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This PSA Paid for by Fight Against Tomahawk Spam
“Every day, someone is killed by a total fucking bullshit tomahawk throw in Call of Duty: Black Ops. These are senseless cheesedick bullshit kills. Tragically, we are now even seeing three-way bank shots on Havana. And the killers are free to spam another tomahawk throw right after that. “Decent human beings could never say they…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: 3DS Warnings Winners
When I said last week that I expected our ‘Shop Contest to set a record for entries, I wasn’t kidding around. Neither were you. Your revisionist warnings for the Nintendo 3DS comprised one of our most popular contest features ever. Somehow, we whittled more than 700 entries down to a worthy 20. Check out the…
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Angry Birds Crashing Into Facebook Soon
Perhaps spurred on by ripoff apps already in place, Angry Birds’ developer says the game will have a Facebook adaptation inside of the month. Angry Birds’ official Facebook page has the announcement, promising to update folks on the game’s rollout if they click the like button. If you don’t see that, you may be one…
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Where Everybody Knows Their Name — Except Them
I tried to disguise my blitz but Jake Locker picked it up immediately. He’s a first-round draft pick and a four-year starter at quarterback for Washington. You reach that level, you’re probably well coached. “You play NCAA Football 11 last year?” I led. “All the time,” said Locker. “Would you play as yourself and the…
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Halo Wars Still a Worthy Franchise, Says New Halo Studio
Halo Wars survived Microsoft’s assault to take down its leaderboards late last year, showing that the game still has some fight in it. 343 Industries, Microsoft’s new internal studio handling the Halo franchise, tipped its cap to the console RTS, calling it sequel- and even Kinect-worthy. That said, there are no plans to take this…
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Five-Inch Space Invaders Doesn’t Have to Compensate for Anything
This acrylic Space Invaders coin bank is just five inches tall, etched on 3 mm acrylic using a laser cutter hobby kit. By Thingiverse contributor Krusty, who designed the patterns himself and has posted them, and instructions, on the site. [Seen via Craziest Gadgets, thanks Paul.]
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Sony Action Against Hacker Exposes Those Who Visited His Site
Caught in the blast of Sony’s lawsuit against the man who jailbroke the PlayStation 3 is anyone who may have visited his website, under a court order that set off privacy advocates and further angered hackers. A federal magistrate in San Francisco ruled Sony may subpoena the IP addresses of everyone who visited George Hotz’s…
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No Assists in These Parting Shots
After alienating himself from the team and driving the NBA’s longest-tenured coach into retirement, Deron Williams was traded by the Utah Jazz to the New Jersey Nets. What better way to say “You can’t win without me,” than to do all the scoring yourself? Tardvaris, a student at the U. of Wisconsin, supplies our game…
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Oh Coupons, Where Art Thou?
Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don’t intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field. Hell, take at look at these deals here as your paradigm of hope. Hardware • Nintendo Wii white or black console…
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Super Ball Escape Rolls Along, With a Little Touch
I was never a fan of the old ball-bearing labyrinth puzzles that lay about my grandparents’ living room. I lacked the touch necessary to angle the platform and keep the ball from doing anything other than thunking into the bottom of the box after taking two corners. Today, an entire genre of these rolling-ball puzzles…
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Unofficial Paparazzi Footage Reveals Battlefield 3‘s a Stunner
Video removed as a courtesy to EA.Shot on the sly at GDC, the Italian gaming site Multiplayer.it provides this peek at the visual tour de force of Battlefield 3 – including urban combat with buckling pavement and crumbling buildings, and even an aerial sequence? The video appears to come from a behind-closed-doors screening at the…
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An Arcade Reboot with a Cosplay Connection
Sometime this year, Peter Pepper will be climbin’ up your ladders and stompin’ your patties down in Burgertime HD, a PlayStation Network/Xbox Live reboot of the nearly 30-year-old arcade classic. The game has an interesting connection to someone featured on Kotaku in the past. That would be Hezachan, the elite cosplayer known for her impersonations…
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The Real Cliffy B Meets the Real Fake Cliffy B
At left is the bona fide Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games. At right is Twitter’s Fakecliffy_b – the spoof account run by Matthew Rex Downham, himself a designer of iOS applications and games. Real Cliffy B and Fakecliffy_b met, at last, at GDC 2011.
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Video Gaming’s Future, in Three Acts
Friday at the Game Developers Conference found Kotaku’s newshounds still hard at work in the city by the bay, getting their hands and eyes on everything being discussed and displayed at the year’s first major games industry conference. The conference is scheduled to last through tomorrow, but that won’t be the end of news coming…
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The Presidents Of The United States Of America Book Sweet Pokémon Launch Gig
Forget Red Rock or Caesar’s Palace. The only true indicator that you’ve made it as a band is when Nintendo asks you to play the launch of its new Pokémon game in New York. Welcome to the big time, Presidents! The alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America once prophesized(on the…
By Mike Fahey
