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To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Weekends are Made For The dirty secret here is we’re all mindful of our traffic. Why not? The running total is right there beside every story, and I refer to it when I write this note to tell you what the big stories were the past two days. Assigning…
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A Post-Apocalyptic Marriage Proposal
This is the most touching marriage proposal involving the word “motherfucker” – and a spiked baseball bat – I’ve ever seen. A woman enlisted the help of Fallout’s modding community to build a level in which she popped the question. The video is of the entire level, eight minutes long, but to summarize – the…
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Here’s 90 Seconds of the Force, Unleashed on Hoth
I’ll acknowledge Star Wars:STFU The Force Unleashed did not live up to the hype. I think one reason I lost momentum is that I really didn’t care about the worlds in which I was playing. This might be a reskin of the game, but going back to Hoth, one of the trilogy’s most iconic settings,…
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Game Crazy Exec: Used Games Drive 20 Percent of New Sales
Speaking to IGN, Game Crazy‘s director of used games, Marc Mondhaschen, said the company did a study for “a very large vendor” and found that credit from trade-ins covered 20 percent of their sales over four weeks. “So you got 20 points of their sales that wouldn’t happen unless we had a trade business going,”…
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Rick Astley vs. the Hydra: Let the Scribblenauts Mayhem Begin
“The real reason people will waste their time on this game is too see sharks devour drowning tax collectors,” writes Idoliside at Hellforge. So he set up a number of gratifying encounters to preview who would win. Butcher vs. Pig? Easy, the pig turned into a yummy ham. Satan vs. a Priest in a Tank?…
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A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”
An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on, among other things, the Final Fantasy game it was rumored to be making for Square Enix. UPDATE – While some of this art is from the Final Fantasy game,…
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Week in Games: Super Tuesday
This coming week is the first classically huge week of the Fall to Holiday sales cycles. Scribblenauts, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Wet and Need for Speed: Shift would all command top billing with a week all to themselves. Here they battle it out in a huge scrum that also includes the releases of NHL 10…
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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. No, you’re not seeing things. We moved the Top 5 of Top 10s to this day and time to free up some space on Saturday,…
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Castlevania Rebirth Rated, Coming to WiiWare
Konami has another ReBirth title in the pipeline: Castlevania the Adventure. The title just picked up a Teen rating from the ESRB and should arrive on WiiWare, the same as its Contra and Gradius siblings. Here is the ESRB listing: Castlevania the Adventure ReBirth Platform: Wii Rating: Teen Content descriptors: Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Rating…
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