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Six More Screens Illustrate DC Universe Online
Of six new screens pumped out by DC Universe Online, not much suprise that four involve Batman or characters from his continuity. That’s because preordering the MMO lets you play as the Caped Crusader in a 2-on-2 arena battle.
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UncategorizedMotorized Wii Fit Babymobile — Now With Video
This past week, Gizmodo found a research project that seeks to equip infants, who otherwise can’t crawl, with a motorized baby-booster controlled by a Wii Fit Balance Board. Now there’s video of this contraption in action. The device is part of the Tots on Bots collaborative research project through Ithaca College’s departments of Computer Science,…
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Raider Receiver’s Madden Rating Is Sucking Wind, Too
Last week, Oakland white elephant wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey was revealed to have missed at least four straight practices because of “fatigue.” His Madden NFL 11 rating has suffered accordingly – a 9-point stamina drop in the latest update. Most of the adjustments in the latest update, free for download, range between 2 and 3…
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Would You Really Call This A Screw Job?
To read the common rhetoric, it’s hard to escape a feeling that annualized sports games represent some kind of zero-sum relationship, with either the publisher or the consumer screwing the other side out of something it righteously deserves each year. This sentiment flared up again about a week ago when THQ, publisher of UFC Undisputed,…
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Hit The Campaign Trail With Halo: Reach
Earlier this week, Stephen Totilo spent a day with Halo: Reach‘s singleplayer and brought back loads of impressions and details. But no video. That was for Gametrailers, which made the game’s campaign the centerpiece of its latest episode. We’ve embedded the entire episode because the Halo-specific chapters haven’t been broken out. There’s a bunch of…
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Danes Won’t Get EA Sports MMA Thanks To Energy Drink Ban
Denmark bans energy drinks, I guess because they provide gratuitous amounts of energy or something. What’s that got to do with video games? Well, EA Sports MMA is shot through with energy drink ads. So Denmark was like “slooooooowwwww dowwwwwnnnnn,” and EA was like “Fuck you!” and kicked her in the face with its energy…
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Box Scores: They Did The Mash
Ah, the NCAA Football Mascot Mashup. It’s like Capital One handed you some blotter acid and asked “What’s in your subconscious?” Kotaku reader Alex H. teed up the game’s fan fave goof-off mode with a buddy, picking Colorado State’s Cam the Ram, at home against his pal playing Knightro from Central Florida, alma mater of…
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Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Nov. 2
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Nov. 2 in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, regarding a California law against selling or renting violent games to kids. Court watcher SCOTUSblog posted the schedule on Monday. The games case is one of seven from which new Justice Elena Kagan has not recused herself; her…
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UncategorizedThe Moneysaver: Here’s The Juice
Now, I know you think you’re the A-number one hotshot, but here’s the juice: If I take you out, ten more coupons will take your place tomorrow. They just won’t come on the bus, that’s all. Hardware • The Nintendo Wii black bundle is still $179.99 from Dell. [Dealzon] • Dell is offering the Nintendo…
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The Week In Review: The First Kinect-ion
This past week delivered major Microsoft news: The Kinect Beta began with updated dashboard software and new hardware shipping. Pirated versions of Halo: Reach leaked, with attendant banhammer threats, but Stephen Totilo spent a full day with it, legitimately. That, plus the rest of the week in Kotaku’s original reporting: Kotaku’s Gamescom 2010 Coverage Kotaku…
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Florida Man Accused Of Using Xbox 360 To Solicit Child Porn
A 22-year-old Florida man faces 16 counts of possession of child pornography, after allegedly soliciting a 10-year-old boy for pictures via Xbox Live. Police say Polk City resident Timothy Hammerstone confessed to receiving naked pictures of a 10-year-old boy from California after asking him to join his online gaming group on the Xbox 360. According…
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TGIF
Don’t give me that look. You know you watched Family Matters – more than once – on the wasted Friday nights of your youth. Not a lot to say tonight. I’ve spent most of today inside chained to this monitor preparing for the weekend so – sorry! No witty anecdotes about real life because I…
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First Videos Showcase Gameplay Of “The Jordan Challenge”
GameSpot today posted the first two videos featuring gameplay from NBA 2K11’s upcoming "Jordan Challenge," featuring Michael Jordan versus the Portland Trail Blazers in the first game of the 1992 NBA Finals. What’s intriguing to me – beyond Horace Grant’s and Buck Williams’ rec specs – is the commentary. Kevin Harlan, Clark Kellogg and Doris…
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