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Billion-Dollar Expectations Caused Activision to ‘Abuse’ Guitar Hero, Says Ex-Publisher
The ex-CEO of Guitar Hero’s original publisher, RedOctane, has weighed in on Activision’s decision to close down the franchise, completing the cycle of reaction. Kelly Sumner says the publisher “abused” the franchise and had unrealistic expectations for it. “Not every game can be a billion dollar franchise, but maybe that’s what Activision wants,” said Sumner,…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Find Velocity Girl
An offhand remark in Luke’s look back at the early vision for Xbox Live Marketplace brings us this week’s challenge: Who was Velocity Girl, and what the hell does she look like? “We must get the internet masses to draw a mock-up of Velocity Girl,” said The Sentient Meat. “Sounds like a photoshop challenge to…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is Kotaku’s official open forum. Here you may discuss whatever comes to mind about video games. Well, go ahead, discuss something! I’m waiting! Kidding aside, thanks to reader jungletoad for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
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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 Feb. 14 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. published Feb. 18 – Read more of Nerf…
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UncategorizedSpace Invaders, Played with Kinect
From France comes the latest Kinect mod – fully playable Space Invaders, whose control scheme turns the 1978 Taito classic into an exergaming ordeal. Extend left arm, move left. Extend right arm, move right. OK, but you have to extend both to fire. That means, even if you’re a perfect shot, you’re doing 55 jumping…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest : Give This Guy His Game Winners
My absence last weekend created a bit of a stir. Never fear, we’re here to award the winners of the ‘Shop Contest of Feb. 6, featuring everyone’s favorite Darth Maul impersonator from the Hoosier state, Ricky Lee Kalichun. Since it’s been two weeks, we’ll bring you up to date on the ballad of Ricky Lee.…
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UncategorizedHere’s Doom — Running on a Graphing Calculator
Here, folks, is gaming on the original handheld – a calculator. While you’re still snickering over spelling out BOOBLESS and HELL upside down on yours, some guy’s gone and run Doom – real Doom – on a Texas Instruments Nspire. The admin of the TI calculator enthusiast site (i.e. – gang o’ nerds) Omnimaga got…
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Why the NFL’s Labor Strife Might Be the Best Thing That Happened to Madden
Even if a lockout doesn’t happen – even if the dispute between owners and players is solved tomorrow – the labor unrest in the National Football League will have ramifications reaching well into the future – for video games. This week, EA Sports and the NFL altered the terms of their notorious exclusive arrangement, which…
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Hey, Whatever Happened to Marcus, the PSP Mascot?
A Sony executive recently declared that Marcus Rivers, the smartass ‘tween flack for the PSP who debuted at E3 last year, delivered “positive sales effects,” for the handheld. Near as I can tell, that’s the first anyone’s heard of the little twerp in more than four months. Marcus still anchors the front of Sony’s official…
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Tetris Decorates a Fridge
Reader Edo in Switzerland got a strange compulsion to decorate his refrigerator this weekend. “Not the best Tetris game ever, but a fancier fridge indeed,” he writes. Indeed. Naturally, the green squiggly is where this board went wrong. Oh, well …
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Box Scores: Finns in the Finals
“Sports games are really the best RPGs,” writes reader ACES11, who inserted into the NHL a Finnish Elite League team that hasn’t won squat in 45 years, drafted smartly and played well, and made it to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Montreal. Playing NHL 11’s dynasty mode, ACES11 took Saiman Pallo, of…
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Bulletstorm Once had Campaign Co-Op, but It “Broke Down” the Game
As an irreverent, dick-joking romp filled with guns and bloodshed, Bulletstorm would seem to be a natural for cooperative play in the game’s main campaign. It actually was much less than a perfect fit, said Epic Games’ design boss. A cooperative campaign mode “was in there at one point and it actually worked,” Cliff Bleszinski…
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The Moneysaver: Does Barry Manilow Know You Raid His Wardrobe?
That’s the last time, Bender. That the last time you ever make me look bad in front of those kids, you hear me? I make $31,000 a year and I have a home and I’m not about to throw it all away on some punk like you. Here’s something I didn’t know. Molly Ringwald and…
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The T-Virus Makes for a Charming Specimen
Resident Evil T-Virus charm. “The vial is about 1 and a quarter inches long … filled with my special, homemade, crystal clear goo, which has a few tiny real bubbles suspended in them to give the charm a more futuristic look to it. It has a double helix design embedded inside that almost seems to…
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Bulletstorm’s PC Demo’s on the Way — After it Releases
Bulletstorm got a pre-release demo on the Xbox 360 and PS3. “In other news, PC gamers are grumpy about this,” Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski tweeted last month. Well, Bulletstorm will get a PC demo, but after its release. In other news, PC gamers are probably grumpy about this. Epic’s Mark Rein tweeted that the Bulletstorm…
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