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  Our Wonderful, Totally Normal Co-Workers Tried The Wii U. This Is What They Think of It.

  Enough about what we here at Kotaku think of the Wii U. What do other people in our parent company who don’t cover games for a living think of Nintendo’s new console? We had them play some Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U and asked for their snap judgments. Watch the video and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2012
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  This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Windows Phone 8 Defeats Angry Birds Star Wars

  Angry Birds Star Wars has topped the iPad charts, the Android charts and the iPhone charts since its release last week, but it doesn’t dominate the Windows Phone charts, thanks to Windows Phone 8. Or rather thanks to the game requiring Windows Phone 8, shiny new technology that isn’t exactly sending Windows Phone 7 owners…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2012
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  This Week’s Nintendo Download Holds Epic, Myst-ifying Monster ShooterDawgs

  Thanksgiving is next week. That means you’ll need some games to ignore your family with play when everyone’s in their turkey coma. This week’s offerings include a portable version of Epic Mickey (hey, when’s Oswald getting his own game?!), classic puzzler Myst and a game about dogs working on construction sites. You think they all…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2012
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  Candy Crush Saga Triumphantly Travels to iOS

  Earlier this year King.com brought its smash hit Facebook game Bubble Witch Saga to iOS, and there was much rejoicing, as well as a little gnashing of free time. Now it’s Candy Crush Saga‘s turn. Regularly showing up on the most played Facebook games list along with its older siblings, Candy Crush Saga is a…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2012
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  Because Your Day Needed to Start With a Team Fortress 2 vs Godzilla Movie

  Master Source Filmmaker user Zachariah Scott returns once again with an amazing piece of work, this time crossing the world of Team Fortress 2 with that of Godzilla It’s… look, I’m starting to think Zachariah Scott isn’t one man, and that he’s instead a complex computer program nestled beneath Valve headquarters, devoted entirely to designing…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  Japan’s Most Wanted Criminal Is One Slippery Troll

  Above is a small Madoka Kaname figurine. The character is well known to Japanese anime fans, and now, the entire country. The reason, however, is not the anime she stars in, Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It’s for a computer virus and a suicide threat. A photo of this character was sent to various Japanese news…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  Wii Karaoke U By Itself Doesn’t Sell Me on the Wii U, But It’s Close

  The Wii U will be hitting stores in Japan on December 8th, almost a month after its launch in the US and over a week after its release in Europe and Australia. Not exactly to make up for the delay, Nintendo announced last week a preinstalled game that will be included in Japanese Wii U’s,…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published November 15, 2012
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  The Day I Said Goodbye To My PS3

  I purchased my glossy black partner on January 30th, 2007. Since then it has run over 50 PS3 games, a bunch of PS2 and PS1 games, and probably hundreds of Blu-ray and DVD movies. But I had to bid farewell to my dear friend; my PS3 displayed the dreaded Yellow Light of Death, better known…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published November 15, 2012
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  Japanese Guy Creates Amazing “Pop-Up” LEGO, Blows Minds

  Japanese LEGO builder Talapz specializes in two things: recreating famous Japanese structures in LEGO, and turning those brick recreations into pop-up books. It’s as if Talapz didn’t think building was hard enough. He had to make things trickier Above, Talapz does a Todai-ji in LEGO—he even provides a how-to at the end, so get out…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  Here’s Some Shin Megami Tensei IV News To Whet Your Appetite While We Wait For A Release Date

  Shin Megami Tensei IV, the latest new game in the Shin Megami Tensei series is headed for the 3DS next year, and developer Atlus has released some new information on the game. As can be seen in the trailer that was released last month, the game characters are from a middle-ages sort of world and…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published November 15, 2012
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  Here’s How Metal Gear 2 Predicted the Future

  Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was released way back in 1990. Yet, the game was set in the late 1990s, when a major oil crisis impacted the world economy. Okay, that’s fiction. But one element of the game’s plot—namely a fuel producing algae that’s an alternative energy source—is not. This week in the San Francisco…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  Screw Homework! There’s One Piece To Draw.

  These Japanese kids covered their school’s chalkboard with this truly epic One Piece art. It took these three students about a week, drawing each day after class to complete the work. And hot damn, was it ever worth it. The drawing is from the last chapter of the One Piece manga arc* “Vivi’s Adventure”, in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  Nintendo Shows Off its Latest Club Nintendo Goodies for Japan

  Today, Nintendo unveiled its latest collection of Club Nintendo goodies for Platinum Members in The Land of the Rising Sun. There’s a Pikmin bag, “Premium Mario Playing Cards”, a calendar, and a DSi game called Nintendoji. A Club Nintendo Exclusive, this downloadable game is a dungeon-based role-playing game with card elements. My favorite thing about…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  If Cats Watched Porn, I Guess They’d Watch This

  Cats and porn. These are two of the biggest juggernauts on the internet. And a Japanese company called Soft On Nyanko has figured out how to bring them together, like never before. The Soft On Nyanko movies feature an array of cats, doing all kinds of things, like playing with cat toys, stretching, sitting in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2012
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  Yup, the Secret Nintendo Song is in the New Animal Crossing

  Kazumi Totaka, a sound designer and musician at Nintendo, is responsible for one of the sweetest traditions the company has in its arsenal: Totaka’s Song, a ditty he first composed in 1992 and which has featured in every game he’s worked on since While the song has appeared in many games, it’s perhaps best-known for…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  Bring me the Head of Mass Effect’s Mordin Solus

  My Mordin died a rather pathetic, and entirely unintentional death at the end of Mass Effect 2. Seeing as a little plaque on the Normandy is hardly a fitting tribute to a “man” of so many talents, I might look into this bust for a memorial instead. Priced at $40 and being sold from BioWare’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  The Furious Scribblings of a Games Writer, Mid-Review

  Apologies for getting a little inside baseball here, but I figured it was worth it. Games writer Taylor Cocke has started up a site called Fuck This Stupid Game, where notes taken while reviewing (or previewing) video games are displayed in blessed isolation. I’m sharing them here because I feel his pain. I’ll never say…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  Report: GameStop’s Black Friday Xbox 360 Bundle Seems Too Good to be True

  There will be Black Friday specials everywhere, but for many of you, GameStop’s will likely be the most important. So here, courtesy of discount specialists CheapAssGamer, are what’s reported to be the specialist retailer’s deals. The standout deal is obviously the pair of home console bundles offered on Friday, in particular a 250GB Xbox 360…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  Fan Makes His Own Stylish Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

  Rockstar sure knows how to make a good clip—loads of gameplay footage sure helps—but for those after something a little more stylish, check out Russian artist Ilya V. Boykov’s custom trailer for Grand Theft Auto V Slicing together and animating GTAV’s official artwork, it doesn’t do the greatest job of selling the actual game, but…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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  The Haunting, Beautiful Art of Peter La

  Canadian Peter La is a former user interface specialist who’s recently shifted over to concept art. He’s done work for mobile games like Sushi Smash and the gorgeous puzzle game Nuculus, but really, saying he’s just a casual games artist is really selling his talents short. Those more ethereal sci-fi pieces below are some of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012