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Nintendo Allegedly Confirms Wii Price Cut, Effective Sept. 27
Nintendojo has reported that Nintendo, in a conference call with retailers, confirmed that the Wii’s price will be cut to $199, effective Sunday, Sept. 27. Nintendojo says one of its staffers was on the line during this call. I’ve emailed our Nintendo of America PR contact to ask if they’d like to add anything. Likely,…
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Zombie Apocalypse Dated; XBox Live Gets it a Day Early
Konami’s given a release date to its top-down undead blast-o-thon Zombie Apocalypse, and it’s next week! Xbox Live users get the title Sept. 23, or Thursday. PlayStation Network users will see it Friday, Sept. 24. The game is $9.99 on PSN, 800 Microsoft points on XBL. For your ten bones, you get 55 levels and…
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Alignment Error: Even Good Games Can Offer Bad Choices
Few things mar a game, especially a role-playing game, like being sold on creating a complex, even unique character and then being presented with tendentiously noble or evil choices to build out that role. Knights of the Old Republic was a four-star achievement in role playing games, but I do agree with Richard Naik at…
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Bootlegged Virtual Sex Toys Get Second Life Sued
Yep. If Second Life’s involved, how could sex toys not also be involved? A manufacturer of, uh, intimacy aids has filed a lawsuit alleging that users bootleg, with impunity, the virtual sex toy brand it also sells in Second Life. Eros LLC of Florida, which produces the popular (or so I am told, anyway) SexGen…
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Where Madden Plugs a Gap, Another Sees a Running Lane
In building a football video game without a full NFL license, Jeff Anderson discovered his toughest pitch wasn’t to investors, but the press. “They’d say, ‘Don’t you understand? You’re not supposed to be making a football product. That’s EA’s job.'” “I’d say, ‘I guess I didn’t get that memo,'” said Anderson, CEO of Quick Hit…
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Weekend Coupons: Backward Compatible to the Future
Which classic consoles can be grabbed, 2-in-1, for the price of a good bottle of whiskey – without having to pay that ugly commission to a modder? Find out inside, it’s Kotaku’s Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Retro gaming fans can pick up a twin NES/SNES combo console for $35 with free shipping through Buy.com. The…
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Kotaku Originals: Bundles of Joy
‘Twas the week for console news. Modern Warfare 2 and ODST are both doing 360 bundles, MW2’s with a super-size drive. The PS3’s 250 gig flavor continues to tease from overseas. And the Wii might be in for a haircut. Elsewhere, Crecente reviewed Scribblenauts and WET; Totilo spent some quality time with Assassin’s Creed 2’s…
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AJ’s Super-Huge PSP Media Event Blitz
I seriously did not anticipate the sheer number of games I’d be seeing for the PSP at last night’s Sony Computer Entertainment event. Too bad there wasn’t time to play them all. I did my best to prioritize the stuff we hadn’t seen before, but I found myself jockeying with a lot of other journalists…
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Capcom Babies Brought into a World of Swag
Seems Capcom USA (driving down the 101, San Mateo here we come … ) has seen an employee baby-havin’ boom lately. To properly indoctrinate the next generation, their offspring are romping around in Capcom-themed onesies with the drop-seat dumper flaps. Ha-POOP-en!!! Snow’s blog on Capcom-Unity showcased the six jumpers, ironed on with Dark Void, a…
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Mega Man History Book Cancelled
Mega Man fans might have been looking forward to “Mega Man: Complete History,” which Barnes & Noble had listed for pre-order earlier this year. Publisher Chronicle Books told Go Nintendo the project has been scrapped. Says a Chronicle rep: Unfortunately this book will not be published, but we are coming out with a Street Fighter…
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Petz Preview: There’s Some Strategy Here
Sometimes at a press event, it’s a good idea to try the one game everybody doesn’t want to play – because it’s usually right next to the one everybody would kill to see. That’s right: Petz was my devious strategy to get a good look at Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines. Was it worth it? Actually, yes…
By AJ Glasser