by Take-Two can only be for a Grand Theft Auto game, and they…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Scare Yourself to Sleep with this Dead Space Night Light
Dead Space 2 Isaac Clarke Lamp, by DeviantArt’s TeamLando. Sculpted for a contest and a friend, says the Lando bros. “Nothing fancy, just super sculpey, acrylic paint and LED-shoelaces, with 70 hours worth of batteries in the back,” say the creators.
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