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You Can’t Shoot that Damn Jackal, Either
Before Asshole Dog, there was Asshole Anubis | “The Hunting of Ducks,” by Jenny Haines. This is the first of her “Games in Art” series, which is “inspired by my studies of ancient art history and my passion for gaming.” Reporter: Activision Blacklisted Us Because I Refused to Pull Call of Duty Sequel Story Yesterday,…
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Syndicate-d Action
The reboot of Syndicate joins Capcom’s sci-fi/fantasy battler Asura’s Wrath as the top console releases this coming week. The rollout of the PlayStation Vita’s launch titles continues, in time for the device’s full North American release on Wednesday. Tuesday • Army Corps of Hell (PS Vita) • Asura’s Wrath (360, PS3) • Metal Gear Solid:…
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Mojam Raises $440,000, but Notch’s Beard Appears to be Safe
The Humble Bundle Mojam, a weekend-long game jam by the makers of Minecraft and its friends, wrapped up about an hour ago, though Mojang, Oxeye Games Studio and Wolfire Games are still working overtime to tighten their creations, built from scratch in the past 48 hours. That screenshot above was taken when the clock hit…
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Assassin’s Creed‘s Next DLC is “Lost Archive,” Says Listing
An email to GameStop customers on Friday named and priced the next downloadable content extension for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. It is called “Lost Archive,” and it will be $14.99 or 1600 Microsoft Points, for both PS3 and Xbox 360. The email said the pack would drop on Feb. 28, but that is unconfirmed.
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The 7 Deadliest Birds in Video Games [Ranker] Not on this list: Larry Bird, in NBA Ballers •11 Hardly-Seen Sequels [Arcade Game Examiner] Frogger II:…
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The Sequel No One Wanted: 2QWOP
QWOP, the notorious, accursed, and “most realistic simulation” of the 100-meter dash ever made, has a sequel. 2QWOP now delivers two-player split-screen multiplayer, good for settling stupid bets and drunken taunts among friends. In 2QWOP, the top player uses QWER to move his athletes thigh and calf muscles, while the second player uses UIOP. That…
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UncategorizedFar Cry 3 Looks Like a First-Person Action Flick
A five-minute promotional reel of gameplay from Far Cry 3 hit YouTube late Friday, and appears to be cut to show you all the game’s set pieces as much as the game’s luxurious visuals. There’s some swearing in these clips so, headphones if you’re somewhere where hearing that is inappropriate, like church. All I recognize…
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Boldly Gone [UPDATE]
Ground control to major commenters. Ground control to major commenters. Take your funny pills, and turn your photoshop on. The sheer silliness of Electronic Arts’ Mass Effect 3 marketing stunt simply cannot go to waste this week, even if the base image faces, well, some challenges. For starters, there’s not much in it to look…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
What manner of man is this who can summon up Talk Amongst Yourselves without flint or tinder … Some call me … Owen … Great big thanks to Jimmy_Jazz for today’s #TAYpic, interrupting what looks like an Orlando-L.A. Lakers game with some skywalking and cherubic trash-talking. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Grab…
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Sunday Comics: Waiting is the Hardest Part
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Feb. 15.—Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 13.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
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Gotham City ‘Shoppers: The Winners
A motley crew of Gotham City impostors sauntering over a pedestrian bridge to work gave us this week’s ‘Shop Contest inspiration. We’ve got 20 hilarious impostors-of-impostors in your evening commute, plus a big hand for pan1da7! Leading off, yes, a lot of people tried the Strutting Leo meme. While Guilherme_B (6) didn’t do it first,…
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ReviewsArmy Corps of Hell: The Kotaku Review
Into the midst of the PlayStation Vita’s launch lineup drops a fiery comet, crashing through the Earth’s crust and plunging into the mythical underworld below to amass a massive force of evil with infernal domination in mind. The Army Corps of Hell is recruiting. Should you join up? The King of Hell is back in…
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Should a Video Game Have Predicted the Rise of Jeremy Lin?
Ordinarily, NBA 2K12 updates its rosters once a week. This week, it got not one, but three revisions in the span of four days. Jeremy Lin had a hand in all three. The first update came Wednesday, well after the 38-point coming-out party Lin and the New York Knicks staged on Feb. 10 against Kobe…
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Oblivion, Fallout Get Combined Release in April—but Not on PS3
For those whose first foray into Tamriel came this year with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the series’ maker will offer the preceding entry, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion combined with another outstanding role-playing game, Fallout 3. The combo will be $29.99 on Xbox 360, $19.99 on PC in March. What about PS3? Bethesda Game…
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UncategorizedAnd Now, Here’s the Most Evil DLC—DLC the Game
The implied social contract of paid, planned and premium downloadable content is, “don’t want it? Don’t buy it.” OK, well, what if the game itself is buying planned premium downloadable content? Mega64’s latest satire gets a 5/5 on the evil scale from me.
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Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft
The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. “There’s nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer,” Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft‘s creator, told Eurogamer, “which pre-dates Minecraft.” What the hell is Infiniminer?…
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Sony’s U.S. Chief Says a PS4 Reveal Would be “a Distraction” in 2012
Further solidifying the stance that we’re not gonna hear anything about Sony’s next console, Jack Tretton, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment America, told IGN that we can rule out any PS4 reveal in 2012. “I, quite frankly, would be very distracted if I had to be talking about next generation hardware this year,” Tretton…
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