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UncategorizedJeremy Lin Gets Another Ratings Boost in Time for the Weekend
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • As promised, 2K Sports rolled a second roster update early this morning to give New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin another nudge in his overall ratings. Lin, who has come from the end of the bench to lead New York to seven straight…
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UncategorizedBiff Tannen Predicts This Weekend’s Biggest Sports Matchups
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…
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The New and Improved Week in Gaming Apps, Now With 50 Percent More Flavor
It’s a brave new Week in Gaming apps as Kotaku’s fresh new faces take a crack at the millions of smartphone and tablet titles available for purchase and download. Guess what? A couple of them are Android-exclusive. Gives you shivers, doesn’t it? I meant the writers, of course. Not Android exclusive games. Not this week…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Mysterious Trailer Teases Unknown Game
I fall for puzzles and mysteries. Put a code in front of me, or a series of entirely unrelated clues, and I will sit there for hours if I have to, attempting to solve it. Even if I end up completely uninterested in the product a puzzle is promoting, I generally leap at the chance…
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Pick Bachelor Number Three, A Pigeon, in Hatoful Boyfriend
Hatoful Boyfriend puts the player in the shoes of a reasonably well-adjusted high-school sophomore girl. She attends class, studies hard, participates in extra-curricular activities, and works part-time in a café during the summer. She just happens to be the only girl, and only human, at St. Pigeonation’s, the country’s premier school for birds. Literal birds,…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Kick Off The Weekend With Some Laughs at the Mario Bros’ Expense
Before you clock out today, don’t miss the videos we’ve compiled for you, as well as our Gaming App of the Day. WATCH: This episode of Epic Rap Battles of History shown above features our favorite brother-duo from gaming history up against the famous Wright brothers. So, who won the rap battle? Honestly, I might…
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UncategorizedFling Fowl Where No Fowl Has Been Flung Before in Angry Birds Space
Next month Rovio launches a whole new game in the Angry Birds universe … into space! More than a simple expansion pack or companion game, Angry Birds Space is a whole new game, promising a mix of innovative new gameplay mixed with familiar elements from the award-winning series millions of fans around the world have…
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UncategorizedQuell Reflect is a Soothing Puzzle Game for Grown-Ups
Most of the games I have on my phone are in some way frenetic. They’re filled with bold, bright colors, quick action, and noisy effects. After watching my friend’s preschool-aged niece school us all at Angry Birds, I have found myself occasionally desiring something a little more calm and adult. Enter Quell Reflect. This puzzler,…
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UncategorizedPerfectly Pixilated Prince of Persia Prowls the Streets of Israel
In this brilliant video from Israel’s Karahat, the hero of Jordan Mechner’s 1989 platforming classic comes to life in pixel-perfect form, right down to the stumbling animations and Mario prison romance. Maybe the Mario bit wasn’t in the original game. Everything else was, more or less. Kaharat (which means bald head, appropriately enough) isn’t just…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Today’s Video Gaming Kids Don’t Know How Good They Have It
In today’s completely grown-up edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DukeofWulf muses on how easy it is for kids today to fill all of that free time they’ve got with copious amounts of free gaming, the little snots. Today is a good day to be a kid. When I was young, I had all…
By Mike Fahey
