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Mushroom Pancakes Just for Us
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Butterflies Earlier today we posted the Tetris creation by Jim’s Pancakes. He was so flattered by all the love our readers showed him and his other creations that he cooked that 1up Mushroom pancake for everyone here to enjoy. So, grab a fork, everybody gets one bite. One very small…
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Nine More Groovy Screens of Earthworm Jim in HD
Earthworm Jim‘s hi-def port to Xbox Live Arcade arrives Wednesday. You’ve gotten a look at the trailer already; here’s another batch of screens to help you decide if the trip down memory lane’s worth 800 Microsoft Points. [Via JeuxVideo, thanks to WrightCJ for the Tweet]
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Predator Used Call of Duty to Coerce Kids Into Sending Nude Pics, Say Authorities
Prosecutors say a New Jersey man managed to convince four 13- and 14-year-olds to send him pictures of their genitals by saying it was a membership condition of the clan he was starting in Call of Duty: World at War. Jonathan Prime (no relation), a 20-year-old from New Jersey, faces four felony counts of “communication…
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The Week in Games: Give Peace a Chance
The PSP takes the spotlight with the platform-exclusive Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker this week. Tiger Woods returns from a bruising year in the tabloid eye with his latest console offering, and Green Day goes on tour with Rock Band Monday, June 7 Flametail (DSiWare) Tuesday, June 8 Green Day: Rock Band (PS3, Wii, 360)…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 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 102 Worst Video Games Ever [UGO] If you think adapted movie games now suck, remember Hudson Hawk and, worse, Platoon on the NES. I’m…
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Hold It There Soldier, That Tattoo’s Not Serviceable
This might sound nitpicky, but it’s not to veterans who game. And those who served in Vietnam might wonder why Call of Duty: Black Ops personnel in “denied” areas would want to advertise an American military unit on their forearm. That’s the point behind Aaron Schol’s interesting research into the unit insignia tattooed on the…
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Ice-T Says He’s Gonna Be in Gears of War 3
You may recall last April, Ice-T and Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski discussed casting opportunities for Gears of War 3, before that game was even announced. Last night, Ice let slip that he has a speaking part, but quickly retracted it. Giant Bomb noticed Ice’s comments during his regular live Ustream broadcast. After saying he was…
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What’s This ‘Nerkas’ Trailer Playing Outside Near E3?
Anyone in L.A. going down by Staples Center at all? Head over and check this out in person, maybe you can tell us what “Nerkas” is, and what kind of game it appears to be describing. In real life, there’s a domain Nerkas.com registered to Square Enix Europe. That’s all we know about that. In…
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Tetris Blocks — They’re for Breakfast Now!
They’re pancakes – wow! Jim’s Pancakes is a blog started by a dad spending his weekend mornings making cool pancakes for his three-year-old daughter. Yesterday morning’s theme: Tetris. I’m not sure if this makes me hungry or if it makes me want to take the squiggly on the left and just … jam it ……
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Makin’ License Plates Edition
Alright, I promised a more accessible ‘Shop Contest challenge this week, and though this one is also automotive in theme, it should lend itself more to one-off wisecracks and dry humor than last week’s NASCAR idea. Earlier this week, someone snapped a picture of a car bearing the North Carolina license plate GRSOFWAR (above) and…
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Kotaku Off-Topic: Garage Sale
My downstairs neighbor, whom you might remember from past episodes of KOT, held a garage sale out of the carport we share over the past two days. One item caught my eye, but I didn’t buy it. He had a big, bright orange pitching machine up on a tripod, though, looked like it could handle…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: NASCAR Edition Winners
It’s a tribute to the Kotaku community that you guys were able to come up with 20 good entries to my utter fail of a ‘Shop Contest subject. I promise a better contest tomorrow. First, last week’s winners. Since we hadn’t heard much lately from NASCAR driver Joey Logano, whose No. 20 Toyota on the…
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Latest Transformers Game Reboots the Robots of Your Youth
Man, have I lost touch with the Transformers. I never knew they had an evil dinosaur that could transform into a city. When the hell did they start doing that? That’s Trypticon, at least, it’s how he appeared on Cybertron in Transformers: War for Cybertron, due out June 22. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. My…
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Results are in on PAX’s Booth Babe Ban Poll
I don’t know this means the ban on scantily-clad booth babes at the Penny Arcade Expos necessarily gets any stricter, but the policy – put to a poll of Penny Arcade’s community last week – is definitely getting more descriptive. The biggest inclusion the PAX community wanted to see in the policy is that a…
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Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms
This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…
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The Beauty of Human Error, Committed by a Computer Umpire
It’s the bottom of the fourth and that SOB Dallas Hodges is squeezing the zone low and away, again. Strike three went by like a freight train and Hodges just stared at it like a cow. This ump’s a disgrace. This ump also isn’t even real. He’s one of 10 in MLB 10: The Show,…
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MotorStorm 3 Goes Post-Apocalyptic?
The French site PS3Gen claims to have gotten its hands on “stolen” images of MotorStorm 3, purporting to show the PS3-exclusive racer set in a San Francisco of collapsed buildings and raging fires. Quite a departure from the series first three iterations, which set loose the fleet of cars, trucks and things that go in…
By Owen Good