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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
What manner of man is this who can summon up Talk Amongst Yourselves without flint or tinder … Some call me … Owen … Great big thanks to Jimmy_Jazz for today’s #TAYpic, interrupting what looks like an Orlando-L.A. Lakers game with some skywalking and cherubic trash-talking. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Grab…
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Sunday Comics: Waiting is the Hardest Part
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Feb. 15.—Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 13.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
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Gotham City ‘Shoppers: The Winners
A motley crew of Gotham City impostors sauntering over a pedestrian bridge to work gave us this week’s ‘Shop Contest inspiration. We’ve got 20 hilarious impostors-of-impostors in your evening commute, plus a big hand for pan1da7! Leading off, yes, a lot of people tried the Strutting Leo meme. While Guilherme_B (6) didn’t do it first,…
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ReviewsArmy Corps of Hell: The Kotaku Review
Into the midst of the PlayStation Vita’s launch lineup drops a fiery comet, crashing through the Earth’s crust and plunging into the mythical underworld below to amass a massive force of evil with infernal domination in mind. The Army Corps of Hell is recruiting. Should you join up? The King of Hell is back in…
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Should a Video Game Have Predicted the Rise of Jeremy Lin?
Ordinarily, NBA 2K12 updates its rosters once a week. This week, it got not one, but three revisions in the span of four days. Jeremy Lin had a hand in all three. The first update came Wednesday, well after the 38-point coming-out party Lin and the New York Knicks staged on Feb. 10 against Kobe…
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Oblivion, Fallout Get Combined Release in April—but Not on PS3
For those whose first foray into Tamriel came this year with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the series’ maker will offer the preceding entry, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion combined with another outstanding role-playing game, Fallout 3. The combo will be $29.99 on Xbox 360, $19.99 on PC in March. What about PS3? Bethesda Game…
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UncategorizedAnd Now, Here’s the Most Evil DLC—DLC the Game
The implied social contract of paid, planned and premium downloadable content is, “don’t want it? Don’t buy it.” OK, well, what if the game itself is buying planned premium downloadable content? Mega64’s latest satire gets a 5/5 on the evil scale from me.
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Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft
The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. “There’s nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer,” Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft‘s creator, told Eurogamer, “which pre-dates Minecraft.” What the hell is Infiniminer?…
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Sony’s U.S. Chief Says a PS4 Reveal Would be “a Distraction” in 2012
Further solidifying the stance that we’re not gonna hear anything about Sony’s next console, Jack Tretton, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment America, told IGN that we can rule out any PS4 reveal in 2012. “I, quite frankly, would be very distracted if I had to be talking about next generation hardware this year,” Tretton…
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UncategorizedFirst Mojam Game Gets a Name: Catacomb Snatch [UPDATE]
Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, invited over some friends this weekend to build video games from scratch and raise a ton of cash for charity. Mojang, Oxeye Game Studios and Wolfire Games have already raised more than $200,000. But don’t forget, you can play the end product of their build-a-thon, when it ends in about…
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Let’s Punch Up Some Deals
A $20 discount on Skyrim‘s collectors edition joins modest savings and bonus credits on Tuesday’s new releases to highlight our latest edition of The Moneysaver. We’ve got more than 50 deals, values and savings in hardware, software and digital downloads inside! Software • Feb. 21 release Asura’s Wrath (360, PS3) is $56.99, free shipping from…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
As Kotaku’s weekend editor, my problem is the fact Friday is my hump day. Now, I know it’s a lot of other folks’ hump day too, but for different purposes. But when I talk about what I’ll be playing this weekend, bear in mind this is like what you would be playing on your Thursday…
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UncategorizedThe Best Use of the Vita’s Rear Touch Panel So Far
One of the best uses of the PS Vita’s rear touch panel comes from the FIFA folks at EA Sports, who realized that the back of the Vita and the back of the goal aren’t that different after all. I’ve purchased two different versions of FIFA 12 in an attempt to learn a sports game…
By Mike Fahey
