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Dying Boy Gets His Own Personal Virtual Wonderland Built by a Game Community in Just Four Days
Long-time Everquest II player Carri Hoover has a son not quite as old as the game is. Sadly, however, six-year-old John Hoover is terminally ill, with doctors estimating he has only weeks left to live. Last Tuesday, March 6, she posted a request to the “Norrathian Homeshow” board on the official forums, a place where…
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ReviewsNaruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations: The Kotaku Review
It’s been nearly ten years since Naruto made its animated debut in Japan. Over the past decade Studio Pierrot has told countless stories of the young ninja and his friends, introducing dozens of characters into the ever-expanding sage. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations attempts to cram all of that into a single fighting game.…
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UncategorizedTiger Woods PGA Tour Resurrects Shaq (Doing Kung) Fu
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Golf is probably the one thing people wouldn’t look silly playing when they play Kinect. Well, EA Sports will fix that, bringing back Shaq Fu (no, really) in this humorous YouTube promotion for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 featuring Woods and Shaquille O’Neal.…
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UncategorizedIs It a Dead Ball Situation When MLB 2K12‘s ‘Zombie Player’ Walks on the Field?
If this is the end of MLB 2K12, I suppose we couldn’t say goodbye to the series without one final, terribly embarrassing glitch. Everyone, say hello to the zombie player, thanks to this video by YouTube user bobtrain. Zombie player walks to his position in the middle of play when you pull a double switch,…
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Biff Tannen Gives You All of March Madness’ Winners—and Biggest Losers
What’s up buttheads. Need some help picking your bracket? Stop agonizing over useless statistics and half-assed talking head analysis. I have every single winner in the NCAA Tournament right here, so just do what I say and you can start spending that money right now. Note: Information presented for entertainment purposes only. If you consult…
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Mass Effect Portrait Art Is As Menacing As It Is Beautiful
Website Unreality Magazine has uncovered some beautiful portrait drawings of some of our favorite Mass Effect characters. The artist behind the series of portrait drawings—deviantART user Arkis—appears to have a strong taste for the popular BioWare sci-fi franchise, as one look at the gallery will tell you. I’m not saying that these portraits are perfect…
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ReviewsA 14-Button Motion-Sensing Steering Wheel Only a PC Gamer Could Love (Or Use)
For any PC racing enthusiast that’s ever craved a high-end steering wheel setup but lacked the money / motivation / room to set one up, SteelSeries’ Simraceway SRW-S1 Steering Wheel is the answer to all of your problems, and the cause of a couple new ones. Traditional PC steering wheel setups require, at the very…
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Show Me Your Gaming Rig and I’ll Show You Mine
Every week Kotaku‘s PC Gaming Lives block shows off some of the finest custom-made enclosures in our Case Mod of the Week segment. But not all computers are pretty. There’s mine, for instance. Now show us yours. Don’t let the small size fool you, my Maingear X-Cube is a powerful little machine for what little…
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UncategorizedTera‘s Reign of MMO-FO Terror Reaches America’s LAN Centers
After a brief pause to terrorize a poor actor in his kitchen set, Tera spokes-maniac Bas Rutten takes the message of action MMO combat on the road. What surprises me most about this latest entry in the MMO-FO series of viral advertisements for En Masse Entertainment’s upcoming MMO release? I didn’t realize people in North…
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World of Warcraft Monopoly Puts a Fresh Face on Fake Currency
Monopoly gets a World of Warcraft makeover this spring, and when the biggest name in board games meets the biggest name in massively multiplayer PC games, no simple reskinning will suffice. Blizzard has worked closely with Hasbro’s USAopoly artists to create a true Azerothian real estate adventure, and it shows in the colorful numbered pieces…
By Mike Fahey
