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UncategorizedNBA 2K11’s Halftime Show
Damon Bruce of KNBR-AM San Francisco is the host of a new halftime show in NBA 2K11 presenting highlights from your game and others around the league, within the storyline of your current season. Get a look at it here. NBA 2K11 Video: NBA Today Halftime Show with Damon Bruce [Operation Sports]
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Halo: Reach DLC Tipped?
The achievement set for Halo: Reach lists 49 achievements for a total Gamerscore of 1,000. That there screen, in the latest Bungie Weekly Update, adds 10 cheevs and 250 Gamerscore. DLC inbound? This image came from an item on installing Halo: Reach to the Xbox 360’s hard drive (Bungie says the game has been optimized…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
How To Hump An Xbox 360
“Household Holes” is the Internet’s foremost journal of research into the means of kit-bashing, jury-rigging and misappropriating everyday items for, uh, pleasurable insertion. Don’t ask me why I know this, I just read it for the articles. In the past month, included with articles on the efficacy of toilet paper tubes, Gatorade bottles and Nalgene…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Make A Run For El Baño With Taco Bell And My Sims [Corrected]
Electronic Arts and Yum! Brands are thick as thieves. Last year we had some kind of Kentucky Madden Super Fried Smack Pack meal; this year, sibling fastfood hut Taco Bell is handing out free discs for the Sims’ Wii franchise. Correction: While it’s hard to tell what version this is, it appears to be a…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Politics Of Presidential Appearances In Video Games
In two weeks, President Obama will appear in a video game for the second time in two months. Is he being paid for that? Is the White House cutting deals with sports game makers? Not likely. Obama appears in a special cinematic added this year to Madden NFL 11’s Super Bowl presentation mode. Win it…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Box Scores: Worst Sticks It To First
Something like three-fourths of NCAA Football’s user base play it principally for Dynasty mode, and of those, probably more than half have done it to take the game’s worst team to national prominence. Kotaku reader Siubone decided to try that with Western Kentucky in NCAA Football 10. In last year’s game, the Hilltoppers were ranked…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Borderlands Turns Three Villains Into Snarking Unicycle Robots [Update]
Part of the story in “Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution,” the fourth add-on to Borderlands set to arrive Tuesday, is that bosses from previous installments of the game have been “Claptrapified.” The achievement list tells us of three. Looks like Commandant Steele and General Knoxx of the Crimson Lance have gone robot on us, in addition…
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The Moneysaver: With A Bullitt
Tuesday I was turning onto the Delta Highway up here and some shitbag in a Dodge Charger wouldn’t let me merge. I drive a Mustang. All I could think about was this scene. Before we get started, Direct2Drive hit us yesterday with a coupon code just for Kotaku readers: KOTAKUDEAL. Use it to get $10…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Week In Review: Crossing The Threshold
Summer transited to Fall this week as Civilization V deployed, Project Milo met an unfortunate end, Nintendo celebrated its 121st (yes, really) birthday, and Activision’s boss drew sharp rebukes for his comments to investors. The week in Kotaku Original reporting: Kotaku’s Tokyo Games Show 2010 Coverage Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories An Open Letter From…
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UncategorizedXbox Live Indie Clips: Radiangames Inferno
In this week’s installment of Xbox Live Indie Clips we take a look at Radiangames Inferno. The developer calls it a “twin-stick action RPG.” What the hell is that? As it turns out, a twin-stick action role-playing game is a great deal like Gauntlet. It’s got four-player same screen multiplayer, monster generators, doors and keys,…
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Seven-Foot Man Unhappy With Bad Rating In NBA 2K11
The starting lineup ratings for NBA 2K11 went out yesterday, and centers were notably underweight. None rated 90 or above, a superstar badge (Dwight Howard was 88) and five of the bottom seven players are pivots. One expressed his displeasure. Ladies and gentlemen, the Washington Wizards’ JaVale McGee (pictured, at right), a third-year player out…
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Rare Genesis Cartridge Gets A Private Reproduction Run
Blockbuster’s second Video Game Championship contest, for SNES and Genesis, ran nationwide in 1995. Stores had to destroy the cartridges after the contest. Someone made 100 reproductions to help completionists fill a gap in their collect. About 40 are left. Best part, it sounds like the buyers will have a high score contest of their…
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ESPN Sends Its A-Team To NBA Elite 11
After fooling around some with the demo I can say one of the bright spots of NBA Elite 11 is its commentary and presentation. The total integration with ESPN’s graphics, wipes and music helps sell the authenticity of the call. This video says EA Sports Vancouver – also responsible for the ESPN integration of NCAA…
By Owen Good
