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UncategorizedSupport Your World Cup Side in Uncharted 2 Multiplayer
Through July 12 – the day after the World Cup championship – Uncharted 2 players may choose from 16 different World Cup shirts for Drake and Flynn in multiplayer, one for each nation that advanced to the Cup’s knockout stage. Naughty Dog made the skins active last night, calling it a gesture to soccer fans…
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UncategorizedThe Moneysaver: Dealverines!!!
You think you’re tough for reading The Moneysaver every day? There’s half a million scarecrows in Denver who’d give anything for one coupon of what you got. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes … on each other. Been wanting to use Red Dawn somehow since I saw Homefront at E3. John Milius…
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Will a Thousand Words Do?
Hi folks: We’re aware of the problems preventing some stories from embedding images and video. We’ve got people working on a solution as we speak – we know how important these are to the stories you enjoy. Kotaku’s posting schedule will continue as planned through this outage and its swift resolution.
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UncategorizedThe Week in Review: He’s One, But Not the Same
The man’s a gamer. Maybe not one of us – we don’t run Electronic Arts after all – but this week’s profile of EA boss John Riccitiello portrayed a man who thinks earnestly about games, in ways we gamers do. It was not his gaming bonafides that started a robust discussion of Riccitiello’s place as…
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Making Manhattan Chowder with Crysis 2
If you discount the static and deliberately skipping video what you have here is a blend of Crysis 2‘s trailer and its closed-doors demo, shown at E3. Spoiler alert: The MetLife building goes down, and it goes down hard. This should give you a better idea of what I was trying to get across –…
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Exec ‘Severely’ Doubts Value of Some TV Advertising
In a heavy-hitter’s roundtable with an industry advertising blog, the man in charge of marketing Homefront doubts that television advertising does much for many video games, and would rather advertise on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live than CBS and NBC. “One of the bigger questions we have to ask ourselves is how important is television?”…
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Friendly Reminder: Super Mario Bros. Crossover Now Featuring Ninja Gaiden
As promised, Jay Pavlina has delivered Ryu Hayabusa from the NES Ninja Gaiden as the seventh playable character in the flash sensation Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Other character-specific abilities have been included in the game’s 1.1 update. Mega Man now jumps more realistically, and can use Rush Coil to get to higher spots on the…
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Mario Kart Saved My Eyesight
A British youth overcame what is called “lazy eye syndrome” thanks to a doctor’s prescription of Mario Kart DS, restoring his right eye from “near blindness” to a 250 percent improvement. At age 5, Ben Michaels was diagnosed with ambylopia in his right eye, which results in a steady decline in vision in that eyeball.…
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Regardless of World Cup, EA Sports Predicts an American Triumph
Landon Donovan’s miracle goal on Wednesday did far more than propel the United States to the World Cup’s knockout stage. It’s made America the No. 1 soccer video game market on the planet. So says Electronic Arts, whose FIFA series of console games is both the biggest-selling and highest-rated sports video game in the world.…
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