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Introducing Soccer Relegation to American Football — in a Video Game
Maybe the only way to make the Oakland Raiders’ season interesting past the sixth week would be to force them – and every other wretched team – to play for the right to stay in the National Football League. That will never happen in real life. But Backbreaker, coming Tuesday from NaturalMotion and 505 Games,…
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UFC Online’s One-Use Code a Lesson in How Not to Do It [Updated]
THQ’s decision to put UFC Undisputed 2010‘s multiplayer behind a “Project $10” one-use code was controversial enough. Its slapdash implementation in the game couldn’t make the publisher look worse. Update:: THQ has responded with a statement. THQ’s statement: At midnight on May 24, the UFC Undisputed 2010 Microsoft servers went live and we experienced a…
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NBA Live is Now NBA Elite [Update]
Earlier today, the NBA Live page on Facebook put up that image, and the answer seems to be “What is the new name of EA Sports’ NBA franchise?” Correct! I’ll take “Potpourri” for a thousand, Alex … That’s according to Official Xbox Magazine, whose latest issue reveals the name change in an exclusive from EA…
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Report: Air Jordan on Cover, Possibly Playable in NBA 2K11
ESPN, citing multiple unnamed sources, says 2K Sports is pursuing basketball’s greatest player ever, Michael Jordan, for the cover of NBA 2K11 and may have plans to feature him as a playable character in the game. Jon Robinson, ESPN’s sports gaming columnist, adds that he’s “heard whispers” that 2K has been in negotiations with Jordan’s…
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This Is More Likely How The World Ends
We can daydream about alien invasion, killer robots, and rampaging genetic mutations, but the world is more likely to go on until something like this happens: the death of a star. Sure, we’ll all be long-dead by the time it happens, but it’s nice to image that our sun will look nearly as pretty as…
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ModNation Racers Creator Talks Playing, Creating, And Sharing Beer
Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download. United Front Games’ Dan Sochan took your calls today about ModNation Racers, the newly-released create-your-own racing game for the PlayStation 3. Hell, he even took…
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How Many Free PSP Go Games Does Europe Need?
Europe has been on the receiving end of great PSP Go game bundles since the device launched in October of last year, and they’re only getting better, with Sony soon offering ten free big-name titles to Euro Go purchasers. It seems like Sony has always pushed the PSP Go stronger in Europe than it has…
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