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OK, Now We’re Just Being Trolled About Fez
How long has Fez been in development? I can remember my pal Sander going all OMFG showing me this video of the thing while we were goofing off at work. That was before I worked here Fez, the perspective-switching indie platformer, has wowed gamers for more than four years with its “long postcards” showcasing it’s…
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This Probably Isn’t What EA Sports Had in Mind for SSX
In my demo impressions I suggested that you lay off the stick because the physics lends itself (themselves?) to oversteer. Some dudes in Europe took that advice to the extreme and this what they got: You can finish a race without touching the controller. Racing Whitehorn Mountain in the demo that released last week they…
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Yah Mo Be ’Shopped
Michael McDonald’s WTF appearance on a fight stick is so off-the-wall, it’s like a ‘Shop Contest entry in real life. But can this be improved? We’re going to try. Yes, McDonald, the singer/songwriter, member of the Doobie Brothers, backup singer for Steely Dan and former session pianist for Toto, was given this custom fight stick…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves, your one-stop alternative for bantering, chatting, conversing and rambling with your like-minded colleagues here on Kotaku. Our subject today is the same as every day: video games. As for today’s TAYpic, gang, Pan1da7 is sweeping up the end of the month here. Don’t wait for a new picture, get…
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Boldly Gone: The Winners
The suborbital marketing stunt experiments of Mass Effect 3 provided the palette for our smart ‘shoppers, who took the game to the reaches of the universe—and absurdity. We’ve got 20 Kotaku ‘Shop Contest finalists inside, including seivewright! Leading off, TuxedoFox (20) came in with a brilliant conclusion to this space spectacle. mentuss (14) returned from…
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Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer
As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on Japanese TV show Pokémon Sunday today to announce the next entries in the Pokémon series. They are Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 The games are scheduled to release in June for Nintendo DS systems, in Japan. DSi and 3DS players…
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The Rookie Mistake Most Video Games Make
Whether they won the club championship or they’re the sixth man on their Y league team, most recreational athletes would accept that they are, by definition and by depth of skill, amateurs. It’s not a bad word. But it sure feels like it in a video game. “Amateur,” “Rookie,” “Freshman,” “Beginner.” These are all the…
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Amazon France Outs 10th Anniversary Xbox 360 Bundle with Three Digital Downloads
France’s Amazon.com marketplace is listing a 10th Anniversary Bundle for the Xbox 360, commemorating (by a few months late) the 10th anniversary of the original system’s launch. It runs €280 and includes digital versions of three full games. So, don’t worry, this configuration also comes equipped with the 250 GB hard drive to store Gears…
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 DLC Delayed a Week on PS Vita
After getting “a number of reports” that the day-one DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was missing from the PlayStation Vita store, Capcom did a little looking and, yes, it ain’t there because of “last-minute issues.” The problem is with making sure that a PS Vita and a PS3 with the same game and…
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Here’s a Fight Stick Modded to Work with a PS Vita
There’s some input lag, and it doesn’t really fit with the theme of the game-anywhere “the world is in play” marketing theme of the PS Vita. But then again, its sticks and buttons just don’t have that clicky-click of a fight stick, either. So this enterprising Japanese modder whipped up a solution allowing the user…
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This Gallery Contains Spoilers and It Concerns Mass Effect
Today saw the leak of a batch of screenshots pertaining to Mass Effect’s day-one DLC “From Ashes,” which caused so much of a fury when it inadvertently hit Xbox Live early, and its summary paragraph tossed out spoiler details pertaining to the story. Here’s a gallery of five Mass Effect: From Ashes screenshots, which is…
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BandFuse: Rock Legends Announced as 2008 Calls, Wants Its Game Back
Do you have a guitar? Do you like both Coldplay and Lynyrd Skynyrd? Well have we got the product for you. BandFuse: Rock Legends announced itself yesterday, promising that you’ll be able to plug in a real! guitar and play your favorite hits, assuming those hits include both “Harder to Breathe” by Maroon 5 and…
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Sony Removes the Vita’s Buggy Facebook App
Sony has removed the Facebook app for the PlayStation Vita, after receiving several complaints from users that the app crashed at its startup. If you’re not seeing the Facebook app in the store, this is why. “”We are currently looking into this to restore it to normal operational status,” Sony told Game Informer in a…
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Let’s Go for a Ride
This coming Tuesday sees the long awaited return of SSX. Only suckers pay retail, and you can already get the game at deep discount if you don’t mind having it shipped. There are more than 50 additional details awaiting you in this week’s roundup of The Moneysaver. Let’s go! Last one to the bottom of…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
When I travel, I usually frontload my gameplaying, trying to pack in progress in an RPG before I leave, and then kill time with handhelds in transit. But Monday, I’ll be flying to Washington. My grandfather will be buried at Arlington. Forgive me, I’m not in much of a games-playing mood right now. It’s not…
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Mad as Hell, And They’re Going to Take It
I swear to Christ, Battlefield fans have to be the unhappiest people on earth. They hate Modern Warfare. They hate Origin. They hate Electronic Arts and, for all I can tell, they hate the game they play so much. It’s a community that seems committed to proving itself to be the most knowledgeable, least appreciated,…
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