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Chris Hecker Rants at GDC Without Saying a Word
It’s revealing that at first I didn’t get the point of this, which is Chris Hecker’s rant at Game Developers Conference 2013. So much of the nonstop big budget press conference bullshit you hear in this business all sounds alike, forcing me into a kind of weird active listening where I’m trying to decode pabulum…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk
Everyone had so much fun annotating little Samael Henkel’s Arma II table yesterday that I figured it had to be good for our latest ‘Shop Contest. Look, I know it’s just a table, but this is where you guys come in. If you can make that funny, you can make anything funny. And I have…
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Is It OK to Take a Free Game When the Company Selling It Makes a Mistake?
As I was packing up for some time off about 10 days ago, someone sent an email to me and others who had review copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 that all of the game’s downloadable courses were already on Xbox Live, and none of them had a price. It was $67 worth of…
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Xbox 360 golfers, the Stick Jockey Country Club is now accepting membership applications in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and we’ve waived the initiation fee and credit history check. Search for “Stick Jockey” among the game’s country clubs and use the password jockey317stick to join. Please remember that Stick Jockey CC is a very exclusive…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Habemas Pope Francish
So, here we go, the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest debuts under the site’s third design in the four-year history of the feature. Thanks for your patience while I was away last week; today, we round up a look at the latest leader of the Ecclesiastical Church of St. Games, Francis, the lisping, PC-gaming ragemonger who had…
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‘Warzone’ Multiplayer is on Gears of War: Judgment Disc Thanks to Stray Code
Earlier this week Gears fans figured out how to trigger Warzone—it has to be done from a private Team Deathmatch, while hitting the A and B buttons simultaneously in the match’s parameters menu. Warzone’s exclusion and mysterious reappearance led to rumors the mode was going to be included later as paid DLC, but an Epic…
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So, It Seems Lil Wayne is Sampling Assassin’s Creed Now (not Mass Effect)
This is “Trigger Finger” from Lil Wayne’s newest album I Am Not a Human Being II, released Tuesday. But Mass Effect Assassin’s Creed fans should recognize that opening sample, before it lights up a bowl and rolls into the filth-flarn-filth lyrics (so, yes, NSFW warning if you’re listening around others over speakers.) [Update] Reader SRTMH…
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A Six-Year Old is Modding Arma II, and He Made This Table
No, this isn’t particularly spectacular for a mod, much less one for ArmA II, but it is one made by a six-year-old boy, who was curious why his dad spent so much time in front of the computer. When Myke Henkel told his son he was making things for a video game, son Samael insisted…
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Sad You Weren’t At GDC? Me Too. Let’s Take A Virtual Tour Of All The Cool Stuff Instead.
This year’s Game Developers Conference is about to end today, leaving behind great panel discussions and announcements, and also a lot of other cool stuff that was not shown on any stream. The GDC staff already uploaded almost 1,000 photos to their official Flickr page, and we’ve selected a few exciting ones to show more…
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A New Week in Gaming Apps for an All-New Kotaku
This week’s special late edition of the Week in Gaming Apps is brought to you by learning how to use an entirely new publishing system on the fly. It’s a learning experience. Oh my goodness these images are so big. Fortunately many of this week’s gaming apps were big as well. We’ve got Magicka on…
By Mike Fahey
