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A Sports Video Game Outsold Gears of War 3‘s Launch
EA Sports’ hot streak at retail continues to ride strong; FIFA 12 sold 3.2 million copies in its first week, the label reports, citing internal analysis. That means FIFA 12‘s launch was bigger than Gears of War 3‘s That’s a global figure buttressed by interest in the world’s most popular sport; it’s also a multiplatform…
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Steve Jobs’ Voicemail
During the iPhone 4 leak, I somehow, through no real grift of my own, found myself in possession of Steve Job’s phone number. It went directly to his desk phone. My first thought was, “Steve Jobs has a desk phone?” It seemed like the kind of phone number you hang on to, so I wrote…
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From a Bit Player to a Mobile Force, Apple’s Gaming Legacy Under Steve Jobs
Popularly regarded as a distant runner-up to the Windows PC, Apple nonetheless played key and even dominant roles in shaping the history of video games over the past 35 years, emerging from an utterly marginalized brand in home computer gaming to a force almost unilaterally shaping the course of mobile gaming today. The company’s founder,…
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Tiger Woods 13 Sounds Like It’s Adding Celebrities to the Roster
As it stages two fan-voted playoffs to choose the next cover in the series, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 has also revealed that the game’s stable of 22 golf professionals will be joined by what sound like celebrity golfers. Craig Evans, EA Sports‘ marketing director for the Tiger Woods series, told Kotaku today that the…
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Invasion of the Stop-Motion Halo Toys
Voting is currently open in the Mega Bloks Halo Toymation Contest, where the best and brightest stop-motion toy animators vie for fabulous prizes. It’s too late to enter, but there’s plenty of time to influence the winner. With more than 1,400 entries to the contest, the Mega Bloks folks are in for a hell of…
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Don’t Blame Ubisoft’s New Kinect Game, It’s Only Acting in Self-Defense
Tired of having sand kicked in your face? Then Ubisoft’s Self-Defense Training Camp is for you. Get in shape, gain self-confidence, and learn what to do when a game trailer comes at you with a generic version of “Feel Good, Inc.” No one wants to admit they are vulnerable, so the idea of a self-defense…
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In Case You are Wondering, I Am Playing RAGE at 5760 x 1080 Pixel Resolution
When Nvidia was in the Kotaku offices the other day showing off, well, something we can’t quite talk about yet, they noticed we didn’t have a dedicated gaming PC. (All of Kotaku‘s gaming rigs are in the homes of our writers, including mine.) So they had Falcon Northwest cook up a nice little rig—Intel i7…
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Spider-Man Dies Before the Opening Credits in Edge of Time
In Spider-Man: Edge of Time the whole of reality is warped into something darker and more sinister, all because of the death of one Peter Parker. We’re in charge of making sure it doesn’t happen again. Or it doesn’t happen the first time. Quick frankly all this wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff has my head spinning. The…
By Mike Fahey
