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Fake Gun, Fake Currency, Real Jail Time Figure in Alleged Runescape Robbery [Corrected]
A 19-year-old Fordham University student is looking at 15 years in the slammer after allegedly putting a BB gun to the head of a classmate Fordham University student and demanding that 4.7 billion Runescape coins be transferred to his character, reports the New York Post [Correction] An earlier version of this story misidentified the suspect…
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Zynga Tries to Prevent a ‘Mass Exodus’ with More Stock Options
Zynga’s stock has gone down, and gone down hard, plunging to $2.95 a share since late July, a drop that spawned a shareholder lawsuit and gave a top executive the heave-ho. Sensing that some employees might follow him out the door willingly, Zynga took the unusual step of offering free stock to everyone, Bloomberg reports.…
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Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, Dies
Paul Steed, an artist whose video game career spanned design, publishing and even console development, died unexpectedly, according to The Jace Hall Show. Steed was perhaps best known for work on Wing Commander and Quake and also for controversies arising in his time ad id Software. Steed was most recently the executive creative director of…
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Google’s Olympic Doodles: The Kotaku Sort-of Review
As the 2012 Olympics come to a conclusion this weekend, Google this week released four playable versions of its famous doodle, the company’s logo on its minimalist front page. The doodles today returned to static illustrations of Olympic events, apparently ending the series of games. So I figured I’d give them all a good playthrough…
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After Learning It Was Copied From Another Game, Dota 2 Gives a Mace the Axe
Some 25,000 players who had bought a community-created weapon within Dota 2 discovered a new item in their inventories after Valve learned it had been copied directly from the MMO Aion Valve brought this up on its Steam Workshop blog, probably because 25,000 people noticed they no longer had “Timebreaker,” a popular user-created mace that…
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The Moneysaver: New Dogs and Old Tricks
Sleeping Dogs arrives on Tuesday along with Darksiders 2; the only considerations these two games are getting are bonus credits. NCAA Football 13 led the retail sales lists in July but not enough, and now is cut to $41. Those three plus more than 50 other deals, bonuses and savings await in this week’s Moneysaver…
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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. My, my, Mario. You’re looking quite dapper. That look is really working for you. Big thanks to Adam Marton, aka chaos13, for coming up with it. And to Corey for finding it. Moving on to our Best Of content…
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Job Opportunity: Unpaid Internship With Startup Superhero
This listing hit Craigslist in Raleigh, N.C. a week ago and immediately went to its best-of archive. As a former resident of North Carolina’s capital city, I can tell you that this guy is neither the hero we deserve, nor the one we need right now. I am preparing to make my debut as Raleigh’s…
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Will New Physics Make a Better Madden? Find Out When the Demo Hits Tuesday.
The Madden NFL 13 demo arrives on Aug. 14, two weeks before the game’s release, offering a rematch of last year’s NFC Championship Game, and a Seattle-Washington matchup that showcases Redskins quarterback (and NCAA Football 13 cover star) Robert Griffin III. Players will get a full game of four five-minute quarters will commentary from the…
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Yesterday’s Blizzard Hack Makes This Guy Almost Eat His Battle.Net Authenticator
I had to watch this about four times just to be completely sure that Internet video game rage comedian Francis did not, in fact, eat his Blizzard keychain authenticator during this rant about yesterday’s breach of Battle.Net. Obviously, this video is loud and its language is NSFW. He’s fast. I don’t think Francis actually chewed…
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Did You Buy a Borked Silent Hill HD on Xbox 360? Here, Have Frogger on the PS2
Konami’s considerate decision not to patch the broken Xbox 360 version of the Silent Hill HD Collection (read: because it costs money) has led the publisher to offer a free game to those who complain (read: because it costs less money). You just have to send an email to Konami to get the offer, according…
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Kinect-Supported Cussing is the Hip New Thing in Video Games Now
Well, well, look at this. FIFA 13‘s developers experimented with the concept but found there was no fair way to assess it within the rules of football. NBA 2K13, however, can take advantage of basketball’s technical foul rules to sanction you for cussin’ into the Kinect sensor after a total bullshit call. Basketball allows for…
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The Best and Worst of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale So Far
The closed beta for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was released earlier this week. While it’s in no way a complete product (it’s a beta, after all) there were some things about it I loved and hated. Watch the video above to find out.
By Chris Person
