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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome everyone, to the Best of Kotaku, where I collect all of my colleagues’ best work from the past week for your viewing pleasure. Before we jump into the best content, let’s take a look at the image above. Look at it. Isn’t it pretty? I like to imagine that Chell decided to stay in…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
As I mentioned in my review this week, I came to the Prototype continuity late. Now that I’m not hustled for time to pump out a review of a game the day after it releases, I feel like revisiting New York and finishing out the original Prototype, especially as I’ll get to stomp around a…
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Hitler Recaps the Week in Video Gaming
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. Hitler Reacts to Sniper Elite v2 Part…
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Backhanded Box Quotes: “Metacritic Reviews Are Often Avenues for Trolling”
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week’s scan of proportionate reactions to entertainment products includes condemnation for something almost universally acclaimed and a scalding appraisal of a football video game from EA Sports that is not named…
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Out of Hand—Is it Ever OK to Throw a Controller?
Two weeks ago, a million-dollar contest supplied an interesting prism through which to view the reactions to different people’s failure to accomplish the same thing in a video game. In one, a gamer stretched a remarkable achievement into an inhuman streak of perfection, ultimately snapped as much by bad luck as his own physical limitations.…
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One Leaves, One Enters Kotaku‘s Power 40
If you scan the column to the right of the Kotaku.com/Power 40 list, you’ll find our reorganized list updated for April complete with individual updates where relevant, and a returning addition: Capcom With sales on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City doing well after release, and Resident Evil 6 coming together nicely, it’s about time Capcom…
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Rosman Stadium—the House that Prototype 2 Built
Prototype‘s continuity is set in New York. Well, it’s set in “New York Zero,” which is what the city has become after an apocalyptic biological disaster. Still, it’s New York, home of some of the most famous athletic venues in the world. The original Prototype, set entirely on Manhattan, featured a Madison Square Garden-style building,…
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MLB 2K12‘s Perfect Game Challenge Does Judge You on Your Physical Skill
To throw a perfect game, a single pitcher must retire every batter, and at least 27 of them, in a victory. That we know. 2K Sports, in its “$1 Million Perfect Game Challenge, on Major League Baseball 2K12, applies a formula to those games, rating their degree of “perfection,” so to speak, according to factors…
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Target Specific Organs This Week in Gaming Apps
It doesn’t matter how good the rest of this week’s Gaming App of the Day apps were, we should have just dropped the mic and called it when Monday featured a hunting game that lets players target specific organs. If I had been paying closer attention, I would have had Ashcraft save Deer Hunter Reloaded…
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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Bonus Weekends Finally Available on PS3
BioWare has been running regular multiplayer bonus weekend events in Mass Effect 3 since March, but until now, PlayStation 3 owners had been unable to participate. An earlier statement from BioWare seemed to point the finger at an issue with approval on Sony’s end, leaving players hanging. However, today BioWare announced that effective this weekend,…
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Come Here And Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku. I am writing to you from a cabin. In the middle of the woods. We have Internet here. You (hopefully) know the drill by now. If you saw a comment this week that you liked enough to be featured on tomorrow’s Best of Kotaku feature, please bring it to my attention in…
By Tina Amini
