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Toys ‘R Us Outs Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition
Toys ‘R Us is currently listing an Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition that delivers a bunch of swag for $69.99. Interestingly, it gives Nov. 15 as an estimated shipping date. The latest info I’ve seen just gave Epic Mickey a North American release sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. Nov. 15 is a Monday.…
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The Cars Of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
A German site got its hands on what it says is the full list of the 66 licensed vehicles appearing in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. It’s a whole lotta fahrvergnügen. The list doesn’t break out which cars will carry the police interceptor packages. I think we’ve seen three so far, the Bugatti Veyron, the…
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The Week In Games: Another M
Metroid: Other M, on the Wii, is the biggest console release, returning to space with the iconic Samus Aran. Valkyria Chronicles II on PSP, Castle Crashers on PSN and a Dead Rising 2 prequel on XBLA round out the highlights. Monday, Aug. 30 Cosmos X2 (DSiWare) Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island (PC) TNT Racers (PS3,…
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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. •The Top 50 Street Fighter Characters [UGO] Wait a second, top 50? That’s like, all of them, right? Who’s No. 1, Ryu or Chun Li?…
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Fallout: New Vegas Achievements Revealed
The achievement set for Fallout: New Vegas got out on Friday, courtesy of the fine folks at Xbox360Achievements.org. You can get a look at some of the quest names and diversions featured in the game. There are 50 achievements for 1,000 Gamerscore in all. The trophy list has yet to be posted at PS3 Trophies.org,…
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Gran Turismo 5 Will Accommodate Optional Hard Drive Install
Gran Turismo 5’s base installation is just 256 megabytes. There’s also a 10 gigabyte install for roomier drives, according to the series’ top designer. Kazunori Yamauchi, who is also Polyphony Digital’s CEO, said via Twitter (translated by Andriasang) that the 10GB install is what you’ll want for a “smooth” experience. What that means exactly is…
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TF2 Videos Are Valve “Trying To Explore” Making Half-Life Film
The hilarious, universally acclaimed “Meet the Team” shorts for Team Fortress 2 are more than fan service or game promotion. Valve founder Gabe Newell says they’re experiments in movie-making, because the studio would prefer to do a Half-Life movie itself. Speaking to PC Gamer, Newell says Hollywood bombarded Valve with story pitches for a Half-Life…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Antiques Gameshow
This week’s idea, courtesy of Quest, comes two weeks late because we also had two strong ones before it, which produced more than 1,700 entries. Our inspiration is Namco registering a domain name for “Antiques Roadshow: The Game.” Your assignment: Visualize this surefire AAA hit. Either go Quest’s route, with a game character schlepping in…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Prosthetics is the weekend’s winner of the #taypics derby. Wonder what our guy in the picture thinks of Glenn Beck’s shit-in at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday. You too can have an image featured in TAY! Submit to #TAYpics. Or kneeeeeeeeeeel before Zod! Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
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Kotaku Shop Contest: Move Instructions Winners
For some, using two electro-lollipops to run a game isn’t as intuitive as it sounds. That’s why you guys made up some helpful visual instructions for the good, bad, ugly and many other ways to operate PlayStation Move. Leading off, quest points us in the right direction in which to throw punches. So does ultraroboninja.…
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Civilization V’s Demo Available Day Of Retail Release
Firaxis, the developer of Civilization V, said yesterday the game;s playable demo will be available on Sept. 21, the same day the title releases in North America, a reversal of promises it would be available before launch. “At the time of that announcement, we expected to be able to get the demo out before the…
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Motorized Wii Fit Babymobile — Now With Video
This past week, Gizmodo found a research project that seeks to equip infants, who otherwise can’t crawl, with a motorized baby-booster controlled by a Wii Fit Balance Board. Now there’s video of this contraption in action. The device is part of the Tots on Bots collaborative research project through Ithaca College’s departments of Computer Science,…
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Raider Receiver’s Madden Rating Is Sucking Wind, Too
Last week, Oakland white elephant wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey was revealed to have missed at least four straight practices because of “fatigue.” His Madden NFL 11 rating has suffered accordingly – a 9-point stamina drop in the latest update. Most of the adjustments in the latest update, free for download, range between 2 and 3…
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Would You Really Call This A Screw Job?
To read the common rhetoric, it’s hard to escape a feeling that annualized sports games represent some kind of zero-sum relationship, with either the publisher or the consumer screwing the other side out of something it righteously deserves each year. This sentiment flared up again about a week ago when THQ, publisher of UFC Undisputed,…
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Hit The Campaign Trail With Halo: Reach
Earlier this week, Stephen Totilo spent a day with Halo: Reach‘s singleplayer and brought back loads of impressions and details. But no video. That was for Gametrailers, which made the game’s campaign the centerpiece of its latest episode. We’ve embedded the entire episode because the Halo-specific chapters haven’t been broken out. There’s a bunch of…
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Danes Won’t Get EA Sports MMA Thanks To Energy Drink Ban
Denmark bans energy drinks, I guess because they provide gratuitous amounts of energy or something. What’s that got to do with video games? Well, EA Sports MMA is shot through with energy drink ads. So Denmark was like “slooooooowwwww dowwwwwnnnnn,” and EA was like “Fuck you!” and kicked her in the face with its energy…
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Box Scores: They Did The Mash
Ah, the NCAA Football Mascot Mashup. It’s like Capital One handed you some blotter acid and asked “What’s in your subconscious?” Kotaku reader Alex H. teed up the game’s fan fave goof-off mode with a buddy, picking Colorado State’s Cam the Ram, at home against his pal playing Knightro from Central Florida, alma mater of…
By Owen Good