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A Picture Worth More Than Words
At the bottom of the house, at the bottom of a foot locker, at the bottom of a page of newsprint from 1970 were these words. “That’s all the Good sports for now,” the sign-off to my father’s sports column. I can’t remember why my brother and I were down in the basement going through…
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Weekend Coupons: Hardware Wars
Looking at this week’s deals, one gets the sense that retailers didn’t move enough consoles or accessories, because they’re still pushing them, all the way to Planet Basketball. Chewchilla, prepare for light speed, it’s time for Weekend Coupons Ham Salad Hardware • ‘Tis the season for big box retailers to get rid of console stock.…
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Kotaku Originals: The Teen Age
We’ve said goodbye to a decade that really had no name, but I haven’t heard much consensus on what we’re gonna call this one. The Tens? Tweens? Twenty-teens? We’ve got another 9 years and 364 days to figure it out. Quick programming note: Like Christmas weekend, this too will be one of abbreviated coverage as…
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The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report
While game publishers look to retail sales figures to gauge the success of the holiday season, let’s take a look at how our favorite games and consoles performed in the shady back-alleys of eBay’s 2009 holiday grey market. It’s that time of year again. Time to take a data dive into the heart of eBay…
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UncategorizedNCAA Football — Where My High School’s Name is in the Game
At my high school – among the smallest in North Carolina – we aren’t known as the “Rams” or the “Cardinals.” We’re “The Buckin’ Elks.” And Brad Nessler says that name – all of it – in NCAA Football 10. I know of no other institution of learning, NCAA FBS, FCS, Division II, III or…
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So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
After nearly a year and half of being Kotaku’s San Francisco Correspondent and default token girl*, it’s time for me to say goodbye. GamePro is whisking me away to that fabled land of print journalism I’ve heard so much about. I can easily say that my time here has been well spent. Kotaku taught me…
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Iraqi Kidnap Victim Subjected To PlayStation
British hostage Peter Moore will soon be returning to the UK from Iraq, after spending the last six months of his two-and-a-half year period of captivity with only satellite television, a laptop, and a PlayStation to keep him occupied. Peter Moore and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in May of 2007 by what is understood…
By Mike Fahey
