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How Old Can a Guy Be Before MLB The Show Finally Throws Him Out?
Jamie Moyer, at 49, is scheduled to start tomorrow for the Colorado Rockies. Only 11 other pitchers have appeared in an MLB game at age 46 or older. I was curious, how does a simulation like MLB 12 The Show, which prides itself on authenticity, handle age in its Road to the Show career mode,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Five Gaming Apps Enter, Five Gaming Apps Leave. It’s Your Anti-Climactic Week in Gaming Apps
Cliff Diving, cartoon references, futuristic racing, twisted puzzles and Activision making more money. Yep, just another Week in Gaming Apps. This week saw the release of Skylanders Cloud Patrol, giving fans of Activision’s toys-meets-games series something else to plug their colorful plastic people into, while giving Activision another revenue stream on top of angry parents…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! While I’m out and about on the Boston convention floor at PAX, you are reading this article, prepared to bring judgment down on the metaphorical heads of Kotaku readers. Or something like that. So if you want your favorite commenter (who is not you, or your alter-ego, or your other personality…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
The Great PAX East Kotaku Reader Takeover Experiment
For the next hour we’ll be handing control of Kotaku over to our PAX East readers. They’ll be writing stories, suggesting images, moderating comments, and who knows, maybe one of us will get fired! Follow all the action from the PAX East Takeover Kotaku panel right here. Warning: we’re letting reader liveblog as well. This…
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UncategorizedThe Free Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack Mixes Up Multiplayer Next Week
Bummed that the extended Mass Effect 3 ending DLC won’t contain any new playable content? All the new playable content you could ever want is right around the corner; you just have to believe in multiplayer. The Resurgence Pack brings a ton of new playable characters and two fresh new maps (thank goodness) to the…
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UncategorizedIon Racer Stays Fun Without the Need For Speed
Though racers are a natural for a device with an accelerometer and no physical controls. Their drawback is how they handle speed. Tilting the device forward fundamentally alters your viewing angle, making fast-twitch reactions difficult for newcomers. Ion Racer (99 cents, iOS devices) a futruristic race game taking cues from WipEout, shrewdly avoids this problem…
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UncategorizedThis Might Be the Only Way a Live-Action Pac-Man Movie Could Ever Work
Production company Steelhouse and writer James Farr have just answered one of life’s greatest questions: How do you make a live-action film about a yellow ball with eyes that runs about a maze eating dots and ghosts without resorting to a man in a giant foam suit? The trick, it seems, was keeping Pac-Man a…
By Mike Fahey
