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Watch Grandma Hardcore Cuss Up A Storm In Brütal Legend
12:00PM Owen Good | We’ve featured her on Kotaku before, but years ago. So to reintroduce her, Old Grandma Hardcore lives in Cleveland (there’s just no way she could live anywhere else) and she loves playing games. More »
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And Here Is Two Full Minutes Of Nonchalantly Performed Badassery
11:00AM Owen Good | Eidos just released a new trailer for Just Cause 2, which blends cinematic action with some impressive gameplay. More »
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Cole Hamels Reminds You That Grenades Are “For Pussies”
1:20PM Owen Good | Well. This is edgy as all get-out. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels comes to Modern Warfare 2 to tell us that mindlessly hucking grenades is a dickbag cop-out. And then there’s “Fight Against Grenade Spam,” which makes a cheerful acronym. More »
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Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones’ Creepy Past
1:00PM Owen Good | Here’s the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can’t get across the sequence’s subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16. More »
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UK Viral Vid Teaches Us How To Cope With L4D2
2:40PM Owen Good | Bad enough that this sucker’s set in Louisiana and still features a cricket bat – I’ve truly never heard of anyone playing that game south of the Mason-Dixon, outside of university graduate students from India. More »
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Is Your Population Demoralised? Watch “Space A-Hole”
4:30PM Owen Good | Because antisocial behaviour becomes so much more romantic when someone writes a folk song about it, here is “Space Asshole”, whose creators say was written and sung after most of the accompanying video from Red Faction: Guerrilla was shot. More »
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BioShock 2 Trailer Makes Everything Better, Wetter, Deader
11:00AM Owen Good | “Siren Alley”, as this is titled, gives you a two-minute glimpse of the weapons and plasmids you’ll wield in the single-player mode of BioShock 2. More »
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Star Trek Online Video: “Klingons Being Klingons …”
11:00AM Owen Good | This video discusses the backstory leading into Star Trek Online. In a nutshell, Romulans, Remans, Klingons and the Gorn are all assholes, and their inability to resolve their differences creates fertile opportunity for combat. That’s where you come in. More »
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A First Look At The Gameplay In NCAA Basketball 10
7:00AM Owen Good | Just in time for Midnight Madness – when NCAA men’s basketball teams can begin practice – comes the first gameplay video featuring the two announcing teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball 10. More »
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