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Star Wars: The Old Republic Expands Free Month Offer to Include Less Valuable Players
Yesterday BioWare made a substantial portion of Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s player base angry by offering a free month of play to its “most valued” players—those that had reached level 50 in the game. Today the developer continues to surprise and delight players by expanding the promotion as to not alienate people. While the…
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Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Dance Central Rip-Off’
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. Not much to tackle this week, but in video games, there is always something to complain about. Let’s look at a couple of games, one not everyone loved, and another just about…
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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 Is Informed That The Godfather 2…
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Trademarking a Dragon Shout May Be a Good Thing
There I stood, before the Greybeards, ready to learn the truth of my existence as a Dragonborn. Einarth stared down at the floor, and thus spake “Ro.” Strange runes glowed upon the stones at my feet. The last one looked like ™. If ZeniMax Media is going to trademark a thu’um—in this case, the most…
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Biff Tannen Predicts (Another) Riot in Vancouver
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
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Xbox 360 Controllers Pay the Ultimate Price for Missed Perfection
Now two weeks into Major League Baseball 2K12‘s $1,000,000 Perfect Game Challenge, nearly 275 verified perfect games have been thrown, out of more than 400,000 attempted, according to 2K Sports. Which means, potentially, hundreds of thousands of controllers, discs and maybe even consoles have been hurled, too. That’s a far less dignified response than T.J.…
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Max Payne Ruins the Week in Gaming Apps for Everybody Else
Here I was, having a great week (in gaming apps), and Rockstar’s Max Payne Mobile has to wander in and make things all noir and edgy—in bullet time no less! How can a game in which you snipe at stick people stand in the way of the smirking face that would one day become Marky…
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These Portal Rings Are Great. Now Someone Make Them Out Of Silver.
All things geek website Geekologie found an array of cute Portal rings from a 3D printing company, shapeways Although the company prints designs that you supply them with, and you’ll therefore have to fill in the details with painting skills of your own, the results can be quite nice looking. It’s little more than cheap…
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Nintendo Registers “Super Mario 4” Domain Name, Hinting at Future Game
Nintendo has just managed to throw massive fuel onto the fire of rumor and speculation with a simple domain name registration. On April 3, Nintendo of America registered the website “supermario4.com,” as recently spotted by an IGN reader. Currently, navigating to the site only results in a redirect to Nintendo’s main page. Mario, Luigi, Peach,…
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Time To Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku! It’s that time of week again where you get to pass actual solicited judgment on your fellow community members. Who will this week’s winner of the The Best Comment From The Community be? It’s up to you but, as always, please reserve self-nominations for our self-nomination post. Which happens never. So, never.…
By Tina Amini
