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Maybe The Best Rock Band Deal Yet
The Rock Band warehouses must be bursting with Special Edition sized boxes, because MTV Games is practically giving away the game and its sequel for a song. The official Rock Band web site is selling the Rock Band Special Edition Bundle, including the game, drums, microphone and guitar, plus a copy of Rock Band 2…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Ballad Of Gay Tony To Have “Strong” Sex, Ample Thrusting
How does Rockstar Games plan to one-up the shock factor of full frontal male nudity from Grand Theft Auto: The Lost & Damned? Perhaps with some “strong” sex scenes and thrusts aplenty in The Ballad of Gay Tony. That’s how the British Board of Film Classification describes the potentially objectionable content in next week’s downloadable…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Good, Bad and Ugly of The Modern Warfare 2 Server Decision
This was a doozy of a week for Kotaku Talk Radio with Totilo, myself and oodles of listeners weighing in on the issue of Modern Warfare 2 and dedicated servers. Is it a sign of things to come? What far-reaching consequences could it have? Tune in to find out and to get a pulse of…
By Brian Crecente Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Molyneux: Fable III Will Use Project Natal
Lionhead Studios’ recently announced Fable III, first detailed at Gamescom this summer, will make use of Microsoft’s Project Natal controller. That’s according to reports from Peter Molyneux‘s BAFTA Video Games Lecture in London. Gamesbrief founder Nicholas Lovell has been posting snippets from Molynuex’s talk on his Twitter account, as spotted by VG247, writing that the…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sid Meier Bringing Civilization To Facebook
Sid Meier is taking two of the most addictive games ever created – Civilization and Facebook – and melding them into one. Today he announced Civilization Network, coming to Facebook in 2010. Civilization Network will allow you and your friends to band together to create the most powerful, wealthy, or most intelligent civilization. Think Mafia…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
101 Wii Mini-Games, All At Once, All For You
Atlus and developer Nordcurrent take the 101-in-1 Megamix concept from the DS to the Wii, with 101 mini-games that should completely satisfy your need to play mini-games for the rest of your life. Seriously, this should do you until the end of time. 101-in-1 Party Megamix for the Wii features a metric ass-ton of games…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Two Best Words in the English Language: Bacon Deluxe
Everything is better with bacon. You know this, we know this, and Wendy’s® knows this. So they created the NEW Bacon Deluxe: beef, cheese, lettuce & tomato with four—that’s right, four—thick slices of Applewood smoked bacon. Who’s hungry? Oh, and the NEW Bacon Deluxe comes as a single, double, or triple hot ‘n juicy bacon-dream.…
By Chrissie Lamond Published October 21, 2009 - Reviews
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions
There’s something to be said for a game that has Bowser performing a triple Salchow in figure skating or Dr. Eggman sweeping the ice in curling. I’m just not sure what that something is, though. Exciting? Surreal? Blasphemous? Whatever the case, such sights are possible in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atari Randomly Makes A Facebook Photo App
Atari jumps on the Facebook bandwagon, carrying a knapsack full of kitschy stickers so you can personalize your photos with Atari Photo Sauce. Photo Sauce, developed by the Atari London Studio, is a free Facebook app that allows users to plaster retro stickers, stamps, and speech bubbles all over their photos, creating images and comic…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
PC Arkham Asylum Players Play Dress-Up
Console Batman: Arkham Asylum players may have gotten the game first, but they’ll never be able to dress Batman up like Captain America. One of the joys of PC gaming is the ability to screw with stuff, like Batman’s costume skin in Arkham Asylum. Over at the official game forums they’ve got a fan-made skin…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Confirms They Are Testing Live Reward Program
Yesterday word rumbled in, via countless tips and screengrabs, that Microsoft was preparing to roll-out a test of some sort of Xbox Live rewards program for the Xbox 360. Today Microsoft confirmed to Kotaku that they are indeed looking into it. “We are always exploring ways to provide the most value for our members and…
By Brian Crecente Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 PAIN Developers Hit With Lay-Offs?
The Colorado-based developers of Playstation 3 downloadable game Pain were hit with lay-offs today, sources at the company tell Kotaku. We’ve contacted Idol Minds for comment but have not yet heard back. The layoffs at the company, based in Louisville, Colorado between Boulder and Denver, have been coming in waves we’re told, with the latest…
By Brian Crecente Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Write a Walk-Through Maybe Win Kick-Ass Stuffs
We know you’re out there! You game-obsessed walk-through writers. With the launch of our new commenting system we want to see what you can do with the system and maybe win some cool crap from us. Here’s the deal: We want you to write up a complete and original walk-through of a game in our…
By Brian Crecente Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rooster Teeth
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
PVP
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Penny Arcade
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nerf Now
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Little Gamers
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Extra Life
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By Owen Good Published October 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Version Of Borderlands Has Co-op Issues, Gearbox Promises Fix [Update]
The PlayStation 3 version of Borderlands is a bit broken, according to early reports from owners of that game. The game’s cooperative multiplayer mode won’t recognize other Borderlands players on the PS3’s friends list, an issue Gearbox is already addressing. In addition to problems with the PSN friends list, Borderlands is reported by users to…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009