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- Yesterday - December 5, 2009
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#xbox360
Freezing Issue Forces EA to Take Down Fight Night DLC
After struggling with freezing problems during the download of its Champions Pack 2, released Thursday, EA Sports has taken the unusual step of just pulling the content back from Xbox Live Marketplace, until it can roll a fixed pack later. More » -
#whoops
Glitch Traps Some in Assassin's Creed II
Word going around the Ubisoft forums and on another site has some Assassin's Creed II players getting stuck in "Hideout," a sequence about 11 chapters into the game, with no way to get out or advance the game. More » -
#burrrrrn
Conan O'Brien Now Picking on 60-Metascore Games
Conan O'Brien's really on the video game humor bandwagon - especially if he's going after disappointing film adaptations and skewering pompous trailer motifs. If the point here is "Avatar: Prepare to be Underwhelmed," we had that covered long ago. More » -
#bioware
ME2 Engineers Get By With a Little Help from Enemies
Christina Norman, BioWare's lead combat designer, breaks down the retooled engineer class in Mass Effect 2 in an IGN interview. More » -
#awesome
Handmade Fable Fortune's Tower Card Set: a Limited Edition of One
Shawn Baxter, aka the Capcom-Unity all-star contributor Snow_Infernus, thought for certain someone would have made a Fortune's Tower card set based on the Fable II Pub Game. When no one did, he got tired of waiting, and made his own. More » -
#screengrab
The Special Guest Star Who Wasn't
Link rendered as a Simpsons character. As seen on Springfield Punx [Thanks, Samit.] -
#esrb
FTC Report Lauds Game Industry as the 'Most Responsible' Entertainment Marketer
The Federal Trade Commission, in a report to Congress, lauds the video games industry as best among all entertainment producers when it comes to responsible marketing and advertising. More » -
#mario
Mario Theme: One-Hand Me, Good Sir!
Here's a virtuoso piano performance of the Super Mario Bros. theme - using one hand. If I'd remembered anything from my piano lessons beyond playing Old MacDonald on the black keys, I could probably describe how difficult this is. More » -
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#classics
Dragon's Lair Heading for the iPhone
The 1983 laserdisc classic Dragon's Lair will follow its cousin Space Ace to the iPhone; Electronic Arts is handling the port. Now you can enjoy Dirk the Daring's inquisitive grunting and Princess Daphne's coquettish cooing in a convenient portable format. More » -
#patch
Infinity Ward Says Javelin Cheat Fix 'In the Pipeline' for PS3
Modern Warfare 2 update 1.05 has gone out for the PS3, but everyone will have to wait for patch 1.06 to fix the infamous Javelin glitch. Let's hope Sony approves it fast, since they seem reluctant to police the cheaters. More » -
#mashup
Half-Contra: The NES Classic Goes 3D
Machinima put this up last week, following the Castlevania and Mario reconstructions in Half-Life 2. Anyone who's ever played Contra - that should be all of us, right? - will want to watch this start to finish. More than once. More » -
#weekendreader
The Straight Story of 'Gay Tony'
Calling it "the straightest Grand Theft Auto ever," largely for effect, PopMatters' G. Christopher Williams says The Ballad of Gay Tony hews to some hetero-driven crime-novel representations of both sexualities, but in the end is about much deeper themes. More » -
#sports
Madden NFL Arcade Micro-Review: Snacking on Football
Did you toss the football around over Thanksgiving? If so, did you take time to read the playbook and set your audibles? Thought so. That's the spirit behind EA Sports's Madden NFL Arcade, the bite-size complement to its full franchise. More » -
#stickjockey
Sticks Up, Lacrosse Breaks Into the Xbox 360
Let's be real. It would take a nuclear war for lacrosse, even though it's literally more American than football or baseball, to displace either game on TV. It would take even more to put it in a retail video game box. More » -
#dealtaku
Weekend Coupons: Console Yourself, Shopper
Retailers are trying to move more than games, they're discounting hardware, too. If you're so gauche that you're gonna buy a console when you should be thinking of others - I say right on, you've come to the right place. More » -
#original
Kotaku Originals; I Like This Aussie's Tabasco
Crecente went on vacation; Totilo talked with Electronic Arts' top man, but let's not forget Luke's eloquent and comprehensive breakdown of Australia's games classification, and the political climate influencing it, in the roster of this week's biggest stories. More » - Friday - December 4, 2009
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#politics
Brazilian Senator Seeks Violent Game Ban
Valdir Raupp, who is both a senator and a lion of a man, has put forward a bill seeking to ban the sale and distribution of violent video games in Brazil. More » -
#review
Canabalt Micro-Review: Up On The Rooftop, Tap, Tap, Tap
It's not often that we play a video game designed, coded and scored in just five days. Canabalt, conceived and created for the Experimental Gameplay Project, uncomplicated as it is, somehow doesn't feel like the typical output of two weekends. More » -
#psn
New PSN Game Is Nearly 10GB In Size
Upcoming PlayStation Network title Record of Agarest War may sound tempting to fans of strategy RPGs, but if you've got a 20GB system (or even a 60GB system), you may want to be careful. More » -
#gallery
Check Out This Girl's Final Fantasy XIII Summon
Not much time left before Final Fantasy XIII is released in Japan on December 17, but Square Enix has released some new screenshots — mostly of characters Cid Raines and Oerba Dia Vanille's summon, Hecatoncheir. More » -
#spartaaaaa
Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
Activision sent out a news release today touting the Modern Warfare 2 installation base - 8 million strong and growing - as larger than most real world armies. Indeed it is. How does it compare to history? More » -
#australia
Hey, Stop Blaming The Australian Government/People For "Banning" Games
You know, every time a game is "banned" in Australia, I see people from the US and Europe saying stupid, stupid things. I'd like to try and put a stop to that.
