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Three Dozen
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Let’s TGS This Weekend Today is my 36th birthday. Rather than ruminate about what that all means, I’m gonna get the hell out of here and enjoy it. Hope everyone else has a great remainder of their weekend. Some of what you missed: Borderlands’ Unique, and Semiofficial, Preorder Bonus Tokyo…
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How Come Nobody Ever Does This to ‘Friday the 13th’?
I’m no foe of the hard drive/cartridge mod craze, but it strikes me that they’re never ripping the guts out of games that deserve the trashing. Instead, modders only hurt the ones you love … Really though, a 160GB USB hard drive, or Super Mario Bros. 3? Is it really that easy a decision? I…
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Dig Dug: The Film Adaptation
The same folks who brought you Inglourious Plummers now bring you Dig Dug, a slasher-flick reimagining of the arcade classic that pumps you up with suspense, waiting for that moment when Pooka’s overinflated ego to finally go pop. There’s a swell movie poster for this at the link, too. Go check it out. Dig Dug…
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New Poster Set Traces the Evolution of Link
Just up in Club Nintendo‘s rewards catalog is a three-poster set, one of which depicts the twelve iterations of Link, beginning with the original Legend of Zelda in 1987 continuing through the Phantom Hourglass 20 years later. The poster is 16.5 by 28.7 inches, accompanied by two 22 by 28 inch promotion posters for Phantom…
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Alright, Who Invited the Elf to the Party …
Meet Zevran. You can tell he’s an elf because of the pointy ears. You can tell he’s an assassin because of the curvy blade. You can tell this is Dragon Age: Origins because it’s got nekkid people by the fireside. Click to view Dragon Age Origins City Zevran Trailer HD [GameVideos]
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Borderlands’ Unique, and Semiofficial, Preorder Bonus [Updated]
Mikey Neumann, Gearbox’s creative director, wants you to commit to Borderlands now. If his tweet is to be believed, send in a picture of yourself preordering the game today and he’ll play with you day one and drop some loot. Neumann declared today “OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PREORDER DAY,” in this Tweet. “Today is OFFICIAL BORDERLANDS PRE…
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Week in Games: Rocket in Your Pocket
Gran Turismo on the PSP and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS highlight a busy week for titles outside the traditional core console drops. Dead Space Extraction hits the Wii and Beaterator comes to the PSP (and iPhone). Others of note: Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga arrives for the Wii and Fallout 3’s Operation Anchorage…
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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. • Top 10 Most Overhyped Games Ever [VGChartz] Is it just me, or is this Top 10 list subject overhyped? Seriously, am I the only…
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The Wii’s Officially $199 Today, and Amazon Offers the First Deal
Alright, it’s Sept. 27, time for some $199 Wii action, right? Amazon hopes you’ll do business with them, laying a $25 gift card on top of it. This deal is good through Saturday, Oct. 3, and it applies only to Wiis sold by Amazon, not any of its third-party vendors. The gift card is a…
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New Street Fighter IV Info “Maybe Monday”
Street Fighter fans are on tenterhooks, convinced these pics show fragments of a Super Street Fighter IV screen and logo. One hit up Capcom’s Twitter to ask if any news was coming this weekend. The reply: “no. but mebbe monday.” Stoking the fire is that pic above from GamePro Germany. It’s captioned as “Yoshinori Ono…
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A Nitpicky Easter Egg — and Spoiler — in Halo 3: ODST
This comes with a strong spoiler alert up front. Only watch this, or read further, if you have seen the conclusion to Halo 3: ODST, or don’t mind seeing it revealed. With that advisory out of the way, reader Scazza filmed this Easter Egg (discovery credited to Loose on the Gamefaqs forums.) Hear that clicking?…
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NFS: Shift Crashes at PlayStation Store Screen — on a 360
Calling it “the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times,” one blogger writes of his frustration when the game crashes on a PlayStation Store loading screen. Well, here’s your problem: He has the Xbox 360 version. “This could be the most embarrassing fail of all,” posits enigmax at Freakbits. When navigating…
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Reebok Giving Away the Madden AFL Pack for PS3
Madden’s AFL Legacy Pack became available for download this past week, and official league apparelista Reebok is giving away the PS3 version for entering their sweepstakes. Just drop in your name and email and the code’s yours. It really is that simple. Well, it assumes you have both the PS3 version and a PSN account,…
By Owen Good