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The Next Pokémon Invasion Begins In March
The Japanese have been raving over Pokémon Black and Pokémon White since their release back in September. When will North American fans be playing the latest Pocket Monster sensation? Nintendo nails down a March release date. Were you so excited over the release of an updated pair of Pokémon games that you’ve already imported them…
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UncategorizedAll We Need Now Are The Budweiser Clydesdales
To: Luke From: Owen Re: TK We don’t have clydesdales but, honest, we do drag-race AT-ATs down here. What you missed while you were out: Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make a Move Winners iPhone’s Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Is a Spectacular Action Shooter Marty McFly’s Actor Infuses His Voice With ‘Artificial Nervousness’ The…
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Mega Man Christmas Carol Beats The Dickens Out Of Holiday Boredom
Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner? Mega Man Christmas Carol replaces the robot masters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, plus that poor old bastard Marley. Dr. Light co-stars as an insane Santa Claus running the conspiracy. Mega Man Christmas Carol features no levels, just the boss battles. One question –…
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Dating Sim Will Prevent Your Friends From Stealing Your Virtual Love
Project LovePlus, an upcoming Japanese dating simulation from Konami, will use the Nintendo 3DS’ camera to recognize its main user’s face and make sure the virtual girlfriend in the game doesn’t stray to any of his backstabbin’ friends. Famitsu says that, should someone else pick up Project LovePlus, they’ll encounter the “Boyfriend Lock,” which will…
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The Week In Games: Boxless Day
We close out 2010 with four releases on download services, headlined by the first extension for Dead Rising 2 – or second, if you count Case Zero, which preceded the game. Monday (Dec. 27) Dead Rising 2: Case West (XBLA) – Frank West returns to the Dead Rising story to battle the shambling hordes with…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
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 25 Best Co-Op Games [UGO] Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, World of Warcraft, Double Dragon, Rock Band 3 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make a Move Winners
Sometimes the easiest contest concepts deliver the most complex entries. Such was the case with our Make a Move challenge. Sure, ‘Shopping a controller into someone’s hand is easy, but the base image is where the real genius is found. We narrow the roundup to 20 but when I looked through my candidate pool I…
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Activision CEO Sees Call of Duty as a Form of Social Media
Speaking to CNN earlier this week, Activision’s CEO noted that more people play Black Ops, daily, than watch the late night hosts Leno, Letterman and Fallon, combined. No offense, but that would seem to be an easy goal to beat. No, network television isn’t the yardstick Bobby Kotick uses to measure Call of Duty as…
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Sunday Comics
Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 23 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Dec. 20 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Dec. 20 – Read more of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things Rooster Teeth by Griffon…
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The Moneysaver: You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
Scut Farkus! What a rotten name! We were trapped. There he stood, between us and the alley. Scut Farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes! So, help me, God! Yellow eyes! Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense. Lord help me that’s my favorite line…
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The Next Soulcalibur Is Already Under Development
Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada and the new Soulcalibur director Daishi Odashima confirmed yesterday that the latest offering in the venerable fighting series is under development. That image accompanied a tweet from Odashima saying “SC is back!” on Christmas Eve; Harada followed late last night with “Soul Calibur is back!!” We’ll take that as confirmation. No…
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The Week in Review: What Goes Around Comes Around
With just seven days left on the calendar, we’ll soon begin the retrospectives on 2010, but let’s start first with a week in which the news took no holiday. Totilo kicked things off with two profiles of those who drove the games discussion of in ways you may not have noticed: Greg LoPiccolo, of Harmonix,…
By Owen Good
