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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Form feet and legs! Form arms and torso! I’ll form the head, and you talk amongst yourselves! GO KOTAKU TAY FORCE! Quick, someone hum or beatbox the theme for me. KindaGamey is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Zombie Mode Winners
The news of zombie modes for Call of Duty: Black Ops and Red Dead Redemption last week made us go screw it, let’s just zombify everything. Or dezombify it, an option few folks pursued. kleptonin, and Riquez did, successfully, and get nominations here. Sports also provided a useful inspiration, with boopadoo, grndmstersrs, ScottiH and Cody…
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Enlisted Gamer Criticizes Military Response to Medal Of Honor
Stars and Stripes, the foremost independent publication covering the United States military, examined the Army and Air Force’s recent decision to forbid Medal of Honor from being sold in their exchanges. One enlisted man blasted the decision as shortsighted. Marine Cpl. Aaron Hostutler, described as an “avid gamer” is the only service member quoted in…
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Mega Man Comic Coming To Newsstands In Spring 2011
Mega Man is getting a new comic book series this coming spring from Archie Comics, which vows it will be faithful to the game’s continuity. This isn’t Archie’s first video-game comic either; they already publish a Sonic the Hedgehog series, and past works have included The Adventures of Bayou Billy, Nights Into Dreams, and other…
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NBA Jam, NBA Elite, And A Tale Of Two Videos
They’re not haters, they say. They swear they aren’t fanboys for the competition, either. But neither would they be EA Sports’ favorite people right about now. One is “Hard8Times,” the guy whose 700,000-views video of a devastating glitch in the NBA Elite 11 demo became linked to the decision to indefinitely delay the game. The…
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Halo: Reach Gets Campaign Matchmaking Oct. 19
Campaign matchmaking playlists will come to Halo: Reach on Oct. 19, and the game’s rank cap should get raised sometime in the month or so, Bungie said yesterday in its weekly update. Noting that playlist updates are typically on a monthly schedule, Bungie’s been doing mid-month updates as well and says the next mid-month edition…
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Box Scores: Five The Hard Way
Down four-nil to Spain in FIFA 11, Kotaku commenter Three Stacks dug deep and delivered the kind of victory that should teach us all that winners never ragequit, and ragequitters never win. Three Stacks, playing in just his fourth online game on FIFA 11, quickmatched and his opponent picked Spain – the defending World Cup…
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Konami’s X-Men Arcade Classic Headed For XBLA And PSN [Update]
At a Comic-Con New York panel, Marvel revealed that Konami will bring X-Men, its side-scrolling arcade beat-em-up from 1992, to the Xbox 360 and PS3 as a downloadable title. [Updated with the game’s Comic-Con trailer, see inside.] Fans of the game remember that you could play as one of six X-Men: Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm,…
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The Moneysaver: A Cooler Full Of Deals
Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to pay less than MSRP. If they cannot, it is their duty to exploit a coupon code, and find all dented Logitech boxes to the best of their ability. Hardware • Dell has for pre-order the Xbox 360 Slim 250GB with Medal of Honor…
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The Week In Review: Further Review
You never want to make the news and report on it, but the changes to how this site will now review games by far stoked the most interest and reaction of any topic on Kotaku this week. Crecente’s outlined the changes, their necessity, and the fact that there are some details of the format still…
By Owen Good
