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The Man Who Played Luigi Recalls the Disastrous Super Mario Bros Movie
Super Mario Bros., the 1993 film, paved the way video game movies for all time to come. Namely, that everyone would expect them to be terrible. It opened 20 years ago on Tuesday, and John Leguizamo, who starred as Luigi, had the grace and good humor to record this message for a Super Mario Bros.…
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Baseball’s Video Game Diehards Savor a Slow Dance on the Basepaths
Paul Goldschmidt fishes for the 1-1 slider way outside of the strike zone. He kicks dirt over the batter’s box chalk, walks in a counterclockwise semicircle, fidgets with the brim of his helmet, and digs back in. Jon Garland rolls his shoulders and sweeps his foot twice over the pitching rubber. Now I may press…
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Microsoft Doesn’t Own XboxOne.com, Files Dispute Against Guy Who Does
Though it may seem ridiculous that Microsoft would name its new console without already owning the domain name for it, there are a couple of mitigating factors here. One is that the guy who owns XboxOne.com registered the name almost two years ago. That’s some good guessing! Fusible reports that Microsoft has filed a complaint…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Dog Duty
Well, we had the big Xbox One reveal. The big news:TV, sports, TV, sports and all that, and oh yeah, apparently Air Bud is gonna be in the next Call of Duty. If you saw the video and didn’t immediately think this week’s ‘Shop Contest was gonna do it doggie style, you must be new…
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What Was Inside Curiosity‘s Cube? ‘The Ability to be a Digital God’
Curiosity, a mobile game experiment that began six months ago as a collective effort to excavate a giant cube and discover a magical secret at its center, has been completed. The winner, whom creator Peter Molyneux identified as Bryan Henderson of Edinburgh, Scotland, will become the all-ruling god of Molyneux’s next game. Henderson will write…
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Capcom Cancels Blood-and-Guts Stunt After Grisly London Murder
Filling a swimming pool with fake blood and body parts to promote a video game never seemed to me like a particularly tasteful idea in the first place. It’s even less so after a grisly machete killing, described as an act of terrorism, roiled anger throughout London this week. Capcom planned the stunt to promote…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roboshop: The Winners
The three prime directives of the ‘Shop Contest: Serve the public trust; protect the innocent; uphold the funny. Working from a bigass statue of Robocop that, dead or alive, is coming to Detroit, we’ve got a baker’s dozen of hilarious ‘Shops inside, including overall No. 1 Negitoro! First, the original exploitable: And here are the…
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NCAA Football Used Tim Tebow’s Real Name Before He Graduated
Real college football players’ names are not supposed to appear in video games if they’re still in school at the time they are published. But Tim Tebow’s name slipped into NCAA Football 10, which came out during the Heisman Trophy winner’s senior year at Florida. Tebow still was called “QB#15” in the game itself, unless…
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The 360 Figures to Hang Around a Lot Longer than the Original Xbox Did
The Xbox 360 launched Nov. 22, 2005. Within two years, Microsoft unceremoniously discontinued its predecessor. The company expects the 360 to be with us a little longer this time. Yusuf Mehdi, a senior Microsoft executive, told Official Xbox Magazine that the company has a goal for the Xbox 360 of reaching a 100 million-unit installation…
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The World’s Coolest Iron Man Game Is Still GTA IV—and It’s Even Better
Five months ago, modder H1Vltg3 gave us an Iron Man script for Grand Theft Auto IV, and it was already loads better than the official Iron Man moviegame of 2008. With another five months’ worth of polish, it’s even better. [Update:] There was some dispute over credit in the original video so the uploader swapped…
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$100,000 Comic Book Found in the Wall of a $10,000 Home
A Minnesota man working on a fixer-upper tore down a wall and found, among the newspapers stuffed inside to insulate it, a copy of Action Comics No. 1. That’s right, Superman’s first appearance. The birth of superhero comics. It’ll go for at least $100,000—but it could have sold for a lot more. In a gobsmacking…
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Madden‘s TV Offer is the Deal That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Last week, Madden NFL 25 announced an “Anniversary Edition” that at first didn’t seem like it had much to offer. Then word started to circulate in an officially unofficial way that a promo code could be used to watch DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket NFL broadcast on a PC, with or without signing up with the satellite…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week Of May 20
Oh, man, what a week! The next Xbox, officially called Xbox One, has been revealed. Now Sony’s and Microsoft’s secrets are finally out. Or, most of it anyway. You can read the best of our work this week over at Kotaku Selects. I’m pooped out from planning for E3, which is a great place to…
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This Week The Internet Went Crazy Over These Glitchy And Artistic GIFs
The reveal of the Xbox One might have overshadowed content on the Internet this week, but that certainly wasn’t the case for the craftiest of internet denizens who convert anything worthy into an animated GIF. Whether it’s some sort of a video game glitch, like giant Spock’s terrifying stare above, or a nice form of…
By Gergo Vas
