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The Exploder
To: Kotakuland From: Owen Re: What Do You Want From Santa? Mine is a family raised on bad puns and inscrutable inside jokes. We deliberately corrupt words and then use them in conversation without batting an eye. For example, dinner might be “country-style snake.” Or, salmon is “slalom,” (and a big portion is “giant slalom.”)…
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Final Fantasy Classic, with Lyrics: Soak It In, Mofo
Brentalfloss is back to camp out in our corpus callosum or medulla oblongata or wherever it is songs of this type embed themselves. If Styx were members of my church growing up, this would sound like 4/5ths of the hymnal. Final Fantasy Classic WITH LYRICS [YouTube, Thanks Lyndon R. L.]
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Week in Games: We Don’t Need Another Hero
The second package of DLC for Borderlands – Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot – comes to Xbox Live on Tuesday. But why are you looking for new games this week anyway? This week’s count: three for Xbox 360; two for Wii and DS; one for PC. Monday (Dec. 28) Four Player Tangerine Fight (360) The Magic…
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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. •Eight Games That Should Never Become Movies [The Kartel] I think the fundamental problem with this genre is that no one has ever written or…
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Wait — New Game Plus Is in Mass Effect 2?
Although a Mass Effect 2 designer said back in June there would be “no new game plus” – a second playthrough with abilities and items earned from the first – BioWare’s community coordinator has said rather definitively there will be. On Thursday, BioWare’s Chris Priestly wrote the following: If players start a New Game +…
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How Will New Rules Affect In-Flight Gaming?
It’s not a petty concern. Since Friday’s incident en route to Detroit, airlines are ramping up security procedures at the behest of the government, and “approved portable electronic devices” have long been a whipping boy for this sort of thing. Unfortunately, it sounds like they’ll be verboten for international flights inbound to the U.S. While…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
As I’ve said, thank God I’ve never loved a woman enough to be manipulated by the atrocious jewelry ads of the Christmas season. And now that it’s over, thank God they are too. But in TAY, pet gripes are forever. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
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Playboy Teases Us With the Ultimate Coulda-Been Game
Tucked in this Playboy profile of a con man who ripped off the Pentagon is this tantalizing nugget: A company claimed to be working on an adaptation of Road House, the 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle and Cinemax staple. Although Dennis Montgomery’s life stacks up like the classic tale of bullshit that follows a bona fide…
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3D Realms CEO Vows Duke Nukem ‘Resurgence’ in ‘Next Few Years’
Scott Miller, the 3D Realms cofounder who came out looking somewhat better than eternally dithering partner George Broussard in Wired’s recent profile of Duke Nukem Forever, claims that “numerous other Duke games” are in development, some meant for casual gaming. Miller, quoted in the “first printed issue of Gamesauce,” says “the next few years should…
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Sooprise, Sooprise: ‘PSP-4000’ Ad was ‘Mistake’
To the shock of very few, the advertisement about a week ago listing a “PSP-4000” in addition to PSPs 1000 through 3000, and the Go, has been disowned by the advertiser, who calls it an error. Accessories4Technology, the creator of the ad (and the accessories series mentioned in it) told Negative Gamer that it was…
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In Tight Times, Gamers Dig Deep for the Needy
Despite a flatlined economy and a sharp downward trend in game sales, Child’s Play and other gaming-themed benefits have done as well or better than in better times. GamePro, rounding up a look at game philanthropy, spoke to Kotaku editor-in-chief Brian Crecente about this site’s November event in Denver (pictured), which pulled in contributions more…
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A Conversation with a Game? Devs Seek to Break the Ice
Language recognition is not a new concept to video games – the first text adventures had to understand commands somehow. But researchers are trying to integrate it in more open-ended ways – allowing for dynamic conversations between players and characters. BBC Radio profiled the efforts, lately highlighted in the game 221B, a movie adaptation of…
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