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EA Sports Reverses Stance on WiiWare Updates for NBA Jam
Last week, in explaining why the beleaguered NBA all-star Gilbert Arenas wasn’t a part of voting for NBA Jam‘s roster, EA Sports indicated it could later add him to the game with a WiiWare update. They’ve backtracked on that statement. Sporting News’ First Cuts, which first reported the explanation for Arenas’ absence from the voting,…
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Trauma Team Undergoes Pre-Op Price Drop
Atlus’ eagerly anticipated surgical simulator Trauma Team for the Nintendo Wii is coming on May 18, and rather than submit the game to Atlus’ traditional last-minute delay, they’ve gone and dropped the price by $10 instead. Score! I tease Atlus, but only because they have a tendency to scoot their games across the calendar with…
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Linkin Park’s Video Game Doesn’t Look Nearly As Bad As It Should
Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park have teamed up with mobile game developers Artificial Life to create Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, an iPhone game that looks like it could actually be highly entertaining. The evil PixxelKorp has stolen Linkin Park’s music, and it’s up to you and your friends to get it back, preserving the sanctity…
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Super Street Fighter IV Box Art Gets A Welcome Dose Of Dudley
Fans disappointed by the drab box art Capcom rolled out for the North American release of Super Street Fighter IV should be pleased with the updated look, which ditches Cammy for the ever-dapper Dudley. I was not pleased with the original box art one bit, likening it to tossing bits of clip art about in…
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The 10 Tribes Of Final Fantasy XIV – Oh Look, Dark Elves!
Sure, Final Fantasy XIV only has five races that are renamed versions of the races from Final Fantasy XI, but with two tribes each, that’s like ten races total! Let’s take a look at them, shall we? The Japanese Final Fantasy IV site now formally splits each of the game’s five races into two separate…
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Sociologist Spends 2,300 Hours Seeking Civilization In World Of Warcraft
Sociologist and director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation, William Sims Bainbridge spent 2300 hours entrenched in popular MMO World of Warcraft, looking for look for insights about Western civilization. What did he find there? William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., is no spring chicken, but he braved the wilds of Azeroth for 2200 hours,…
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The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone
With a rating of 12+ on Apple’s App Store, Hands-On Mobile’s iPhone take on EA’s The Saboteur promises more Nazi foiling and less randomly topless women. The Saboteur is now available on the App Store, with $2.99 scoring purchasers 12 missions spread across seven environments, with a less potty-mouthed Sean Devlin amassing an arsenal of…
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The Cutest Indie Game Plushie Ever
Indie game developer Edmund McMillen goes full circle, so to speak, as Bigshot Toyworks releases a couple of plush toys based on his award-winning PC game Gish, starring a loveable ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. With a new Gish game on the horizon and a cameo by the grinning black ball in…
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighters
UDON Entertainment gets down and dirty with every Street Fighter character to ever go a round this June, with the release of the Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia, with information ranging from fighting styles to favorite foods. Did you know high school ninja Ibuki loves roasted sweet potatoes and is an extremely fast eater, or…
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Man Arrested Allegedly Trying To Steal Early Copy of Game At Convention
Atomic Games’ Xbox Live Arcade shooter Breach impressed one PAX East visitor so much he apparently attempted to steal the code, and he might have succeeded too, if not for one fatal mistake – telling the developers he was stealing it. We don’t condone stealing here at Kotaku, but we do enjoy being helpful, so…
By Mike Fahey
