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This is the Only Post on Kotaku That Looks Normal
To: Luke From: Owen Re: AbNo That’s because the Weekend Note doesn’t usually get an image. I hope we get the image servers back soon. Not that yesterday and today were a party, but I don’t want to know what Monday would look like without them. Other stuff you missed: Kinect Marketer: We Don’t Want…
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UncategorizedYou Won’t Go It Alone in Singularity
Not sure what Singularity is all about? This trailer for its multiplayer – now there’s an irony – should clue you in. For starters, it’s got projectile-vomiting, time-traveling zombies, a real one-up of that conventional foe. That bug that possesses you and makes you shoot your teammates looks like a barrel of fun. Looks like…
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The Cars of Need For Speed World
The beta for the racing MMO Need For Speed World launches on Monday, and Electronic Arts has revealed its list of cars. The 1981 Renault 5 LeCar, 1977 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and 1985 Pontiac Fiero did not make the cut. The cars are grouped by tiers according to performance. Here you go. Tier 1 Mazdaspeed3…
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The Week in Games: APB is 10-8
That’s scanner-speak for “in service.” The arrival of the highly anticipated crime MMO headlines the week, joined by Singularity on PC, the 360 and PS3, and Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 doing a full Ginsberg. Today, June 27 Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Wii) Monday, June 28 thinkSMART (DS) Tuesday, June 29 APB (PC) –…
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UncategorizedKotaku’s Top Five List of Top Ten Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The 8 Most Annoying Types of Video Game Levels [Ranker] Here’s one: Boss battles that take you from the standard third-person control you’ve been fighting…
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UncategorizedOne of Games’ Greatest Songs, Defiled by the Vuvuzela
Best part? If you go to the YouTube page, you can click that soccer ball and get TWICE the vuvuzela crapping all over “The Song of Storms,” from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time [via GamesRadar, video by forum poster RetroDLC.]
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‘Major Patch’ is on the Way for Backbreaker
Backbreaker the challenger to Madden NFL that got one very big thing right but a lot of little things wrong (or not at all), will get a “major patch” taking into account community suggestions, the studio said on Friday. “We’ve had to hold back on discussing this for the past couple of weeks but today…
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The Fickle Fortunes of Comic-Con
Though Hollywood has cozied up to Comic-Con, which is in San Diego on July 22, a film’s strong showing there does not necessarily portend success at the box office. Nor does a poor screening imply a bomb. In a look at Comic-Con The New York Times notes that a film industry dazzled by the faith…
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Kinect Marketer: We Don’t Want Shovelware — Nor Even Call of Duty
Microsoft’s director of platform marketing says he knows Kinect “will have fewer games than our competitors,” but that’s fine. “We don’t want shovelware, we don’t want ports, we don’t want stuff with motion controls tacked onto it.” “That’s not a slam to our competitors,” Chris Penello told Gamasutra in an interview Friday. “We wanted original…
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