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Gyros Aren’t Hard to Find
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Dr. Who This might sound extremely late to the party, but I finally got around to buying City of Heroes. Remember, I have a Mac, and NCSoft just put out the port for this back in January. Believe it or not, I’ve had my eye on that game for so…
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Week in Games: Spring Break
Light week coming up – indicated by the shutout for the core consoles. City of Heroes: Architect Edition gets its retail release on Tuesday. Guitar Hero: Metallica arrives for PS2 gamers. Otherwise, not much to write home about. This week’s count: Five for PC and DS/i, three for Wii, two for PS2, one for PSP,…
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Terminator Game Devs Worked on Film Set, Did Not Get Reamed by Christian Bale
An AP story about game adaptations of movies mentions that the developers of the Terminator Salvation game worked “under the same roof” as the film crew, in hopes of making something that doesn’t, well, suck. Noting the checkered history of movies made into games (which is still much, much better than games made into movies)…
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We Just Solved Mother’s Day for You
Here at Kotaku, we like to think ahead and solve problems well in advance. So while today might be Easter, we’re already thinking about Mother’s Day. And here’s just the gift. Coming from a gamer, nothing could say “I Love You” to a mother more than this homemade handbag, which is only $39.99. And if…
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Is this the Video Game Mount Rushmore?
Pwn or Die have come up with a good bar argument: The four faces on a hypothetical Mount Rushmore of video gaming. The four they’ve chosen are good, but are they the best choices? As you can see in the pic, the selections are Master Chief, Mario, Lara Croft and Sonic the Hedgehog. Lara is…
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“Rose Ball” — Pong with Street Fighter IV
This is "Rose Ball," a practice mode "game" in Street Fighter IV. Both participants are playing with minimal health and just two moves – "Soul Spark" and block – to volley the energy ball. Explains the blog Infovore: Both players are handicapped so they have a pixel of health, and both have selected Rose as…
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Kotaku’s Old-School Easter Egg Hunt
It’s become something of a tradition ‘round the Tower to observe Easter with, what else, lists of Easter eggs. So here is my dirty half-dozen, from well before the 8-bit days. When I went on my hunt for this list, I needed a theme, so I settled on “Easter Eggs I have actually observed.” Having…
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U.S. Universities Join the Star League
No, not the Rylan Star League. Princeton and 25 other colleges have teams in the “Collegiate Star League.” Friday, the Tigers took on Tsinghua U. of Beijing, and The New York Times covered the action. The New York Times covered the match for yesterday’s edition, describing the genesis of the league and dropping in some…
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Bethesda Rightsizes its DLC
Fallout 3’s “The Pitt” and “Operation: Anchorage” – in terms of size and complexity – are where Bethesda wants to be with its DLC strategy, according to Bethesda’s marketing and PR vice president. Pete Hines, talking to Gamasutra on Friday, said Oblivion’s “Knights of the Nine” DLC is the model going forward. “It’s substantive and…
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id Boss: Third-party Wii Development “Not Really Justified”
id CEO Todd Hollenshead remains unconvinced that there’s a good reason for “independent, Wii-centric” development. He’s willing to hear someone out, he just hasn’t heard a good argument for it yet. Hollenshead, in an interview with GameSpot, was asked if the Wii’s meteoric sales and success inevitably meant a shift in resources toward third-party development…
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Play the Piano with Your DSi
Who knew the photo-graffiti mode of the DSi could turn into a poor man’s KORG DS-10? Dover, from the site/webcomic Monday Night Crew, found a genius way to compose piano tunes. Watch. I looked on the site for the musical scale picture he created, but couldn’t find one. Still, it doesn’t look that hard to…
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Presenting: Jim Henson’s Resident Evil 5
Severed Ernie head, bloodied Cookie Monster corpse and, best of all, Beaker as Wesker. This extraordinarily nonauthorized and noncanonical trailer looks more like a prequel to the RE5 story. But it’s strangely … compelling. With Black 20, could it be anything else? I mean, other than proof that even Muppets can carry a haunting, long…
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Gameplay from Killzone 2’s DLC
Two multiplayer maps – Wasteland Bullet and Vekta Cruiser – form the first package of downloadable content for Killzone 2. Gametrailers featured the maps on its supa-special Gametrailers TV Thursday night. Here they are broken out: Wasteland Bullet: Vekta Cruiser: Killzone 2 [Gametrailers]
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A Sampling of Soldiers’ Reaction to ‘Fallujah’
By the title alone, you knew Six Days in Fallujah, Konami’s planned “documentary-style” combat game about Iraq, would create an uproar. Unlike historical or generic conflict, this covers recent and real, about a polarizing war. It’s only a concept and screenshots at this stage, but Six Days in Fallujah already has promulgated opinions that the…
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Spring has Sprung in Fallout 3
Who says post-apocalyptic equals monochromatic? The “Greenworld” mod for Fallout 3 lets you spruce up your blighted surroundings just in time for the rebirth of spring. Modder Khyrin1129 came up with this patch, which puts foliage on the trees and green grass on the ground. And Super Mutants twirling in the meadows like the Sound…
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Lawyer-Mans of Dune Smack Down Second Life Arrakis
The lord high executioners of Frank Herbert’s estate have demanded that all Second Life areas (inhabited by all of 130 people) remove all references to Dune IP. Drat. There goes my 36-inch sandworm cock. Trident Media Group, responsible for all things Arrakis, Dune, Desert Planet, sent the C&D to Linden Lab, which runs Second Life.…
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Some Guy’s Mom Painted This
A Danish mother has at last paid back years of refrigerator finger-paintings of her as a stick figure with circle boobies and a triangle skirt. Nothing says motherly love like a Riddick box cover painting. Says reader Martin R. M., who just accessioned this piece into his collection: Just wanted to share this in reference…
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Weekend Coupons: Accessorize
Amazon leads a parade of price-drops on Xbox 360 accessories. Also, just reminding you that Halo 3 multiplayer is free this weekend for XBox Live silver members. Without further preamble: • Amazon: Offering a 120GB Xbox 360 hard drive for $35 off the list ($125). If you have super saver shipping, you get it free…
By Owen Good