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The Week In Games: Face Off
A lively week of releases kicks off the stretch run of Labor Day through the holidays; EA Sports ships two hockey titles; the first PlayStation Move game arrives and a couple of strong handhelds round out the week’s cattle call. Monday, Sept. 6 Aion: Assault on Balaurea (PC) Photo World DSi (DS) Tuesday, Sept. 7…
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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. •Top 9 Worst Employees in Video Game History [Ranker] In honor of Labor Day, here are nine characters (or classes of them) who were the…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Weekend Circular
Friday at PAX 2010, Capcom rented out a joint in downtown Seattle and turned it into a Dead Rising hardware store. They passed around this bogus ad circular to hype the party. Now we go to work on it. Part of the charm of the Dead Rising series is using everyday items to deadly effect…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 1 PvPonline published Sept. 2 ActionTrip published Aug. 30. Digital Unrest published Aug. 30. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 3. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Sept. 3. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 2 Nerf NOW published Sept. 1 Rooster Teeth published Sept. 4. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 30. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 3. Little Gamers published…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Our #TAYpics Derby winner is MrSnuffles, who has a less cuddly concept of Kinect-enabled pets management. I shudder to think what he envisions for Milo. You too can have your remixed image featured in TAY! Just submit it in the comments and hashtag it #TAYpics. Or simply enjoy the company and conversation of your fellow…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Antiques Gameshow Winners
We took the contest to Antiques Roadshow-land last week and discovered that one man’s trash is another man’s ‘Shop. We had another 700-entry contest, check out the 20 best below! Asked to mind-meld video games with heirloom appraisal, you guys did a damn fine job. 4lk4linetri0 and SonanceSpark supplied the requiste TF2 entries; L3G10N and…
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Conduit 2 Makes Way For GoldenEye
Conduit 2, a game that’s actually been in development for the Wii instead of talking about it, got a reminder of the pecking order for Nintendo shooters when Sega moved it to 2011 to stay out of GoldenEye’s way. Nintendojo reports that Sega and High Voltage Studios confirmed that Conduit 2 will be moved to…
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It’s Got A Gun — You Wanna Say It’s Not A Sports Game?
What is and what isn’t a sport is an endless, often pointless argument, typically involving figure skating, stock car racing, bowling and even ballroom dancing. But what is and what isn’t a sports video game is rarely debated. The settled nature of that discussion – if it is even discussed, really – reflects the position…
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Box Scores: Grillin’ Hot Dogs
Once again, there is nothing more American than taking down some hoon playing America’s Team in Madden online. Especially when you do it on a 4th and goal with no timeouts, instead of kicking a tying field goal. Kotaku reader Ant06 encountered said hoon in a Madden quickmatch and decided to send America’s Other Team,…
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