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Father Knows Best: The Best and Worst Fathers in Video Games
Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonizing their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation. In honor of Father’s Day, we celebrate dads in video games: from the good to the bad to the “Luke, I am your father kind,”…
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Modder Builds USB Adapter for SNES Carts
The SNES is old enough that any hankering to play Super Mario World can be satisfied entirely by emulator. Still, here’s a USB hack that lets you plug old carts to a PC. Hackaday reader Matthias rigged up this solution, which makes the cart show up on a PC as an external drive with the…
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Silent Hill Models the New Fall Collection
Apparently Pyramid Head got tired of the 9 to 5 butcher gig, got a personal trainer and an agent, and now has made it big as an emaciated eurotrash model for a Swedish label. In what will likely be the only time I ever link to any site with more than one circonflexe in its…
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Breaking Down Assassin’s Creed 2
.html Just because a trailer is entirely CGI doesn’t mean it can’t tip off clues to gameplay features and story arc. Sure, there are gameplay trailers out there, coming from E3. But Gametrailers’ breakdown of what you can expect to do in the game likely done with Ubisoft’s assistance is nonetheless a thorough and enjoyable…
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Hero Cop Popped in Video Game Ripoff
A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. Ryan Sayler allegedly pocketed just $526 in the scam, an extremely cheap way to earn more than a dozen charges of wire fraud. He’s accused of buying…
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Bioware Tweets Reveal Figurine, Print Sale
Twitterers on Bioware’s Mass Effect and Dragon Age accounts had been dribbling out image fragments that, pieced together on Friday, tip off the return of the Commander Shepard figurine, plus another item. The Shepard figure seems to be the limited-release version that accompanied the original Mass Effect launch. The Dragon Age item – is it…
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Cardboard Tube Samurai Coming to Tekken 6?
How could this be anyone else? Tekkenbob, the official Twitter account for Tekken 6, uploaded this yesterday afternoon, and it looks like Gabe and Tycho are designing a costume for the game. I suppose the backlit dual-wield weaponry could be argued to be anything – but the Pac Man logo on the gi means it’s…
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City of Heroes Teases Power Customization in Issue 16
For those in the know, Positron’s post on the City of Heroes forums yesterday tips off a hugebigimportant development in the cape-and-longjohns MMO. As in power customization, a concept begged for from day one. Posi came in and, in the words of one commenter, threw a chair and left, with this: So there has been…
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Early Mass Effect Listing Confirms New Content?
An apparently accidental listing of Mass Effect in the rebranded “Games on Demand” category (originally “Xbox Originals”) was pulled quickly after getting out, but its RSS feed presence still lingers. And it’s a little curious. Mass Effect as a launch title for Games on Demand, which goes live in August, isn’t exactly a surprise. But…
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Olivia Munn Not Nude, Not for a Lack of Effort
No matter what was discussed, agreed, or signed, when you’re in front of a Playboy lens, the nudity negotiation never ends. Olivia Munn learned that after two days with one of their more persistent stylists. The stylist, whom she impersonated with a swishy, faux-frenchy accent, kept suggesting she try outfits that were plenty evocative of…
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Weekend Coupons: War, What’s It Good For?
About $25 on Steam this week, if you’re a fan of the Total War series. Toys R Us has a dea; if you’re already planning on grabbing one of this week’s new releases. Software • Toys R Us is pegging next week’s major releases to some serious savings on current titles. This is a pretty…
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Kotaku Originals: Bustin’ Makes Me Feel …
Sunday to Monday saw three separate references to Ray Parker Jr’s quasi-orgasmic catchphrase in the refrain of the Ghostbusters theme. Can I make it four in a week? Oh hell yes I can! This week’s roundup includes Bobby Kotick telling other people what to do with their business; Microsoft slapping down the Natal/”720″ rumors, and…
By Owen Good