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Backhanded Box Quotes: Zeroes Aren’t Hard to Find
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. Spec Ops: The Line Released: June 26. Critic: hcookie (Metacritic) • “Incredible storyline. The Apocalypse Now for the next generation.” • “Gameplay is fantastic and a great story. “ • “Do not…
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Piling On: Four Hundred Games I’ll Never Finish, and Counting
Tuesday afternoon I got the Internet connected in my new home. From Wednesday morning until Thursday afternoon, my PlayStation 3 was downloading every free title due to me as a PlayStation Plus subscriber. Since I moved, that console has literally spent more time acquiring games than I will likely spend playing them, or any game…
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This $1,238,099.99 Video Game Auction Boggles the Mind [Update]
For a minimum bid starting at a more than a million dollars, a collector is offering his entire catalog of video games for Nintendo home systems from the NES/Famicom through the GameCube, plus the full lineup of every game released on any Sega system—all of it in the box with original instructions. Easily numbering more…
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CultureTreat Yourself to a 1990s NBA Jam Session While We Await Word of 2K’s Major Announcement
2K Sports has told us to keep on the lookout for a huge announcement—biggest ever in the label’s history—and so far we haven’t heard anything. The reveal of details for the “Dynasty Edition” of NBA 2K13 was not it—that much was confirmed by a 2K Sports representative to me, earlier this week. Whatever they have…
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Trollin’ Up the Score in NCAA Football‘s New Heisman Mode
Hand it to EA Sports, its marketing of the “Heisman Challenge” mode of NCAA Football knows exactly what you’ll do with it. Given the means to put an all time great on any college team, you’re more apt to pervert history than recreate it. Ads have shown Eddie George in Michigan’s winged helmet, Robert Griffin…
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The 120 Stars of Super Mario 64
deviantART artist kitsovereign created an awesome montage of the 120 stars of Super Mario 64. Meaning each star mission, represented visually here. After making its rounds on the Internet, this Reddit user decided to partition and categorize them by mission. For ultimate nerdiness. And factiness. Check them out down below. Don’t forget to expand both…
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A Very Special Fourth of July Week in Gaming Apps
There are many ways to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Some people host massive cookouts. Some shoot off fireworks. Others still throw parades. Here at Kotaku, we celebrate by limiting our daily gaming app spotlight to only four amazing games. Some might tell you this is because we were…
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Another Week, Another Comment of the Week
Hello Kotaku! Welcome to judgment day. Where you are the judges. And I guess I’m kind of a judge, too. Please post your Comment of the Week submissions down below, with a link to said comment. Vote ’em up if your favorite is already there. And when your brain starts angling towards “I said something…
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UncategorizedPuddle THD Proves the Power of Tegra 3 Gaming
After visiting two different companies working on dedicated Android game controllers at E3 2012, I decided it was high time I gave Android games more attention, particularly the titles running on the most powerful Android processor going, Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3. Games like Neko Entertainment’s Puddle THD, a physics puzzler only possible via the power…
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