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Borderlands’ Unique, and Semiofficial, Preorder Bonus [Updated]
Mikey Neumann, Gearbox’s creative director, wants you to commit to Borderlands now. If his tweet is to be believed, send in a picture of yourself preordering the game today and he’ll play with you day one and drop some loot. Neumann declared today “OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PREORDER DAY,” in this Tweet. “Today is OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PRE…
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Week in Games: Rocket in Your Pocket
Gran Turismo on the PSP and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS highlight a busy week for titles outside the traditional core console drops. Dead Space Extraction hits the Wii and Beaterator comes to the PSP (and iPhone). Others of note: Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga arrives for the Wii and Fallout 3’s Operation Anchorage…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. • Top 10 Most Overhyped Games Ever [VGChartz] Is it just me, or is this Top 10 list subject overhyped? Seriously, am I the only…
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The Wii’s Officially $199 Today, and Amazon Offers the First Deal
Alright, it’s Sept. 27, time for some $199 Wii action, right? Amazon hopes you’ll do business with them, laying a $25 gift card on top of it. This deal is good through Saturday, Oct. 3, and it applies only to Wiis sold by Amazon, not any of its third-party vendors. The gift card is a…
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New Street Fighter IV Info “Maybe Monday”
Street Fighter fans are on tenterhooks, convinced these pics show fragments of a Super Street Fighter IV screen and logo. One hit up Capcom’s Twitter to ask if any news was coming this weekend. The reply: “no. but mebbe monday.” Stoking the fire is that pic above from GamePro Germany. It’s captioned as “Yoshinori Ono…
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UncategorizedA Nitpicky Easter Egg — and Spoiler — in Halo 3: ODST
This comes with a strong spoiler alert up front. Only watch this, or read further, if you have seen the conclusion to Halo 3: ODST, or don’t mind seeing it revealed. With that advisory out of the way, reader Scazza filmed this Easter Egg (discovery credited to Loose on the Gamefaqs forums.) Hear that clicking?…
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NFS: Shift Crashes at PlayStation Store Screen — on a 360
Calling it “the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times,” one blogger writes of his frustration when the game crashes on a PlayStation Store loading screen. Well, here’s your problem: He has the Xbox 360 version. “This could be the most embarrassing fail of all,” posits enigmax at Freakbits. When navigating…
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Reebok Giving Away the Madden AFL Pack for PS3
Madden’s AFL Legacy Pack became available for download this past week, and official league apparelista Reebok is giving away the PS3 version for entering their sweepstakes. Just drop in your name and email and the code’s yours. It really is that simple. Well, it assumes you have both the PS3 version and a PSN account,…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 23 PvPonline published Sept. 24 ActionTrip published Sept. 21 Digital Unrest published Sept. 21 DotGif published Sept. 21 EXTRALIFE published Sept. 24 GU Comics published Sept. 21 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Sept. 25 Dueling Analogs published Sept. 24 8-Bit Theater published Sept. 24 2P Start! published Sept. 23 Nerf NOW published Sept. 23…
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Microsoft Confirms that 2 GB is the New 50 MB
My how they grow fast, don’t they? Originally, Microsoft said that Xbox Live Arcade titles should be 50 megabytes or less. Today they’ve bulged well past the 1 GB barrier. Microsoft has confirmed that 2 gigs is the new max. At Tokyo Game Show, IGN brought up the ballooning size of XBLA games in an…
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Kotaku Approval Ratings: Issues of the Day
After a week’s hiatus, Kotaku Approval Ratings has returned to measure your opinions on certain games, concepts and controversies involved in the news over the past two weeks. This week we seek to measure your attitudes on the PSPgo, whose pre-release has been marred by retailer unhappiness, criticism of its price point, and disappointment in…
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