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XCOM is Secretly One of the Year’s Best Sports Games
He renamed all his teammates for his friends, he put himself on the roster and took all of the best equipment. He rebounded from painful defeats—or, eh, restarted a few here and there—and scored fist-pumping victories in all the others. He felt all the vicarious thrills that every sports video game offers. But when Garth…
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Stop “Zombie Mouth.” Give Free Plants vs. Zombies to Trick-or-Treaters (Or Yourself)
The maker of Plants vs. Zombies is teaming up with the American Dental Association to offer free copies of the game as Halloween treats, balancing out the usual bagful of teeth-rotting sugar and plastic every kid scarfs down on Nov. 1. This site “StopZombieMouth.com” offers the printable coupons in .pdf form. (Dentists also are giving…
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Minecraft Dethrones Call of Duty as the Xbox 360’s Most-Played Game
Death, taxes and a shooter atop the chart of Xbox Live’s top activity. Since Major Nelson has publicized the numbers, the most popular game on Xbox Live—this is according to unique users playing the game while logging into the service, not just those playing multiplayer—has always been a shooter. Gears of War. Halo. And, for…
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Close Out the PlayStation All-Stars Beta With This Guide to the Basics
With two days to go in the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta the game’s developer, SuperBot Entertainment, has released this video covering the basics of the game. It’s an attempt to answer a lot of the questions the studio has been fielding since the beta opened Oct. 16, but it also functions as a video…
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Hurricane Sandy Forces Triforce Johnson Out of the Line for the Wii U
With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on New York City, Isaiah-Triforce Johnson (real name: Isaiah-Triforce Johnson) has been told to vacate his position as first in line to purchase a Wii U at Nintendo World in Manhattan. The console releases in 21 days. Johnson had begun the vigil on Oct. 22. Johnson was told by Rockefeller…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hipster Sixty-Fourrr
On NeoGAF late last night, someone discovered that the awful warehouse of pretension Urban Outfitters was selling cloned Nintendo 64 controllers. This can only mean one thing: Hipsters have discovered that console generation and will now commence to telling everyone they enjoyed it before you did, but now they don’t anymore because everyone notices that…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sexy Video Game Halloween 2.0: The Winners
What the hell do you do when Halloween’s on a Wednesday? Do you have your costume party that night? Hell no, people gotta work the next day. Do you have it the following weekend? Hell no, it’s November! We’re going to have our sexy costume party now, with our Kotaku ‘Shop Contest finalists, and overall…
By Owen Good
