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Super Mario’s Creator Says Wii U Skepticism Mirrors the Nintendo DS Debut
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda, gave an interview to CNN this weekend about the Wii U that basically amounts to “Please give us a chance.” He thinks the skepticism shown to the Wii U is akin to the early doubts about the first Nintendo DS, and that public…
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In 30 Tender Portraits, LucasArts Remembers LucasArts
The closure of LucasArts as a video games developer this week hit many right between the eyes. None staggered harder than those who worked for the studio, all of whom were laid off. Gamers and fans took the news personally thanks to nostalgia, remembering the good times playing great games, or because of a keen…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bad Guys
“The tallest trees catch the most wind,” said Peter Moore, the EA executive, about being a front-runner for a “Worst Company in America” poll. Well, If EA catches the most wind, we’re here to break it, in Kotaku’s weekly ‘Shop Contest. Your mission: Portray EA in the most comically evil way possible. Snidely, Scut and…
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Uniform Policy: Why Video Game Golfers All Look the Same at the Sport’s Most Prestigious Club
There’s no formal dress code for Augusta National Golf Club as it appears in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, but all created golfers must wear the same thing when they play it this year. This is unintentional, but admittedly a goof-up, two of the game’s designers told me on Friday. Granted, I play a lot…
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The Newest Pokémon Looks Startlingly Similar to An Old Favorite
Debuting earlier today on Japan’s “Pokémon Smash” TV show, the latest pocket monster revealed for Pokémon X and Y bears more than a little resemblance to one of the coolest creatures ever to be stuffed inside a tiny plastic ball. Mewtwo, Brute? For those of you who don’t remember Mewtwo, he was a complete and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk: The Winners
When I drew on a table at age six, I was suspended from recess—on the first day of school. Little Samael Henkel does it and he gains worldwide fame and he sits for a dignified portait in front of our Kotaku ‘Shop Contest shoppers. We have a dozen finalists inside, plus overall No. 1 and…
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Report: Chinese Gamers Think Chinese Games Pretty Much Suck
We as Westerners complain about the quality of video games all day long. At least we are not subjected to state-run tracts like I Carry Shit Up the Side of the Hill for the Commune Simulator 2013 or whatever it is that China’s propaganda ministry is cooking up these days. Even Chinese gamers hate it,…
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Hey, I Just Hacked You, and That Sounds Crazy, but RockBand.com is Offline, So Change Your Passwords Maybe
Hackers appear to have struck RockBand.com and DanceCentral.com right as the games’ maker, Harmonix ended a 281-week run of offering new songs to both rhythm games. While that may seem late to the party to some, to others, closing down a service might be a great time to harvest user names and passwords and try…
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Which One of These Things is Not Like the Other?
Fuse is developed by Insomniac Games. Fuse is a third-person co-operative shooter. Fuse will release May 28. Fuse will not have an Online Pass. And Fuse will not have any microtransactions. But Fuse will be published by Electronic Arts. Hey, maybe everyone was wrong about all that Worst Company in America stuff after all? Fuse…
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Xbox 360 Used as a Weapon in Strange Florida Murder
In five years of writing about weird crime here, I’ve heard of gaming consoles being involved in violent crime in just about every way possible—except as a weapon itself. That’s one of the many bizarre features of a murder in Florida last Sunday. The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale reported this week that cops in Broward…
By Owen Good
