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Sunday Comics: Dead Island If you’ve been hanging out for Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, hang out no longer. GameTraders in Carillon City has copies of the UK PAL version going for $89.95. You can swing in right now and pick this baby up, nearly three weeks before its official release.
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More balls! More Dragon Balls! Cactuargal points out that these GLOWING Dragon Balls are see-thru and pretty true to the Earth size of a Dragon Ball. To bring everyone up to speed: Make a Dragon Ball. The best damn Dragon Ball you can! It cannot be drawn or virtual — it must be an actual three dimension Dragon Balls. Now! If you don’t know what Dragon Balls look like, you can click here. While the Dragon Balls you make should look like actual Dragon Balls, feel free to get creative with what you use to make them. The contest wraps up later this month. The finalists will win either the PS3 version or Xbox 360 version of Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Be sure to send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom and include a Kotaku sign. Losers get INTERNET FAME.
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Don’t forget! We have a *another* contest going besides our MGS ‘stache. Reader Letsan didn’t forget, writing: “There’s only one Dragon Ball for three reasons: I was too lazy to make more of them, winter has my hands colder than the Balls itself, and there is no more orange juice. And they’re made out of frozen orange juice, while the little star was cut down from a rubber keychain. Almost forgot to thank Maglite for that nice Dragon Ball glow!” To bring everyone up to speed: Make a Dragon Ball. The best damn Dragon Ball you can! It cannot be drawn or virtual — it must be an actual three dimension Dragon Balls. Now! If you don’t know what Dragon Balls look like, you can click here. While the Dragon Balls you make should look like actual Dragon Balls, feel free to get creative with what you use to make them. The contest wraps up later this month. The finalists will win either the PS3 version or Xbox 360 version of Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Be sure to send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom and include a Kotaku sign. Losers get INTERNET FAME.
Hit the jump for more balls.
Looking at this month’s release schedule, it sure looks like a ton of DS games are coming out. After that, looks like the PS2 is getting the most new games, followed by the PS3. The Wii, the PSP and the Xbox 360 are bringing up the rear in number of new games. But wait! Let’s take a closer look at this month’s PS3 release schedule:
The entries are starting to pour in! That’s right, we’ve kicked off our make-Dragon-Balls-win-Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Reader iRockTheVote send the above image, writing:
Sorry for the bad quality all I had was a camera phone.
No. Sweat. Dude. Now that we got the inevitable egg entry out of the way, let’s get the other inevitable entry out of the way. Reader NMN writes: “This Joke is as old as the dragonball series, and this is the perfect moment to use it. I know there is no chance to win this, but i want to share this with all gamers all over the world. Enter at your own risk…….”
Contest time! We are giving away TK. Sooooooooooooooo… Here’s the contest: Make a Dragon Ball. The best damn Dragon Ball you can! It cannot be drawn or virtual — it must be an actual three dimension Dragon Balls. Now! If you don’t know what Dragon Balls look like, you can click here. While the Dragon Balls you make should look like actual Dragon Balls, feel free to get creative with what you use to make them. The contest wraps up late next month. The finalists will win either the PS3 version or Xbox 360 version of Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit. Be sure to send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom and include a Kotaku sign. GOOD LUCK!!
Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit [Official Site]
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Namco Bandai’s Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit is multi-platform. It might be difficult for customers to pick which one they should get: Xbox 360 or PS3 version? Well, maybe PlayStation.com can help. Look at the “PS3″ screenshots that appeared on the official Japanese PlayStation site. What do you notice? Oh, you can’t see it? Well, hit the jump for a closer look.
newVideoPlayer("kamehamehaweights_kotaku.flv", 480, 290,""); Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next month, and Atari is gearing up for a massive advertising blitz centered around the power of everyone’s favourite energy wave, Kamehameha! Along with the three videos you may have seen elsewhere, Atari was nice enough to give us the exclusive clip above, displaying how shouting the name of the first king of Hawaii can make everything alright.
Hit the jump for the other three clips, which get progressive more amusing as they go along.
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Here’s a clip from Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, showing off the battle stylings of the proof that Vegeta and Bulma got it on, Trunks, and the giant developmentally-disabled child Recoome. Things seem to be going well for the big lug until Trunks’ hair gets blond and spiky, and then even spikier. Blond and spiky equals doom. As far as the gameplay goes, I was far more impressed by earlier screenshots than I am by the game in motion, especially in light of what I’ve seen of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Face it Dragon Ball Z, it’s much easier for fans to slip on a Leaf Village headband than craft their own giant foam hair. Maybe it’s time to hang up the emergency orange outfits and move on. *flees*
newVideoPlayer("burst_limit_gawker.flv", 463, 287,""); Atari’s first Dragon Ball Z outing on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is looking damn good, and pretty fast to boot. Guys yelling speed lines, giant hair – it’s all there. Of course there won’t be a truly accurate DBZ fighter until matches actually take 90 minutes and are comprised of 75% nonsensical dialogue, but then again I suppose striving for authenticity isn’t always a good thing. We’ll know for sure come June!
