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  In This Week’s Nintendo Download, Meet the Majestic Animals of Africa. Then Shoot Them.

  In Africa Unleashed 3D for the Nintendo 3DS you charged into Africa to hunt wild animals like the leopard, rhino and elephant, bringing more than 30 weapons to bear on 15 different types of wild beast. Shouldn’t this be called Hunter Unleashed 3D? Granted I don’t believe any of the animals roaming deepest Africa are…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2012
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  Forza Horizon Takes Racing Simulations To The Open Road World

  The next Forza game is set in an open world. Wait, what? Yes, it’s an open world modeled after Colorado. And smack in the middle of the game’s setting is a racing festival that you will partake in when Forza Horizon releases October 23 for Xbox 360. This won’t be all of Colorado, mind you.…

  By Tina Amini Published August 30, 2012
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  Here’s the First Look at Whore of the Orient, the Next Game from the Makers of L.A. Noire

  Brendan McNamara’s most recent game had players exploring the seamy underbelly of an impressive, gleaming recreation of 1940s Los Angeles with L.A. Noire. The first glimpse at his next game—being produced with director George Miller’s film production firm KMM Interactive—the grime is all out in the open. Despite the fact that McNamara’s Team Bondi was…

  By Evan Narcisse Published August 30, 2012
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  Escape from Aliens: Colonial Marines at PAX Prime

  Sometimes you stand and fight. Aliens: Colonial Marines new Escape multiplayer mode, debuting this weekend at PAX Prime, is not one of those times. PAX attendees, including our own Tina, Jason and Kirk, will have the chance to try their hand at some player-driven survival horror multiplayer this weekend, as a team of four Colonial…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2012
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  This Skyrim Armor Is the Stuff of Legends

  Once of the most memorable things about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the in-game gear. So when cosplayers Sheila and Sylar feel in love with the game, they decided to replica Skyrim’s Nightingale Armor for the above photo shoot. Because, you know, they being cosplayers and all. This is the result. The truly impressive…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
• Kotaku East

  Anime Practical Joke Goes Over The Line And Incites Mass Flaming

  Who here remembers Candid Camera? (Kids, ask your parents.) Whether you’ve heard of the actual TV show or not, the legacy of Candid Camera lives on in present day reality TV and movies. The concept is simple: Play a practical joke on someone and catch it on film. The idea of Candid Camera was especially…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012
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  No Metal Gear Solid 5, But Here’s All of Last Night’s Big Metal Gear News

  In Tokyo earlier today, Konami held a 25th anniversary party for Metal Gear. Twenty five years! The time has just flown by. If you were hoping for Metal Gear 5, you’re going to be disappointed. But if you were hoping to be wowed, then wowed you will be. Here are the highlights from the event:…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  Sink Or Swim, This Man Deserves A Medal For His Work On Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn

  Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn producer and director, Naoki Yoshida wowed audiences with the beauty and splendor of the revamped game at the GamesCon event two weeks ago. On stage and off, Yoshida has been proudly and enthusiastically showing expectant fans what he had in store for them in A Realm Reborn. He should…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012
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  Want 800 Pages of Metal Gear? How About Metal Gear Tights?

  Today at the 25th anniversary event for Metal Gear, Konami showed off a slew of Metal Gear related goods. Some of them you might want. Some, you might not. There was the usual array of gaming t-shirts (here, a collaboration between Uniqlo and Konami) as well as the more unusual: Metal Gear tights. They are…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  How To End This Territorial Pissing Match? GIANT ANIME ROBOTS.

  Japan and South Korea are at odds over the Liancourt Rocks. In Japanese, they are called “Takeshima”, while in Korean they are known as “Dokdo”. Tensions between the two countries have now reached the point where giant robots are involved. Enter Robot Taekwon V. According to reports, the jumbo Korean bot is now doing for…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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  Former IBM Honcho Nabbed for Being Creepy and Horrible

  Tokyo police revealed that charges have been filed against former IBM exec Takumi Otoshi. On August 22, Otoshi allegedly used his iPod to film up a young woman’s skirt while riding the escalator at JR Yotsuya Station in Tokyo. Otoshi was the president of IBM Japan between 1999 and 2008. As Tokyo Reporter points out,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012
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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
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  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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  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