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Papers, Please
To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…
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UncategorizedA Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…
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Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle
This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…
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Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
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Molyneux: Hate Mail Changed Fable II DLC
I guess this rates a spoiler alert, nearly a year after the fact. But the dilemma presented at the end of Fable II so outraged some players that they took to writing good old-fashioned hate mail to Peter Molyneux. In an interview on the choices the Fable series forces its player to make, Molyneux said…
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Video of Kurt Cobain, Matt Bellamy in Guitar Hero 5
Two videos out in the wild show Guitar Hero 5 gameplay and two rockers as whom you may perform – well, in the Quicktime events anyway. Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Kurt Cobain of … does he need further identification? These vids were uploaded to DailyMotion by user SchnackAttack. Here is Cobain, performing, what else,…
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Week in Games: Inmates and the Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum, delayed from a summer release and yet still stoked by an excellent demo, is this week’s AAA console drop. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box arrives on DS tomorrow, and NBA 2K10: Draft Combine hits XBLA Wednesday. This week’s count: 10 for the DS, six for the PC, five for the 360…
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Policenauts English Localization Completed
The fan-engineered English localization of Hideo Kojima’s PSOne cult classic Policenauts is finally complete. The project’s page today announced that the patch is live. For those not in the loop – that includes me, fair warning – Policenauts was a sci-fi adventure game produced for 3DO, PlayStation, and the Sega Saturn back in 1996. While…
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Madden Suit Seeks to Gang-Tackle EA
Did you buy a copy of Madden NFL from its 2006 version forward? You too can be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Electronic Arts, over its exclusive-rights arrangement with the NFL. Pecover vs. EA, the federal class-action suit alleging EA’s exclusive license with the NFL constitutes an illegal monopoly, is looking for additional plaintiffs…
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What I Bought From BlizzCon
After the San Diego Comic-Con debacle, you didn’t really think I would escape BlizzCon unscathed, did you? Here’s where my money went during Blizzard’s annual fan gathering. It wasn’t too bad this year, truth be told. Initially I came out relatively light, only picking up the Murloc nOObz figure for $30 plus a t-shirt and…
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The History of Arkham Asylum
Eidos’ latest, probably last buzzbuilder trailer before Tuesday’s release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, gives a thumbnail history of this notorious “hospital,” and shows why you don’t ever want to plead insanity in Gotham City. It sounds like this audio is taken from the character audio histories, which we saw as unlockables in Arkham’s well-received demo.…
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Ozzy Talks BlizzCon With Kotaku: F***ing Amazing
Before rock legend Ozzy Osbourne took the stage at the closing ceremonies of BlizzCon 2009, he didn’t know “what the fuck to expect” from an audience full of gamers, he told Kotaku in a private interview. Ozzy Osbourne took the stage around 7:45 PM at the Anaheim Convention Center to help bring BlizzCon 2009 crashing…
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GameStop Brings Forza 3 to PS3
GameStop occasionally puts out these promo boxes to show customers what they can buy in their stores. Or can’t, in this case, because I doubt Microsoft Game Studios is developing anything for the PS3 right now. Says one tipster wit: “Not the first time Gran Turismo used Forza art …” Thanks to Anonymous GameStopper #1,…
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The Old Republic: 20 Minute Developer Walkthrough
If you’ve got the time, IGN has a four-part video series showcasing The Old Republic, in the developer walkthrough shown at GamesCom. The video shows three classes and their attributes, multiplayer dialogue, the “flash point” story mechanism, and much more. Twenty minutes is a long time to take a look at a single game. But…
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Blizzard: Lack Of StarCraft Lan Is No Big Deal
Kotaku sat down with Blizzard’s executive vice president of game design Rob Pardo this weekend to talk Battle.net, but we couldn’t resist touching on the subject of the lack of LAN in StarCraft II. Pardo was in good spirits when we spoke to him yesterday afternoon when I touched on the controversial subject, which has…
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Microsoft Responds to Xbox Failure Rate Claim
Microsoft’s responded to Game Informer’s controversial survey, which found 54.6 percent of Xbox 360s – among their readership anyway – have gone RRoD. Microsoft didn’t dispute numbers or offer their own, but did concede they’re “constantly improving” the 360’s design. In a statement to TG Daily, Microsoft said: Microsoft stands behind the Xbox 360 as…
By Owen Good