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Fourth of July Memorial
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Hey Americans, Why The BBQ? Why? Why? Why? This weekend, on my westward push I returned to Boulder for the first time since I was a newspaper reporter here, more than five years ago. Kotaku alumnus Adam Barenblat has put me up in his shanty apartment, where I managed to…
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Week in Games: Bigs Week, Not a Big Week
Arcade-style baseball returns in The Bigs 2, highlighting a light beginning to the third quarter of 2009. Battlefield 1943 is available for download for both Xbox 360 and PS3 later in the week. While technically not a new release, the BioShock and Oblivion bundle is available for PC and 360 on Tuesday. CID The Dummy,…
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Taste the Painbow, Belgian Rofl Honored in Gamertag Awards
Two weeks back on 1 vs. 100, The Ones were – consecutively, now – players with the gamertags BLooDYxGenocide and Banana Hammicks. Definitely memorable. In that spirit, The BBPS has created its inaugural gamertag awards. The awards span seven categories – including “Are You F#%KING High?” and “WTF Is So Cool About Ninjas?” – with…
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At Long Last, an in-Game Twitter Client for Warcraft
Do you spend six hours a day playing Warcraft and another three hours Twittering pointlessly? Well now you can spend nine hours doing both! With TweetCraft, WoW gamers get a fully-featured Twitter client that, of course, allows you to send and receive in game – but also schedule your Tweet uploads, send in-game screenshots, and…
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DS Plugin to Help Diabetic Kids Keep Consistent Readings
Pharma firm Bayer has created a DS plug-in built on the idea that diabetic kids typically lose track of no-fun things like glucose meters, but rarely lose fun things like gaming handhelds. No, the “Didget” isn’t a kind of Vitality Sensor; it goes into the DS/DS Lite’s Slot-2 and rewards players giving consistent readings with…
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DLC Bound for Bound in Blood
Techland, the developer of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, announced three pieces of DLC are on the way but few other details. Two will be multiplayer map, the third is for the singleplayer mode. No price points or release dates just yet. But the content will be available for all versions – PC, PS3…
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inFamous Defeats Prototype in Cross-Dressing Playoff
In a recent Zero Punctuation review, Yahtzee couldn’t declare which blockbuster game “about super-powered assholes” was better, but would give the honor to the studio that best drew the rival game’s protagonist in drag. Astoundingly and to their everlasting credit, both Radical and Sucker Punch participated. First up, Radical sent in two submissions, but that…
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Valve: PS3 Orange Box Players “Got the Stepchild Version”
In an interview with CVG, Valve’s Doug Lombardi says the experiences of putting Half-Life on PS2 and Orange Box on PS3 have put them off Sony development for the near future. He doesn’t complain about the differences in developing for one console, or PC, over another, but does say the PS3 versions of Valve products…
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Bank Heist Causes Bank Run in EVE Onlne
Last month, the swindling of more than 200 billion ISK resulted in an actual run on a virtual bank in EVE Online. The best part? The loot was sold IRL – just $5,000. No, griefers from Something Awful are not claiming responsibility. Not that any of them would have the patience to play nice long…
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Donkey Kong Easter Egg Discovered 26 Years Later
Last year, the coder who wrote the Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong revealed it had an Easter Egg but it’s “totally not worth it.” Someone has gone to the trouble of finding it. Donkey Kong for the Atari 400 and 800 was one of the best early ports of an arcade game, and its…
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Weekend Coupons: Self-Evident Truths
We solemnly publish and declare that this weekend, all games are, and of right ought to be, free. Alas they are not. Scan the following for values to which you may pledge your fortunes. Software • Gears of War 2 is out there for $37 (free shipping eligible) via Amazon.com. That’s only $3 off the…
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Kotaku Originals: Hot Fun in the Summertime
This will be the first time I’ve ever worked on Crecentral Time, as I’m in Colorado hanging with Kotaku alum Adam Barenblat for the weekend. It’s also a shortened two days thanks to July 4. But to everyone who might be kicking back, lighting up and/or grilling out this weekend – Francophones, we realize you’re…
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What’s you favourite intro. to a game? Not just the opening cut scene but the very first bit of gameplay where you know “this is where it starts.” I’ve been playing Oblivion and Fallout 3 lately and the first part of those games is just great. I love the whole, “emerging into a huge, unknown…
By Rhys