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Crappy Demo No One Wanted Sells for $710
It didn’t come close to breaking records set recently by other rare titles, but NBA 2-Ball, a freebie PSOne disc given out at the 1998 NBA All-Star game, probably set a mark for demos. The item sold last night with a winning bid of $710, better than double the opening bid of $300, which some…
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Eight More Fighters Added to EA Sports MMA
Andre Arlovski, Lyle Beerbohm, Roger Gracie, Alistair Overeem, Kevin Randleman, Vitor Ribeiro, Murilo “Ninja” Rua and Fabricio Werdum. Heard of those guys? Me either. But they’re in the roster for EA Sports MMA – and a new batch of screens. Arlovski and Randleman are a former UFC heavyweight titleists, Overeem is the current Strikeforce heavyweight…
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UncategorizedHey, Your Mod Got Portal In My Team Fortress …
Don’t want to wait for multiplayer in Portal 2? Some modders are privately testing out Team Fortress 2 equipped with portal guns, and released this video to show how far they’ve come with the concept. While anyone on the board can pass through a portal, whether they laid it down or not, the portals can…
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Hell Is For Koopas
Did you ever wonder what happened to that unfortunate Koopa Trooper you left bouncing between those two pipes in Super Mario Bros.? Of course you didn’t, you heartless cad. Thankfully College Humor has its ever-bouncing back. The Koopa is sentenced to a life of hell, sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a…
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Speak-Up On Kotaku: Human Sexuality, Online Achievements, The Super Show, And Ostracism
It’s a whole new line-up in this week’s Speak-Up, as Ubikblack, Pointy, Anenemy, and Yantelope discuss the finer points of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, human sexuality, online achievements, and returning to the good old days of gamer ostracism. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up…
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Massive World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Leak Gets Plugged
Remember that giant compilation of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha test info and screens MMO Champion released last week? It’s gone now, but certainly not forgotten. Let’s have a moment of silence for the staggering amount of work MMO Champion put into collecting, hosting, and posting images from the alpha build of World of Warcraft’s…
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Someone Needs To Make A Cube Video Game, Right Now
Speaking to MTV about his upcoming film Splice, director Vincenzo Natali expressed his desire to create a video game based on Cube, one of the greatest science fiction films ever created. This needs to be done. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, Cube is the story of a group of ordinary people who…
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Monster Runaway Star Rampages Through Universe
30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science fiction video game? Alien invasion? Please. Exploring strange new worlds? So overdone. If you want to inject real drama…
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Guild Wars 2 Does Away With Flawed Quest Systems
In the latest Guild Wars 2 update, lead content designer Colin Johanson talks about how the game’s dynamic event system is doing away with the traditional question-mark driven MMO quest systems in favor of world-changing events with lasting results. The standard quest system sucks. Mechanically it works fine, but in terms of immersion, it leaves…
By Mike Fahey