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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Flaws
This week, Jezebel found in an auction of Playboy memorabilia several pre-publication centerfold shots with some unsexy editorial markup scrawled all over. (NSFW, nudity). It was an unsavory depiction even for one of magazines’ most prolific airbrushers. Also, boobs. Hold on, hold on. Get back here. Now, that got me to thinking about another population…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
There’s something about TAY that makes everybody horny. Everybody in this picture horny, anyway. Get it? Because … they have … horns on their … never mind. You guys talk about games or somethin’. MrMrScott is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just…
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Later … At The Hall Of Doom …
Oh man, the Hall of Doom … that thing that looked like a cross between my elementary school principal and Darth Vader … Well, it’s different in DC Universe Online, as this latest batch of screens attest. Looks a lot more serious and threatening in this set of 11 screengrabs, which also includes Bane’s Venom…
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Pick Up Red Dead Redemption’s Soundtrack — In Vinyl
Sure you can download the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack – get it on CD even! But if you want authentic pop, crackle and hiss coming over your wild west soundtrack, only Rockstar has what you need, a double vinyl LP. The studio partnered with Wax Poetics to present the limited edition RDR soundtrack “on blazing…
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Not Its Own Video Game, Not A Real Card Collection, Yet More Than Both
Somewhere out there is a guy who’s spent big money on football cards. He can look at them, but can’t touch them. He can use the players – all elite – in a $60 video game, but never does. In fact, there are actually 35 of these big spenders – players who have each paid…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Master System Cover Winners
The Master System/Mega Drive debuted before the advent of home desktop publishing, so the design choices of its ridiculously minimalist covers seemed somewhat sophisticated at the time. We gave modern games a retrofit in last week’s ‘Shop Contest. razzbarry (15) and Zinger314 (20) had different takes on similar themes. BuckThunder (5) was so, so cruel…
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Shadow Puppets 2.0 — With Kinect
This cool demonstration by Design I/O, which produces “interactive installations” shows the Kinect being used to project animated hand puppets that respond to the user’s movements. Design I/O built it in a day using open-source Kinect drivers. Kinect’s software recognizes not only the X and Y axes of your arm’s position but also its Z…
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Box Scores: Fickle Forty-Niner Fans
San Francisco’s quarterback swap and resulting two game winning streak in real life had one 49er fan jumping into Madden to reboot the season, starting by dumping proven bust Alex Smith. Mike Singletary and Jed York are still insane and delusional as all hell, respectively, but Derek B. runs this show, meaning they’re 1,000 percent…
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EA Sports Rumored To Revive NFL Blitz
NBA Jam’s critical success has led EA Sports to resurrect the beloved NFL Blitz series as well, Jeff Gerstmann reports over on Giant Bomb. Development is rumored to be underway, and the multiplatform game wouldn’t release until 2012. Gerstmann attributes the news to an industry insider and also his previous report that EA Sports, in…
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The Moneysaver: ALL THESE COUPONS ARE YOURS
What is going to happen? Something wonderful. I’m afraid. Don’t be. We’ll be together. Where will we be? Where I am now. Would you like to renew your PowerUp Rewards Card? Put $5 down on GT5? Hardware • Refurbished Nintendo Wii with controller, nunchuk, Sports Resort, Wii Sports, plus a “classic controller” is $157.97, free…
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The Week In Review: Black Friday Eve
The calm before the annual storm. It was the last normal week before the holiday shopping season begins and the mass media enforces your civic duty to agonize over what to buy mom, and whether Walmart sold enough of it. We stepped in with our 2010 Gift Guides on five platforms so far, with more…
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A Fine Day For A Pac-Man Parade
The lone game character from the International Video Games Hall of Fame’s inaugural class will appear on a float for the first time in the 122-year-old Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, Calif. Pac and his four adversaries also constitute the first video-game float ever in the parade, which precedes the Rose Bowl on New…
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Wiebe: Still Points Available In Race To Donkey Kong’s Max Score
The infamous “kill screen” sets a limit to the highest possible score in Donkey Kong. Steve Wiebe, who reclaimed the world’s No. 1 in September, says the game still has about 100,000 points to go. “Believe it or not, we’re still leaving some room at the top.” Wiebe told Crave. “But I think people put…
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