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Justify Your TNA Impact! Can the makers of TNA Impact! justify their game? Only one way to find out...

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Justify Your Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword


After a long Kotaku interview session, Team Ninja's commander and chief Tomonobu Itagaki justified his upcoming Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword for DS. And somewhere along the line, if you study the video very closely, we make complete assholes of ourselves. It's a first, we know.

9:00 AM ON THU SEP 27 2007
BY MARK WILSON
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Justify Your MGS4 Cosplay


Cosplay. We see it everyday. OK, we pretty much just see it at trade shows, but TGS is like the cosplay Superbowl. So if it can be justified anywhere in the world, it's here in Tokyo...conveniently by a Kotaku reader who speaks perfect English (saving me the hours of subtitling).

8:30 AM ON SUN SEP 23 2007
BY MARK WILSON
12,230 views 28 comments


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Justify Your Engine, Mark Rein


Our Justify Your Game segment is supposed to only last 15 seconds. But some of our participants are...higher maintenance. So hit the play button and prepare for a truly epic edition of JYG.

12:00 PM ON SAT SEP 22 2007
BY MARK WILSON
11,569 views 46 comments


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Plagachef Confirmed, Details to Follow

From our tips box:

We saw Dave's LittleBigPlanet Justify Your Game clip this morning at Media Molecule and one of our graphic designers Jim promptly knocked this up!
So wait, does that mean Jim completed the logo and then proceeded to impregnate it?

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10:00 AM ON FRI SEP 21 2007
BY MARK WILSON
3,054 views 14 comments

Latest by mossberg: @Konchu: same more »


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Justify Your Xbox Holiday Lineup


We gave Takashi Sensui (Microsoft's General Manager of Xbox) a chance to justify his holiday lineup. And unlike certain tall, bald and highly clonable Sony executives who outright refused, Sensui jumped at the chance to support his company.

During our shoot, either our autofocus went wonky or the booze really started kicking in. Sorry about that, but at least our camera didn't puke on Sensui's shoes.

10:30 PM ON THU SEP 20 2007
BY MARK WILSON
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Latest by timada: lol yeah, I saw this video on youtube the other day, so funny lol 15 seconds :D Ada engineer more »


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Justify Your LittleBigPlanet


Sometimes, as in the case of LittleBigPlanet, the developers are so nice and their game looks so good that you are praying they can hit the 15-second time limit. But can they??

SPOILER ALERT: you have to watch the clip to find out.

1:00 PM ON WED SEP 19 2007
BY MARK WILSON
10,353 views 44 comments

Latest by CowJoMonkey: Shame on you Kotaku, there is no feasible way to justify LittleBigPlanet in 15 seconds, you would need like 6.5 eons or something. I think hes done the best justify your game so far. more »


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Justify Your Kane


Joe Kucan, better known to many as Kane from Command & Conquer, was asked to "justify his Kane" for Kotaku. He turned to PR and asked, "How much leeway do I have with this?" They replied, "do whatever you want."

He smiled...

12:40 PM ON THU SEP 6 2007
BY MARK WILSON
15,192 views 71 comments

Latest by Draconis: Joe Kucan > You. more »


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Justify Your Platform, Gabe Newell


We caught up with Gabe Newell at GC07 and made him justify the PC platform. How'd he do? Let's just say the man could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves. And the Kotaku staff is full of white gloves (though admittedly light on women).

11:40 AM ON THU SEP 6 2007
BY MARK WILSON
10,570 views 35 comments

Latest by 2kreative: Gabe will the leader of the new world, one without Playstation and Xbox. Join the church of Gabe today & win a free copy of HL2!! more »


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Justify Your Game, Rock Band


I personally see it as cheating if people use less than the allotted 15 seconds, but it's a viable strategy...we will need to find a way to punish it.

1:20 PM ON MON JUL 16 2007
BY MARK WILSON
8,570 views 33 comments

Latest by RonJeremy4Pres: That intro is funny. more »


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Justify Your Game, Boogie


We should have asked her to justify the slow-ass service at Sushi Roku, where we saw Heather and her fellow EA staffers later that evening...eating while we starved.

12:40 PM ON MON JUL 16 2007
BY MARK WILSON
5,197 views 24 comments

Latest by SmogBot: @Consolcwby: it makes perfect sense, game companys don't care what a console *needs*, just what they can sell. more »


Justify Your Game, Army of Two
We should have asked them to justify their tampon-healing mini game.

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Peter Moore, Justify Your Warranty


We ask Peter Moore to justify the new Xbox 360 warranty. And note: due to industry complaints, we've made our Justify Your Game template more loving and supporting—hopefully to nurture those like Moore who are just trying to speak their soul to the gaming community...in 15 seconds.

10:40 AM ON MON JUL 16 2007
BY MARK WILSON
8,357 views 69 comments

Latest by UGOTPWNED: at least he acknowledges the problem. more »


Justify Your Duty Crecente filmed this earlier at a pre-E3 event. The game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, speaks for itself. So does this video.

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Justify Your Haze

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3:00 PM ON THU MAY 24 2007
BY BRIAN CRECENTE
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Latest by Wernstar: After reading someone from the Haze dev team say Halo is for kids in a desperate attempt for attention, their game annoys me. At least give good reasons. His justification was ok though. more »


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TGS06: Justify Your Game: Lair

We just posted what we thought of Factor 5's dragon game Lair, but what do the actual developers think of their own title? Surprisingly, they really like it! Good job, Mr. Engelbrecht.

