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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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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,”…
By Owen Good Published September 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
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…
By Owen Good Published September 11, 2010 -
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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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 Published September 11, 2010 - 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…
By Owen Good Published September 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Walmart Lists Ico, Shadow of the Colossus Set for PS3
Walmart is taking pre-orders for a box set of popular Playstation 2 action games ICO and Shadow of the Colossus for the Playstation 3 for just under $40. While Sony has yet to announce such a bundle, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told IGN back in June that they are “looking to…
By Brian Crecente Published September 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Excites You About This Year’s Tokyo Game Show?
Hi! How are you? I’m super duper. So let’s talk. About TGS. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
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…
By Owen Good Published September 10, 2010 -
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 Published September 10, 2010 - 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 Published September 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
ESA Brief Rips California Law As Threat To Free Expression
Blasting a California statute regulating sales of very violent video games as a threat to the freedom of creative expression, the Entertainment Software Association today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the law, once and for all. The law, which sets penalties for selling or renting titles with especially violent content to minors,…
By Owen Good Published September 10, 2010
