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Biff Tannen Predicts (Another) Riot in Vancouver
Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Controllers Pay the Ultimate Price for Missed Perfection
Now two weeks into Major League Baseball 2K12‘s $1,000,000 Perfect Game Challenge, nearly 275 verified perfect games have been thrown, out of more than 400,000 attempted, according to 2K Sports. Which means, potentially, hundreds of thousands of controllers, discs and maybe even consoles have been hurled, too. That’s a far less dignified response than T.J.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Max Payne Ruins the Week in Gaming Apps for Everybody Else
Here I was, having a great week (in gaming apps), and Rockstar’s Max Payne Mobile has to wander in and make things all noir and edgy—in bullet time no less! How can a game in which you snipe at stick people stand in the way of the smirking face that would one day become Marky…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
These Portal Rings Are Great. Now Someone Make Them Out Of Silver.
All things geek website Geekologie found an array of cute Portal rings from a 3D printing company, shapeways Although the company prints designs that you supply them with, and you’ll therefore have to fill in the details with painting skills of your own, the results can be quite nice looking. It’s little more than cheap…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Nintendo Registers “Super Mario 4” Domain Name, Hinting at Future Game
Nintendo has just managed to throw massive fuel onto the fire of rumor and speculation with a simple domain name registration. On April 3, Nintendo of America registered the website “supermario4.com,” as recently spotted by an IGN reader. Currently, navigating to the site only results in a redirect to Nintendo’s main page. Mario, Luigi, Peach,…
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Time To Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku! It’s that time of week again where you get to pass actual solicited judgment on your fellow community members. Who will this week’s winner of the The Best Comment From The Community be? It’s up to you but, as always, please reserve self-nominations for our self-nomination post. Which happens never. So, never.…
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UncategorizedWhat Battlefield Might Look Like With Google Glasses
Google Glasses is somewhat of a creepy concept, but it can also mean a drastic change for gamers. Imagine playing the next Battlefield title like something of an ARG, where the playing field is the literal space you stand in. Can’t imagine it? That’s fine, because YouTube user ThereIsaCanal has uploaded a video of what…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
EA Wants Need for Speed to Race into Movie Theaters
For all that movies and games so often feel like they should be a natural partnership, they usually aren’t. A huge number of films based on game franchises have been developed in the last thirty years or so, and most of them were awful. This doesn’t seem to be deterring EA, who are shopping around…
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UncategorizedGeralt Makes “Rated M for Mature” Sound So Sexy
The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings‘ hero doesn’t get laid all the time for nothing. In this launch trailer for the Xbox 360 edition of the game, Geralt of Rivia warns of mature content in a way that’ll have your parents purchasing the game for themselves. I vote we have Geralt’s voice actor Doug Cockle…
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