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A Heisman Winner Gets His Close-Up—but Without the Right Music
As a private-school doormat for decades to two big-boy conferences, until last year most people couldn’t name one guy on the Baylor football roster. Even if Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy in 2011, it didn’t make the school’s fight song any more recognizable last week. Maybe that’s why so few noticed that when…
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Jak, Daxter and Sony’s inFamous Hero Tapped for PlayStation All-Stars Roster
At Comic-Con today, another two (three?) playable characters were revealed for the roster of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale—Cole McGrath, from inFamous, and Jak and Daxter from, well, Jak and Daxter Per the PlayStation Blog, Jak and Daxter fans will recognize weapons such as the Mass Inverter and Needle Lazer, in the official announcement video (above).…
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Merqury City’s Making a Comeback in SSX This Summer
EA Sports dropped this video of SSX late Friday, boasting that they’ve got something new in store for fans this summer, and that only those with sharp eyes would be able to even guess what it was. Well, in the first 20 seconds, the camera lingers on board art that says “Merqury City,” referencing a…
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Ubisoft’s uPlay is Down for Everyone, Not Just You
Ubisoft’s uPlay, the online service largely used for validating the digital rights management on PC games, has been down for much of the day. If this is planned maintenance, Ubisoft didn’t do a great job of communicating that to its user base, which is ripping the publisher a new on on its official forums. Users…
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“Legendary Edition” Halo 4 Hardware Also Offers Controller Sold Separately
The “Legendary Edition” Halo 4 console bundle, outed on Thursday, was officially revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. What we didn’t know is that it’ll have some Halo 4-themed controllers sold separately. For those who want a piece of Halo themed hardware but can’t take the $400 the full console package costs, a custom gamepad will run…
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Who’s That Grill?
This NFL helmet, based on a real design that will debut this season, reminded some of Baraka from Mortal Kombat Others saw Mileena without her veil. Still others imagined Optimus Prime or Soundwave. It doesn’t matter if you give a damn for American football or Madden, something ridiculous is lurking underneath that facemask. That’s where…
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Imitation or Parody, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 DLC Features More than 100 Swimsuit Costumes
Whether an attempt to copy Dead or Alive or to parody it, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will feature more than 100 swimsuit costumes as downloadable content after the game releases Sept. 11. The costume collection includes beachwear for all characters, male and female. It’s the voluptuous “Bad Girls” live-action trailer for the game (above), which…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s another reminder that yes, the TAY community is active, strong, and your place to talk about games you’re playing, loving and hating, remembering, or trying to forget. Head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Go to the TAY…
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Suck It Wolverine, Here’s the Deadpool Game’s Announcement Trailer
Let’s see: Voices in his head? Crude humor? Breaking the fourth wall? Swearing? High Moon and Activision are sending a very strong message that the Deadpool video game, just announced at San Diego Comic-Con, has everything a fan of the character will want. Really, though, is that Nolan North voicing Deadpool? No launch date was…
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Give ‘Em a Hand: The Winners
OK, we didn’t make it to the full 20 this week. I was prepared for some backlash against the new commenting structure. The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has published weekly for more than 2 1/2 years, weathering another redesign that brought on a lot of the same moaning and groaning we heard last week. Still we…
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Sonic Adventure 2 Gets a High-Definition Re-Release This Fall
At San Diego Comic-Con today, Sega abandoned all pretense of a surprise announcement—which is good, because this leaked a month ago—and confirmed that a port of Sonic Adventure 2 would be arriving this fall on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Joystiq points out that the game briefly had a listing on the Xbox Live…
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Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Back a Bad Dudes Sequel?
For nearly a quarter century, this video game has posed the ultimate hypothetical question of one’s manhood: Let’s say, perchance, the head of government of the United States of America is abducted by masked assassins: Do you embody the qualities of a highly motivated, results-driven person who can effect his safe return? If Joe Modzeleski…
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Is a Deadpool Game Being Announced Today? My Common Sense is Tingling …
I mean, look, that’s a clock, it’s gonna hit zero at 6 p.m. EDT. The URL is “deadpoolgame.com,” and the background is the titular antihero from the Marvel universe. High Moon Studios, which has handled three Transformers games for Activision, is listed along with the publisher, and Marvel. There’s a Deadpool game coming out sometime…
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Outraged Torchlight Maker Calls Out Blatant Ripoff Sold on—Where Else—iPhone App Store [Update]
Armed Heroes Online, a game released last week to the Canadian iTunes store, is one of the most blatant cases of theft I have ever seen in an iOS app or game, and considering the shitshow of fakes and ripoffs that store is, that’s saying a lot. Nearly every visual asset in this game is…
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Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend Includes Free MLB.tv in the U.S.
It wasn’t as heavily promoted as Free Gold Weekends have been in the past, but Xbox Live’s “Summer of Sports” event means in the United States, every holder of a Silver (free) Xbox Live account enjoys all the perks granted to Gold (paid) subscribers this weekend—online multiplayer, streaming Netflix, everything. Included with the weekend is…
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This Fan-Made Game Might be the Best G.I. Joe Game of All Time
This was completed sometime back in early spring, but only yesterday became known to the public at large: It’s Attack on Cobra Island a fan-made G.I. Joe video game that shows a lot more effort and love than previous check-cashing G.I. Joe adaptations. Attack on Cobra Island‘s first stage is shown above in this 10…
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Owen’s Talking About NCAA Football 13 on Sports Radio Right Now
If you live in broadcast range of Dover, N.H.’s WTSN-AM 1270, I’ll be discussing NCAA Football 13 with host Justin McIsaac in this hour. If you don’t live in range of that signal, tune into it through their website. (Just click on Listen Live.) They’re talking baseball as this is published; the NCAA segment should…
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A Summer Struggle for Steam Supremacy
Amazon isn’t taking the Summer Steam Sale without putting up a fight. The retailer is running its own summer digital sale with steep discounts on some recent releases. There are also savings to be had on a preorder of Halo 4 if you act before the end of the weekend. Software • Amazon has a…
By Owen Good