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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roll Out the Barrel
Mr. Iwata, Reggie (in particular) and Miyamoto have been great friends to the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest over its three year history, so we’re going back to them again with this pic from E3, which I’d like to think Nintendo shot just for your amusement. This one one was a mortal lock for the contest from…
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Here’s a Look at One of the iPhone’s New Game Controllers
With Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren’t elegant enough for his device, it appears we’ll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech. Can’t tell you who gave it to us or where it was seen, but we can…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Power of Wub: The Winners
For the first time in history, we had a three-time finalist in the latest edition of the Kotaku’ Shop Contest, which sought to make Saints Row IV‘s “Dubsteb Gun” even more ridiculous than it already is. But he wasn’t the overall winner. Who was? Menome! (above) Duck season! Wabbit season! Wub season! Fire! First, the…
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Inside EA Sports, Why Madden Must Be Called ‘American Football’
Once upon a time there wasn’t much of a dispute over the word “football.” Over here, it meant cheerleaders, instant replay, and concussions. Over there, it meant relegation, riots, and flopping. Then came the Internet, and commenters stomping around in one another’s mud puddles. Football. Soccer. Handegg. Communist Kickball. Whatever you call your version or…
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LEGO Figures Not as Happy as They Were 25 Years Ago, Says Research
Years ago, all LEGO minifigures had a placid, happy expression and a pointedly non-ethnic skintone that fit their role in the larger LEGO universe: They were props, the same as a tree or a fire hydrant. But as LEGO has made more movie tie-ins—and video games—its minifigs have become more brooding. Darker. Angrier. Christopher Bartneck,…
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Are These Real Answers, or Fake Questions, in This Xbox One Document?
This past week a 100-question internal FAQ on the Xbox One, purportedly official communications guidance from Microsoft, landed on Pastebin. It’s not the usual laundry list of wishful thinking you get in most video game fakes. That said, there’s no way to know if this is true or total B.S. Oh, we’ve asked Microsoft. Their…
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NBA Live‘s E3 Demo Doesn’t Sound Much Better than NBA Elite‘s
In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that’s what we saw…
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Forty-Five Mods Were Needed to Bring Man of Steel to Skyrim
Melding story elements of the first four Superman films—except the one where Richard Pryor recreates Kryptonite out of cigarettes—here is Skyrim at the Movies: Man of Steel, featuring Supes, Throthgar Luthor, Terence Stamp Zod, and Nuclear Man. It’s got Eve Teschmacher, too, just not as hot as Valerie Perrine. “Oh shit, it’s Zod.” Why it…
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What Will It Take to Get EA on the Wii U Again? ‘Sell More Boxes.’
The most glaring indictment of the Wii U’s poor performance to date is the fact that FIFA—one of the biggest-selling franchises worldwide, in any genre—is publishing for everything but Wii U. FIFA 14 will come out on the PSP. It will publish on the original Wii. There’ll be a version on the PS Vita, for…
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If The Chocobo Song Had Lyrics, They’d Be Sung In A Fake Irish Accent?
Prolific as he’s been over the past few years, video game lyricist Brentalfloss has never topped his rendition of “Crazy Duck In Space.” Now he’s finally given the Chocobo song from Final Fantasy the lyrics treatment, and he still hasn’t topped his DuckTales jam. I think it might be, quite possibly, the really odd Irish…
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This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3
I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf In the video above, SoundSelf’s designer Robin Arnott shows you the ins-and-outs of his LSD-trip inspired VR game, which he was showing off at the IndieCade booth at E3. SoundSelf is…
By Chris Person
