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Super Mario Bros. Celebrates Our Favorite Mistakes
On the occassion of the silver anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo has put out this video celebrating the most famous glitches of the original, ones that first spread not by Internet or message boards, but grade school lunch tables. Some of these more qualify as exploits (the infinite 1-Up trick) or novelties (dancing on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
By Owen Good
