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UncategorizedWhat’s This ‘Nerkas’ Trailer Playing Outside Near E3?
Anyone in L.A. going down by Staples Center at all? Head over and check this out in person, maybe you can tell us what “Nerkas” is, and what kind of game it appears to be describing. In real life, there’s a domain Nerkas.com registered to Square Enix Europe. That’s all we know about that. In…
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Tetris Blocks — They’re for Breakfast Now!
They’re pancakes – wow! Jim’s Pancakes is a blog started by a dad spending his weekend mornings making cool pancakes for his three-year-old daughter. Yesterday morning’s theme: Tetris. I’m not sure if this makes me hungry or if it makes me want to take the squiggly on the left and just … jam it ……
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Makin’ License Plates Edition
Alright, I promised a more accessible ‘Shop Contest challenge this week, and though this one is also automotive in theme, it should lend itself more to one-off wisecracks and dry humor than last week’s NASCAR idea. Earlier this week, someone snapped a picture of a car bearing the North Carolina license plate GRSOFWAR (above) and…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published June 4. PvPonline published June 4. ActionTrip published May 31. EXTRALIFE published June 1. Dotgif published June 4. Ctrl+Alt+Del published June 4. Dueling Analogs published June 3. Nerf NOW published June 4. Rooster Teeth published June 3. Monday Night Crew published June 2. Virtual Shackles published June 4. Little Gamers published May…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Garage Sale
My downstairs neighbor, whom you might remember from past episodes of KOT, held a garage sale out of the carport we share over the past two days. One item caught my eye, but I didn’t buy it. He had a big, bright orange pitching machine up on a tripod, though, looked like it could handle…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: NASCAR Edition Winners
It’s a tribute to the Kotaku community that you guys were able to come up with 20 good entries to my utter fail of a ‘Shop Contest subject. I promise a better contest tomorrow. First, last week’s winners. Since we hadn’t heard much lately from NASCAR driver Joey Logano, whose No. 20 Toyota on the…
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Latest Transformers Game Reboots the Robots of Your Youth
Man, have I lost touch with the Transformers. I never knew they had an evil dinosaur that could transform into a city. When the hell did they start doing that? That’s Trypticon, at least, it’s how he appeared on Cybertron in Transformers: War for Cybertron, due out June 22. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. My…
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Results are in on PAX’s Booth Babe Ban Poll
I don’t know this means the ban on scantily-clad booth babes at the Penny Arcade Expos necessarily gets any stricter, but the policy – put to a poll of Penny Arcade’s community last week – is definitely getting more descriptive. The biggest inclusion the PAX community wanted to see in the policy is that a…
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Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms
This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…
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The Beauty of Human Error, Committed by a Computer Umpire
It’s the bottom of the fourth and that SOB Dallas Hodges is squeezing the zone low and away, again. Strike three went by like a freight train and Hodges just stared at it like a cow. This ump’s a disgrace. This ump also isn’t even real. He’s one of 10 in MLB 10: The Show,…
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MotorStorm 3 Goes Post-Apocalyptic?
The French site PS3Gen claims to have gotten its hands on “stolen” images of MotorStorm 3, purporting to show the PS3-exclusive racer set in a San Francisco of collapsed buildings and raging fires. Quite a departure from the series first three iterations, which set loose the fleet of cars, trucks and things that go in…
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UncategorizedHis Airness in Defeat, in Victory, and in NBA 2K10
Back in April, Operation Sports’s MessenjahMatt put together this excellent recreation of famous Michael Jordan performances in NBA 2K10. As Jordan is confirmed to be playable in NBA 2K11, it’s potentially a look at what that might entail. Although 2K Sports was mum on the subject speaking with me (and everyone else), ESPN reported earlier…
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Box Scores: The Vacant Confines
Some rivalries are played before sellout crowds, primetime exposure and adoring nationwide coverage. Others finish past midnight with a couple dozen disinterested people left in the bleachers and only two more watching on the TV. The latter would be the final audience for Chewblaha and his Cubs vs. Mike Dukakis’ Mets in a 12-inning affair…
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EA Sports Active Slapped with Trademark Lawsuit
The Active Network has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA Sports Active, alleging the fitness title’s online use of scheduling and fitness goals covers purposes for which it holds the trademark “Active.” GameSpot got a look at the suit, which claims The Active Network has since 2008 held the rights to the word “Active”…
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Weekend Coupons: You’re Gonna Eat Lightning, and You’re Gonna Crap Coupons
You shoulda seen me when I knocked Giny Russell outta the ring. Outta the goddamn ring. September 14, 1923. The same night that Firpo knocks Dempsey outta the ring. Who gets the publicity? Dempsey. Know why? Because he had COUPONS. Hardware • The new PS3 Slim 250GB “Father’s Day Bundle” with the LittleBigPlanet Game of…
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The Week in Review: Promise Keepers
The weeks before E3 see lots of speculation about what it will take for one of the big three to “win” this year’s gathering. Stephen Totilo instead recounted the promises of last year’s showing, to remind everyone someone’s keeping score. Nintendo – forget such head-scratching reveals as the Wii Vitality Sensor – shone through with…
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