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Shoppin’ Cats and Dogs
Pancake, the Official Weiner Dog of Borderlands 2, meet Cosplay Cat from Journey. You two look so adorable, we know you’re going to have a great time together in this week’s edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. So, to recap, on Wednesday, thatgamecompany discovered someone in Japan had not only created cat cosplay for Journey,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
The bucket-on-the-head gag from Skyrim helps Pan1da7 steal #taypic honors once again. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Want a piece of the TAYpic action atop this six-day-a-week post? Grab the base image here, provide a funny variation on it, and post it in the #TAYpics thread. Keep your image in a…
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Image Suggests Wii U Controller Will Have True Analog Joysticks, Not Nubs
An image published to Twitter, and since taken down, by a QA tester for LEGO developer Traveler’s Tales, depicts a WIi U controller with traditional twin analog joysticks, not analog pads similar to the 3DS’, as had been shown in earlier images of the controller. Games Radar, which first reported the picture, notes that the…
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Are You ‘Shop Enough? The Winners
Time magazine’s ridiculous breast-feeding cover was all the talk last week. On Mother’s Day, Kotaku’s legion of photoshoppers smoothed the last shovelful of dirt on this ridiculously desperate concept. We have 20 smart ‘shoppers inside, plus overall winner DarkStar! Leading off, anzicurt (2) spent a hell of a lot of time on this box shot,…
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Come to Think of It, the Original NFL Blitz Did Have a Dirty-Sounding Playbook
The fine football satirists at Every Day Should Be Saturday caught on to something that eluded me during NFL Blitz‘s launch back in January. Not only are late hits stripped out of the game, the playbook has been toned down considerably. Not in terms of play dynamics—you still have “Da Bomb”, and all sorts of…
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Are the Diablo III Servers Working? Ask This Android App
Though we seem to be through the worst of Diablo III‘s humiliating server outages at launch this week, who knows when those things will need to be worked on again. Logging in to Battle.net and waiting for the credential verification to time out is a long and stupid way of being told you can’t play…
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Starfox–Metroid Team-Up Rumored for Wii U
It reads like fan fiction and the rumor’s original reporter—who uncovered PlayStation All-Stars six months before it was announced—concedes that nothing about it is confirmed. But Retro Studios is said to be working on, or at least to have considered, Star Fox-Metroid Fusion Saga, a mashup of third-person action gameplay with aerial/space combat. Paul Gale…
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Watch R2-D2 Go on a Hilarious Death-Dealing Rampage in Grand Theft Auto IV
This clever Grand Theft Auto mod is pretty funny for the first 1:45 then HOLY SHIT does this little droid turn into an engine of destruction. And if you think that is hilarious, my God, turn off the annotations and wait until 3:43 for one hellacious surprise. Just cover your keyboard, or don’t be drinking…
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Furious 4 Trademark Snafu is Not a Sign It’s Been Canceled, Insists Gearbox
We haven’t heard much out of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, a game announced a year ago at E3, one that is quite a departure from the tone of other games preceding it. That, coupled with the lapsed trademarks surrounding the game, sent out the rumor that the game was canceled. A spokesman for Gearbox…
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Max Payne 2 Download Now Working on Xbox Live
Whatever was bothering the Xbox Live Marketplace download of Max Payne 2, which some purchased to brush up on the series during Max Payne 3‘s release week, the problem is now over. Users report the title now downloads fully, which I just confirmed for myself. If you bought the game and your download froze, go…
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Nike Stuck a Sonic Minigame in its Strange Web Ad
Yesterday, Nike’s football division—that would be football football, not American football—cranked up “My Time is Now,” which looks like the big campaign it’ll have going during UEFA Euro 2012 in about three weeks. It shows a soccer pitch, the locker room, a team dinner all overrun by ordinary joes. OK, I get all that. What’s…
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The Throne of Games
Fantasy RPG Game of Thrones and fantasy MMO TERA Online already are seeing modest discounts. The upcoming RPG from Capcom, Dragon’s Dogma likewise is getting about $10 off from one retailer. These and another 50 discounts, credits and savings can be found in this week’s Moneysaver below! Software • Game of Thrones (360, PS3) is…
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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, as seen this week. First up is the image above, which is an awesome rendition of Max Payne himself, mid shoot-leaping. I swear, he’s gonna shoot his foot off one of those Bullet Times. Image is by deviantART user PatrickBrown Moving on to our Best Of content this week,…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
So I complained about moving cords through the back of my entertainment center in this post. Then I talked about playing a terrible seven-year-old game on the Xbox in this post. Now tying all of that together is this post, where we all turn out our pockets and tell everyone what we’re playing this weekend.…
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The Games that Got Me Through the Worst Year of My Life: Playboy: The Mansion
My worst year on earth may well have been 2005. I had gone from a blood-and-guts newspaper writer to headcount hire sitting in a cubicle with nothing to do for weeks on end. I’d once been the coolest guy at the cocktail party, now I was just another stiff with a badge around his neck…
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Hitler Recaps the Week in Video Games: Special Diablo III Edition
Godwin’s Law states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” As basically all video game discussion takes place online, let’s just cut to the chase and give der fuehrer’s take on recent topics of interest to gamers. I wanted to rage about Blizzard’s indefensibly…
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I Despise You, Xbox 360 Eject Button
Today I had to move my Xbox 360 console out of the way while I fooled with cables going through the back of my entertainment center. This happens frequently because of how I have to do video capture. As I grabbed the 360 and shifted it, I guess my thumb got within 5 millimeters of…
By Owen Good