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Warfare Recipients
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 releases on PC and all three consoles on Tuesday, (with a separate version for the DS). The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim arrives Friday for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is also out Friday. Tuesday also sees the special editions Metal Gear Solid HD Collection…
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UncategorizedKevin Butler Thanks You for Not Rage Quitting
You don’t have to be any good at video games to get a hat-tip from Kevin Butler. In fact, you can be quite terrible at them, as Legit Bitness is here. What seems to matter most in PlayStation’s ongoing thank-the-average fan campaign on YouTube, is that you play a PS3 exclusive. Still, this one touches…
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Namco’s Game Changers
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. •Namco’s Top 5 Revolutionary Firsts [Ranker] A couple of these stretch the definition a bit (I’m not sure Namco intended to create Pac-Man as a…
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Trials HD Studio Explains Why It Sold Out to Ubisoft
Earlier this week RedLynx, the studio behind the Xbox Live Arcade smash Trials HD, announced that Ubisoft had bought up the independent developer. Once RedLynx finishes Trials Evolution, to be published by Microsoft, it will officially join Ubisoft’s in-house stable of some 25 studios. Speaking to Edge, RedLynx’s co-found Antti Ilvessuo said they didn’t mind…
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UFC Undisputed 3 Shifts Its Release Date to February
In a UFC broadcast last week, THQ in slipped word of a publishing delay for UFC Undisputed 3. The game now will release on Feb. 14, after originally being planned for January. That means UFC 3 will now go head-to-head with EA Sports’ SSX, a rather bold choice as UFC 3 would have held January…
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Bird Games
Two children playing the Angry Birds tabletop game. Aren’t they happy? Yes. Aren’t they adorable? Absolutely. But are those kids funny? Not yet. That’s where y’all come in this week. These exercises are kind of like a deranged rorschach test. What do you see? I see two child models earning money for their parents by…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Happy Standard Time Solstice everybody! I hope you used your extra hour of sleep productively rather than, well. for sleep. You probably used it for sleep, didn’t you. Yeah. I did too. Thanks to pan1da7 for today’s TAYpic. Want to be featured atop Talk Amongst Yourselves? Just get the image in this thread and add…
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Sunday Comics: Generational Conflict
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. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. =4.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Nov. 2.—Read more of Penny Arcade…
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Bear Hunt Winners
A Zangief cosplayer took top honors at a manly-man pageant last week, and our Kotaku team of super ‘shoppers swung into action. We’ve got 20 studly submissions, plus Debaser101’s winner, inside! For starters, I know everyone was expecting me to pick aardvarkattack’s Asshole Dog entry this week. I hate to go all coach’s kid on…
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UncategorizedFull-Length Jonah Hill Modern Warfare 3 Ad has a Special Guest Star at the End
The 30-second version of “The Vet & The Noob” started playing last night on GameTrailers. Here now is the 90-second version of the ad, starring Sam Worthington and Jonah Hill (whose most recent flick, Moneyball featured a cameo by Activision top dog Bobby Kotick.) Keep your eyes peeled until the end, when a guy who’s…
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BioWare Responds to Mass Effect Beta’s Leak on Xbox Live
An egg-faced BioWare scrambled this morning to contain any damage done by last night’s leak of the Mass Effect 3 closed beta to some subscribers on Xbox Live. The developer chalked it up to “human error” and ask that everyone please, please remember this is all unfinished stuff. The beta was made available by mistake…
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The Sports Video Games of the Year
Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honors, the uncommon diversity of sports video games support a class of awards unique to the genre. These are Kotaku’s Stick Jockey Sports Video Games of the Year. This year we’ll recognize achievements in seven categories. Some categories from last year were not awarded this year, for lack of distinguishable…
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UncategorizedSee the Grand Theft Auto V Trailer, Set in the Original San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was my favorite of the series, by far, and that’s no slight to Vice City, which I treasure. Still, there was something about C.J.’s adventures that made me feel like I’d lived the greatest summer ever. So it is with a lot of personal affection for the game that I…
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Welcome Back to Earth, Mars500; Guitar Hero Died While You Were (Not) Gone
The six brave non-adventurers of the Mars500 project yesterday emerged from their capsule for the first time in 18 months, finding they had returned to a dystopic Earth where their Guitar Hero skills were utterly useless. Either that, or they are as utterly sick of the game as we are, after spending a 520 days…
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Frozen Synapse is Headed to the iPad
The award-winning turn-based tactical game Frozen Synapse is being ported over to the iPad, the developer Mode 7 said yesterday, expecting the game will hit the iTunes App Store in 2012. Mode 7’s Paul Taylor said the studio also is “looking at better ways of updating and supporting the game on its current platforms,” and…
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Nathan Drake’s Notebook is for Sale on eBay
A timely auction taking place now on eBay has a hand-made replica of Nathan Drake’s notebook from Uncharted 2 on sale for £100. A U.K. art student recreated it, page-for-page, from the virtual one players may peruse in the game. The notebook features 55 pages of hand-drawn pictures, and was completed over the course of…
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Sixty Get the Axe at Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings Operation [Corrected]
Following big releases, staff usually gets axed. That appears to be the case in the laying off of about 60 from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The publisher confirmed pink slips were given, but not the number. The layoffs hit WBIE’s Seattle operations, comprising the Snowblind, Monolith and Surreal studios. Snowblind developed The Lord of the…
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The Price of Warfare
Values on Tuesday’s big release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 lead today’s roundup in The Moneysaver. Credits and bonuses can also be found for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, out Nov. 11, and on Xbox Live renewal subscriptions. Software • Tuesday, Nov. 8 release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3, 360, PC) has…
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There’s a Free Prototype 2 Minigame on iTunes Right Now
Activision commissioned TwitchGames, makers of Slice HD, to create a Prototype 2-themed minigame available now for iOS devices on the iTunes App Store. It’s a big free ad for the upcoming game, but it’s also a small free game that utilizes the multitouch interface in a challenging way. Like Slice HD, your job is to…
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