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My First PlayStation Vita Game, Courtesy of Walmart
Just because the PS Vita isn’t out for another ten days in North America doesn’t mean you can’t start picking up your launch games in advance. This poor little guy looked so out of place in Walmart’s PlayStation section I just had to take him home. I wasn’t specifically planning on picking up ModNation Racers:…
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Burnin’ Doobage: The Winners
Last week, a Nintendo 3DS owner unfortunately learned the wisdom of deleting all pictures of you smoking up before selling the thing. This made for an eminently teachable moment in the ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got 19 winners plus overall No. 1 Idono inside! First up, tonyp2121 (20) and christamofo (3) derive the origins of the…
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Leak Reveals Another Five Street Fighter X Tekken Characters, Including Akuma, Jin and Ogre
A Taiwanese gaming site has posted cards detailing the movesets for characters Street Fighter X Tekken, due for release in March. The big news here is that the movesets confirm M. Bison, Xiaoyu, Akuma, Jin and Ogre for the game’s lineup. Bison and Xiaoyu were leaked out already, but not officially confirmed. Neither are any…
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Here are the 64 Players Vying for the Madden 13 Cover—I Think
In past years I’ve used the Saturday before the Super Bowl to handicap the field for the next cover of Madden NFL. Since the last time I did that, EA Sports put the honors up to a fan-voted, 32-player tournament in 2011, and on Thursday announced it was doubling that field to 64 for 2012.…
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Turn-a Your Head and Cough-a, Peach
Whoa. That there is a custom toy scene by Donald Kennedy, an artist recently featured in iam8bit’s store. I can’t tell if the subject of the examination is supposed to be Toad or Peach. Either way, Dr. Mario seems set to earn his pornstache. Kennedy is now running a giveaway, if you can put this…
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Razer’s Game-Changing Blade Gaming Laptop in My Hot Little Hands
Last summer PC peripheral maker Razer introduced the world to the Razer Blade, a device CEO Min-Liang Tan boldly described as “the world’s first gaming laptop.” Well now the world’s first gaming laptop is in my dining room. Let’s open this baby up, shall we? Of course we shall. As the Blade’s promised Christmas release…
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PS3 Bandit’s Larceny Plans Foiled by Store Manager
Protip: Aluminum foil is only useful for protecting you from the mind-controlling radio signals sent out by the CIA. If you’re using it to shoplift games, all it does is attract the attention of the store manager. Tabatha Edington, 23, of Prescott, Ariz., (pictured) just learned this the hard way. Cops say she tried to…
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Another 100,000 Beta Invites Go Out for Diablo III
North American subscribers to Battle.net, check your inboxes—and your spam box, in case its settings are too strict. Blizzard sent out another 100,000 invitations to the Diablo III beta overnight. This message comes with a cautionary warning: phishers try to take advantage of this crap all the time, so be sure that anything you click…
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For Some Reason, Sony’s Decided to Change What Your PSN Account is Called
In an email to PlayStation Network subscribers, Sony told subscribers that their PlayStation Network accounts will now be known as “Sony Entertainment Network” accounts. Not that this does away with PlayStation Network as a name. Sony says PSN “will be aligned with Sony Entertainment Network.” It’s a purely cosmetic change, in other words and, no,…
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It’s Time for Reckoning
The action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning releases on Tuesday, bringing with it damn near 200 hours worth of gameplay. You don’t have to get it full price, either, there are savings on the console and PC versions of the game, plus more than 58 other values, inside this weekend’s Moneysaver! Software • Feb. 7…
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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Turns in His Badge
Stephen Toulouse—known as StepTo to those listening to Major Nelson’s podcast, or unfortunate enough to feel the cold kiss of the Xbox Live banhammer—has given his two weeks notice to Microsoft. The director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement will leave Feb. 16, after 18 years with the company. On his personal blog, Toulouse calls…
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Twilight in the Kingdom of the Week in Gaming Apps
This week we featured five different titles across several different platforms in our daily Gaming App of the Day posts, but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? No, you’re too busy playing Kingdom Rush You care not for the needless expense of classic shooter Rayforce, or the under-delivering action of One Epic Game. You’ve…
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NFL 2K5 Says New England Wins a Super Bowl Shootout
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners over the New England Patriots. A simulation run on dearly departed Madden nemesis NFL 2K5 returned the opposite…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I got sucked back into Skyrim this week. My first playthrough didn’t get very far; I was tromping around as a Nord warrior, and it didn’t really connect me to my choices, and my choices to the story, as much as I would have preferred. After watching the Grosjean Brothers’ hilarious Skyrim 2012 sequel, I…
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Hear Five Minutes of the Latest Halo Novel, Narrated by Guilty Spark
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version. Narrating this clip is Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark.
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That Old College Try
That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year’s NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA…
By Owen Good