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ESRB Gives Up Sexytime Spoilers for Dragon Age
Just in case the blood and killin’ wasn’t enough to grab an M, Dragon Age: Origins threw in some trannies and implied bestality to leave no doubt that children shouldn’t be playing it. The ESRB’s rating is not a surprise; its ratings description is a barrel of jolly time fun, though. Sounds like you can…
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UK Mag’s Exclusive Review Fits Alleged Eidos Conditions
Earlier, The RAM Raider accused Eidos of trying to fix review scores for Batman: Arkham Asylum, a claim Eidos categorically denied. Now one magazine’s exclusive review fits all the conditions said to have been made. Games Master’s got “the world’s first review” of the game, and man, is it glowing. Eidos, which had been behind…
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EA Apologizes for ‘Sin to Win’ Booth Babe Promo
Can the Dante’s Inferno marketers do anything right? At E3, they had that phony religious wingnut protest. Now they’ve apologized for their Comic-Con contest that painted them as booth babe objectifiers. Which, you know, most of us are guilty as charged. But Electronic Arts, being the big corp it is, had to cover its ass…
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Rockstar Pretty Much Kiboshes the Idea of GTA Film
Speaking of movies, forget about seeing one based on Grand Theft Auto. The Los Angeles Times, examining Ubisoft’s and Microsoft’s entries into filmmaking, went asking why Rockstar hasn’t thought of the same thing. Turns out they have, and they didn’t like the mental image. Says Dan Houser, the Rockstar vice president: We don’t believe that…
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Comic-Con 2009: The Damage Escalates
Thursday’s damage post was but a brief taste of the true financial ruin that comes from sending a fan of just about everything to Comic-Con at the last minute. As you can plainly see, the pile has grown quite a bit since Thursday’s post, but I can justify every purchase. Just not right now. Give…
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‘The Book of Eli’ — is This a Fallout Movie?
You may have heard of “The Book of Eli,” a post-apocalyptic action tale coming in January and starring Denzel Washington. One reader noticed the film’s resemblance to Fallout 3. Reader Roger N. put together this comparison. While destruction and ravaged wastelands are motifs, not the story itself, the film does involve a heavily armed badass…
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Weekend Coupons: Control Yourself
Deal-hunters know you never have to, and never should, pay full price on peripherals, if you know where to look. This week we feature three that are off the beaten path. Hardware: • If you have a Nintendo Entertainment System and want a truly giant-ass arcade quality stick for it, the Generation NEX Wireless Arcade…
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Kotaku Originals: I Said Turn Off That Machine Now!
This week Crecente ported some game classics to a more analog platform – the back yard. Reminds me of the time Mom kicked me and Fletch out of the house and we played Atari’s “Adventure.” This was also in the middle of summer vacation and Mom was at the end of her rope. Fletch and…
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Criminal Lies About GTA; D.C. Radio Station Spreads It
You know how in Grand Theft Auto you can drive around swatting pedestrians with an open car door? Yes? No? Doesn’t matter, a teen headed to jail for doing that blamed it on the game. The prosecutor in the case of Nathan Hartley, convicted of “door-checking” two Maryland kids and sent to jail for 7…
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