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Judge Tosses Shareholder Suit Against Midway Board
A federal judge reluctantly threw out a creditor claim against the former board of Midway, which alleged that the debt-saddled company pursued loans it couldn’t pay and arranged a sale that screwed company stakeholders while enriching a well-connected few. “The defendants oversaw the ruin of a once highly successful company, only to hide behind the…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fair or Foul, MLB 10 The Show Still Looks Great
Gametrailers put up a few exclusive videos of MLB 10 The Show, one of which is 90 seconds of gameplay featuring cover man Joe Mauer. This game looks very good. It’s a CPU-vs.-CPU sim so we don’t see pitching meters or batting controls and can’t tell if they’ve been modified for this year. But to…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Stick Jockey’s Super Sim Spectacular
Earlier this week, EA Sports ran its annual Madden Super Bowl simulation, predicting New Orleans to be tomorrow’s winner. But there are plenty of contigencies and scenarios – some less plausible than others – that they didn’t take into account. Here then is Stick Jockey‘s inaugural Super Sim Spectacular, in which we start with a…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Will Feature WWII Level
The newly published ESRB ratings certificate for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 mentions that “players conduct missions on an unnamed Japanese island during World War II and then move into the modern day.” Earlier, we mentioned that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 would support weapons from last spring’s Battlefield: 1943 (pictured above). It sounds like this could…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Just Don’t Call This “Bling”
Though Super Mario coin boxes do make that sound, A.B. Frazier at The Koalition reminds us that hip-hop retired that term. But hip-hop producer Pharrell is very much active with this Super Mario jewelry. A.B. also boasts of a owning an “oversized diamond studded Metal Gear Solid exclamation mark,” whose existence may be theoretical but…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Preeeee-cola!
My lord, they’ve already started preorder bonuses on Madden NFL 11. And of course, Tuesday’s big releases also get inducements. Clear your throats and hit the jump for Weekend Coupons. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-COLA! Software • Amazon offers $10 credits with pre-orders of two games launching this Tuesday: Dante’s Inferno (PS3/360 $57) and Bioshock 2, which is $5, $4,…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioWare Responds to Self-Censorship Charge on Mass Effect 2 Sex
Mass Effect 2’s tamer (and sideboobless) sex scenes led some to believe that BioWare held something back, after the 2008 uproar over Mass Effect started by the Network That Must Not Be Named. But a dev sternly denies that charge. User Menelaos1971 opened a forum thread on the subject, calling the sex scene in Mass…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: Rated C for Creepy
Impertinent remarks – calling Sony’s motion controller “Arc” and the ESRB’s bluntly accurate description of the activities in Dead or Alive: Paradise – highlighted our front page this week. Dante’s Inferno sneaked in underneath it. Our original news coverage: K Monthly – January 2010 Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories We Shall Mourn The Following Xbox…
By Owen Good Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Case Closed On Mass Effect 2 And The Curse Of The Tiny Text
Like some other 360 titles like Dead Rising, Mass Effect 2 has tiny text, which users on small TVs and with poor eyesight are having trouble reading. Is BioWare going to fix the problem? Nope. Just like Dead Rising, it’s no easy fix, and since BioWare feel it affects only “a small portion of SDTV…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2010 - Reviews
Doodle Jump Micro-Review: Boing!
Doodle Jump: simple title, simple game. Players are what looks like a green Snork-like creature. It’s a doodle-drawing platforming test of endurance in which players try to bounce as high as they can. But does simple mean satisfying? By tilting the iPod/iPhone, the character bounces right or left onto the platforms. Some of the platforms…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Still Losing Money On Every PS3 Sold (But Not As Much!)
Last we checked, Sony was losing money on every PS3 sold, at $37 a pop. Checking in this week, we find the company is still losing money on every PS3 sold. But now, it’s only $18. Yes, having reduced the functionality and the size of the console, and benefited from natural declines in the cost…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption Screens Feature Actual Cowboy Action
And I don’t mean chewing tobacco or shooting Mexicans, either. I mean rounding up animals, with a lasso. Course, these are horses, not cows, but “Horseboy” sounds equal parts silly and adult…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: Dig In
So, I hear some of you Kotaku Off Topic readers are having some lousy weather. How’s your internet connection holding up? If you can read this, we’ve got some off topic things to discuss. Let’s not talk about the weather, though. No small talk in this open thread, as we prefer idle chitchat and the…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Brock Lesnar Gets UFC Undisputed Cover
THQ has announced that UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will grace the cover of UFC Undisputed 2010, probably the closest he will come anytime soon to a head-to-head competition Fedor Emelianenko, on the cover for EA Sports MMA. Fans have pined for both cover fighters to duke it out in real life, but that is…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Choo-choo-choose The Demon’s Souls Valentine’s Day Special Event
Atlus is gearing up for another World Tendency event for the PlayStation 3 role-playing game Demon’s Souls just like it did for Halloween and the Christmas season. Since this one’s for Valentine’s Day, what will Atlus do? Whatever you choose. While Halloween was appropriately Black World Tendency and Christmas was White World Tendency, Atlus is…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tetris Gets Its Own Satellite TV Channel
And not as hot, tetromino-on-tetromino Spanktravision pay-per-view either. For $2.99 a month, DISH Network subscribers will get access to a Tetris Channel that allows them to wham on their remote button seven times just to rotate the block counterclockwise once. According to a news release from Englewood, Colo. based DISH, Tetris is being delivered through…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Left 4 Dead 2 Update, Zombie Bots Are Go
Valve has issued the latest update to its cooperative and competitive zombie killing sim Left 4 Dead 2, with changes that are sure to delight the Boomer in you. The newly issued patch, now available on Steam and arriving for Xbox 360 owners in “an upcoming title update,” deals away with the dreaded “auto spawn”…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Planning Facebook Version of Madden
Speaking to Bloomberg Television, EA Sports boss Peter Moore said his division will soon introduce a version of its Madden NFL game to Facebook users, saying it is essential that the football simulation be made more accessible. Moore told Bloomberg that a Facebook Madden would deliver a “simpler experience” than the console game. Following up…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
“Saddened” Bungie Plans Halo 2 Send Off On Xbox Live
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it was pulling the plug on Xbox Live support for original Xbox games. That obviously includes Bungie’s Halo 2, consistently the top original Xbox title represented on Live. Bungie responds to the change. “We’re all saddened at the realization that an era is coming to an end but looking back,”…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2010