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Get Your Game Face On — In 3D
The 3DS Faces the Public | Kelly Yeom of Brooklyn and Roberto Sanna of Manhattan play Face Raiders while waiting for the midnight launch of the Nintendo 3DS at Best Buy’s Union Square location in New York.. (Photo: Anders Krusberg for Nintendo of America) Nintendo 3DS Buyer’s Guide We’ve played the games. We’ve shown you…
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3D and Short Play for Madden NFL Football
Madden NFL has had a largely tractionless history on Nintendo’s platforms since the Wii supplanted the GameCube. It’s a version that simply lacks identity, floating from cartoon characters attempting to play simulation quality football, to real world strategy that has to account for gameplay gimmicks. Madden NFL Football for the Nintendo 3DS doesn’t do much…
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Legends in Your Living Room
Hype for Augusta National Golf Course’s appearance in Tiger Woods: PGA Tour 12 has reached near saturation limits. Did you know another legendary figure also ends a long absence from video games? If golf is too sedate for you, Randy “Macho Man” Savage returns to the ring in WWE All-Stars, his first appearance under the…
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GameFly Implies It’d Double Monthly Profits If It Got the Netflix Postage Rate
GameFly has been at it with the U.S. Postal Service for nearly two years now over what it perceives as preferential treatment to Netflix, whose mailings GameFly alleges are given higher priority by postal sorters, not to mention a better postage rate. So much that savings from the postage rate Netflix enjoys would double GameFly’s…
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Top 5 of 10: High Achievers
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. •Shovelware for Achievement Whores [UGO] Well researched list that reads like a boosting guide for ultra-score seekers. Many of the titles are from the early…
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Dragon Age II Coulda Used Dave’s Mapper
Maybe Dragon Age II, criticized for its repeating dungeon structure, could have benefitted from something like this nifty dungeon randomizing web application. Not that I’m any better at it myself. I suffered the same criticism the only time my D&D friends, all older than me, let me DM an original dungeon. “Is there a secret…
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Picked Up a 3DS? Whaddaya Think? Tell Us Here
I don’t get my 3DS for another 90 minutes – the GameStop here in Springfield, Ore. did no midnight launch (mall location) and won’t open until noon. But we’re already getting reports in from readers in North America about their experiences with Nintendo’s new handheld. Tipster RavenWorks: “I entered ‘Shazam!’ as my 3DS status message.…
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Owen’s Good Walk Spoiled is Tomorrow at 2
If you want to see me get smoked over the first nine of Augusta National, I’ll be facing EA Sports’ Justin Patel in a mini tournament being streamed live tomorrow at 2 p.m. EDT. Justin and I will be playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters and discussing the game. You can watch live…
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PAX’s Creed
Everyone did so well ‘shoppin’ up that Gameface of Blizzard’s founders at the NASDAQ that we’ve decided to stick with the theme of mostly weird people playing video games. This is supposed to be Altaïr Ezio playing Killzone 3 at PAX East, but it really looks like the Shmoo if he was an NFL defensive…
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Triforce Johnson Was First in Line After All
Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson, the Power Glove-wearing superfan whose attempts to start the 3DS launch line as early as Tuesday were thwarted by zealous security and suspicious cops, was in fact the first person in North America to be sold a Nintendo 3DS. Here he is receiving it at Best Buy’s 3DS launch event in Union…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Blizzard Hits the Street Winners
Blizzard’s cofounders paid a visit to Wall Street earlier this month, providing us with a very exploitable image for the latest ‘shop contest. See who really runs the U.S. financial system in our gallery of 20! We had a number of particularly strong entries this week. At least 20, by my count. Matching Frank and…
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Metacritic Now Rating Humans
Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they’ve worked on. For an industry obsessed with applying arbitrary numbers to the subjective appraisal…
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Ten Days of Grace Brings Golf’s Church to the Masses
Most golf fans, if they’re lucky, will get to spend four days in early April at the venerated Augusta National Golf Course, scene of The Masters Tournament. Shannon Yates was on the course, sunup to sundown, for 10 straight library-quiet days, coming to understand it in ways even a professional golfer never will. “There were…
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What If Michael Bay Directed an Angry Birds Movie?
When Rooster Teeth swivels its main guns onto a particular topic, you can count on that sucker being blasted off the map. And here is a comprehensively excellent faux trailer that reframes Angry Birds as an action drama about secret wars fought with advanced technology. Or a slingshot and birds. It’s got the mandatory Wilhelm…
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What 3DS Games Are You Buying Tomorrow?
There are 16 games available when the Nintendo 3DS launches in North America tomorrow. Now, the 3DS itself does come with a lot of fun stuff in the box – augmented reality games, 3D video, etc. But this is a games console. Games are sold separately. Which ones do you plan on buying? We’d like…
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These Are the Least Favorite Pokémon
With the fifth generation of Pokémon monsters introduced (in North America) earlier this month, the bestiary is up to nearly 650. That’s a lot of Pokémon, and it figures not every one of them is recognized as much as, say, Charmander, Snivy, Pikachu and, yes, Mudkip. A series of five surveys, four with extremely large…
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From Garbage Time to Prime Time
When the Chicago Bulls’ Brian Scalabrine checks into a game, the contest is over. It was over long before he entered it, too. The definition of a trash-time mop-up sub, Scalabrine has appeared in 18 of the Bulls’ 71 games this year, averaging four minutes. Reader ultimateado decided to see if he could make Scalabrine…
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One More Delay for Duke Nukem Forever Isn’t Really a Trick, Swear
When they heard the news Duke Nukem Forever would be delayed until June, many folks thought what I did, frankly: Maybe Gearbox and 2K Games planned all along for a June release, but gave it a May date so the game, 14 years in development, would get one last round of “Duke is Delayed” buzz…
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