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Nintendo Explains The Red Box, Dashes Hope For Yellow Ones

5:40AM November 14, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

Why is the next big Mario game the first Wii title to not come in a white case? Credit Japan, Nintendo told Kotaku today. And don’t expect it to happen again. More »


In Real Life

Some Guy’s Mum Painted This

3:30AM April 12, 2009 | Owen Good

A Danish mother has at last paid back years of refrigerator finger-paintings of her as a stick figure with circle boobies and a triangle skirt. Nothing says motherly love like a Riddick box cover painting.

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The Left 4 Dead Box Art That Didn’t Survive

9:40AM April 10, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Serious Left 4 Dead fans are well aware of the previously nixed box art for the game, but Valve has revealed more of the game’s rejected attempts at box art that says “zombie apocalypse.”

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Grand Slam Tennis Cover Features Tennis Star Triple Play

11:20PM April 9, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Instead of focusing on just one athlete for the cover of Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii, EA plasters three of the biggest names in tennis across the front of the box.

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One Of These Men May Appear On The Cover Of Madden 2010

12:00PM April 8, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Many sports games make a fuss over their respective cover athletes, but really, the only one people give a damn about is the guy who turns up on the front cover of Madden.

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Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits Is Now Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

9:20AM April 4, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

When Activision ships its “best of” Guitar Hero compilation this summer, it will be called Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, not Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits, as previously announced. Why? You got me.

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In Real Life

New NES Modern Classics Given Our Seal Of Quality

7:40AM April 1, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Last year, the -Minus World put its talents to good use on Atari Modern Classics, de-making box art for BioShock, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Portal in the Atari 2600 style. Ready for the sequel?

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Are These Box Art Designs Similar?

4:30PM March 27, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

Folks are fluttering around on the Japanese internet about the boxart similarity between these two games. Kwinky-dink or sinister thievery?

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Boom Blox Bash Party Box Downplays The Boom Blox

6:00AM March 21, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

The newly revealed box art for EA’s Wii sequel Boom Blox Bash Party says a lot. Namely, that the Boom Blox brand doesn’t carry much weight, at least not in terms of pimping the “party.”

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Find The Snake On Germany’s Metal Gear Solid 4 Platinum Cover

11:20AM March 19, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

We thought that our first glimpse of the “Platinum” budget version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was bad enough. Then we saw Germany’s take on Old Snake.

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