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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 8. PvPonline published Sept. 7. ActionTrip published Sept. 6. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 7. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 7. Nerf NOW published Sept. 6. Rooster Teeth published Sept. 7. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 8. Little Gamers published Sept. 6.
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Ah, if only animals could talk. resonance462, this weekend’s winner in the #taypics derby at least reads their minds. Keep those funny captions coming, gang. And, oh yeah, talk about games. You heard me, talk! Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Weekend Circular Winners
Labor Day weekend is a traditional blowout-sale holiday, and Capcom’s chuckalicious “Greene’s Hardware” party at PAX 2010 provided the fuel for our latest call for entries. Here are your winners! Leading off, Bouzi smooched some buttcheek with his Kotaku Shop ‘shop, genuflecting to Crecente’s hair, McWhertor’s shirt biz, and my appearance in Glamour. Let me…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Survey Says 17 Percent Of Facebook Gamers Call Themselves ‘Addicted’
A marketing research firm found that 17 percent of social gamers – Farmville, Mafia Wars and the like – consider themselves “addicted,” though it’s not clear if they say that regretfully or as a lighthearted self-description. Anyway, when the likes of Lightspeed Research (a global firm) delves into the latest it-topic in social media and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
PlayStation Move Takes Another Poke At Kinect
Earlier this week, Kevin Butler, Sony’s (fake) V.P. o’snark, took a dig at Kinect in the latest TV commercial for PlayStation Move. Now there’s an entire site up implying that buttons in motion control result in games that “don’t suck.” Yaybuttons.com drives home the point by making you click a button 48 times to get…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Donkey Kong Columbia Prank Called Off
That student who was scheming to turn the student center at Columbia University into the girder level of Donkey Kong ended up like the dog who caught the car. The scheme’s been called off, and all donations have been refunded. Well, they were never collected in the first place. The site where he was organizing…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
A Game Harder Than Its Hardcore Fans
A friend visiting me recently is a lifelong NHL fan with season tickets to the San Jose Sharks. He doesn’t play video games, but he was intrigued when he saw NHL 11 on my desk, a couple days before release. “Oh, wow, you got this?” he said. “What’s that like? Can I play it?” “Sure,”…
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Stolen Console Leads Cops To Meth Surprise
A Florida woman swiped and pawned her roommate’s console, and when the cops came over to ask questions, they noticed a “large white chemical cloud” wafting out of the house. Better living through chemistry! Today’s fun-filled crime report comes from St. Johns County, Fla. (the greater Jacksonville area). Cops say a 36-year-old woman sneaked into…
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UncategorizedThe Haunting Of A Majora’s Mask Cartridge
So there was this guy, and he bought a Majora’s Mask cartridge from a creepy old guy, and it had wicked scary glitches in it, like Link would burst into flame while the Song of Healing played backward, and … Someone posting to 4chan’s /x/ board (its paranormal forum) has concocted a whale of creepy…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Box Scores: Role Reversals
Dennis Dixon is Pittsburgh’s starting quarterback tomorrow while Ben Roethlisberger begins serving a four-game suspension. What if neither of them were under center? What if it was the punter? Kotaku reader TheBobby is a pretty strong Madden player. Not a Steeler fan, per se, he decided to test how good the Steelers would be sans…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
All 50 Playboy Centerfolds Of Mafia II
Mafia II’s got some issues, but give the devil its due, it’s got some nudity in it. Hot Blooded Gaming, to my knowledge, is the first to round up and gallerize all 50 of its collectible Playboy centerfolds. A collection guide on GameFAQs has been complete since Sept. 2 and lists where you can find…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Moneysaver: Negative Ghost Rider, The Deals Are Full
Son, your ego is writing coupons your body can’t cash. You’ve been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral’s daughter! Hardware • Playstation Move Starter Bundle (controller, camera, Sports Champions game) is $94.99 from Buy.com through Sunday.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Week In Review: So Long, Summer
A short, quiet week bridged PAX and the traditional end of summer leisure with the run up to Tokyo Game Show and next week’s heavily anticipated release of Halo: Reach. Kotaku’s PAX 2010 Coverage K Monthly – August 2010 Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories New Xbox 360 Bundle Includes Kinect, 250GB Hard Drive Columns Well…
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Mammoth Madden Roster Update Now Live
More than 500 player movements and changes comprise Madden NFL 11’s final pre-season roster update, which is now live for both Xbox 360 and PS3. The moves account for a lively NFL training camp period. In addition to the usual trades and releases (232 cut), the game added 165 players to its overall roster. The…
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UncategorizedEven Emirati Can’t Resist Kinect And Lady Gaga
Kotaku reader Anas in Dubai was surprised to find a Kinect display at his local GeeKay Games, and even more surprised to see an Emirati getting down and funky to a little Lady Gaga. If you’re worried about looking silly while playing Dance Central on your Xbox 360, then you probably shouldn’t do it in…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Researchers Teach Robots To Be Decepticons
Robots will soon be weaving tangled webs as researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology grant robots the power to deceive, which sounds like a perfectly good idea to me. People tend to get angry when I casually mention the theoretical robot apocalypse, so I generally avoid the subject. Realistically, robots are simply machines, limited…
By Mike Fahey