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Last Two Left 4 Dead 2 Campaigns Leaked?
Somehow a Taiwanese Web site got its hands on all the posters for the Left 4 Dead 2 – and if these are real, that means the names of the final two are known: “Dead Center” and “Hard Rain.” Dead Center – “Prices Aren’t the Only Things Getting Slashed” – appears to be a shopping…
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Prop Billboard Gives Up Resistance 3 Date?
Here’s a billboard spied by a NeoGAF user down in Shreveport, La.. Note the details of the frame – bombed-out gas station, prices are 80 cents higher than the area’s average. This is a movie set. The NeoGAF user (goldsoundz) who spotted this says it’s in an area of Shreveport commonly used for filming movies.…
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Toys R Us Begins Big 3:2 Sale Tomorrow
It’s another buy-two, get the third free bonanza, this time offered by Toys R Us. But it covers their entire game catalog – consoles, handhelds, everything. As you can see, the flyer above says you can pick from 800 games. The sale will last the entire week. It doesn’t sound like it coves pre-orders, but…
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NSFW: Topless Weirdo Shows Off His Neo-Geo Collection
My only coherent reaction is, “I didn’t know the Pet Shop Boys covered ‘Where the Streets Have No Name.'” Warning: man-ass at 1:24; nipple play at 2:21. Definitely NSFW. Same for the pics the Neo-Geo forum found, too. Old Crazy Topless Man Shows Off His Neo-Geo Collection [Destructoid]
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17 Inches of Brutal Legend Up for Grabs [CORRECTED]
Only 1,000 of the Eddie Riggs Brütal Legend ceramic figures have been made, and Electronic Arts hasn’t divulged just how to get one beyond getting lucky and winning it. And they’re giving you just such an opportunity now. Entering to win is simplicity itself: Edit: Well, not when a sloppy job by yours truly fucks…
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Dust 514: The MMO’s Type-A Brother-in-Law
Get a fresh look at running around, blowing s—t up in Dust 514, the console FPS that CCP is developing to coincide with its EVE Online MMO. It’s not just pretty to the eyes. Listening to this with headphones on, there’s some great sound this – although I swear that Warthog-looking thing comes to stop…
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It’s Bad When The New Yorker Trolls You Over a Game
This actually ran a month ago, but, forgive me, my subscription lapsed, for a lack of houseguests to impress with my reading material. (I also canceled my subscription to “Large Penis-Havers’ Quarterly” since I haven’t gone on a date lately.) On Sept. 9, The New Yorker put the definitive tack in Seth Schiesel’s balloon over…
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China Cracks Down on Online Gaming
You could go through the Oxford English Dictionary, pick a noun, and China’s likely cracked down on it. (Except counterfeit goods). Online games that are “unhealthy” (says the state) are the latest target, and 45 have been shut down. State authorities said the games “encouraged players to engage in illegal activities such as drug trafficking…
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Facebook, Twitter Launch Nov. 17 on UK Xbox Live
This splash page on Xbox Live’s U.K. portal says its Twitter and Facebook service will launch on Nov. 17. We assume that includes the Last.FM update as well. Crecente got a look at Facebook on Xbox Live at Tokyo Game Show. A firmware update preparing the Xbox Live dashboard for the three services went out…
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Fils-Aime on PSPgo: “What’s the Benefit?”
In an interview for Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post (posted today), the Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says the PSPgo might have “a fundamental concept problem in terms of ‘Who’s it for?’ and ‘What’s the benefit?'” “I have the utmost respect for all our competitors,” he told the Post, “but it’s interesting to…
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Runic’s Next Big Fantasy: Getting Torchlight on XBLA
The dungeon-crawler Torchlight is due for an exclusive PC release on Oct. 27, but developer Runic wouldn’t mind seeing the game offered on Xbox Live Arcade someday. The Runic CEO Max Schaefer told 1Up that he and his team “talk about it a lot. We fantasize about getting the [Xbox Live Arcade] version, and that…
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Coruscant, Where Nothing Grows — Except Power
Oh great. I’ve been calling it Corrus-kant all these years. Next someone’s gonna tell me I’ve been mispronouncing Eidos, too. Well, however it’s said, this six-minute vid shows us how BioWare built the city-planet of the Star Wars Universe. From a design perspective, Coruscant is a planet with zero percent terrain, which poses its own…
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Play Uncharted 2 Demo to Win Fortune Hunter Edition
It’s true, the Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter edition is priceless. Which means it has not yet been priced. But its price is free if you’re one of 10 randomly selected winners today and tomorrow. Just play the Uncharted 2 demo. PlayStation.Blog announced the contest yesterday. Here’s the deal – you need to play the Uncharted…
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Achievements, 100 Percent, and Games: Fun or Compulsive Behavior?
Finishing a bad or uninteresting book might feel like a chore, or at least unsatisfying, but it’s nothing like playing to the end of a game you don’t care for. Why do so many still choose to do this? True/Slant’s Modus Pwned doesn’t understand it either. Breaking a game down to its utilitarian purpose, the…
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Kojima Weighs In on Obama’s Nobel Prize
On his blog, Hideo Kojima found a tie-in, albeit a tenuous one, between his upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday. Here’s what the eminent games designer had to say: President Obama, who declared ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’ in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace…
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It’s Not in the Game — Should it Be?
What do straight-ahead kicks, busted rackets and plaid jackets have in common? They’re all on a list of completely amateurish and uninvited suggestions for what should go in next year’s sports titles. This week’s release of NBA 2K10 and NBA Live 10 mean the major North American professional sports have all seen their video game…
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Weekend Coupons: Bent Boxes
When I was in college, someone at a warehouse where one of my frat brothers worked dinged a sled of Pringle’s Cheezums and the whole thing was written off. We got like 250 cans out of it. After two months I’d eaten so many damn Cheezums that everything started taking on an orange hue. I…
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Kotaku Originals: Porn
Porn, porn porn porn. Porn porn. Porn. Porn, porn porn porn – porn porn pr0n porn porn porn? (Porn porn.) “Porn porn porn,” porn porn, “porn porn porn porn porn.” Porn porn porn; porn porn porn … porn porn porn. The week that was in Kotaku originals: Porn So About Those Porn Stars And That…
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Toad’s Gay? Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …
Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad’s sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. I guess the link to Sunday’s National Equality March in Washington D.C. everything cool, right? Brental (Mr. Floss) says he’ll be in attendance. You…
By Owen Good