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What a breath of fresh air! No fancy pre-rendered trailers, no gruff American man giving a gruff American voice-over. Just a couple of French ladies selling a zombie video game using yoghurt and a cruise liner. More »
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This year, Sega mascot Sonic the Hedgehog turns 20. To honour the occassion, those classy Frenchmen at Amusement magazine put together a very classy tribute. More »
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If someone was going to sue over an iPhone app called "Jew or Not Jew," I would have expected it to be an infringement claim coming from Saturday Night Live, or Al Franken, the Minnesota senator who wrote a sketch by that name which aired in 1988 here in the U.S. Instead, it was an action brought under France's anti-racism codes by groups offended by the quiz game, regardless of the fact a Jewish man coded it. More »
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Boutique French publishing house Pix'n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They're releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega's little blue mascot. More »
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As if we needed reminding of how big a commercial event the release of a new Call of Duty game is, word comes from France that a truck full of copies of the game has been hijacked by professional thieves. More »
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Happy Friday. Here's something tranquil to ease you into the day. This is a clip made by French team ArtefactoryLab, who filmed Paris circa 2011 and then, with some computer work, recreated the water levels of the city's devastating 1910 flood. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5847573&view=rss&microfeed=true The Paris' Court of Appeals last week issued €4.8 million in fines against a half-dozen companies importing and selling devices that can be used on Nintendo platforms to play homebrew and pirated games, Electronic Theatre reports. More »
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Warning: the "game" I saw today wasn't much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game's universe. More »
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They say that any war can be ended by a single, well-placed assassin. Ubisoft Paris proves this to be true with what is surely their final salvo in the ongoing Paris Post-It war. More »
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The delightful French artist Bastien Vives returns with another unconventional take on the Street Fighter universe. More »
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Over a year since it was first released, a revised edition of Heavy Rain is being cobbled together in Europe that reduces some of the game's content in order to get it a less adult rating. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5828953&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember that Dead Island trailer? The ass-backwards slow motion one? Sure ya do! It just won the Gold Prize for Internet Film at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Congrats! More »
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French gaming site Le Mag Jeux Video got pictures of what appear to be the official premiums for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D; it includes a wooden (or wood-patterned) pen and a plastic ocarina with the holes identified by their note. I had no idea an ocarina looked like a blue athletic cup. More »
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Atari's plans to lay off more than 50 percent of Eden Games' workforce, plus alleged "mismanagement," were the catalysts for a one-day symbolic strike today by the developer of Test Drive Unlimited 2. More »
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We're big fans of the classy way French gaming mag Amusement handles its visuals. If you're not, maybe you should check these out. More »
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Indie studio Brain Candy is working on a game called Fray, which it describes as a "turn-based, multiplayer, real-time strategy game". Hrm. Let's see how they explain that little contradiction. More »
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Not a game, but it is a sequel to "Rémi Kart," the hilarious viral vid by Rémi Gaillaird, the famous French prankster who also trashed a supermarket in a Pac-Man video. Rémi Kart 2 is due in February. More »
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French artist Bastien Vives has taken the cast of the Street Fighter series and reworked them. Most of them are now a different gender. Others are the same gender, they're just...looking at the world in a new way. More »
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Sam Gideon comes alive in this exclusive special edition of Sega's Vanquish featuring a lovely window box and one extremely sexy seven inch figure. It's time to make some friends in the UK. More »
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Next week, gangster game Mafia II goes on sale. You might be looking for a primer — something to get you into the mood. You might want to revisit some old favorites. Here are ten classic gangster flicks. More »
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Paris is truly a world class city. The French are wonderful people. Know what else is wonderful? Cosplay. More »
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Like the millions of people who have ever sat down for a game of SimCity, Gilles Tréhin has designed the metropolis of his dreams. Thing is, Tréhin isn't your average SimCity player. He's a savant. An autistic savant. More »
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StarCraft II is out. People are buying it. People are playing it. Not everybody, though. Japan, for example. More »
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Drink up! Starting this summer, Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids are appearing on Coca-Cola Zero cans in France as part of a "Lapins Crétins" (stupid rabbits) campaign. More »
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Hideo Kojima, best known for making Metal Gear Solid games, is in France for the Japan Expo. He is posing with cosplayers, and pointing a plastic gun at one guy's face. More »
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A Counter-Strike player in France has spent six months plotting a revenge attack against a man who beat him in an in-game knife fight. His eventual revenge was not in-game. More »
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The latest American ad we saw for racer Blur used cartoons. It was pretty good! Know what they're using in France? Sluts. More »
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This year's Cannes Film Festival isn't showing just one movie about gaming culture. It's showing two. There's French thriller Black Heaven with its naked bottom and now this, R U There with its awkward elevator propositioning. More »
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It sure beats popping pills. More »
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There have been several attempts at bringing video games to the big screen. They haven't worked out so well. How about a movie with a video game in it? More »
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First it was French scientists who said brain training games like Brain Age do not work. Now, it's UK scientists. More »
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Frenchman Frédérick Raynal, known to most as the creator of horror series Alone in the Dark but beloved by us for creating cult hit Little Big Adventure, has a new game due this year in the works for publisher Ubisoft. More »
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Over the weekend, French football powerhouse Olympique Lyon gave opponents Sochaux a serve, whupping them 4-0. And they did so with a little help from a certain PlayStation 3 exclusive. More »
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This is a God of War III hardware bundle for the European market, first hinted at yesterday, now with its cover completely blown. More »
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Looks like Europe isn't just getting a collector's edition of PS3 adventure Heavy Rain; the Old World will also be seeing some hardware bundles, in which the game is packed in with a 250GB PlayStation 3 console. More »
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Only a few days after Capcom France's boss Antoine Seux made some decidedly anti-Wii comments to French website Gamekult, Capcom Europe's had to scramble their public relations fighters in an attempt to make nice with the world's top hardware manufacturer. More »
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Earlier this week, a French court dismissed Nintendo's case against Divineo, a manufacturer of DS flash cartridges, on the grounds that Nintendo shouldn't be locking people out of development on the handheld. More »
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Throwing a controller/handheld to the ground in frustration is for wussies. You really want to vent some steam, you load the offending peripheral or console into a gun and you shoot it through a wall. More »
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I'm still really bummed that you can't move to one of the three countries Sims 3: World Adventures adds to the virtual map. But at least you can take the wine home with you. More »
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There's a device in the Metal Gear Solid stealth series in which Snake can sneak past guards by simply covering himself in a cardboard box. This isn't just a game convention. It apparently really works. More »
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