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UncategorizedEA Sports Celebrates NCAA Football 12 with the Sexy Sax Man
College football is all about tradition. The tradition of the NCAA Football 12 development team is the godawful annoying “Alpha song,” played every night while the game is in its alpha build. This year’s song was Wham!’s “Careless Whisper,” the signature tune of the Sexy Sax Man. You may have heard of him. (This video,…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
With E3 right around the corner, let’s take a moment to talk about the games that are on everyone’s mind: Our Gaming Apps of the Day! What good is a game you can’t play on your phone? Why is everyone excited to learn more about the next Nintendo console, when right now we’ve got devices…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Madden NFL Dynamic Player Performance
Tampa Bay’s Josh Freeman. The pause menu will show how players progress and change in effectiveness during the game. Each player will have a set of new traits that govern his tendencies and behaviors Atlanta’s Matt Ryan. The pause menu will show how players progress and change in effectiveness during the game. Each player will…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Madden‘s Dynamic Performance Serves Sundays with More Flavor
Beat on a quarterback for 45 minutes of an NFL game and you’ll see a different guy in the fourth quarter. Some start forcing every throw. Some will run like hell. Some go catatonic. But in Madden NFL, you’d see the same guy after four sacks that you saw in warmups. Players, especially CPU-controlled players,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kotaku and Spike/GameTrailers Team Up At E3
I’m excited to announce that starting Noon ET, 9AM PT Monday, Kotaku editors will appear during Spike and GameTrailers‘s 20-plus hours of live coverage of E3 2011. Stephen Totilo, Brian Crecente, Michael McWhertor, and Joel Johnson will all be appearing live on Spike and GameTrailers.com to provide expert analysis and share breaking news with Geoff…
By Joel Johnson - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalates on the PlayStation 3 June 10
Now that the PlayStation Network is up, Activision is ready to make with the map pack. Escalation‘s four new maps and the star-studded Call of the Dead hit PSN on June 10, the first day of a double XP weekend.
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Why I Am Not Going to E3 2011
Last weekend I spent nearly $100 on new clothing for E3 2011. Now my flight is cancelled, I’m not going, and the only question I have is how are two unborn babies going to come up with the cash to pay me back? Money doesn’t grow on trees, and it certainly doesn’t grow inside a…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Payday: The Heist Will Bring Team-Based Bank Robbery to the PSN
Gamers work well in teams. We’ve slaughtered zombies, repelled rebels, routed RED (or BLU)—all with the help of our friends. Now we get to rob banks. In a bit of pre-E3 flirtation, Sony Online Entertainment has announced Payday: The Heist for the PS3 and PC, a squad-based cooperative shooter that casts players in the role…
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UncategorizedOf Course Mac is Back in the New SSX
Having appeared in every other SSX game released to-date, the franchises’ generic male character, Mac, is definitely making a reappearance in the 2012 reboot. I suppose not every character in SSX needs to either be a hot female or a guy with an over-the-top personality. Mac here represents the baggy-pantsed everyman, or at least every…
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Your Free PlayStation Network Welcome Back Games Are Now Available
PlayStation 3 and PSP owners in Europe and the U.S. can now download the freebies Sony promised last month during the PSN outage. Keep in mind everyone trying to download inFamous at once is bound to cause some network congestion.
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Sega’s Got Thirteen Titles Lined Up for E3
The house that Sonic built and later remodeled is bringing their A games to E3 this year with Aliens: Colonial Marines and Anarchy Reigns. Binary Domain is their B game, followed by Captain America: Super Soldier and Crush3D. After that the whole alphabet thing falls apart. Even if they don’t have at least one game…
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UncategorizedWell This is One Hell of a Rage Gameplay Trailer
The post-apocalyptic town of Wellspring gets its name from the intricate underground systems pumping water up to the surface, so when a group of bandits threatens to poison it, heads are going to roll, and possibly explode. It’s been a long time since I’ve been truly excited about a first-person shooter. Mildly interested or somewhat…
By Mike Fahey
