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This Gamer Has Balls. Wants To Beat You.

Remember R.B.I. Baseball? The classic sports title for the Nintendo Entertainment System? This gamer is so confident that he can defeat anyone at it, he or she took out an ad in a local Oklahoma newspaper. “I Cannot Be Beaten at RBI BASEBALL,” the advertisement reads, with a phone number for “Contenders”. Developed by Namco,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011

Theme Park is Back, and it’s Ready to Fuck You Over

Bullfrog’s Theme Park is one of the greatest management games ever made. It’s return, courtesy of rights-holders EA, should be a cause for celebration. It’s not. The game is on iPhone. Which is…OK. I mean, SimCity is on iPhone and works pretty well, there’s no reason Theme Park can’t do the same. Only, it looks…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2011

A Musical Collaboration Between Two of Japan’s Finest

Hello, Kotaku. The night is dark, and full of terrors. Oh, and video game news. So let’s take a five-minute break with some music, OK? Welcome to Soundtrack. A new bonus segment here on Kotaku. This isn’t a trap. We’re just relaxing with some tunes. Stuff we think you might like to stick on while…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2011

Japan’s Biggest Website, Awash in Illegal Drugs

Drugs, and drug culture, are common and prevalent in much of the West. Ditto for Japan, even if superficially the country seems immune to such devices. It’s not. Sometimes buying drugs in Japan is as easy as walking up to someone standing on a corner in Tokyo’s Roppongi. Sometimes, it’s far more complex, say, if…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011

How a Diablo III Cosplay Scares the Neighbors

Unless it’s Halloween, cosplay is restricted to indoors and nerd events. Crafty-type Joshua Smith seems to have forgotten this when he took his truly amazing Diablo III out and about. Previously, Kotaku profiled Joshua’s impressive costume, as well as his creepy room. In the above video, you can see the full body costume in motion—and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011

Counter-Strike, You’ve Changed (For the Better!)

This mighty helpful YouTube video shows just how far Valve’s shooter Counter-Strike has come over the past eight years, between the release of the landmark version 1.6 and subsequent revisions like Condition Zero, Source and the upcoming Global Offensive All shots are from the game’s trademark level, de_dust2, and show that the biggest addition to…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2011

Burglar Tries To Steal Xbox 360, Pulls Knife, Gets Stabbed a Shitload

An overnight worker in Chicago came home to discover a 20-something year old burglar attempting to make off with his flat-screen TV and Xbox 360 in a suitcase. That’s when all hell broke loose. According to the Chicago Tribune, the resident confronted the burglar in the apartment foyer, and the crook pulled a knife. Then,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 6, 2011

Trying to Explain Skyrim’s Awful PS3 Lag

There’s a problem with Skyrim on the PS3, in that for many gamers, the bigger their save game file gets, the slower the game gets. It’s so bad sometimes the framerate can drop to zero. Despite a recent patch many users are still complaining about the problem so, uh, what’s up? Nobody knows! Since the…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2011

Here’s…One New BioShock Infinite Screenshot

It’s a tease for the game’s new trailer, to be shown at the VGAs next week. Way to be stingy, guys! In lieu of actual facts, then, we’re going to substitute them for non-facts. Folks, this is Eusebius Fink, owner of the Sky City Knickerbockers. He’s made entirely of bronze, stands eleven feet tall, and…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2011

Shoot a Nuke Down a Bug Hole, You Got a Lot of Dead Bugs

Greetings, travelers, and welcome to another Kotaku open thread. How have you been? Good? I hope so. I’ve been keeping warm, and this morning, they posted the second part of that Revision3 TV interview I did, where I talked about a bunch of things, from jazz to Far Cry 2 to sweat pants. I also…