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MLB 2K11‘s Pitching Perfectionists Want It Done Right
About two weeks ago, someone uploaded a video purporting to show the final inning of a successful perfect game in MLB 2K11 which, if legitimate, will claim a $1 million prize offered by 2K Sports. In it, the player throws nothing but high curveballs, a strategy that wouldn’t get you out of the first inning…
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The Date Is Not A Lie
There’s some game due to release by Tuesday, its name is on the tip of my tongue. Something about potatoes. Eh, it’ll come to me. If not, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4 and Conduit 2 are all A-list drops arriving on the same day. Monday Remington Super Slam Hunting: Alaska (Wii) Tuesday Portal 2 (Mac, PS3,…
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Of Course Crytek Wants 16 Times More RAM In The Next Console Generation
Crytek took it in the shorts from PC loyalists who felt Crysis 2 was handled in a way that catered more to console users than to PC gamers. In an interview, the studio’s graphics engineer said Microsoft and Sony have way underweight RAM configurations, and whatever they build next needs 8 GB of RAM, minimum.…
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Top 5 of 10: Marketing Geniuses
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. •Top 10 Embarrassingly Bad Moments In Video Game Marketing [Calm Down Tom] I thought for sure EA’s mailing of brass knuckles for The Godfather Part…
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Presenting Ace of Spades, the “Minecraft FPS”
“Minecraft with rifles,” is how many describe Ace of Spades, and not just because of the low-res visual motif. Or the fact it, too, is in beta. The team-based multiplayer CTF setup also allows players to build bunkers, dig tunnels and erect fortifications. The objective in Ace of Spades is an intel briefcase, stolen from…
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UncategorizedHow To Stuff A 3DS Inside A Game Boy
Let’s say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy It’s like the turducken of gaming handhelds. Goteking supplies a fake…
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The Crowd-Sourced Wii 2
Alright, gang, you had to know this one was coming. I had a couple other ideas this week, but in light of rumors that Nintendo will unveil a Wii successor at E3, and the thing will have iPads for controllers, we have to make sense of it all and help the Internet understand what this…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
We’ve cut a deal with Valve, if everyone ‘shops up a TAYpic today then we promise Portal 2 will unlock by at least 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Thanks to Mythos for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
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Sunday Comics
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published April 11. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published April 12. – Read more of Nerf…
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Adventures in Babysitting — For Sony
Some snippiness from Sony’s CEO provided the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest challenge, in which we explored the challenges of child rearing by those who gave us the PSP. We’ve got 20 hot and fresh ‘shops waiting for you inside! Let’s get things started with frequent flyer boopadoo (4), who racks up the Sony…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Adventures in Babysitting Winners
1. ARYXANDRE 2. BananaMan55 3. BDARKO 4. boopadoo 5. Chris Hayward 6. DatBoyFresh 7. duck45 8. dyru 9. GMM 10. Jorvid 11. kolibri 12. marbury187 13. obeyyurmaster 14. RadioactiveToy 15. RandMan612 16. ShinLord 17. Squizzy 18. stevep7702 19. Strategy Mony 20. Tevious
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Gets $10K From GeoHot’s Legal Fund
You may remember that George Hotz, the hacker/rapstar who jailbroke the PS3 and then got sued by Sony, solicited donations for his legal defense. You may remember that Hotz and Sony recently settled. You may wonder what he’s doing with the leftover donations. Don’t worry, he didn’t forget where they came from. Hotz today posted…
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The Binder That Ties You To A Game
Wax nostalgic with a sports gamer of a certain age and it’s not long before he will mention, like a venerated religious text, the Three-Ring Binder. It was the original franchise mode. I’m 37, and I’ve yet to meet a guy from my generation who didn’t keep his own stats in a sports video game…
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So How Close Are We To Unlocking Portal 2?
With two titles “completed” in Valve’s play-for-an-early-release stunt with Portal 2, GLaDOS says we’ve only shaved about 90 minutes off the scheduled release of 7 a.m. Tuesday. Several sites calculate that the effort is much further ahead than that. Like, between 16 and 18 hours as of writing. That means at this pace, everyone’s beating…
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Rockstar Had Planned a ‘Spiritual Successor’ to The Warriors
The Warriors is one of my all-time favorite games – I have a PS2 mostly to keep it, and Red Dead Revolver, fully playable whenever the nostalgia hits me. Though “The Warriors” had no cinematic sequel, Rockstar was plotting a followup anyway, one set in 1960s Britain at the height of the Mods-vs.-Rockers brawls. Internally,…
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UncategorizedHere’s 12 Minutes of Battlefield 3 Gameplay, No Facebook Strings Attached
Battlefield 3’s holding out for a million Facebook likes before it unlocks the final of five videos, which would be this one above, except with producer commentary. This still is 12 minutes solid of gameplay and in-game cutscenes, with annotations so you know what’s going on in the campaign. Some of this has been seen…
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One-Man Gang
The rarities of professional basketball – the 100-point game, the quadruple-double – are almost taken for granted in video game hoops. Then someone pulls off both feats with the same player, in the same game. bernzomatic, playing for Miami in NBA 2K11’s “My Player” career mode, was a steal short of a quad-dub when he…
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Q*bert Record Attempt Scuttled After Machine Unplugged
Thirty-six hours into what was expected to be a 70-hour assault on an all-time world record, and with hundreds of lives to spare, someone unplugged a cabinet elsewhere in the arcade, resetting the Q*bert George Leutz was playing. We’re not sure what Leutz said, but it probably sounded like @!#?@! Playing at Richie Knucklez in…
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