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Mom’s Getting Me A Stripper For My Birthday
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Operation Angry Birds Today I was working with headphones on and missed two calls from my mother. My birthday is tomorrow. About 3 p.m., Mom sent me a terse IM asking that I call her immediately. “When are you going to be home tomorrow?” I apologized for missing the calls…
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Easy Credit Ripoff In Halo: Reach
This guy says he’s found a wash-rinse-repeat way to rack up 20,000 credits in Halo: Reach inside of 10 minutes. I promise, I promise, I promise Naughty Bear is not going to jump out and say boo. Boo. OK just kidding. Per YouTube user TheresPooOnMyShoe Here’s the five-step process annotating that video above: Step 1:…
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The Week In Games: The Beautiful Games
FIFA 11, Dead Rising 2 and Guitar Heroes: Warriors of Rock headline the final week of the fall quarter, with Borderlands’ latest DLC and Lara Croft’s arrival for PC and PS3 highlighting the downloadable titles. Monday, Sept. 27 Farm Frenzy: Animal Country (DS) Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii) The Sims 3 Deluxe (PC) Tuesday, Sept. 28…
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Kotaku’s Top Five List Of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Xbox Indie Games You Should Be Playing [Planet Xbox 360] No. 1 is Soulcaster, not I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 (which is…
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Pac-Man Spotted In The Wild
Jaime “Kalapusa” Margary, who’s given us realistic Piranha Plants, and Super Mario fungi in the past, now turns his attention to Pac-Man, presently soaking in jar of formaldehyde. Writes Jaime: The idea behind the video is Pac Man’s final days, free from the maze (kudos if you can guess who’s castle that is) and eating…
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Religious Games Maker Rakes $200K In Half a Year
Left Behind Games, maker of Christian-themed video games of … well, dubious quality, reports that it sold $210,000 worth of product over the past six months. That’s revenue, not profit, and such a figure doesn’t make it a major player by any stretch. Still, that’s $210,000, which the publisher said is “considerably more than income…
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Report: NASCAR Coming Back Under Activision
Gamasutra this week reported that NASCAR – whose 12-year run with EA Sports ended in 2008 – will return next year under Activision and the developer Eutechnyx, known for its focus on racing games. Gamasutra’s Kyle Orland cited sources who confirmed rumors that Activision had taken the license from EA Sports, which last year redeployed…
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All The Ratings Of NBA 2K11
Last week we learned the NBA 2K11 ratings for all projected starters in the league. Today we find out where the teams rank in the game, due out Oct. 5. You may recall that Miami and the Los Angeles Lakers had identical average scores across their starting five. NBA 2K11, according to Operation Sports (which…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Celebrity MMO Edition
Michael Jackson starring in a video game is not ridiculous. Michael Jackson starring in an MMO is. This past week we were treated to news of “Planet Michael,” billed as the “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Online Game.” As this is in fact the Only Michael Jackson Online Game, this is more like the Ultimate Expression…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Video games, you know it, we’re here, to show it. Boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom-chicka. The_Saint is the winner of the #taypics derby today. Submit yours now before Totilo gets back tomorrow! Meantime, talk amongst yourselves! About games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Only In A Jeep Winners
Last week we learned that Chrysler, maker of the Jeep brand, was ginning up a special ve-hickle for Call of Duty: Black Ops. So we put it to you to design a concept car for other video game franchises. Eight_Bit_Remix submitted a mobile hiding spot for Ezio. qamulek does what we in the comedy business…
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NBA 2K11’s Halftime Show
Damon Bruce of KNBR-AM San Francisco is the host of a new halftime show in NBA 2K11 presenting highlights from your game and others around the league, within the storyline of your current season. Get a look at it here. NBA 2K11 Video: NBA Today Halftime Show with Damon Bruce [Operation Sports]
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Halo: Reach DLC Tipped?
The achievement set for Halo: Reach lists 49 achievements for a total Gamerscore of 1,000. That there screen, in the latest Bungie Weekly Update, adds 10 cheevs and 250 Gamerscore. DLC inbound? This image came from an item on installing Halo: Reach to the Xbox 360’s hard drive (Bungie says the game has been optimized…
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How To Hump An Xbox 360
“Household Holes” is the Internet’s foremost journal of research into the means of kit-bashing, jury-rigging and misappropriating everyday items for, uh, pleasurable insertion. Don’t ask me why I know this, I just read it for the articles. In the past month, included with articles on the efficacy of toilet paper tubes, Gatorade bottles and Nalgene…
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Make A Run For El Baño With Taco Bell And My Sims [Corrected]
Electronic Arts and Yum! Brands are thick as thieves. Last year we had some kind of Kentucky Madden Super Fried Smack Pack meal; this year, sibling fastfood hut Taco Bell is handing out free discs for the Sims’ Wii franchise. Correction: While it’s hard to tell what version this is, it appears to be a…
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The Politics Of Presidential Appearances In Video Games
In two weeks, President Obama will appear in a video game for the second time in two months. Is he being paid for that? Is the White House cutting deals with sports game makers? Not likely. Obama appears in a special cinematic added this year to Madden NFL 11’s Super Bowl presentation mode. Win it…
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