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  Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Looks To Be Full Of Clichés, But It Has a Chainsaw-Wielding Robot Dog

  After initially being announced back in 2009 as Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and rebranded in 2011 after facing cancellation, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance looks like it’s “gearing” up for its finishing lap before release with some new info (pardon the pun). In an announcement in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Konami has revealed the sword-wielding cyborg,…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012
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  Impatient People Can’t Wait for the iPhone 5, So They Made This

  Ah, the virtues of being patient. Screw that! While the iPhone 5 will be assembled in China, and while we should have specific details on it soon, one Chinese company decided it could not wait. So it made this. This is the “Goophone i5”. The Android phone was created based on leaks and renderings of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  Giant Polygon Animals Come to Life (It’s OK, They Won’t Eat Your Face)

  British artist Arran Gregory has an exhibition currently running in London where he’s showing off these terrific polygonal animals, which are covered in mirrored glass panels. If you’re in London, you can catch them at the Print House Gallery, where they’re showing until September 6. I’d love to buy that rhino head. I’ve been lying…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  Konami Reveals New Metal Gear Solid Game [Update: Now With First Images]

  Today in Tokyo, Konami showed off its brand new Fox Engine with a demonstration. The engine’s demo ran footage of something called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The thing is, this is not just a tech demo. This is an upcoming, new, open-world Metal Gear Solid game. “This announcement is a challenge from Kojima Productions…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  An Okami Figure That Looks Like it Was Made From The Skin of a Cloud

  I’ve seen some Okami statues in my time, but I’ve never seen one made using a technique called “needle felting”, which I’m going to imagine involves flying to 20,000 feet, scooping some cloud into a basket then coming back down and knitting with it. The piece was made by artist Piquipauparro, stands around 8″ tall…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  Guild Wars 2 Thinks Fun is More Important Than Money

  There’s a reason I’m highlighting this quote from ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O’Brien: you just don’t see it anymore at the top end of the video game business. Pre-order money and first-month sales are everything for most publishers, and while Guild Wars 2 has had a big week – there were 400,000 people playing…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
• Culture

  The Art Of Dishonored

  It’s not every day you get to look forward to a game featuring the work of, among others, Half-Life 2 legend Viktor Antonov Developed by Arkane and published by Bethesda, Dishonored will be out on PC, 360 and PS3 in October. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  Brand New Metal Gear! It’s..Um…a Social Game

  Today at the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo, Konami announced that a new Metal Gear was incoming, but it might not be coming to the platform of your choice. Dubbed Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the game is a social networking game bound for Japan’s GREE platform. For those who don’t know what…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  CultureTotal Recall

  The Super Nintendo’s Greatest Weapon Was Its Secret Spinning Tech

  While in most areas the SNES and Mega Drive were similar enough, Nintendo’s one secret weapon – that Sega couldn’t match – was its Mode 7 technology. Allowing different “layers” on the screen to be rotated, it was usually used to move the “ground” separately from the background, and is perhaps most famously employed in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  Metal Gear Is Going Hollywood (Again) with a New Movie

  For years now, there has been chatter of a Metal Gear Solid movie. The project was at one time moving forward. Then, it seemed to die. Today, Konami stated that the movie is back on. Metal Gear Solid is going Hollywood. At today’s Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo, photos show banners with the slogan…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
• CultureTotal Recall

  You Are Getting Old. Street Fighter Just Turned 25.

  On August 30, 1987, the very first Street Fighter game was released by Capcom. Making today the series’ 25th birthday. My God. How depressing. Not for Capcom or Street Fighter, of course. For them, it’s party time. But for most of us who grew up button-smashing our way through combos, it’s a stark reminder that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  A Strategy Game About Managing An 80’s Arcade

  Firebase Industries, the duo behind the wonderful Orbitron: Revolution, are back with a new game, and this one’s about as different as you can get. Gone are the spaceships and explosions, replaced by…the task of managing a 1980s arcade. The game’s called Arcadecraft, and will be out on Xbox 360 (the team are undecided on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  You Might Finally Get to Use Your Game Boy During Take-Off

  The Federal Aviation Administration has for years been the enemy of gamers, with its weird rules that electronic devices had to be shut down during take-off and landing, despite a complete lack of evidence they do anything of the sort. Mercifully, it looks like the body might be on the brink of lightening up, with…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012
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  PS3 Owners, You’re Getting Skyrim DLC. Eventually. One Day.

  While Xbox 360 and PC owners are getting excited for Skyrim’s second piece of major DLC, PS3 owners are still waiting to get their hands on the first. So they’re understandably a little curious as to why the hell that is. Taking to Twitter, PS3 owners have been asking Bethesda’s Pete Hines for info and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 29, 2012
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  The Joys of Using Games For Virtual Tourism

  Like a few other writers here, I’ve been enjoying Sleeping Dogs this week. But not necessarily for its combat, or driving, or story. No, I’m enjoying it mostly because of where it’s set. The game, in case you don’t know, is set in Hong Kong. Not a photo-realistic recreation, but a caricature that’s close enough.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 29, 2012
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  My, Link, What Big Shoulders You Have

  All the better to carry the weight of your hopes and expectations, my dears. Art by Frank Lin [Personal Site, via XombieDirge]

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 29, 2012
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  In 1970, It Was Time To Buy Your Son a Shotgun

  We can learn a lot about who we used to be by looking at old ads. We can learn a lot about who we, as a society, aspired to be—and who it was ok to be. Take the average Sport-magazine-reading man of 1970. The back covers of those magazines told that man that it was…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 29, 2012
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  ‘Season Pass’ Gets You All of Borderlands 2‘s DLC

  Scuttlebutt going back to the summer had suggested that 2K Games would offer all of Borderlands 2‘s downloadable content extensions in a “season pass” offered at a package discount. Well, that’s now confirmed. Rumor went around earlier today that $30 would buy up all four planned releases, and Gearbox confirmed it earlier this evening to…

  By Owen Good Published August 29, 2012
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  Five Networked Computers. Six Players. One Hell Of A Starship Simulator

  Long have I dreamed of sitting in the captain’s chair of a Federation Starship, a talented (and likely very attractive) crew at my beck and call, ready to power up the warp drive and take us into battle. It’s not just because my name is Kirk—it’s because the bridge of a starship is an awesome…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published August 29, 2012
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  Transformers: Fall of Cybertron PC’s Got Problems. High Moon Has Solutions (in the Works)

  The single-player portion of the PC version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is pretty great, capturing all of the action and adventure of the console versions aptly. The online multiplayer, on the other hand, isn’t so hot. High Moon and friends are working to make it better. Connecting to multiplayer is hard. Getting together with…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 29, 2012