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Here’s a Peek at Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack—Before Bungie’s Date with Destiny
Today’s the big day for Halo‘s ex, Bungie, which will soon tell all about its new affair, Destiny. That makes the discovery of these four images for Halo 4‘s forthcoming Majestic Map Pack quite a coincidence, indeed. It’s probably not as nefarious as it sounds, actually. NeoGAF user Wifiplayer13 found them by altering the URL…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let Me Google Iwata For You: The Winners
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata strapped on a Google Street camera to promote a new Wii U feature, providing us with the juice for our latest ‘Shop Contest throwdown. Many of these are .gifs, so take your time and let them load. When you hear a crunch, you’re there, and you’ll pull out 20 finalists, plus…
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The Latest Celebrity Golfer in Tiger Woods PGA Tour is Satan, Apparently
This image went out earlier in the week from the official Twitter feed for EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series. “Night golf” is among a slew of features arriving in this year’s edition (along with an LPGA Tour mode, throwback equipment, and historic course layouts). Who better to advertise that than the Prince of…
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In Injustice, There Can Be Only One (Guy in a Red Suit With a Lightning Bolt on His Chest)
Really now. Considering the history these two have, you didn’t think there was any way Flash was going to lose to Captain Marvel Shazam in the latest hype video from Injustice: Gods Among Us, did you? Let’s recap. Captain Marvel began life as “Captain Thunder” in Flash Comics, an ashcan edition published by Fawcett more…
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Atari’s Founder Goes Digging in the Desert, but not for E.T.
Everyone’s familiar with the great video game burial of 1983, a disposal of Atari 2600 cartridges so bizarre it’s often taken to be urban myth. No, that’s really how they got rid of colossal flops like E.T. and the Pac-Man port, 30 years ago this September. Here, Video Games Live thought it’d be funny to…
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See the Star Wars Lightsaber-Fighting Game That Never Made It
It never went anywhere, and maybe that’s a good thing, but this is a demonstration Studio Gigante put together for a Star Wars fighting game on the original Xbox. Josh Tsui, currently of Robomodo, co-founded the studio and for some reason tweeted out this video on Valentine’s Day It’s somewhat better than the trainwreck that…
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God of War: Ascension‘s Demo is Feb. 26, but There’s a Way to Get It Early
Everyone will get their hands on the demo for God of War: Ascension on Feb. 26, but some will get access to it on Feb. 20, provided they prevail in some kind of social media sign-up challenge that’s been going on for the past 10 days. The “Rise of the Warrior social challenge,” as it’s…
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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. Look, you guys have known me long enough now. It’s been a year since I’ve been at Kotaku. You know if there’s a cat and there’s a video game, Tina is going to post it. So here’s the latest,…
By Tina Amini
