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Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations of Catherine
Probing discs for console games doesn’t usually turn up much, but someone found a ton of extra naughty images of Catherine (such as the three above) and an unused file that hints that Atlus once planned a PC version of the game. The VG-Resource found the content earlier today. Nothing says a PC Catherine is…
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Lawsuit Demands Second Life Horses Be Starved to Death
Second Life’s merits as an actual video game may be debatable but its impact on the economy is not. It has, for example, provided a huge boost to the new markets of virtual sex caskets and imaginary pet food. And ridiculous lawsuits, because America has been lagging other first-world nations in that important economic indicator.…
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Master Floppy
Cliff Bleszinski’s discovery of his first game (a sequel, no less) on a floppy disc a couple of weeks ago provides the grist for this week’s Photoshop challenge. Your instructions are inside. Once upon a time, games came on discs. Not optical discs like CD or DVD-ROMs, I mean good ole 1.44-megabyte floppies, such as…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
We had to shift the TAY badge to make sure it didn’t obscure Aikage’spunchline. Enjoy your limited edition, badge-in-the-bottom-right-corner TAYpic! I did that without editorial approval. I am rebelling against authority today! But not you! I do not authorize you to rebel against my authori-TAY. You keep it on topic! Which means talk amongst yourselves…
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Here’s the First Public Look at UFC 3 Gameplay
This is a huge weekend for competitive gaming, especially with the EVO World Championships going on in Las Vegas. At the premier fighting-game event, THQ is showing off early builds of UFC Undisputed 3, due for release early next year. This video features Urijah Faber versus Dominick Cruz, and gives a better look at UFC…
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Free-to-Play Games Maker Says Free-to-Play Games ‘Inevitable’ on Xbox 360
Free-to-play games on the Xbox 360, which rumor has it is a model Microsoft is exploring, are “inevitable,” according to one publisher. A publisher of a free-to-play game waiting to publish on the Xbox 360. “At least from our conversations, both Sony and Microsoft are moving there strategically but there are still some things to…
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Opening Day Means More Skepticism than Celebration in Sports Video Games
I play sports video games for a living and publishers send them to me for free. The reality of a $60 purchase—what it actually buys, what else it could buy—is something I respect but it’s not a decision I really face. I’m probably the last guy who can advise anyone on whether a sports video…
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A Metalhead Tribute to Saturday Mornings and Old-School Side-Scrollers
A thrash power-metal cover of/homage to the theme from 1989’s Batman (and The Animated Series) would be badass. A thrash power-metal music video done in the style of a 1990s side-scroller would be awesome. Both put together are more badass awesome than the sum of their awesome badass parts. Here is Powerglove’s “Batman,” one track…
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Marvel Pinball Offers Prizes in Spider-Man Tourney
A while ago, Stephen Totilo introduced me to the concept of a “chaser” – a downloadable title played to take a break after a session on a serious, narrative-based game or in a long stretch of multiplayer. The Marvel Pinball tables in Pinball FX 2have been my chaser of choice for the past few months.…
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Why Jim Lee Can’t Reveal His True Character in DC Universe Online
Nearly everyone who plays DC Universe Online has an anecdote about spending a good hour or more in its character creation stage, fine-tuning the costume, getting the colors and powers just right, and then taking a deep breath at the name-generation screen and hoping no one’s yet taken that perfect one you just thought up.…
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A Great Time for a Football Comeback
With the NFL’s four-month lockout concluding earlier this week, Box Scores celebrates by welcoming back Madden to our game of the week recap. This one comes from Bobboman, playing with Green Bay and switching over to All-Madden difficulty for the first time. The makeup of his fantasy-drafted rosters (in the fourth year of the sim)…
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Sitting on Your Ass Playing Halo for 12 Hours: The Silent Killer
Chris Staniforth was standing outside of a jobs center, awaiting an interview, when he dropped a pack of chewing gum. When he reached to pick it up, he began to spasm. In moments, he was dead. Actual cause of death: pulmonary embolism as a result of deep vein thrombosis. Proximate cause of death: Playing his…
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Shake and Bake
Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin’ there in your ghost manger, just lookin’ at your Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin’ ’bout shapes and colors. I would like to thank you for bringin’ me and my mama together, and also that my kids no longer sound like retarded gang-bangers. Hardware • Nintendo Wii console bundle w/ Mario…
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Serious Sam Publisher Lampoons EA’s Origin in Fake Press Release
No fan of Origin, Electronic Arts’ new digital distribution service, the publisher of Serious Sam 3: BFE [pictured] announced “in a move likely to shock absolutely no one” that they have scrapped plans for their own proprietary service. R.I.P., “Krundle,” as it was codenamed by Devolver Digital’s Fork Parker “I think we could have revolutionized…
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iOS’ EDGE Comes to PC and Mac on Aug. 11, with Free DLC
EDGE, the critically acclaimed iOS game from 2009 (which also kicked off the eventual downfall of Tim Langdell’s all-encompassing claim to “Edge” as a trademark), is now coming to PC and Mac via Steam. The game will be available Aug. 11. A news release announcing the game’s availability added that a soon-to-be-released iOS game, titled…
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Gears of War: The Board Game Gets a Trailer
Spied at PAX East and spec’d out in May, Gears of War: The Board Game may not have a release date but there is mounting evidence that, against all odds, this is actually a thing. This four-minute trailer, from maker Fantasy Flight Games, gives a detailed rundown of how players’ attributes are handled, how the…
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Norwegian Retailers Pull Warcraft, Call of Duty Titles in Light of Shooting
One week after 77 died in two attacks carried out by a militant extremist in Norway, two retailers have temporarily pulled copies of World of Warcraft and several Call of Duty games from shelves, citing their ties to the accused killer’s manifesto. In a 1,500 page diary, the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, wrote that Warcraft…
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Honey, Will You Cosplay Catherine for Me Tonight?
Most guys when they want their girlfriend to dress up and roleplay, well, it usually involves a wig, a street corner and a big misunderstanding with a police officer. But longtime Kotaku reader Rodolfo, from Panama, is a bigtime Catherine fan. So much that when the game was announced for release in this hemisphere, he…
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