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A Video Game Might Recreate Auburn’s Miracle, But It Can’t Be Repeated
As Auburn’s grandstands still thundered above him, A.J. McCarron, the Alabama quarterback born in 1990, searched for the words to describe losing in such irregular fashion—on a play that had happened only five times before in major college football history, and never to decide a game, much less one this consequential. Today there seems to…
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Holiday Heads Discovered in Borderlands‘ Thanksgiving DLC
The second Headhunter pack of DLC for Borderlands 2 arrived at a suspiciously large download size this week—large enough that fans went poking and probing and, lo and behold, they found something they shouldn’t have. Up above, in that video, are the holiday-themed heads and skins to be unlocked (or otherwise distributed) by some future…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: I Love a Parade
Despite high winds, on Thursday Macy’s managed to fly balloons in its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade without anyone being injured (or cops stabbing and stomping Barney the Dinosaur to death) That gives me an idea for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Two years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog’s reintroduction to the parade was the subject of this…
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GTA V Cop Has a Nervous Breakdown, Goes Walkabout
There’s something Falling Down-esque about this cop’s nervous breakdown in Grand Theft Auto V. He almost gets the squad car out of the driveway with a multi-point back-and-fill move—but then … he just loses it. Tim Burke over at Deadspin captured this; it happened in the open world after finishing the heist mission Blitz Play.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Sportsbros: The Winners
This week we asked you to make hay with the forbidding gaze of EA Sports’ next-gen cover stars. Son, I am not disappoint with this effort, which gives us a split overall No. 1 between Ginger Snap and halfbeast! Halfbeast, know that your work was greatly admired by everyone here inside Kotaku. Tina was amazed…
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Robbers Settle for PS4 When GameStop is All Out of the Xbox One
In the new console generation, the PlayStation 4 appears to be the second best choice—for robbers in Indianapolis that is. Tuesday evening, two suspsects stormed a GameStop on the south side of the city and demanded—by name—all of the Xbox Ones in stock. The GameStop employees replied, more or less, “Uh, we don’t got any.”…
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Modder Shows Xbox One Can Boot From a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive
Despite the lack of support to swap in different hard drives (especially ones of a larger capacity) in the Xbox One, this guy says he’s gotten the two pieces of hardware to cooperate. Not only that, the console runs faster with a non-stock hard drive installed. Booting to the main screen goes about 10 percent…
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He Thought He Was Buying a PS4; He Got a Box of Towels Instead
A man in Colorado Springs got (sunglasses) fleeced when he met a dude to buy a PlayStation 4 and ended up with a box of towels. That said, they do dry you off a lot better than the Xbox One. Cops in the Springs say the man answered a Craigslist ad, hoping to buy the…
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The Sun‘s Page 3 Girl was The Playstation 4
Friday saw the launch of the PlayStation 4 in the U.K., and The Sun’s notorious Page 3 treated blokes there to a new model—one much less curvy than usual. Sony took over Page Three (and two) for a day, apologizing (sigh, apologising) to “Rosie, 22, from Middlesex,” for displacing her. That couldn’t have been a…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of November 25
Hello, I am writing to you from the past, where my belly is not filled with all sorts of Thanksgiving-style food and birthday cake. If you’re still around, check out our best content from this week over at Kotaku Selects And yes, it’s my birthday! Today! This very day! This moment! I am probably out…
By Tina Amini
