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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves [Official Kotaku Forum]

| May 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves [Official Kotaku Forum]

The bucket-on-the-head gag from Skyrim helps Pan1da7 steal #taypic honors once again. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves.
Want a piece of the TAYpic action atop this six-day-a-week post? Grab the base image here, provide a funn…

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Sunday Comics: A Hell of an Error [Funnies]

| May 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
Sunday Comics: A Hell of an Error [Funnies]

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.

Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie published May 18.—Read more of Virtual Shackles
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Image Suggests Wii U Controller Will Have True Analog Joysticks, Not Nubs [Rumor]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
Image Suggests Wii U Controller Will Have True Analog Joysticks, Not Nubs [Rumor]

An image published to Twitter, and since taken down, by a QA tester for LEGO developer Traveler’s Tales, depicts a WIi U controller with traditional twin analog joysticks, not analog pads similar to the 3DS’, as had been shown in earlier images of the …

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Are You ‘Shop Enough? The Winners [Kotaku 'shop Contest]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
Are You ‘Shop Enough? The Winners [Kotaku 'shop Contest]

Time magazine’s ridiculous breast-feeding cover was all the talk last week. On Mother’s Day, Kotaku’s legion of photoshoppers smoothed the last shovelful of dirt on this ridiculously desperate concept. We have 20 smart ‘shoppers inside, plus overall wi…

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Come to Think of It, the Original NFL Blitz Did Have a Dirty-Sounding Playbook [Nfl Blitz]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
Come to Think of It, the Original NFL Blitz Did Have a Dirty-Sounding Playbook [Nfl Blitz]

The fine football satirists at Every Day Should Be Saturday caught on to something that eluded me during NFL Blitz’s launch back in January. Not only are late hits stripped out of the game, the playbook has been toned down considerably.
Not in terms of…

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Are the Diablo III Servers Working? Ask This Android App [Diablo]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
Are the Diablo III Servers Working? Ask This Android App [Diablo]

Though we seem to be through the worst of Diablo III’s humiliating server outages at launch this week, who knows when those things will need to be worked on again. Logging in to Battle.net and waiting for the credential verification to time out is a lo…

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The Best Videos of the Week [Video]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
The Best Videos of the Week [Video]

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It’s true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

Russian ‘Skywalkers’ Scale 1000-Foot Bridg…

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Starfox-Metroid Team-Up Rumored for Wii U [Rumor]

| May 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
Starfox-Metroid Team-Up Rumored for Wii U [Rumor]

It reads like fan fiction and the rumor’s original reporter—who uncovered PlayStation All-Stars six months before it was announced—concedes that nothing about it is confirmed. But Retro Studios is said to be working on, or at least to have …

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