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UncategorizedWatch Grandma Hardcore Cuss Up a Storm in Brütal Legend
We’ve featured her on Kotaku before, but years ago. So to reintroduce her, Old Grandma Hardcore lives in Cleveland (there’s just no way she could live anywhere else) and she loves playing games. She’s also got the potty-mouth of a 19-year-old, but the F-bombs she drops are terms of endearment, explains her grandson:over at OGH.…
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And Here is Two Full Minutes of Nonchalantly Performed Badassery
Eidos just released a new trailer for Just Cause 2, which blends cinematic action with some impressive gameplay. This game’s packing some attitude, dammit. It doesn’t really care that opening a parachute 10 feet from the ground probably wouldn’t work in real life. It does in real Just Cause 2. Now excuse me while I…
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AO-Rated Manhunt 2 is Available Next Week
Manhunt 2, notoriously edited by Rockstar to not earn an Adults Only tag from the ESRB, will be released Nov. 6 in that AO form, on the PC. Direct2Drive will have the download, for $29.95. Manhunt 2, as an M-rated game on the PSP, PS2 and Wii, was very poorly received when it went out…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
No Demo for Assassin’s Creed II, Either
Ubisoft’s decision to not publish a public demo for the first Assassin’s Creed disappointed fans. They’re going to be disappointed again, because a spokesman has said Assassin’s Creed II won’t get a demo, either. Connected Consoles reports that, at the Eurogamer Expo, an Ubisoft rep told them straight up the game will not be getting…
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Uncategorized25 Kill Streak in MW2 Delivers You a Really Big Bang
Multiplayer spoiler alert, I guess. Should you be awesome enough to rack up 25 straight kills in Modern Warfare 2, the game gives you a superweapon from which there is no escape. Not even for the guy who uses it. Nuke Your Opponents in Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer [Spoilers] [Hot Blooded Gaming]
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Strippers or Counter-Strike — Which Gets a Gamer’s Attention?
Over in Moscow, two top Counter-Strike teams met in a LAN contest. As soon as they started runnin’ and gunnin’ however, the promoter threw in a surprise to test the team’s focus: Strippers. Russian strippers. Let’s get to the NSFW! English Russia reports that “it was impossible to put an attention of those hopeless men…
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Using Trophies to Deliver Big Game
Going through the list of the trophies and medals in Uncharted 2, one spots a yak-petting exercise called “Beast Mode.” Jacob Minkoff, of the studio Naughty Dog, explained its origin with a laugh. “There was a tester we had who came in and was constantly describing Drake as going into ‘beast mode,'” said Minkoff, a…
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Industry Types Confess the Evil Deeds They’ve Done (in Games)
What’s the most cruel, unfair, downright evil thing you’ve done in a game? Bitmob polled some industry types with the question. Hal Halpin was a real jerk in Mario Kart 64; Todd Howard created a suicide squad in X-Com. Halpin, the Entertainment Consumers Association’s president, deployed the lightning bolt with ruthlessness on fellow racers attempting…
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Why Games Should Have a Few More Senior Moments
In video games, senior citizens are largely stereotyped NPCs. Rare is the kind of game like Metal Gear Solid 4, with a truly aged, playable protagonist. Can games create more roles for the elderly? Should they? Matthew Kaplan of GameCritics thinks games have a lot of growing up to do, especially as the median age…
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Valve: Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Did Not Reveal DLC Names
Speaking at an event today sponsored by Eurogamer, Valve’s Chet Faliszek said the names for DLC packs found in the Left 4 Dead 2 demo were spaceholders only, put there as a test required by Microsoft. According to audio of the event, Faliszek said: If you’re reading in the forums and you’re reading about the…
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Hungary Prevails in Dragon Age 24-Hour Contest
Hungary made goulash out of a 10-team field in BioWare’s 24-hour competition called Dragon Age: Origins Wardens’ Quest, netting each team member a cool $12,500. Second place was, apparently, a separatist nation-state known as “BioWare Community,” with Canada and Poland in third and fourth place, respectively. Good ol’ U.S. of A finished ninth, not lasting…
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With NCAA 10, EA Guns for Two Shining Moments
Connor Dougan had me at “Nana-na-na-na-NA-na-naaaahhh!” Anyone who’s hoisted a driveway three has hummed a TV sports anthem to set it up, and that one’s the CBS Road to the Final Four theme, one of two in NCAA Basketball 10. “You hear that,” Dougan, a producer in EA Sports‘ Vancouver studio, said after humming the…
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Weekend Coupons: Keep on Diggin’
You might strike oil. Or China. Ain’t much out there, but it’s to be expected as the zenith of the new release season crests right before the holiday retail splurge. Hardware • The standard Wii config (Wii Sports, ‘mote) is $20 off through Dell. [TechDealDigger] • The typical PS3 Slim SKU is $25 less through…
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Kotaku Originals: T&A
That would be Terrorism and Alexis. Modern Warfare 2 stirred up plenty of controversy, and then came Crecente’s interview of gamer pornstar Raven Alexis. Afterwards, we still found room for more than 60 original headlines over the past week. Top Stories Games, Not Porn, is Adult Actress’ Secret Pleasure Modern Warfare 2 Features Skippable Scene…
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Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates
“A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. IGN noticed scuttlebutt about bannings in technical feedback forums and asked Microsoft about it. A spokesperson confirmed they banzored some modded consoles. Said the spokesperson to…
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[Update] Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Doesn’t Name Upcoming DLC
PC gamers dissecting the Left 4 Dead 2 demo found files that might reference the names of future DLC packs, CVG reports. [Update] Valve’s Chet Faliszek shot down this rumor. They were spaceholder test file names. Original story follows: “Miracle Pack” and “Apocalyptic Pack” are both mentioned in the demo files. The original L4D survivors…
By Owen Good