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Gold Cartridge Buyer Recreating Nintendo Championships Today

J.J. Hendricks, the Denver entrepreneur who bought the rare Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridge, is hosting an event today that seeks to recreate the original contest. He spoke to Kotaku about it and his acquisition. Hendricks, the owner of vintage game-and-console retailer JJGames.com, bought the NWC Gold cart last month for $17,500. The seller was…

Weekend Coupons: Done Dirt Cheap

Two things move a game. You either gotta have it, or the price is right. And if you’re reading coupons, it’s probably not to find the must-buys. So let’s go for a stroll: Hardware • These things go on sale so often you should never spend full price. Amazon is offering the wireless adapter for…

Kotaku Originals: Hardened Prestige Edition

This week you can take in the originals roundup with our free giveaway: Day-Vision goggles. Just go get a rubber band and a couple TP tubes, strap them to your face, and read the following: Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions Battlefield 1943 Review: Battling In The Pacific Taking Tony Hawk For Another Ride Droplitz Micro-Review:…

If Nintendo Won’t Make A HD Starfox, These Guys Will

In the absence of a high definition Nintendo console – or even new Starfox games, for that matter – some fans have taken matters into their own hands, and are building a new Starfox game: Shadows of Lylat. Similar to the popular Battlestar Galactica mod, Beyond the Red Line, Shadows of Lylat is built on…

A Week In Comments

The Trouble With Girls’ Games Comment by: Nominated by: Curse_Lily Part of the problem is that all the games in the article are aimed at children. And as such, they suffer from the problem that afflicts the vast majority of children’s games: they’re awful. They are all extremely shallow in concept and gameplay, and where…

The First Valkyria Chronicles 2 Screens

While the game was announced earlier in the week in Japanese mag Famitsu, Valkyria Chronicle’s website wasn’t due to open until today. Now that it’s open, we’ve got our first screens of the PSP sequel.

What Is Your Favorite Game Theme?

Today I woke up late. Then I ate eggs. I ate all of the eggs in the house. There are no more, so forget it, you can’t have any. Know what you can do? Talk. It’s Friday, time for TELL US DAMMIT. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and…

Here’s The Mafia II Demo We Got To See At E3

I walked away from my Mafia II demo at E3 pretty impressed with what the guys at 2K were doing with the series. Now it seems that demo has been released to the public, so let’s see what you think. Click to view

BioShock Designer’s New Project “More Ambitious” Than BioShock

Ken Levine designed BioShock, but he’s not involved with BioShock 2. He and his team are working on another title, a very “ambitious” title. Levine tells game site Gamasutra, “And when we thought about the shipping date of the project… We needed a certain kind of length for the title, because we had a scope…

Jake Gyllenhaal Is Now Wearing Clothes

We’ve send loads of shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal Prince of Persia movie pics. We’re totally numb to chesty Jake! Here’s something new: a photo of Prince Jake wearing a top. This is the first official picture of him in character. “I’m tired of taking myself so seriously,” says Gyllenhaal. (So are we.) According to EW.com, the…

Philly Inquirer: MW2’s Night Vision an “Invitation to Mischief”?

The Inky’s video games blogger professes his love of “fake realism” but thinks the NVGs being offered with Modern Warfare 2’s “Prestige Edition” are akin to “giving away a free race car with Gran Turismo.” Rob Watson, the “Bare Knuckles” blogger for the Inquirer, doesn’t want to come off as someone railing on the evil…

Microsoft Handheld A Matter Of “When”

While there’s always been a lot of chatter surrounding the possibility of Microsoft entering the handheld gaming space, Microsoft themselves have always been rather evasive on the subject. Which is why these comments from Shane Kim are so surprising. In an interview with Kikizo, the Microsoft man opens up a little, saying “For us, it’s…

Mario’s Family Line

It’s not a family tree – a) that would be too large and b) it assumes games mate and produce offspring. This is a family line, showing all Mario games, by generation, with their siblings. The thing is so super-huge you should probably just go directly to it or download it to magnify it for…

Yes, Someone At Google Is *Slightly* Triforce Obsessed

When Earth Day rolled around, an army of Kotaku tipsters pointed out the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda‘s cameo in Google’s holiday logo. Turns out that’s happened more than once. A lot more than once. Google apparently has an… enthusiastic Legend of Zelda fan on staff, as Google Blogoscoped points out, highlighting eight of…

EA Brings Ten Titles To Comic-Con

Electronic Arts will show strongly at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, armed with ten games and plenty of panels. It may be your first chance to go hands on with games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. Titles planned to be previewed on the show floor, at EA’s booth, include Brütal Legend,…

Effort Begun to Remove Trademark Troll from IGDA Board

Tim Langdell’s not really a developer – “litigator” might be a better job description – but the Lord of Edge is really on the IGDA board. Now someone’s started a petition to remove him. This is a little more meaningful than your average ranting internet petition. It was begun by International Game Developers Association member…

Can’t Wait For Diabolical Box? Here’s a Professor Layton Movie Trailer

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box isn’t due Stateside for another month or so, but this full theatrical trailer for the movie that’s not coming out in North America should tide you over. Sadly, I don’t think the trailer is a puzzle like the first two teaser trailers we saw back in March. However, the…

Fat Princess Developer Holds Court

If there was ever anything you wanted to know about Fat Princess — aside from her exact dress size — now’s the time to ask. Developer Titan Studios plans to answer a selection of fan-submitted questions in a PlayStation Eye conference next week. You can submit your own question here, after scrolling past three new…

Screenwriter Believes Halo Is “Our Generation’s Star Wars”

Stuart Beattie, responsible for big screen adaptations of Pirates of the Caribbean and G.I. Joe, is a big Halo fan, having “read every book, played every game, every graphic novel.” Proof? His unsolicited Halo: Fall of Reach screenplay from 2007. With the Peter Jackson produced Halo film said to be “entirely dead” by the man…

The Weekends Are Made For Owen

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: There Is A Severe Shortage of Picture Frames This week Kotaku is getting an extra dose of Owen as he transitions to full time at Kotaku Tower. What’s that mean? It means an expanded weekend, chock-full of new delights like a Sunday Comics Page, more reporting, refined coupons page and…