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Ready for Some Football? On the PS4, Not Really …
David Halberstam was killed in a car wreck the day I bought my Xbox 360. I don’t mean to trivialize the death of a great writer—October 1964 is one of my favorite books, in any subject—but it’s God’s honest truth that his death is the only reason I remember anything about the day. The rest…
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What If Sony Hired Leonard Nimoy to Pitch the PlayStation 4—in 1981?
Hats off to IGN for making the past into a prologue with this PlayStation 4 hype video demake starring a pornstached Leonard Nimoy from 30 years ago. My God, I think the last time I heard that opening synthesizer anthem was in a Raycom highlight show before Maryland and Duke played in the 1984 ACC…
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Cops Say Dad, Visiting Badly Burned Son, Stole Three Game Consoles From a Hospital
A five-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter set his shirt on fire and went to the hospital with serious burns on Wednesday. Cops allege that his father went to the hospital’s family waiting room, and consoled himself with a Wii, PlayStation and Xbox raided from a supply cabinet. Pittsburgh police say that Jim Skursky…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hands Down
Before you climb all over Bungie’s boy band for doing nothing and still looking ridiculous at the PS4 event, I want you to understand how damn hard it is get on stage and do nothing with your hands and not look ridiculous. This is why people still use handheld microphones or speak at lecterns they…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Diggin’ in the Desert: The Winners
There are two types of people in this world, my friend: Those who start video game companies, and those who dig. Nolan Bushnell is both. A staged shot of Atari’s founder in the Dubai desert launched last week’s ‘Shop Contest. Though perennial all-star Sciteach got two entries in this week, he’s not the overall winner—uscg_pa…
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War Never Changes—It Just Gets Modded
The modern fighting force must be highly adaptable to enemies capable of asymmetrically modifying the theater of combat at any time. No general in history has ever said that, it’s just some official-sounding jargon-laced bullshit I thought up to explain why Pac-Man, Skyrim and Team Fortress 2 all fit together in this video by AndrewMFilms.…
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Less Than Two Weeks Before Release, MLB 2K13 Gets a Trailer
Last month I cast doubt on the idea that MLB 2K13 would be noticeably different from MLB 2K12. This trailer from 2K Sports, released Thursday, shows me that I am wrong. MLB 2K13 will have the Houston Astros realigned to the American League, and they’ll be wearing their new uniforms. So if you are a…
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Ubisoft Wants ‘to Improve Our Relationship’ with PC Gamers
Ubisoft’s name has been mud with PC gamers for a good long while. Ending always-on requirement to play games and other DRM restrictions helped it somewhat, but it is still widely perceived as a publisher most interested in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles—and for good reason, as Rayman Legends fans might say. So the…
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Judging by the .gifs, Microsoft’s Console Announcement Should Be Right Around the Corner
Scuttlebutt has it that Microsoft is eyeballing an April date to reveal its next console, in an event similar to what Sony held for the PS4 on Wednesday. While this is very, very thinly sourced, we’ve heard the same murmuring, and a domain registration by the company that handles Microsoft’s E3 keynotes has drawn a…
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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Just remember, Mario was the first. The above image is courtesy of The Coolsumist. I’m officially on vacation for about a week and a half! Woo! I’ll see you guys on the other end of next week. Now let’s…
By Tina Amini
