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Desert Bus Charity Shatters $100K Goal
Desert Bus for Hope, the fund drive dedicated to playing the world’s most boring game, ever, logged more than five days behind the wheel and raised a staggering $132,568.94, more than 88 percent over last year’s total. The marathon, a project of the comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun benefiting the Child’s Play charity, kicked off on Nov.…
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Dyack Brags that ‘Staggering’ Layoffs Make His Studio ‘Oldest’
In an interview, Denis Dyack bemoaned the “staggering” layoffs seen in game development over the past 18 months, then went on to talk about how such attrition has helped cement Silicon Knights as one of the longest tenured studios left. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Dyack touted Ontario as a potential global leader in the games sector…
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XBL iPhone App Released, Might It Be Free Someday?
The new 360 Live is more functional and packs more features than previous attempts at remote Xbox Live control over your iPhone, but it comes with a cost $1.99. However, a year-old Microsoft policy might reduce that to $0.00. 360 Live automatically retrieves your friends list when you sign into your Xbox Live account with…
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Fight Night Has a Message for You Spammers
Fight Night Round 4‘s next DLC delivers four fighters, rivalry matchups, and “old-school rules,” which I assume means a brain-pulping 15 rounds. Its next patch release will tire the hell out of your boxer if you don’t fight smart. Continuous punching, weaving and haymakers all have higher endurance cost, spamming your block ruins your ability…
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Format Gaffe Prevents PS3 Owners from Playing Dragon Age Soundtrack
Those who bought the Dragon Age: Origins Collector’s Edition for PS3 cannot access the bonus soundtrack. The disc is Blu-Ray and the music’s mp3, so a PC won’t play the former and the PS3 is unable to see the latter. Let me clarify: A PS3 won’t access the mp3 files from a Blu-Ray disc. PS3s…
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Their Bodies, Our Games
That picture above poses an interesting question to Massively’s Seraphina Brennan. Why, she wonders, is the knee-jerk reaction to get bent out of shape about a buxom, indiscreetly clothed woman in a video game, but not a ripped, stripped-to-the-waist man? Second Correction: Seraphina Brennan is in fact the transgendered identity of the writer and is…
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Cover Athletes: Putting More Than a Name Into a Game
Michael Phelps might have been on a Wheaties box. It doesn’t mean he advised General Mills on how to make the cereal taste better. But that’s also the role Evan Longoria, the newly minted Silver Slugger and Gold Glover from Tampa Bay, takes on as the cover man for MLB 2K10, an endorsement announced this…
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Weekend Coupons: Black Saturday
Not all of the deals this weekend are doorbusters designed to get you to a brick-and-mortar location. If your butt remains fused to the living room couch, you can still get some value-added shopping done thanks to Kotaku Weekend Coupons. Hardware • The 120GB 360 Elite bundle that includes PURE and Lego Batman is yours…
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Kotaku Originals: Weekend Edition
Some Saturdays I feel like I should start my shift with NPR’s Weekend Edition theme and the dulcet vocals of its host, Mr. Scott Simon (pictured). We weekend shift guys need to stick together, you know. This weekend after Thanksgiving might find you indulging in a long breakfast or a colossal mug of overpriced coffee,…
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Final Fantasy XIII Toilet Water is Coming Soon
What? What?! That’s what “eau de toilet toilette,” means, right? Oh, fine, it’s perfume, specifically a fragrant homage to Final Fantasy XIII, and it’ll be available a month after the game’s release in North America. The 50 ml bottle of “Lightning,” inspired by the character of the same name, will cost 7,140 yen or about…
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This Is What “Toned-Down” Looks Like In Dead To Rights
When I first got a look at Dead to Rights: Retribution, I had to ditch a whole plate of food lest I upchuck in front of the producer at a Namco Bandai event. If the level of violence I witnessed back then has been “toned down” in this developer diary hosted by Character Art Manager…
By AJ Glasser
