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Photographer and pin-up model Julie Watai, whom Kotaku has featured before, is releasing a magazine version of her Hardware Girls photos. More »
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Cave's newest shooter DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou recently got its first arcade location at Japanese game center Taito Hey! in Tokyo's Akihabara. More »
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DeathSmiles is a horizontal shmup from bullet hell developer Cave. It's not my favorite Cave title by any stretch, but it does have a sizeable following due to its Christmas-in-Hell asethetic. Plus, the game stars Gothic Lolitas, like batgirl Casper. People seem to like those. More »
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After making a big splash during its first showing at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, 5th Cell's dizzying cover-centric 3D shooter Hybrid was dragged back behind closed doors in May in order to make sure it was the "highest quality title possible". Let's see what changed the past eight months have wrought. More »
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Rayforce was first released in Japanese arcades in 1993—when I was fifteen. The game is now out on the iOS. For $11.99. More »
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Booted off Kickstarter for who-knows-why, Oak-U-Tron 201X, the rolling, battery-powered arcade cabinet meant to provide R&R to Occupy Oakland's weary soldiers, is nonetheless complete. It's scheduled to roll out during the Move-In March planned for ... oh, how about nowish? Assuming Oak-U-Tron survives the invasion of Occupy Oakland's new digs, people can "play the wonderful 50-player co-op game that Auntie Pixelante made just for this event!" More »
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The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement is moving off the streets and into an abandoned building later this week. In doing so, they get facilities like kitchens, meeting rooms, etc. All that's missing is an arcade machine. More »
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I am sure you have Pac-Man skills. We all do. I'm sure you're good at turning the corners of getting Inky, Blinky & Clyde to trail you just as you're approaching the power pellet. More »
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Japan's Mainichi Daily News lists Hiroyuki Miura (not pictured) as "unemployed". That's not exactly fair. He's apparently self-employed, with police believing that Miura has been breaking into arcades across Japan. More »
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This summer, Square Enix is releasing a new third-person shooter dubbed Gunslinger Stratos. It's not a home console game—yet. Rather, it's a four-on-four team-based online arcade game that allows players to battle others in game centers across Japan. More »
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Alamagordo, New Mexico. Fifty miles southeast of Roswell, the most famous UFO site in the nation. Also the scene of the most infamous landfill in video game history. More »
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January is always cold in Japan's Mie Prefecture. This January is no different. For many, it's a matter or turning on the heater. For the homeless, it's a matter of survival. More »
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If George Leutz hasn't gone completely Ahab already, I'd advise him to let go of the Q*Bert world record. His latest assault on the mark, whose 33 million score is believed to require more than 70 hours of nonstop gameplay, ended in exhaustion after 57 hours, 40 minutes on a single quarter at the joystick. His final score was 26,721,915. More »
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Say this for George Leutz: that man is determined. Undaunted by the 70 hours of nonstop gameplay it is estimated to take to beat the 28-year-old all-time world record in Q*Bert, Leutz is at this moment 25 hours into his third assault on the record. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5872022&view=rss&microfeed=true Brooklyn's Ben Falls is the new world record holder in the 1982 Nintendo arcade game Popeye, according to the score-tallying folks at Twin Galaxies. He scored 3,023,060 points. Previous record holders managed barely more than 1 million. More »
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You might be a nerd. I'm a nerd! But just because you are one, that doesn't mean your significant other is. Your partner, whether they're male or female, might not like video games, anime, manga—or whatever. More »
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This dude takes arcade basketball to the next level. He went through the effort of hijacking all of the extra basketballs in the arcade, and then proceeds to hurl rocks like a champion. More »
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AJ loves arcade games, and he's not going to let his disability get in the way of that! More »
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In Street Fighter's famous bonus stage, the goal is to smash cars. That's the same goal in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012—even if it looks like the goal of SF character is something else entirely. More »
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Polybius. If you read that and know what I'm talking about, you've probably got a wry smile spread across your face. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, boy have I got a story for you. More »
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Two Florida brothers were arrested earlier this week after getting into a drunken brawl over an arcade punch bag machine, the Delco Times reports. More »
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Hooters Casino Hotel's newest addition is a 21-and-over video game arcade that features classic arcade games, drink-serving "gamer girls" and private video game console booths. More »
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Gary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever," a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America's early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63. More »
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Inspired by the classic giant monster movies of Hollywood's past, Midway's arcade classic Rampage is now the potentially classic giant monster movie of Hollywood's future. New Line Cinema has begun development on George, Ralph, and Lizzie's big screen debut. More »
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As expected, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a huge seller and is breaking all kinds of sales records. It's been parodied on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and is being blamed for the loss of the Louisville Cardinals this past weekend. More »
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The all-time high score of 33 million set 28 years ago on Q*Bert has this year proved to be one of the most unassailable marks in video game history. More »
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Japanese arcade Loop in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture doesn't only offer arcade games. It also has fish. Fish that will eat your dead skin for money. More »
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If you grew up in the 1980s, no doubt you played (and loved) arcade game OutRun. But what if you grew up in the 1960s, before there were video games as we now know them? More »
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The 26th Prize Fair recently wrapped up, showing off prizes available in arcade redemption games during the first half of 2012. Companies including Taito, Banpresto, and Sega were on hand. Ditto for their prizes. More »
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Midway's classic game of over-the-top seven-on-seven football returns with online multiplayer and HD graphics this January, when EA Sports releases NFL Blitz, a downloadable game for the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. More »
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Level-5, the studio responsible for Professor Layton, is working on a new piece of game hardware: An all-purpose arcade cabinet for its games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5850795&view=rss&microfeed=true On Dec. 2, the free update will hit Japanese arcades first, and then it will be available for home console download on Dec. 13. The patch rebalances SSFIV:AE and adds a "Ver.2012" below the title screen's logo. [Capcom] More »
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This big-ass arcade machine stands 11 feet tall. It would require quarters 3 1/2 inches in diameter. The trackball is 4 1/2 inches wide. The screen is 73 inches. The whole thing is about 2.2x bigger than a standard arcade machine. More »
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A blockbuster hit in the iTunes App Store, Epic Games' Infinity Blade has grown too big to be contained by a handheld device, so Adrenalin Amusements has transformed it into a full-sized arcade game. More »
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UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn't make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did. More »
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Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. More »
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On either July 6 or 7 of this year, 21-year-old Koichi Akashi spent time at a Kobe City video game arcade. Akashi, who's unemployed, was apparently waiting for someone. More »
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The Nghiems is an indie rock band fronted by David Nghiem and his brother James. The group's single "Dum Dum Dah Dah" is about co-op gaming. More »
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Of all the niches in video gaming, there are few I find more fascinating than players of the arcade version of Big Buck Hunter. More »
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Blik, maker of fine stickables, and Namco Bandai, the people who own Pac-Man, are combining their respective powers to bring Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde and other memorable 8-bit sprites to your wall. Starting today, you can put only the finest of Pac-Man decals on your walls, safely and stylishly. More »
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