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Madden’s First Hall of Famer
Marshall Faulk, who had the cover of Madden NFL 2003, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame yesterday. Faulk is the first Madden NFL dedicated cover athlete to be elected to Canton. (Barry Sanders appeared in the background of the cover of Madden NFL 2000.)
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Give This Guy His Game
You might remember the ballad of Ricky Lee Kalichun, who went over to an acquaintance’s place to retrieve a video game – albeit wearing Sharpie war paint and using a samurai sword. This guy wants his game? Let’s give him one. Let’s think a little bit before we just straight up meme-ify Mr. Kalichun. I…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselv
This is Kotaku’s official forum. There are 27 games on this game program cartridge. Feel free to talk about all of them, amongst yourselves. Yankton is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics…
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Sunday Comics
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Jan. 31 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Feb. 3 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Feb. 4 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Jan.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Evony, In Perfect Harmony Winners
Evonyizifying video games was the name of the last ‘Shop Contest challenge, and either way it figured to be not half as obnoxious as the ads for the freemium online game. We raked in over 900 submissions. Over 900! AlanMooresBeard (1) took care of the obligatory Bad Dudes entry. BigMike McCarthy (2) supplied the most,…
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Boys’ Beyblade Bathtub Breakage Begets eBay Bailout
At first blush, you might think the older kid on the left is faking the tears. But at right, one sees only the authentic, thousand-yard stare of a younger brother caught up in more trouble than he can possibly imagine. These two have lost their entire collection of Beyblades, the spinning-top toy based on the…
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Minecraft Goes Through the Looking Glass of Garry’s Mod
Garry’s Mod is powerful, but not this powerful. That’s where “Photoshop” comes in. But this brilliant Minecraft/Half-Life 2 mashup uses both to tell a charming story. Before you go asking OMG, where’s the texture pack, here’s the scoop. Artist Robbaz recorded the opening in Minecraft, went through the portal, then spliced in a recording made…
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He’s Playing for the Madden Cover — Oh, and a Super Bowl, Too
The cover of Madden NFL is the modern Wheaties box. Every sport has its video game and a cover athlete, but only Madden gets the bar-argument debate over who deserves the front. That begins tomorrow after the clock hits zero in Super Bowl XLV. Handicapping the next cover selection is alternately easy and difficult. Offensive…
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Rovio Will Fling Angry Birds Into 3DS ‘Later in the Year’
Rovio Mobile confirmed over its official Twitter account that all versions of Angry Birds will be brought to the Nintendo 3DS within the year. Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and the forthcoming Angry Birds Rio, a tie-in with the movie of the same name, will be digital downloads over 3DSWare, Rovio told the blog 3DS…
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Draw Your Own Controller With This Kinect Mod
The march of mod progress has steadily delivered many cool things during the Kinect’s short lifespan to date. We can add another breakthrough: The ability to recognize hand-drawn buttons. This hack, by Garratt Gallagher, won Willow Garage’s recent open-source Robot Operating System contest. Here he draws four buttons with a piece of paper and a…
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Like It or Not, Here’s World 1-1 in Left 4 Dead
This looks a lot like the re-creation of World 1-1 in Half-Life 2 – it and Left 4 Dead use the same engine and toolkit, after all. But Left 4 Dead Super Mario Bros does include subterranean rooms. Bill’s jumping is of little use in this board though – everything’s built too high. He busts…
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Box Scores: Cleveland Dreamer
On Dec. 2, the Cleveland Cavaliers were 7-10 when they faced LeBron James. Since then, they’ve gone 1-32, tying an NBA record with 23 straight losses. Only in NBA Jam could this team turn its season around. Kotaku commenter Bamzilla set about to do just that, taking the Cavs in NBA Jam’s Classic Campaign, which…
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Leaked Battlefield 3 DLC Info Points to a Classic Map Reboot?
Someone from the Battlefield 3 forums unearthed a poster that purports to reveal plans for the extra maps included in the game’s limited edition. A four-map redo of the “Strike at Karkand” map from Battlefield 2 will be included. Furthermore, for those who don’t pick it up free in the Limited Edition, it’ll be available…
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The Moneysaver: Teen Exploitation
I can’t believe this, Wyatt. I’m so disappointed in us. All our lives we’ve been saying how great it would be if we went to parties, right? And now it’s our party and we’re looking at game coupons. Game coupons! Why did I forget that Robert Downey, Jr. was in this film? It took seeing…
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First Rule of Capcom’s Fight Club: Talk About the 3DS
Here’s a stylish look at Fight Club, the celebration put on by iam8bit and Capcom last night that provided 1,500 fans a peep at Super Street Fighter IV on the 3DS, if they waited in line 19 hours. Taking place last night, Fight Club’s admission line snaked around an entire city block in downtown Los…
By Owen Good