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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Politics As Usual Winners
Tuesday’s elections in the United States provided the grist for our two-week shop contest, imagining, examing and implementing political motives in video games and their characters. We’ve rounded up the 20 best in this gallery. E pluribus funny! adventlife (1), DEVOlutionSpud (5), HobbitGamer (11) and Snufkin (18) all made political hay out of the Obama…
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NBA All Star ‘Addicted’ To Call Of Duty
Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams has long had Nov. 9 circled. Not because his team will play LeBron James and the Miami Heat then. Because it’s when Call of Duty: Black Ops releases. Williams says he’s “addicted” to it. “I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty,'” Williams told ESPN’s Jon…
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Far Too Soon For EA Sports To Tap Out
It was little coincidence that THQ and Ultimate Fighting Championship waited until Oct. 19 to announce an eight year extension to their exclusive video game pact. That was the day EA Sports MMA released. EA Sports MMA and UFC Undisputed are a rare pairing, being directly competing licensed sports titles with different ship dates. So…
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Screens Showcase Dead Space 2’s OPFOR
Get your talon-like hands on this batch of 15 multiplayer screens for Dead Space 2 that Electronic Arts sent out out yesterday. In addition to the humans, you can see a couple types of playable necromorphs. Dead Space 2 is due Jan. 25, and it blows me away that’s three months from now. Sheesh, where…
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“Super There Will Be Blood” Will Make You Laugh Like A Bastard From A Basket
This uproarious short – a finalist in Empire Magazine’s “Done In Sixty Seconds” competition – reduces all the key dramatic scenes and dialogue of “There Will Be Blood” to 8-bit presentation. Pick up that milkshake! “Super There Will Be Blood,” by Owen and Adam from tomfoolerypictures, had me snickering from Plainview’s first tumble down the…
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Box Scores: River City Ransom Basketball
When we say any sports game qualifies for Game of the Week, we mean it. That goes for Ganbare Dunk Heroes, in which Kotaku reader Skutarth finally triumphed over those no good hicks on the “Texas” squad. For those not familiar, Dunk Heroes is “essentially River City Ransom Basketball,” as Skutarth says. Released for the…
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Fallout Wiki Editors Have A Lot Of Time On Their Hands — And Use It
Fallout: New Vegas released 18 days ago. That’s 432 hours. Since then, more than 475,000 hours have been spent reading and editing the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. That’s 58 years. Over on Wikia, where numerous games’ wikis are tended by legions of fans, Fallout added more than 1,200 new pages since the game’s release, and…
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The Moneysaver: Back To The Coupons
Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t preorder Star Wars: STFU II with a free shipping coupon he’d melt my brain. The Moneysaver’s back from vacaycay, gang. We resume with our regularly scheduled coupons and deals, already in progress. Hardware • Xbox 360 2010 Holiday Bundle…
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The Week In Review: Kinect To The Court
Kinect arrived, bringing a means of controlling games by grasping at thin air. The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could change how games are sold, even made. It was a week that carried the scent of history. Our verdict on Kinect: it’s a winning piece of technology, albeit one in need of…
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APB’s Remains Remain Valuable, But Codemasters Isn’t Buying
“Nine months of hard work,” could salvage All Points Bulletin, the failed cops-and-robbers MMO, but don’t expect Codemasters to be the one doing the work, says the publisher’s online general manager. David Solari told Eurogamer that somebody will loot APB’s corpse, whether it’s to resurrect the game or – more likely – pick up and…
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Infinity Blade’s Knight To Shine On iPhone 4
This launch trailer gives you a good look at Infinity Blade, the role-playing game for iPhone 4 (and iPad and iPod Touch) being built by Chair Entertainment and Epic Games, whose Unreal Engine makes the whole thing go. Chair has said they think they’ve got the potential “best looking handheld game ever made,” and it’s…
By Owen Good