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  Did You Get Your Secret Team Fortress 2 Medal?

  To close out a week of update announcements (and updates!), Valve had one final surprise in store for Team Fortress 2 players tonight, offering the first 11,111 players to reach this hidden site a shiny new medal. Being limited, the offer is of course already done for, all 11,111 medals claimed within a matter of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2009
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  New Mass Effect 2 Screenshots, Wallpaper

  It’s “Meet Thane” day over at the official Mass Effect 2 website tonight, as BioWare release some screenshots and wallpaper featuring the green-skinned alien guy we first met back in the E3 trailer for the game.

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2009
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  Is Japan’s PS3 Supply Drying Up?

  Buying one is hardly an impossible feat; however, recently there do seem to be a higher percentage of retailers with the machine sold out. Take that sign, which says that all colors of the PS3 are sold out. At a Sofmap retailer, there are no laminated PS3 tickets you can take to the register to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 13, 2009
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  Thousands Attend Iowa Hall of Fame Launch

  More than 3,500 people, including U.S. Rep David Loebsack and Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, attended a kickoff event today for the International Video Games Hall of Fame, which Ottumwa, Iowa leaders plan to build in their community. Chris Hoeksema, a member of the Hall’s exploratory committee, said the 3,500 figure represented those who donated…

  By Owen Good Published August 13, 2009
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  Halo 3 Still Being Played, By The Truckload, Every Day

  We’ve noticed. Many of you are sick to death of Halo. To a certain extent that’s understandable, but then, sometimes you have to applaud the efforts of a game that, two years on from release, is still so damn popular. How popular? According to Bungie, on average, every single day, there are over 1,000,000 unique…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2009
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  Aussie Madden Has No Free Online Franchise Codes. Here’s Mine [Update]

  Australia, homeland of beloved former Chargers punter Darren Bennett, got Madden NFL 10 a day earlier than the rest of the world – part of that whole day-ahead, winter-is-summer, up-is-down, toilets-flush-in-reverse thing. But they didn’t get free Online Franchise codes. EA Sports spokesman Rob Semsey confirmed that the codes were, mistakenly, not printed on the…

  By Owen Good Published August 13, 2009
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  Journalists In Video Games — An Anniversary Celebration

  One year ago today I started officially blogging for Kotaku. What better way to celebrate this anniversary than by ticking off a list of journalists that appear in video games? I got going on this idea because my first night on the job for Kotaku — covering a Godfather II event — I sliced my…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 13, 2009
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  The Beatles: Rock Band Full Soundtrack Revealed In New Game Informer

  This newest issue of Game Informer magazine has already landed in the hands of subscribers, featuring a cover story on MTV Games and Harmonix’s The Beatles: Rock Band. Beneath that cover lies the game’s final track listing. Final minus one, that is. Game Informer appears to be keeping one of the game’s songs under wraps,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  Send Us Your Madden Launch Pics, Stories

  This year’s Madden launch is midnight Friday, rather than Tuesday. So if you’re picking it up at 12:01 a.m., if you’re going to a retailer party, if you’re already playing with a broken street date copy, send us your pics. We’ll round them up tomorrow to show sports gamers indulging in their holiest of days,…

  By Owen Good Published August 13, 2009
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  Jenny McCarthy Signs On To Shill Your Shape

  Hey guys, the list of celebrities endorsing Wii fitness games just a little longer today, as Ubisoft has signed Jenny McCarthy as its Your Shape spokesface, presumably in hopes that people will think she knows something about fitness. It seems to be a winning formula for Wii fitness games thus far, as Majesco has tapped…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  QuakeCon: It’s On

  To: Bash From: Crecente QuakeCon kicked off this morning with plenty of id news including a new Rage trailer, a peek into future iPhone games we can expect from the developer and Carmack’s annual speech. Expect plenty more from the show with Totilo digging deep one-on-one with developers and some of the games present. Here’s…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 13, 2009
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  Team Fortress 2 Classless Update – It’s Over! It’s Out!

  The third and, unfortunately, final day of updates to Team Fortress 2‘s “classless update” is out there. No hidden last minute update for this one folks, as the game has already been updated with the latest batch of changes. That includes a long, long list of updates, including the new addition of two “new” maps—Sawmill,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  id Working on Three Lines of iPhone Games, One Potentially Rage-Themed

  id Software’s interest in iPhone games may have started out with the the company testing the waters, but moving forward the company plans to develop three lines of games for the platform. The first is the classics line which includes Wolfenstein 3D, which will be getting the ability to download user created levels in a…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 13, 2009
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  Brütal Legend Multiplayer Preview: Mazel Tov, It’s An RTS

  The last thing I expected from a Brütal Legend multiplayer mode was a real time strategy game. The first thing I expected was a battle of the bands. Lucky me, I get both. According to mastermind Tim Schafer, Brütal Legend actually began as a multiplayer game in his mind’s eye where metal bands would battle…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 13, 2009
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  Wii Sports Resort Outsells All (Except NCAA Football) In July

  Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort was the bestselling video game in the U.S. last month, moving more than a half million copies—and Wii MotionPlus add-ons—with one exception. It was actually outsold by EA Sports NCAA Football 10.* * Combined, that is. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of this year’s NCAA Football joined forces to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  NPD: U.S. Hardware Sales Continue Decline, Xbox Holds Strong

  It was another depressing month for the video game industry in the United States, the fifth consecutive monthly drop in a row. Hardware sales fell across the board, with the Wii, PSP and PlayStation 3 seeing the biggest year-over-year declines. While Nintendo managed to dominate on the portable front—the Nintendo DS and DSi sold 538,900…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  Making Sloppy Cartoons with the DSi’s Flipnote Studio

  Yesterday the free-to-download animation creator for the DSi hit North America. As you’ll see in this video, Flipnote Studio is a surprisingly robust little toy. Be warned, though, I have zero artistic ability.

  By Brian Crecente Published August 13, 2009
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  PlayStation Store Update: We Got The Mango Sentinel

  PlayStation 3 owners, your ticket to ride the roller coaster that is Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is finally here, as Capcom’s 2D fighting crossover leads this week’s North American PlayStation Store update, a week also rich in PS One Classics. That includes the original Tomb Raider, Ten Pin Alley and Dead In The Water. There’s…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009
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  New PAIN Character Brought To You By AXE

  Meet Smooth Jarvis, the new character for the PlayStation Network game PAIN, brought to you by the fine folks at AXE deodorant. In-game advertising gets ridiculous with the introduction of Smooth Jarvis, whose “Double Pits to Chesty” special move mimics the actions involved in applying AXE brand deodorant products. Players who use PAIN’s in-game video…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2009
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  id’s Having A QuakeCon Fire Sale On iPhone Games

  If you couldn’t make it down to Texas this year for QuakeCon 2009, you can still enjoy the fruits of id Software‘s labor. At least the low hanging iPhone fruit, that is. Two of id’s recent iPhone releases can now be had for cheap, with Wolfenstein 3D marked down to 99 cents and Doom Resurrection…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2009