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Candy Box: A Game That’s Simple, Sweet, and Strangely Compelling
When I got the link from a friend on Twitter, I thought Candy Box was some kind of a test or a joke. Candies started accumulating, and the only button I could click was “eat all the candies.” Gulp. Glump. OK. If eating sweets was a management sim, this would be the game. But I…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rasta Banana
Let’s spare a word of charity for Henry Gribbohm, who redefined “booby prize” when he spent his life’s savings trying to win an Xbox 360 at a carnival game and instead walked away with an enormous dreadlocked banana, at the effective price of $2,600. That fairly calls for ‘Shop Contest immortality, wouldn’t you say? So…
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A Real Man Knows How to Turn on the N64 and Push Its Buttons (NSFW)
Well, now. This .gif series gets a big ole George Takei “Oh my …” It’s just someone doing suggestive things to a Nintendo 64 controller, is that NSFW? Well, yeah, because I’d probably get arrested for showing it to a minor. Update: The .gifs were ripped from this video, “Hardcore Gamer,” uploaded in February by…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pot-Man: The Winners
Last week, Luis Tyler beat all you ever saw, gettin’ in trouble with the law with 55 pounds of marijuana packed into a Pac-Man cabinet. This was a grand time to introduce him to the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, and it resulted in a first! The first ever tag-team overall No. 1, thanks to all-stars Sciteach…
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Call of Duty Blamed as Boy Admits Killing Mom with Birthday-Gift Rifle
It’s been a cheerful day for video game crime news, hasn’t it? First was the teenage father who sawed a former friend’s neck down to the trachea over some Xbox Live name-calling. Now an Iowa boy says he killed and attempted to rape his mother after she took away Call of Duty. That’s according to…
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Celebrate Star Wars Day with a Livestream of Battlefront III [Update]
This just popped up on Twitch.tv, it’s a livestream of pre-alpha gameplay of the long-lamentedStar Wars: Battlefront III, by Past to Present Online Though reports suggested the game was “99 percent done” when LucasArts scrapped it, obviously you’re seeing something in a pre-alpha state here. Word is that this version, by Free Radical, came eight…
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Meme Creator: Wouldn’t You Be Sued for Using Scribblenauts‘ Copyright?
People howled when word spread that the creators of Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat were suing Scribblenauts over the unauthorized use of those memes in the series’ latest game. Frivolous lawsuit! Bullshit! Well, think of it this way: Big Video Game is finally getting sued by the little guy—for copyright infringement. That is how Christopher…
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Throat-Slashing Blamed on a Gears of War Relationship Gone Bad
A 14-year-old admitted to slashing a 13-year-old’s throat in an assault Scottish authorities blamed on a soured online friendship developed over Gears of War. Of course the game itself is blamed but when the 14-year-old already is a father, you’re not talking about someone with good decision-making and impulse control. The Daily Mail is all…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 29th
There were some exciting video game happenings this week! Grand Theft Auto V got three new trailers—one big trailer?—for the three protagonists you get to control in Rockstar’s next game. Bossman Stephen Totilo checked the game out for the very first time, and came away with a ton of details written with a ton of…
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How Many Games Made It Into Apple’s Top 100 Apps of All-Time?
With the iTunes App Store quickly approaching the 50 billion downloads mark — that’s about six or seven apps for every person on the planet — Apple is showcasing a list of the top 100 free and paid iPhone and iPad apps of all-time, or as I like to call it, 47 gaming apps and…
By Mike Fahey
