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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Duke Nukem Past Winners
When Duke Nukem Forever finally arrives next year, the erstwhile action hero will have spent 15 years in ass-kicking and gum-chewing limbo. Last week’s contest asked everyone to imagine what he’d done in the meantime. In CatsAkimbo’s world, Duke saved CBS from a zillion dollars in FCC fines. Eight_Bit_Remix does what the comedy biz terms…
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iTunes Store Rejects The Onion’s Face-Shooting Joke App
Remember “Close Range”? The Onion’s violent video game satire got a web-based flash game after its hilarious introduction in April, and soon the satirical publication began work on an iPhone app. Until Apple killed the fun, of course. GameSetWatch reports that Close Range, the “hotly anticipated video game in which players repeatedly shoot people point-blank…
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Thirty Seconds Of BioShock Infinite Teased On Video
Most of GameTrailers TV’s production last night was devoted to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Tucked within that was a 30 second preview of gameplay in BioShock Infinite. It’s at 14:00 of the video embedded here. The full gameplay sequence will be available over Xbox Live on Tuesday.
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Minecraft Is Free Until It Gets Fixed
Minecraft, the indie hit for PC whose popularity has gone meteoric of late, has found its servers overwhelmed. Playing the game isn’t affected by the trouble, however. As such, its creator has declared it “free-to-play” until he can restore order. Per a barebones page on the Minecraft page, Markus Persson, aka “Notch,” says that “Minecraft…
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Nine States Oppose California In Supreme Court Games Case
Yesterday evening saw the filing deadline for supporting briefs in Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association – the Supreme Court case involving a California statute restricting the sale or rental of violent video game sales. Nine states oppose the law. Rhode Island, Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Washington, plus Puerto Rico…
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The Band Is Back, Marching Under The Shield
A league license rebranded it as Quick Hit NFL earlier this month, trading some of the football strategy simulation’s upstart rep for establishment cred. For many on the game, it was an arrival. For some, it was also a return. Many on the team that developed this game, a browser-based, free-to-play, pay-to-upgrade title that also…
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Halo: Reach Load Times, Installed vs. Disc
If you have the drive space, you may want to consider installing Halo: Reach to your Xbox 360, as loading some game types can go nearly two to three times as quickly. The time savings are a matter of seconds, not minutes. But this comparison, by Examiner.com, shows the opening mission loading in 8.1 versus…
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Let’s TGS: Day Four
Our past day of reporting from Tokyo Game Show saw Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, Project Dark and its demon soul, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and that suave blue PS3 above. And there’s plenty more to read about as well. Here’s a run down of day four of the show. You can find day one…
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Box Scores: Sixteen Bags
Only 15 players have hit four home runs in a single game, a feat even more rare than a perfect game. Three of them are Phillies. If anyone would become the fourth, Chase Utley’s a good candidate. Andrew K., playing a full 162-game season as the Phillies with MLB 10: The Show, received the Reds…
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Starkiller Brings Two Sabers To A Blaster Fight
GameTrailers got the first in-game cutscene from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Not once in 33 years have I ever seen anyone disembark a TIE Fighter, and Star Wars doesn’t look like it’s gonna start showing that now. How the hell do you get in and out of those things, anyway, the Force? Oh,…
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The Moneysaver: Buckaroo Bargains
The White House wants to know, is everything OK with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia? Coming soon: The Moneysaver Versus The World Crime League. Before we get started, interesting development in valueland: the digital distribution service GamersGate just opened a full-blown store through Facebook.…
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The Week in Review: Exciting Game Show
Two major drops – Halo: Reach on Tuesday, PlayStation Move on Friday – vied with Tokyo Game Show 2010 to dominate the past week. They may have been the biggest news, but they weren’t the only news. Reach went out with some problems, apparently – multiplayer issues on the 4GB Slim Arcade models of the…
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