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Rick Astley vs. the Hydra: Let the Scribblenauts Mayhem Begin
“The real reason people will waste their time on this game is too see sharks devour drowning tax collectors,” writes Idoliside at Hellforge. So he set up a number of gratifying encounters to preview who would win. Butcher vs. Pig? Easy, the pig turned into a yummy ham. Satan vs. a Priest in a Tank?…
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A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”
An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on, among other things, the Final Fantasy game it was rumored to be making for Square Enix. UPDATE – While some of this art is from the Final Fantasy game,…
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Week in Games: Super Tuesday
This coming week is the first classically huge week of the Fall to Holiday sales cycles. Scribblenauts, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Wet and Need for Speed: Shift would all command top billing with a week all to themselves. Here they battle it out in a huge scrum that also includes the releases of NHL 10…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
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. No, you’re not seeing things. We moved the Top 5 of Top 10s to this day and time to free up some space on Saturday,…
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Castlevania Rebirth Rated, Coming to WiiWare
Konami has another ReBirth title in the pipeline: Castlevania the Adventure. The title just picked up a Teen rating from the ESRB and should arrive on WiiWare, the same as its Contra and Gradius siblings. Here is the ESRB listing: Castlevania the Adventure ReBirth Platform: Wii Rating: Teen Content descriptors: Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Rating…
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‘Dawwwww’ is Not in Scribblenauts, but ‘Plush’ Is
Crafts-maker Rosemary Travale hadn’t done video-game related work in about three years, and this week’s release of Scribblenauts inspired her to bring main character Maxwell to plush life. Look, he even has a little-bitty notebook and pencil! Materials: “His gloves are made of plastic vinyl, his clothes cotton, his body is canvas and linen, his…
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Is Left 4 Dead’s Crash Course Coming Sept. 23?
A Game With Fame announcement on Xbox Live offers the chance to play Left 4 Dead’s Crash Course on Sept. 23. “Chance to play” doesn’t necessarily mean “release date,” but the DLC was promised in September. Here’s the announcement: If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold Member (if not, upgrade now! ), and you want a…
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Dragon Age Screens Showcase Blood, Gore, Sideboob
Twelve new screens for Dragon Age: Origins bring, as this game will undoubtedly deliver in November, the blood and the sexytime. Body fluids are their own texture so they stick to characters instead of fading. I’m talking about blood, stupe. Dragon Age: Origins Gallery [Play.tm via VG247]
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“Fly Gabe Newell” Raises $3,000
A modder’s fund drive to call Gabe Newell’s joke bluff, and fly the Valve boss plus a producer to Australia to preview his Left 4 Dead campaign, has surpassed $3,000 in less than a week. Pack your bags, Mr. Newell. The backstory: Joe W-A of Brisbane is a serious modder, working on this custom Left…
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Kotaku Approval Ratings: Taking it Online
After a week off for Labor Day, Kotaku’s Approval Ratings are back again to measure your attitudes and preferences regarding online play and downloadable games. No doubt many of these responses will break down along our earlier platform preference results. Remember, the point of answering a survey isn’t to declare a winner, but to know…
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Choose Your Hero in Borderlands
Meet the good and bad guys, and gals, of Borderlands. I’d like to get a good look at them, but thanks to the cuts and the black-flashes it doesn’t linger on anything for more than 0.78 seconds. Game still looks great though. Pity about the censored stamps covering up all those sweet, sweet headshots. Borderlands…
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Remembering the Early Days of Copy Protection
I remember when my copy of Legacy of the Ancients arrived with its codewheel. I fired up my 1200 baud acoustically-coupled modem, hit the BBS and ranted my indignation that I can do as I please with my purchase. OK, I didn’t. Time was, copy protection didn’t inspire such anger in power consumers, probably because…
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Nintendo Files the Trademark to End all Trademarks
Well, we can stop watching trademark filings now. Nintendo has officially registered “The Last Story,” so from here on, no more can ever be told, right? Siliconera noticed the filing and has few details other than the words involved. They do, however, note that “The Last Story” is registered in Japan, albeit with English words.…
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Your Official PAX Attendance: 60,750
Big Download got the scoop from Penny Arcade‘s Robert Khoo that PAX 2009 sold out to the people-packing tune of 60,750. While slightly over last year’s attendance, it’s still taken as a strong showing. Last year drew 58,500; this year at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, the show had a fixed…
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First Video Game Ever Sold is Being Sold
Two arcade cabinets for Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space, regarded as the first commercially sold video game ever, have been listed on eBay. The games, which predated Pong by about a year, are currently going for $1,500 and $2,500. Computer Space was developed and published in 1971 by Nutting Associates, not Atari, although programmers Bushnell and…
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World at War Map Pack 3 Releases Next Week for PC
Patch 1.6, which includes Map Pack 3 for PC, deploys next week. This time I am going to get his name right and attribute the news to Josh Olin, the Treyarch Community Manager. Map Pack 3, of course, includes the multiplayer settings Battery, Breach and Revolution, plus the Nazi zombie map Der Riese. Unlike the…
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Got Red Baron Source Code? It’s Worth $1,500
Red Baron fans, if you have the complete source code to that game, Red Baron II or Red Baron 3D, the series creator is offering a $1,500 bounty if you can deliver it. The announcement was made “in an effort to bring these games back to life,” as Mad Otter Games, home of Red Baron…
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In Case You’ve Patched Call of Juarez Lately …
Ubisoft’s put out word that any patches to Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, made available recently, were “wrongfully released” prior to Ubi’s deadline and are not the final version. That will be available “in the coming days.” Word of this passed in an “ALL MEMBERS MUST READ” message on the Ubisoft forums. VE3D, which…
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