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Top 5 of 10: Pedo-Sedate
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •10 Unique Game Boy Accessories You Never Knew Existed [The Kartel] Ah, good old Pedi-Sedate (pictured). How in the Christ did that thing ever get…
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This Left 4 Dead Screen Looks Awesome on the 3DS
The Nintendo 3DS’ support of 3D imaging isn’t limited just to games. It also has a nifty 3D camera, and of course can display 3D-rendered images with the same effect. One Kotaku reader, who had been fooling around with 3D stereoscopic images of screen shots in the past wondered if they’d also display on the…
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Hackers Snare Website of Xbox Live’s Top Cop [Update]
Stephen Toulouse, known to many as Stepto, is Microsoft’s director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. That means he’s the guy with the biggest, baddest banhammer on that service, making him a prime target for grudge-nursing hackers. Apparently one just seized control of his personal website, stepto.com Update: A hacker took control of his…
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First in Line
Astute readers probably had this pegged for a ‘Shop Contest the instant it published a week ago, but don’t worry, we’ve got more than one image to exploit from the Nintendo 3DS launch, aka “When Reggie Met Triforce.” We have two images for you to work with, actually. Source Image: Triforce Johnson receives the first…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves, your Sunday morning reminder that all things games are fair game under the hashtag #tay Today’s TAYpic is courtesy of ShinLord. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: PAX’s Creed Winners
Last week’s challenge produced only the second time in Kotaku ‘Shop Contest history that one artist got two submissions featured in the final gallery. Who scored this rare double eagle? See inside! Asked to exploit this image of an Altaïr Ezio cosplayer at PAX East, the community responded in force. We had far more than…
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The Pac-Man Dookie Epic, Now Digitally Remastered
This week marks my third anniversary with Kotaku, spending all of that as the site’s weekend editor. On my third weekend here, my brother Fletch and I unloaded this post – “Two Brothers Meditating Upon Questions of Pac-Man,” originally published April 19, 2008. A hypothetical calculation of Pac-Man’s, er, metabolic functions, it became one of…
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Sponsored by Games, but Racing for Gamers
Most single men don’t pay much attention to which brand of laundry detergent they buy, beyond whatever’s cheapest. But back in North Carolina, I had a friend who was adamant about using Tide and could identify others who used it by their scent. That’s because Tide was the hood sponsor of Ricky Rudd, his favorite…
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“Capcom,” the Rap Song Dedicated to, Well, Capcom
Kid Cudi, the rapper who debuted two years ago with the gold-album “Man on the Moon: The End of Day,” evidently cut a rap homage to Capcom and the fighting genre for which it is well known. It’s an old project done for some friends, the artist said, but you may still listen to it…
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Indie Dev Meme Speaks Truth to the Powerless
Meme Generator now has “Optimistic Indie Dev” on its menu of choices, and it’s become quite active. Some suck, but a lot provide biting commentary on independent games development, in a can’t-live-with-em-can’t-live-without-em way. For an all-star selection of the best, go here. Meme Generator now has “Optimistic Indie Dev” on its menu of choices, and…
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Pac-Man Dookie: A Retrospective
The original image. By Fletch Brendan Good An alternate concept of Pac-Man on the john. By Fletch Brendan Good Pac-Man does his business in the tunnel. The original image, resized larger. An alternate of the tunnel image. “I needed to flatten out the bottom edge of the turds.” By Fletch Brendan Good. The size of…
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You May Now Play Long Lost Bio Force Ape
There must be some law that only in April can we get news about Bio Force Ape, a never-released NES game whose wild-ass title and premise spawned an awesome hoax in 2005. This, however, is legitimate: the ROM of the game is now available for you to download and play on an emulator, unless someone’s…
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How Long Does it Take to Stomp Out a 999-Hit Combo in Marvel vs. Capcom 3?
Roughly four minutes and 20 seconds is the answer, if it’s Chun-Li doing most of the dirty work vs. Dante in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Whoever’s playing as Chun-Li wings off another 24 hits to grow on after the combo meter hits 999, too. You can probably fast forward from about 25 seconds to 4:21…
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Climbing Out of a Slump
We’re on just the third day of the Major League Baseball season, so it’s impossible to say anyone is really in a hitting slump. MLB 11 The Show has been out for about a month, though, and one reader found his rookie struggling to get a hit, until he ended the slide the old fashioned…
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Nielsen Survey Finds Black Gamers Spend the Most Time Playing Consoles
Nielsen, the folks who measure every single thing that is or could possibly be done with a television set, have released an analysis of gaming habits by ethnicity, finding that African-Americans game the most per day, on average, Asian-Americans the least. Black gamers spent an average of 16 minutes a day using a TV to…
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Wild Things
I’m not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I’d just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we’d save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I’m for wasting sportswriters’ time. So…
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Let’s Close Out April Fool’s With This Unbeatable Minecraft Office Prank
Closing out this April Fool’s Day is a prank that is 100 percent truthful in its awesomeness. At Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Greenview Data, the co-workers of one Minecraft-addicted employee, Matt, converted his cubicle into a Minecraft cave anyone could be proud of, in game or in real life. It wasn’t as simple as taking 62…
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Paint the Town Brown with Duke Nukem Forever
Evidently, crap will be a missile weapon when Duke Nukem Forever releases – quite ironic for a game that’s spent 14 years unable to shit or get off the pot. I have no problem with toilet humor, I can deal with the sight of turds and I can handle, conceptually anyway, someone throwing them around.…
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