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Xbox Live Wants You to Be a Better Citizen So It’s Giving You an Avatar Costume if You Watch the Presidential Debates
As someone who gets hit all the time with the “HEY I COME HERE FOR GAMES NOT POLITICS SO KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF,” comments, I’m going to straight-up be a hypocrite and say to Xbox Live that, hey, I come here for games and not politics and so keep all this presidential election coverage off…
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Don’t Blame Us for the Boobies, Dead or Alive Director Says, We’re Just Doing What Fans Want
Despite feedback from Tecmo’s overseas offices to “tone down the sexuality” of Dead or Alive 5‘s female fighters, the game’s developers bravely pressed ahead in the name of fan service. “We actually got a lot of feedback from people who were playing it, saying, ‘We want bigger breasts. Make the characters more like that.'” director…
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Xbox Live Now Offering Rewards Worth 25 Cents
Are you an Xbox Live Gold subscriber with a Gamerscore of more than 3,000 but not more than 10,000? Well, good news for you! You’ll now get a “Special Gift*” during your birthday month! * Actual value of gift is not more than 25 cents. If you have a Gamerscore over 10,000, you get a…
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Kobe and LeBron’s Olympic Squad Lose to 1992’s Dream Team, Says NBA 2K13
If you got in on this summer’s bar argument over which U.S. Olympic basketball team was better, and were convinced that the Dream Team could beat anything that walked the earth, including a team of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, then NBA 2K13 has good news for you. The United States’ 1992 Olympic basketball team…
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Midweek Moneysaver: Getting Close to a New Creed
For those with their eyes on Assassin’s Creed 3—well, its console release anyway—NewEgg has a discount on its preorder. Otherwise we are fully in the fall release window and few publishers are offering discounts on new titles, although savings can be found on Guild Wars 2, Mists of Pandaria, and Sleeping Dogs. These values plus…
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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. This week’s best image is the work of 25th Pixel, found by Corey Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we kick things off as usual with a comment from the community. The Best Comment From The…
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Seeking Credit—Where It is Due—as Two Blockbuster Games Launch
You probably don’t know Elizabeth Tobey. She didn’t voice an outrageous character or design an outlandish weapon in any video game you’re currently enjoying. But she did, legitimately, have a hand in the creation of —or at least stirring up the desire for—two big 2K Games hitting shelves right now. And she didn’t get the…
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The Week in Anger
Or outrage, or scorn. Video games are just one pushcart in the vast marketplace of ideas, where everyone shouts down the quality of the goods. Then again, sometimes the merchants deserve the berating. So let’s recap the week’s most noteworthy reactionary topics, scoring them for the outrage they summon and the skepticism they invite. Or…
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Truck Yeah, Let’s See All the Vehicles of Farming Simulator 2013
You city slicker video gamers think farming simulation video games is nothing but updating the roster with the latest GMO corn from Monsanto and slapping the Indiana State Fair champion cow on the cover. Well, there’s a lot more to it than that. Equipment changes every year, the same as in any sports league. And…
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Pick Your Squad And Keep Them Alive In This XCOM: Enemy Unknown Interactive Trailer
This interactive gameplay video for XCOM: Enemy Unknown isn’t quite a demo, and it’s not quite a trailer. It’s sort of like a choose your own adventure tutorial, letting you make simple decisions about squad management and tactics. And like a choose your own adventure book, if you flip through it afterward, you can see…
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Four Splendid Gaming Apps… and NFL Pro 2013
As Owen Good often reminds us, not every Gaming App of the Day is a good one. For every Bad Piggies, The Room or Bar Story 2 there are a dozen NFL Pro 2013s, and he seems to wind up playing them all. Oftentimes we’ll play gaming apps for our daily spotlight based on our…
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Resident Evil 6 Meat Stunt Might Make You Lose Your Lunch
Capcom is sponsoring an art installation in East London. That sounds innocuous, except that said art installation is at the Smithfield Meat Market, and is called “Wesker & Son Resident Evil Human Butchery.” Well, that’s certainly one way to get attention for next week’s release of Resident Evil 6 The meat market is not, of…
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The SteelSeries Free Controller Makes Mobile Gaming Almost Too Easy
This past Monday I sat down with SteelSeries chief marketing officer Kim Rom at a local cafe to eat barbecue pork sandwiches and check out the company’s new Freedom to Play line of mobile gaming products. As Rom explained the intricate details of the Free Mobile Wireless Controller I got further in Temple Run than…
By Mike Fahey
