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Being Like Mike — and ‘Nique, and Spud

Fooling around in NBA 2K11, I picked the 1990 Atlanta Hawks for one reason: Dominique Wilkins. Sure, the Hawks had Moses Malone late in his career, but let’s be honest. You play this team for the Human Highlight Reel. Early in my matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves – come on, I needed an easy side…

What Do Boobs And Goombas Have In Common?

I dunno, they’re both kinda smooshy? They also form the title of a video game burlesque show running this weekend and the next two in Chicago. Can we officially call this a fad? Tickets here. Seen via Reddit.

Assassin’s Creed’s Harlequin Bro-Mance

Preordering Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood delivers you the Harlequin for use in multiplayer. Should you lay down your $5 there for this bonus? This video gives you a little more to think about – and a nice view of Rome’s architecture.

Box Scores: Seven Hours Of Hangtime

Reader Austin D. recently fired up his Nintendo 64 to play an entire season on NBA Hangtime. That’s 34 games. Austin has no memory pak, so he had to play them all at once. That’s more than 7 hours. Nonetheless, he triumphed against the CPU, with the difficulty set to maximum (Austin notes that Hangtime’s…

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Patent Application Imagines The DS Helping With The Groceries

Still trying to sell the DS to people who don’t typically play games, Nintendo has plans for an application linking the DS with a supermarket’s inventory so users can simplify their shopping list and find what they need more easily. Sounds like nothing more than a weekly circular on the handheld but I could see…

The Moneysaver: Planes, Trains & Automo-deals

There’s no way on earth we’re going to get out of here tonight. We’d have more luck playing pickup sticks with our buttcheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak. Hardware • Microsoft Store offers this Xbox 360 bundle: 4GB Console, 2 Wireless Controllers, 12-month LIVE card, and 4000 LIVE points…

The Week In Review: Just A Little Bit Longer

Surprise. Gran Turismo 5 is delayed again. That may not be news in the ironic sense, but it is in terms of what folks were talking about at the beauty parlor and feed store, if gamers gathered in such places. We also packed in seven reviews, among them Medal of Honor, NBA Jam, and Kirby’s…

An Ikaruga Model Kit? Oh My…

I look at this amazing model kit on display at the 2010 All Japan Hobby Show in Tokyo and my first thought is a robot voice gargling PREHSZ STAAAHT BATTAN. My second thought is I need this. It doesn’t matter how much it costs. Actually, now I think about it, I’d need two, one to…

Halo: Reach Rank Cap Should Be Lifted In November

The latest update from the minds behind Halo: Reach says the game’s rank cap, currently limited to Lieutenant Colonel Grade C, will be lifted once the game’s community completes 117 million daily and weekly challenges. That is quite a lot, but then, quite a lot of people play Halo: Reach, and so Bungie expects that…

Get Out Of That Giant Stone Ball’s Way, Gandalf

Rock of Ages is a good name for ACE Team’s (Zeno Clash) next project, but surely Super Monty Python Ball would have been better? I don’t know. Maybe it was taken. I do know, however, that any game which has you catapult a giant stone ball right into the junk of Michelangelo’s David is a…

Blizzard Suing Starcraft II Cheat Makers

Remember those 5000 people Blizzard busted for cheating in Starcraft II? Well the developer is going after those responsible with a vengeance, taking three men to court for creating the hacks those users employed. “Just days after the release of Starcraft II, Defendants already had developed, marketed, and distributed to the public a variety of…

And You Thought Your Day Was Boring …

The Swiss set a record for the longest tunnel ever dug, 35 miles through the Alps, connected yesterday. How awesome would it have been to attach a giant Cthulhu head to that borer for the moment it broke through? I’ve spent the whole day inside evaluating two wildly disparate video games. I don’t know what…

How They’re Pushing Kinect In Manhattan

This is Kinect outside of Macy’s in New York City’s Herald Square. There were no Kinects in the window displays at GameStop a block south. What kind of crowd do we think Microsoft is going for with their no-controller controller? (The earlier clip I cite in this video is this Times Square Call of Duty…

You Might As Well Be A Robot As Far As Babies Are Concerned

It’s time for our mostly daily Kotaku science post! Today we take a look at an important scientific study that has found that babies can’t tell human beings from humanoid robots. I firmly believe that any scientific study that brings together babies and robots is worthy of our attention. This is mainly because it tickles…

Original Xbox Has A New Launch Date — Literally

Literally. YouTube user ShredRexx attempted to soft-mod an original Xbox but wound up frying it. Perhaps taking a page from this stunt, he placed it atop an airbag from an older car and, well, see for yourself. [seen via Reddit]

Celebrate Uncharted 2’s 1st Birthday In Multiplayer

Uncharted 2’s studio is running a 24-hour One-Year Anniversary Event in the game’s multiplayer beginning in about five-and-a-half-hours, offering five playlist favorites, quintupled cash payouts with no cash cap, and an exclusive anniversary Nathan Drake multiplayer skin. Not only that, you’ll likely spot one of the more than 30 Naughty Dog staff members, representing all…

Red Dead Redemption DLC Gets Standalone Disc Release

For those who haven’t picked up Red Dead Redemption, or aren’t interested in its main singleplayer campaign, Rockstar will soon release a single disc that includes all of the downloadable content, playable without the main game. “Undead Nightmare,” taking its name from the game’s latest DLC extension, will include that, the Outlaws to the End…

A Little Bit Of Code In Your Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Achievements

The list of achievements for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is upon us; before you descend on it to pick pan for nuggets of info, let me ask you, do you know Morse Code? One of the achievement titles(for solving all of Subject 16’s puzzles) is rendered in dots and dashes (I think). If not it’s some…

The Next Kingdom Hearts Is One Of 2011’s First Notable Games

Eleven days into 2011, we get a new Kingdom Hearts that is unusual even by that series’ standards. On January 11 in North America, Square-Enix will release Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, a Nintendo DS sequel to Kingdom Hearts II that involves fighting through a digital “datascape” of the diary Jiminy Cricket kept during the first Kingdom…