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Endurance Run Fails a Third Time in Q*Bert Record Bid
If George Leutz hasn’t gone completely Ahab already, I’d advise him to let go of the Q*Bert world record. His latest assault on the mark, whose 33 million score is believed to require more than 70 hours of nonstop gameplay, ended in exhaustion after 57 hours, 40 minutes on a single quarter at the joystick.…
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Big Game Makers Take Names Off SOPA Support
The Stop Online Piracy Act, currently a bill before the Congress, is utterly detested by the Internet, in case you don’t read the Internet. Gamers don’t think much of it either, as it would have some rather stupid ramifications for how they enjoy that lifestyle and consume its products. So it’s of note that Nintendo,…
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Ring in the New
Tomorrow brings the new year, in all of its promise. One of those promises is new games. The final Moneysaver of 2011 has more than 60 deals on this year’s crop of games, and a couple for next year’s. too. Check them out! Software • Jan. 31 release Final Fantasy XIII-2 (360, PS3) is $44.99,…
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Holiday Programming Note
It’s the New Year’s weekend. While Kotaku does have stories and posts planned, we also get the day off. So we’re moving some things around. You’ll see some of our usual Sunday features publishing today instead of then. Happy New Year everyone, and thank you for reading Kotaku.
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UncategorizedA Multiplayer Role-Playing Game You Can Play in Swapnote
Savannah College of Art and Design game design student Ben “MNC Dover” Gray saw more than just a chance to draw dicks with Nintendo’s free Swapnote program for the 3DS. He saw a chance to draw +4 vorpal dicks. What Ben is proposing in this video is a nifty variation of good old play-by-mail Dungeons…
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These Are the Best Indie Games of 2011
Just as its sister site ModDB picks the top PC gaming mods of the year, IndieDB rounds out the year with a countdown of the top independently developed games of the year. Think of it as a shopping list to help establish your indie gaming cred. How many of the top ten have you played?…
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One Very Good Reason to Be a Nintendo-Exclusive Gamer
Tired of being picked on and looked down upon for being a Nintendo-exclusive console owner, commenter ClaudioIphigenia speaks up on Kotaku about the rather reasonable reasoning behind his brand loyalty. So after having just replied to three different comments on why I only own a Nintendo console, I figured it was time for a Speak…
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Wipeout 2048 Was This Close to a Beautiful Zombie Apocalypse
For some odd reason Wipeout 2048 lead designer Karl Jones and game director Stuart Tilley decided it was a good idea to explain in detail just how cool the futuristic PlayStation Vita racer was before they scrapped the terror-inducing Zombie secret game mode. How can a futuristic racing game possibly add zombies? I know it…
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