11:29 PM ON SUN SEP 24 2006
BY MICHAEL MCWHERTOR
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Latest by PhotoBoy: That wasn't too shabby I suppose, it's better than yesterday's "it has a palette!!!" description we got for Genji. Sell it on the historically accurate giant enemy crabs FFS! Factor 5 should stick to making Star Wars games for Nintendo. Maybe more »


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TGS06: Justify Your Game: Genji

It's too bad that Genji is actually pretty good, because this is the worst pitch we've ever heard and hope that this clip does not do massive damage to the game's sales.

9:06 AM ON SAT SEP 23 2006
BY BRIAN ASHCRAFT
100 views 16 comments

Latest by Intellectualdiot: I don't understand why he didn't just say "Giant Enemy Crab" and leave. At best he would have at least generated a bit of geek interest and perhaps gained a YTMND. (God knows there are far too many of those more »


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TGS06: Justify Your Console, Kaz Hirai

When we saw Kaz freed from the grasp of the IGN video crew, we quickly assaulted him for some console justification. He did fairly well, but you really have to understand what the Cell is and why you should give a rats ass. SPOILER: No mention of Ridge Racer at all in this video. more »

1:41 PM ON FRI SEP 22 2006
BY MICHAEL MCWHERTOR
118 views 48 comments

Latest by EOWXXX: Kaz has the dead eyes and thousand-yard stare of a long-term porn actress... more »


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Justify Your Game: Red Steel

Red Steel's lead game designer tells us why the two fisted-fun of the Wii title is a must buy when it comes out later this year.

7:00 AM ON FRI MAY 19 2006
BY BRIAN CRECENTE
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Latest by DaveKap: As long as they get the sword to be free-motion instead of "swing like this for it to do that", I will love this game. Otherwise? Meh. Needs blood. :-P When I can decapitate someone with a more »


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High Score: The Best of Kotaku

Last week saw Team Kotaku invade E3 '06, capturing the sites, the sounds, the offensive smells from the show floor. With so much to digest, it might be a little intimidating. This very special edition of High Score will get you up to speed with the week's big announcements. more »

2:00 PM ON MON MAY 15 2006
BY MICHAEL MCWHERTOR
139 views 1 comment

Latest by boxmyth: I liked Microsoft's effort (can't wait for Gears of War), and am really psyched about Contra, as long as there's 2-player over Live (but come on Konami, where's TMNT?) I wanted to love what Nintendo did, but never even got to more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: Left Behind

We decided Left Behind was actually good, but can the producers justify it? Our money's on no, but watch to find out!

6:00 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY JASON CHEN
139 views 8 comments

Latest by Ryan: I like the use of three tirered titles. From now on whenever I go to play a game I'll announce it as: "I'm going to play the Elder Scrolls IV... Oblivion... The Xbox 360 Game... That is all." more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: God of War 2


Yep, sounds like the same stuff, with a new slightly changed storyline. Oh well, we will still play it and enjoy it!

5:56 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY TRAVIS HUDSON
113 views 3 comments

Latest by Funky J: That's not really a justification, more a description... I can read the description on the back of the box. Give me a reason for wanting it! more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: Assassin's Creed

Assassins are supposed to be fast! Can this spokesman for Assassin's Creed justify her game in fifteen seconds or less? Failure = death.

5:52 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY JASON CHEN
460 views 5 comments

Latest by Matters: I can honestly say I have worked with atleast 2 women (developers) who were about as hot as her. One of them was a cool ass gamer chick too, but she was married. Damn!! The other one was from UAE more »


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E306 Justify Your Robot Head

We found one of the boys from Destructoid running around with a robot head on and we asked him to justify, well, his robot head. And yes, we got him to dance.

3:42 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY KOTAKU
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E306 Justify Your Game: Star Trek Legacy

We cornered someone from Mad Dog to justify Star Trek Legacy yesterday and he did an okay job, we guess. What we really want out of a Star Trek game: a very killable NPC Wesley Crusher. more »

3:20 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY KOTAKU
121 views 3 comments

Latest by macdeth: The last great Star Trek game was the TNG one that came out for the SNES! That was a cool one that actually kind of felt like the series. After that, they went kind of agro with them. more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: Desperate Housewives

After giving our impressions of Desperate Housewives yesterday, we went back and asked a desperate producer to desperately justify her desperate game. How did this one go? Watch to find out!

2:41 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY JASON CHEN
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E306 Justify Your Game: Prey

Tom Bass from 2k games tries to justify Prey in fifteen seconds or less. How did he do? You'll have to watch to find out. Double bonus points for fans of vomiting.

1:55 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY JASON CHEN
98 views 2 comments

Latest by Adam Ruining: He's not selling it as one big racial slur against Native Americans who hate aliens stealing their women? Wow. That's a step up from the trailer, then. more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: America's Army

Are the makers of America's Army ready and able to serve their PR cause by justifying their game in fifteen seconds or less? You'll have to watch the video to find out.

1:18 PM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY KOTAKU
93 views 3 comments

Latest by Jay: I'm still convinced that if you buy/download this game you are put on some top secret recruitment list, sorta like "The Last Star Fighter" mixed with "Full Metal Jacket" more »


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E306 Justify Your Game: Seed

Seed is a futuristic MMORPG that has absolutely no violence in it—that happens to be the selling point of the game, not an oversight. The gameplay is all political and social. So it seems like Star Wars Galaxy, but minus the fighting with more career and social aspects. more »

10:57 AM ON FRI MAY 12 2006
BY TRAVIS HUDSON
42 views 4 comments

Latest by Xagest: Actually, I'm suddenly interested in the game. The graphic style I like (they're not amateurs when it comes to cell shading), but the premise sounds fun. MMORPGs these days are too much hack-slash-level grinds. I'll have to more »


E306: Justify Your Game Name: Shigeru Miyamoto and the Wii

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