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Capcom Still Teasing Mega Man 9’s “Final Secret”
11:00AM Owen Good | At Evo 2009, Capcom community-mans Seth Killian gets cornered about the final undiscovered secret in Mega Man 9 but vows it does indeed exist, and that it is still out there. More »
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Donkey Kong Easter Egg Discovered 26 Years Later
4:00AM Owen Good | Last year, the coder who wrote the Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong revealed it had an Easter Egg but it’s “totally not worth it.” Someone has gone to the trouble of finding it. More »
Culture
The Konami Code Makes ESPN.com Magical!
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Sports fans with a taste for glittery unicorns should run, not walk, to ESPN.com and remember their Konami Code, because it appears that some soon to be possibly unemployed web designer is having a laugh. More »
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Kotaku’s Old-School Easter Egg Hunt
2:30AM Owen Good | It’s become something of a tradition ’round the Tower to observe Easter with, what else, lists of Easter eggs. So here is my dirty half-dozen, from well before the 8-bit days.
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Finally, A Resource For Video Game Lies
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | If you’ve ever spent any substantial time on a playground, you’re likely to have heard some tall tales, particularly if the topic is video games. Logically, someone’s created a Wiki full of those lies. More »
Left 4 Dead Teases Tenth Team Fortress 2 Class
11:40AM Michael McWhertor | Eagle-eyed Kotaku reader Srider spied something interesting during his playthrough of the Left 4 Dead demo, amusingly enough on the back of an in-game box of “Chocobites” cereal. Seen in the first apartment in the game’s first campaign — and wherever cereal is eaten in Left 4 Dead — the back of the box promises a free six-inch Team Fortress 2 action figure. The catch? It teases us to “collect all 10!” More »
Sony Exclusives Gotta Stick Together
5:00AM Owen Good | That above is an Easter Egg in Resistance 2 that gives props to Metal Gear Solid 4 — as you can see, in reads “MGS4PWNS.” PS3 Fanboy published it after one of their readers spied it. More »
Hidden Treasures of Classic Sierra Games
7:40AM Maggie Greene | We’ve been a little nostalgic the past couple of weekends, which included a look back at Sierra’s origins; now Adventure Classic Gaming has a look at hidden assets of classic Sierra games. Not the Easter Eggs, but the bits and pieces hidden in the asset files of games — things that will never appear in the games themselves and take some exploration to actually get to. These range from bits of dialogue to wacky animations to pencil sketches; the author takes a look at some of these hidden assets and the meaning behind them: More »
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Easter Egg: Will Wright’s Head in Spore
2:00AM Owen Good | Easter Egg discovery is a bit like genetic mutation. Get enough numbers to try some random stuff that’s well outside of what they’re supposed to be doing, let alone what they’ve evolved to do, and you’ll hit something eventually. How apt that the Spore Creature Creator Demo, leaked yesterday and downloaded by lots of gamers, provides that lesson. More »
