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Madden‘s Fake Twitter Feed Will Add a Fashion Critic
Madden NFL‘s delightful ersatz Twitter feed, which debuted with Skip Bayless haranguing your created pro, in perfect character, will return to the game’s career mode next year. We know that because of a most unusual addition to the roll-up: Paul Lukas, the aesthete of athletes who operates the Uni Watch blog and writes for ESPN.…
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After His Battle With Cancer, a Fan Gets a Memorial in Total War
Shortly after his visit to get a very early preview of Total War: Rome 2 last year, a 24-year-old gamer named James died, taken by liver cancer in the prime of his life. Eurogamer reports that Total War studio Creative Assembly was so touched by the short time it spent with James that his image…
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A Telltale Heartbeat Informs the Latest Hero of Ace Attorney
Taking a page from Matt Murdock, the latest hero of the Ace Attorney series is a lawyer who can listen to heartbeats to determine if they’re telling the truth. That said, Kizuki Kokone is not yet an expert at doing so, says the game’s official web page, in a post revealing her arrival in Ace…
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Missile Command‘s 31-Year-Old All-Time Record Has Fallen [Update]
Victor Sandberg of Sweden has been playing Missile Command for more than 52 hours on a single coin, chasing a record that has stood since 1982. The all-time high world record high score of 80.5 million points is held by another Victor, in this case someone named Victor Ali. [Update] Victor Sandberg is the new…
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Coder Discovers Mandatory 20-Minute Offline Timeout in SimCity
Last week, two of our writers played SimCity and deliberately turned off their Internet connections, both finding their games continued normally and then abruptly ended after 20 minutes. Someone now has posted what appears to be code for the game that orders a shutdown after a disconnection exactly that long. That allegation further punctures the…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pope Francish
Hey, don’t say I didn’t warn you. When the College of Cardinals selected the 266th pope on Wednesday, video gamers all around the world had the same reaction: Francis? The implacable, lisping video game nerd who issues weekly encyclicals bemoaning the worldly excesses of video gaming? (And yes, we know he’s a comedian.) Perfect choice.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Emperor Has No Pants: The Winners
This week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, like the rest of the site, requires an always-on Internet connection to access. Of course, our servers actually work, so this isn’t much of a problem. Last week our smart ‘Shoppers pantsed SimCity with 18 mayoral portraits, including overall winner Josh Alsarona’s! androidpk AnxiousLogic AnxiousLogic arniejolt arniejolt azureguy Dafishies eraofmattitude…
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She Hacked The Legend of Zelda So It Now Stars Zelda, Saving Link
This is one of those things that seems so obvious, it feels like someone should have done it before. After all, just last week someone finally got the idea to mod a Donkey Kong ROM so that Pauline could save Mario. That’s exactly what inspired Kenna W., a professional animator, to mod a Legend of…
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Watch All of Assassin’s Creed II, Edited Into a Feature-Length Movie
The same gentleman who edited all of the scenes from Uncharted into feature-length movies is at it again. He’s just stitched together Assassin’s Creed II, following the release (sort of) of Assassin’s Creed back in November. The editor is Andy Gilleand. You can watch the whole thing above (it should be obvious, if you have…
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There Are a Lot of Filthy Words Written in Simlish in The Sims Freeplay
The Simlish alphabet has been translated before, but The Sims Freeplay, the game’s mobile edition, appears to use a different one. Redditor Bump424 this morning published what figures to be the game’s Rosetta Stone, and found some wirty-dords hidden in the signs. A sign that appears to be a calendar instead says “Multiplication Fuck You”…
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