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#tragedy
Pot, Video Games, Child Care: Which One Is Not Like the Other?
A Florida father is looking at a long and uncomfortable tour of the justice system after getting high, gaming all night, and then falling asleep on his 7-month-old daughter, suffocating her in the process. More » -
#ea
Is This Our First Look At Dead Space 2?
Unfortunately, it very well may be. This Rorschach inkblot-esque image was recently uploaded by what appears to be the official Dead Space Twitter account, a not-so-subtle collage of Necromorph silhouettes and Unitology alphabet scratches. More » -
#patch
Latest Madden Patch Pays Tribute to Slain QB
The second patch for EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 adds the tribute helmet sticker Tennessee is wearing for Steve McNair, murdered in the offseason by his deranged mistress. Philadelphia defensive coordinator Jim Johnson also gets the memorial treatment. More » -
#contest
Kotaku's 40 Brutal Legend T-Shirt Contest Winners Announced Here
Hundreds of you gave us a scare and contributed pictures of yourself in your most metal poses for our Brutal Legend contest. We've randomly selected 40 winners who will receive Brutal Legend t-shirt prizes. See if you've won below!
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#screengrab
High School Musical Star Gets His Sims On (For Charity)
Corbin Bleu, a.k.a. High School Musical's Chad Danforth, at a Starlight Hospital Happening Event at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Los Angeles. The event brings in entertainers like Bleu and entertainment like The Sims 3 to cheer up sick kids. More » -
#psp
Rumor: PSP minis To Be Playable On PS3 Soon
Sony's downloadable PSP minis, which launched alongside the company's download-only PSPgo, may be getting a bigger screen treatment, according to a reports that say minis will be playable on the PlayStation 3. More » -
#giving
Child's Play Raises More than $1M for the Year
With the all-important holiday month still to come, Child's Play, the charity donating video games and toys to children's hospitals worldwide, has tallied more than $1 million in donations this year. It hopes to eclipse $1.4 million by year's end. More » -
#bioware
Mass Effect 2 Will Be Incredibly Emotionally Engaging
During a recent conference call about Mass Effect 2, BioWare CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka stressed the importance of emotional engagement in the game by mentioning the phrase "emotionally engaging" over and over again. More » -
#ruhroh
XMB comes to XBLM?
Unfortunately repurposed PS3 content, as seen on Xbox Live Marketplace by reader SuperTongue. -
#art
The Art of Video Games Comes To The Smithsonian In 2012
Video games? In the Smithsonian? It could happen sooner than you think, if "soon" for you is March of 2012, when the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC will feature the Art of Video Games exhibition. More » -
#wellplayed
The iPhone's Online Identity Crisis
Initially conceived as a multimedia device, the iPhone overcame a number of hurdles to become a popular gaming portable. But one surprising problem still haunts the device's gaming capabilities.
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#sales
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Moves Over 420,000 Day One In Japan
The Japanese release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii is looking pretty positive for Nintendo, with the Wii game moving an impressive 422,000 units on day one, according to reports. More » -
#list
Review Round-Up: Borderlands DLC, Tropico, Tony Hawk And More
We reviewed stuff this week, including stuffs that were not released recently. Know what that means? It's December and we're doing catch-up reviews of games we missed in 2009. (I bet I know what half of the comments will say.) More »
