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Kotaku Shop ‘Contest: Few Winners, One Loser
Well, that sucked. I’m not going to bullshit you – I picked a bad ‘Shop Contest topic. When you go from 900 comments to 300 in a week, that’s a pretty fair judge of the subject’s merit, and I failed. I probably should have just told you to exploit the image of J Allard, sitting…
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Rockstar’s Nutball Domain Names Can Only Mean Grand Theft Auto V
From Weasel News to Maibatsu, Tw@ to Logger Beer and, of course, the Degenetron, Grand Theft Auto’s games are well known for delivering a pitch-perfect satire of the times in which they are set. The registration of five zany Web site names by Take-Two can only be for a Grand Theft Auto game, and they…
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Scare Yourself to Sleep with this Dead Space Night Light
Dead Space 2 Isaac Clarke Lamp, by DeviantArt’s TeamLando. Sculpted for a contest and a friend, says the Lando bros. “Nothing fancy, just super sculpey, acrylic paint and LED-shoelaces, with 70 hours worth of batteries in the back,” say the creators.
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Your Guide to Video Gaming’s Sportspocalypse 2011
Sportspocalypse. Sportsmageddon. Spörtsnarök? Whatever you want to call it, the coming month is packed with sports video game releases – a seven-way showdown of licensed sports titles in a month that normally sees only two baseball games. How’d we get to this point? The seven titles here all took different paths for specific reasons even…
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Minecraft’s Creator Ponders Adding Achievements
Noting that a lot of people dislike achievements, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says he’s still a fan of them, and thinks they could be useful to his runaway indie hit as a type of guide leading newcomers through the game, rather than implementing a heavy-handed tutorial that stifles creativity. “I’ve had the idea to…
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Ratings Board Says Teens Would Find Swinger Game ‘Beneath Them’
Even though the game ratings authority in the U.K. says “the average 16-year-old would think everything in We Dare was beneath them,” politicians, parents and media there are apoplectic that Ubisoft’s ridiculous swinger-party game was rated a 12 – meaning suitable for kids. “I have a 13 year old daughter and if I knew she…
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Here’s the 3DS Already Running an R4 Cartridge
Not 24 hours since its release, here’s the Nintendo 3DS running the notorious R4 flash cart. It’s not that much of a surprise – probably doesn’t even qualify as a hack, as a 3DS is fully backward compatible with DS cartridges, essentially what this is. But this does let you know that, yes, for those…
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The Quadruple-Double
Only four NBA players have recorded a quadruple double – double figures in four statistical categories in the same game. All but one were centers. None was a point guard. Kotaku reader Sean took the Boston Celtics against Memphis in an Association mode contest, having recently completed a trade that, like in real life, sent…
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The Moneysaver: Fleshy Headed Mutant, Are You Friendly?
I was the last one left after the nuclear holocaust, eh. The whole world had been destroyed, like the U.S. blew up Russia and Russia blew up U.S. Fortunately, I had been offworld at the time. There wasn’t much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So’s I spent most of my time…
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