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Galaga World Record Falls
Galaga’s tournament-setting world record fell again, reclaimed on New Year’s Day by the previous record holder, Andrew Laidlaw of Washington state. Laidlaw’s 4,525,150 was certified on Friday by Twin Galaxies, the world sanctioning authority for video game high scores. Laidlaw set the mark on the tournament setting, which allows for five lives total on the…
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Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network Taking Hiatus; More DLC Confirmed
News updates from Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network will cease after the service marks its one year anniversary on Jan. 24. Updates will then come only with downloadable content – and one more package is on the way in 2011. Cerberus Network’s daily update has added background to the Mass Effect continuity, providing a short…
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The Moneysaver: The First Hangover of 2011 [Updated]
Don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug. But if he’s been murdered by crystal meth tweakers, well then we’re shit out of luck. Good…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tron-ify Everything
Tron: Legacy is a critical mixed bag at best – unless you’re Ian Bogost’s daughter – but it’s still useful for something: The first ‘Shop Contest challenge of 2011. Drawing from this poor cat and BossLogic’s awesome Street Fighter art, we’re going to transport games to the Game Grid this week. There’s an unintentional yo-dawg.…
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The Week In Review: Ringing Out The Old
The winner and losers; the highs and lows; the disappointing failures and the heartwarming successes of 2010, we covered it all as the Earth’s odometer rolled over another year this past week. Fahey supplied a gorgeous, poster-quality roundup of the 2010 timeline to roundup our recap. Other fan favorites included Crecente’s accounting of the past…
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2010: The Year In Gaming
What would the new year be without a massive graphical detailing of the highs and lows of the year previous? Let’s take a look back at 2010, giant infographic style. This graphic is a labor of love created by myself to mark the passage of one hell of a year in gaming. How much a…
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Box Scores: Skill Beats Speed Down The Stretch
From Gran Turismo 5 comes our latest game of the week, a race pitting Kotaku reader Icegoat in a roadster overmatched by nearly 150 hp against the rest of the field, “I like a challenge,” writes Icegoat, who ran a BMW Z4 tuned up to 397 horsepower against a field of racers ranging in power…
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Fight Night Champion Serves a Standing Eight in the Joint
Anyone old enough to remember Marv Albert on NBC calling a James Scott bout live from Rahway State Prison will want to pay attention to this, the bareknuckle jailhouse fight within the “Champion Mode” of Fight Night Champion. Promised by EA Sports when Champion Mode was first revealed last month, this fight pits protagonist Andre…
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Report: Ubisoft Antipiracy Measure No Longer Requires Always-On Net Connection
Beginning with this summer’s release of RUSE, Ubisoft curbed the use of its atrociously executed antipiracy safeguards, which required a constant Internet connection for the game to function. Apparently, an online connection is now only required at startup. PC Gamer reports that the constant DRM checks on games like Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell:…
By Owen Good
