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New Year’s Football
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Happy Happy This was left unsaid in the sports column I wrote Saturday, but I wanted to make a record of it here. Dad’s method of arranging football pictures is far easier in real life. Doing it on a video game was tough. First I needed to recreate my high…
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Week in Games: Bayonetta Fix
Bayonetta finally arrives in North America, concluding a year, if not more, of sex-infused hype. Remember, this game actually can be played using one hand. Darksiders, near as I can tell, still requires both. They’re this week’s big highlights. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot releases to PlayStation Network and the PC on Thursday. Speaking of downloadables,…
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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. •2009 Sleepers: The Best Games You Didn’t Play [1Up] I gotta say, with the exception of Flower they’re right. If I had a PC I…
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Argument Over Game Blamed as Nine-Year-Old Stabbed to Death
Police and relatives say an argument over Tony Hawk: Ride precipitated a shocking murder in New York; Anthony Maldonado, 9, (pictured) who got a PS3 for Christmas, was stabbed in the chest by an enraged 25-year-old early New Year’s Day. The specifics of what sent Alejandro Morales, 25, into a murderous rage are unclear. The…
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Left 4 Dead 2’s Frying Pans Kill a Tank 3 Times Faster than Shotguns
Granted, this chart assumes the Tank is just standing there taking the abuse. Still, a Steam user found that 10 frying pan hits kill a Tank in nine seconds, compared to 30 blasts from a combat shotgun in 26 seconds. The forum user, Urik, found that It’s not just the frying pan, any melee weapon…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Nothing says “Wow, someone got blasted last night” like half a leftover anchovy-jalapeno-mushroom pizza in the fridge. That’s the beauty of ordering a pizza online: There’s no human making eye contact during the transaction. It’s like buying porn. Where were we? Oh yeah, it’s Weekend TAY. Do so. As you can see by my conversation…
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Zelda Fan Movie Taken Down on Nintendo’s Request
Nintendo let the fan-made Legend of Zelda film “The Hero of Time,” stay up over the holidays, but its creators have now taken it down after the company asked for its removal. The Hero of Time (that’s one of its trailers above) had been shown at film festivals, and on Dec. 22, had been hosted…
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What the Hell is in the Water in Barrie, Ont.?
Remember Barrie, Ontario? It’s the home of Brandon Crisp, who ran away after his console was confiscated, and was later found dead. It’s also home to a teenager who ran away to meet his 42-year-old “soulmate” from World of Warcraft. According to Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Andrew Kane, 16, “nonchalantly” asked his mom and dad…
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Explaining the Commitment to Duke Nukem — Forever
Why would anyone spend 12 years working on a single game, with no assurances it’ll ever be finished. It’s called “escalation of commitment” – a classic good-money-after-bad bargain, and a psychologist thinks it explains Duke Nukem Forever. Jamie Madigan, a psychologist who also writes The Psychology of Video Games, found the circumstances of 3D Realms’…
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A Picture Worth More Than Words
At the bottom of the house, at the bottom of a foot locker, at the bottom of a page of newsprint from 1970 were these words. “That’s all the Good sports for now,” the sign-off to my father’s sports column. I can’t remember why my brother and I were down in the basement going through…
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Weekend Coupons: Hardware Wars
Looking at this week’s deals, one gets the sense that retailers didn’t move enough consoles or accessories, because they’re still pushing them, all the way to Planet Basketball. Chewchilla, prepare for light speed, it’s time for Weekend Coupons Ham Salad Hardware • ‘Tis the season for big box retailers to get rid of console stock.…
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Kotaku Originals: The Teen Age
We’ve said goodbye to a decade that really had no name, but I haven’t heard much consensus on what we’re gonna call this one. The Tens? Tweens? Twenty-teens? We’ve got another 9 years and 364 days to figure it out. Quick programming note: Like Christmas weekend, this too will be one of abbreviated coverage as…
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