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Persona 4‘s English Voices Baffled By Anime Casting
Sentai Filmworks surprised fans at Anime Boston this weekend by announcing that the original English voice cast for Persona 4 would be reprising their roles for the North American release of the anime based on the PlayStation 2 role-playing game. Even more surprised were the voice actors themselves. Perhaps Sentai officials got caught up in…
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Zen Studios Brings Its Free Pinball Platform to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita
With FarSight Studio’s The Pinball Arcade hitting the PlayStation 3 and Vita today, Zen Studios wants to make sure everyone knows they’ve got their own pinball platform heading to Sony systems this spring, and it’s (technically) free. As they did with Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360 some two years ago, Zen Studios is…
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Wait, I’m Doing the Open Thread Tonight? Quick, Find Me a Cat With a Cherry!
Thank goodness for Reddit. Otherwise you’d be staring at something other than this picture of a cat with a cherry right now, and that headline would make absolutely no sense. Kirk is out today, having traveled to Imagination Land to be given the key to the city for his bravery in doing something very brave…
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The Guild Wars 2 Collector’s Edition is That Much More Enticing When Set to Music
Perhaps a mere picture of the Guild Wars 2 collector’s edition wasn’t enough for you. Perhaps early access and name reservation isn’t your thing. No, that’s not it. You just haven’t seen it in video form with a dramatic score. Prepare yourself. Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase begins tomorrow, giving gamers all around the world (well,…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: Link Encounters Resistance
Colorful. Bright. Cartoonish. These are all adjectives used to describe the light-hearted and airy adventures found in Insomniac’s Resistance series. What happens when Nintendo’s dark anti-hero Link comes on the scene? Glorious chaos. In the realm of video game crossover fan fiction there are plenty of pairings that make perfect sense. Mega Man and Street…
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Let’s Hope This Wedding Had a More Satisfying Ending
Or at the very least they video taped it so they can add more context via cinematic scenes a few months from now. Reader Ryan sends us this shot of a cake from the wedding of his friends Pete and Mary. Note that this was the bride’s cake, and not the groom’s. Good going, Pete!
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Not-So-Great Moments in Video Game Humor: How Much Dana Gould is Too Much?
Back in 1995 we gamers were still thrilled with the relatively-fresh concept that their video game characters could be voiced by big-name talent. Gex, Crystal Dynamics gecko with an attitude, quickly helped us get over it. In the 90s video game characters had to have attitude. Gex’s attitude manifested itself as an endless stream of…
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What Does Comic Book Guy Think About Mass Effect 3?
During their adventures at PAX East this weekend, our intrepid crew stumbled upon none other than The Simpson‘s resident geek culture reviewer Comic Book Guy, who offered his impressions of the final chapter in the Mass Effect saga. Damn, I was really hoping he had finally found something he wasn’t disappointed with. Maybe we can…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: Why Can’t Techno Soldier Control His Rage?
What made Techno Soldier so angry? Was it an unfortunate round of Call of Duty? Did someone call his mother nasty names? Is he cosplaying the angriest bird? The mainstream media might tell you that violent video games cause this kind of behavoir, but I believe I’ve discovered the true culprit: green and black backdrops.…
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Awkward Speed Dating Moment Rescued by World of Warcraft
The true power of World of Warcraft was unleashed during the second episode of BBC program World Series of Dating, when a pair of awkward strangers suddenly discover they have one major thing in common. It doesn’t matter how old, young, pretty or plain you are; if you play World of Warcraft you’ve instantly got…
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I Can’t Read Stories About Gaming Parents Shaking Their Children to Death Anymore
Chicago. Arizona. Tennesee. New Zealand. England. Now a man in Polk County, Florida is accused of murdering his three-month-old son after admittedly shaking the infant for interrupting his Xbox session. I can’t read this crap anymore. 20-year-old Jacob David Hartley, a stock boy at Sam’s Club, was playing on his Xbox on Thursday morning last…
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Skullgirls Saved the Creepiest Combatant for Last
There are fighting games that seek to capitalize on the sexier aspects of girl-on-girl fighting, and then there’s Skullgirls, where characters like Double trade sexy for scary with a twist of Gradius Reverge Labs and Autumn Games’ Skullgirls is not your ordinary 2D fighter. Crafted by fighting game professionals and rendered in a visual style…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
With Tina and crew at PAX East all weekend long, it’s my responsibility to gather together the best of everything Kotaku had to offer this week. That should explain why it’s a day late. It might also explain the rabbit picture atop this post. Before you all shout “furry!” and run for the hills, know…
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Five Gaming Apps Enter, Five Gaming Apps Leave. It’s Your Anti-Climactic Week in Gaming Apps
Cliff Diving, cartoon references, futuristic racing, twisted puzzles and Activision making more money. Yep, just another Week in Gaming Apps. This week saw the release of Skylanders Cloud Patrol, giving fans of Activision’s toys-meets-games series something else to plug their colorful plastic people into, while giving Activision another revenue stream on top of angry parents…
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The Great PAX East Kotaku Reader Takeover Experiment
For the next hour we’ll be handing control of Kotaku over to our PAX East readers. They’ll be writing stories, suggesting images, moderating comments, and who knows, maybe one of us will get fired! Follow all the action from the PAX East Takeover Kotaku panel right here. Warning: we’re letting reader liveblog as well. This…
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The Free Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack Mixes Up Multiplayer Next Week
Bummed that the extended Mass Effect 3 ending DLC won’t contain any new playable content? All the new playable content you could ever want is right around the corner; you just have to believe in multiplayer. The Resurgence Pack brings a ton of new playable characters and two fresh new maps (thank goodness) to the…
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