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Has Someone Already Won a Million Dollars from MLB 2K11?
Yesterday someone uploaded a YouTube video purporting to show him completing 2K Sports’ Million Dollar Perfect Game Challenge in MLB 2K11. While it’s confirmation of nothing, it may signal another early end to the game’s sweepstakes promotion. [Warning: The audio gets very loud and NSFW after the final out.] Excusing the lag-fest and skipped audio,…
By Owen Good Published April 8, 2011 -
Unless You’re Easily Offended, Meet The ‘Babes’ Of Duke Nukem Forever
One of these jiggling, scantily clad ladies may be the “babe” you’ll be slapping on the keister in Duke Nukem Forever‘s “Capture The Babe” mode. So why not familiarize yourself with the various fetishes and archetypes of the game’s fairer sex. Yes, there are schoolgirls and strippers and even girls wearing cat ears. Yes, Duke…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 8, 2011 -
Preorder Dungeon Siege III Through Steam, Get The First Two Games Free
Dungeon Siege III might be delayed, but that just gives Steam users more time to play through Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege II. They’ll get both games free as soon as their preorder goes through. That’s a lot of dungeons.
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Read Portal 2‘s Very Informative Digital Comic Right Now
As forewarned, Valve has released the first portion of its Portal digital comic at IGN. In it, we meet Rat Man, rank and file Aperture Science workers and learn more about the origins of GlaDOS. Read Portal 2: Lab Rat now.
By Michael McWhertor Published April 8, 2011 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The old PSP gets a little love from me this weekend, thanks to the copy of Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection that showed up at my door this week, courtesy of the FedEx man. Now, I’ve never played Final Fantasy IV, so I’ll be going into this fresher than most. I’ve played some Final…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 8, 2011 -
Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings
During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…
By Drew Cohen Published April 8, 2011 -
Exploding Barrels Have Their Revenge, Angry Birds Style
Fed up with his shitty flip phone’s inability to play a game of Angry Birds, one man turns to the most incendiary of video game cliches, the exploding barrel, to scratch his itch for destruction. This is the game of Angry Barrels. It’s the latest effort from special effectsperts Corridor Digital, makers of must-watch YouTube…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 8, 2011 -
MineCraft-Inspired FortressCraft Is Building Excitement On Xbox Live
While it may look and smell like Mojang’s hit PC building game MineCraft, ProjectorGames’ FortressCraft, now available via Xbox Live Indie Games, is a slightly different animal. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? If you love the building aspect of MineCraft but aren’t too keen on the actual harvesting of materials, then…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Where Does Portal 2‘s Co-Op Campaign Fit Into the Half-Life Universe?
From an interview with Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek from Beefjack.com: With regards to the co-op campaign, how does it fit in the Portal universe? Chet Faliszek: It has its own separate story, with its own characters, and takes place after the single-player game. GLaDOS has a little thing for you to do, and I’ll say…
By Joel Johnson Published April 8, 2011 -
Everything You Need To Know About The Story And Setting Of Space Marine
Fans familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 universe are incredibly excited about THQ and Relic Entertainment’s Space Marine for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. Players not familiar with the universe have no idea what’s going on. This video fixes that. Kotaku employs gamers and geeks from all walks of fandom, and sometimes it’s hard…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Crysis 2 Getting a DirectX 11 Patch for Extra Glistening, Dripping Aliens
Details are basically non-existent, but Crytek has officially announced that there will be a DirectX 11 patch for Crysis 2 to take full advantage of modern PC gaming hardware. [MyCrysis.com] (Thanks, Kyle!)
By Joel Johnson Published April 8, 2011 -
You Know What Would Make EyePet Better? Two EyePets, Licking Each Other
What do you do when you get tired of playing with your new pet? You buy it a friend! Sony takes this fundamental pet handling tip to heart in the sequel to its PlayStation Move powered virtual pet, EyePet & Friends. The EyePet was a charming little fuzzball that harnessed the power of augmented reality,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Everybody Shang Tsung Tonight
Long before the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung discovered a portal to Outworld and pleged his service to Shao Kahn, he was known to take his baby by the hand and make her do a high hand stand. True story. Back then he was so in phase and cool on craze, but it was a different…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Have Review Score Farms Changed The Way You Buy Video Games?
Nine out of ten reviewers will enjoy today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, in which commenter Wocalax wonders if review aggregate sites like Metacritic make it easier or harder to decide which games to buy. Kotaku, I haven’t asked you a question in a while, but I think I have a decent one: Have sites that collate…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
Now You Can Shop GameStop On Facebook For Some Reason
Why bother going to GameStop.com and having the whole of the video game retailers’ inventory at your fingertips when you can visit a severely limited GameStop Facebook store instead? It’s got ‘Like’ buttons! GameStop’s new Facebook store doesn’t hold a candle to GameStop.com. It features a limited selection of sale items, bestsellers, new items, and…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2011 -
The Death Star Was My Idea
Parodying the Windows 7 campaign, TK-421, Darth Vader and the lovable Chewbacca all share their individual accounts on how the Death Star was really their idea. If anyone is well-versed in Shryiiwook, I would love to know what Chewie’s saying. Watch Vader here and Chewie here
Junior Mendez Published April 8, 2011