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  Sometimes You Just Have To Lie To Your Kid

  Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent 7-year-old who trusts me with his life, his happiness and his dignity, let me first explain how much I hate Plants vs. Zombies. I cringe just typing the name. A clip of the music or a piece of the…

  By Chris Dahlen | Unwinnable Published July 3, 2012
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  Nintendo Says Game Consoles Have Been TV ‘Parasites’

  When you play a console video game, you generally need a television. And when you use that television for a console video game, you generally can’t use it for anything else. Nintendo’s Wii U, an upcoming video game console whose controller is embedded with its own screen that can be used to play games, hopes…

  By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012
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  The Secret World, Log One: A World More Gaiman than Tolkien

  It all begins with a bee. You are not an elf or a troll or some sort of mystical creature. You are a human man or woman, an ordinary soul living in a stylish, IKEA-inspired, thoroughly modern apartment. One night, while you sleep, there comes a bee. And not an ordinary bee. It comes to…

  By Kate Cox Published July 3, 2012
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  Sony Should Partner With Google For Orbis

  In today’s Speak Up, Albino RyNo has an idea for Sony’s next business move. Sony could win the next console cycle with one key move. Full partnership with Google. Hear me out. Imagine if Sony’s next console were completely integrated with all of the services offered by Google that we know and love. Google TV.…

  Featuring Albino RyNo Published July 3, 2012
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  I Would Kill For This Limbo-Meets-Calvin and Hobbes T-Shirt

  I liked Limbo a lot. I love Bill Watteron’s timeless comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. And so I would do things, ungodly things, for this T-shirt from Nowhere Bad, which combines the two things in a manner so fantastic that I can’t believe no one’s done it before. Fortunately, I don’t have to do ungodly…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012
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  A New, $99 Console Called Ouya Is Real and Radically Different From Xbox, PlayStation and Wii

  Leaks are springing, and word is out that a new mystery home video game console called Ouya is in development. This is a real thing. Ouya is a $99 box running on the Android platform, with a focus on free gaming, according to details spotted in a listing on a site for tech start-ups spotted…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 3, 2012
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  Now This Is The Game of Thrones Video Game We Need

  By now of course you’ve seen College Humor’s 16-bit re-creation of Game of Thrones season 1 Here’s season 2, and it’s just as amazing as you’d imagine. This is a game that needs to be made. Now. (Spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2 follow.) Game of Thrones Season 2 RPG [CollegeHumor]

  By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012
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  This Article About ‘Why Girls Suck at Gaming’ Is Either Clumsy Satire or Crazy Sexism

  There has been a lot of discussion of sexism and gaming lately, here at Kotaku and elsewhere. And now, the website Airborne Gamer has entered the fray with… just about the most ill-conceived and ridiculous article yet. Or is it all a joke? God only knows. Titled “This is Why Girls Suck at Gaming,” the…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012
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  Persona 3, Catherine, Lots Of Other Games Half Off This Month

  News of an Atlus sale is always welcome ’round here parts. Throughout all of July, you’ll be able to buy Persona 3 Portable for $10 and Catherine for $20. Other PSP/PS3/Vita games are all half off too! [PlayStation Blog]

  By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012
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  Four Comics That Will Vibrate Your Molecules This Week

  If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012
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  What the Hell Is Going on with the Avengers and X-Men in This Picture?

  Rumors have been reverberating for a while now that Marvel Comics would be staging their own major shake-up as an answer to the New 52 re-boot that rival DC Comics pulled off almost a year ago. Now, the first look at the House of Ideas’ next major superhero shift—called Marvel Now!— comes via Entertainment Weekly.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012
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  The Best Rabbit Samurai Ever Created Gets a New Game This Summer

  I love Usagi Yojimbo. The itinerant rabbit swordsman created by cartoonist Stan Sakai has been the star of various series over the last 25 years but only ever starred in one video game. Stan Sakai’s signature creation will be getting a new outing in HappyGiant’s multiplatform Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin. The trailer above…

  By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012
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  The Strangest Posts of All… Panel Discussion Starts Now!

  Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this arrow “Panel Discussion”

  By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012
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  European Court Says You Should Be Able To Re-Sell Your Digital Games

  If you pay to download a video game, does it then become a product you own? And should you then be allowed to sell or give it away like you can with physical products? The European Union’s Court of Justice has its own opinions on this longrunning debate, noting as part of a filing today…

  By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012
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  You Can Ask the Head of Nintendo Anything, and You Ask Him This?

  When Nintendo has a shareholder meeting, their shareholders can come in and ask just about anything. They’re shareholders! Such is their right. At the most recent meeting, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was asked about all manner of things, from the Wii U’s online plans to its multiplatform future. But the most burning question of all…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012
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  We’ve Got Jonathan Blow (The Witness, Braid) and Chris Hecker (Spy Party) Here To Answer Your Best Questions

  Two of the most talented and fiercely independent video game creators I’ve ever met are joining us today, right below these words I’m writing, to answer your best questions. We’ve got Jonathan Blow, the man who brought us Braid and is leading development on the lovely island-exploration puzzle game The Witness. And we’ve got Chris…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 3, 2012
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  Some More Ways Video Games are Like Porn (And Sex)

  Yesterday, we ran a pullquote from independent game designer Eric Zimmerman in which he discussed some of the similarities video games have with porn. “Mainstream AAA videogames operate on principles akin to porn,” Zimmerman tweeted. They are “highly repetitive activities premised on visceral pleasure and spectacle.” He went on to offer some elaboration, at least,…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012
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  Spelunky: The Kotaku Review

  Sometimes a video game is like a razor blade. Only millimeters thick, yet sharpened to a fine edge sharp enough to draw blood if you’re not paying attention. Once you learn that truth, such a game requires your total attention lest you wind up bleeding a lot. Spelunky comes to the Xbox 360, sharp enough…

  By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012
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  These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games

  The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy them or even what games are like. We’ve often wondered who the most powerful person is in video games. And we’ve wondered who the second is, the third…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 3, 2012
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  • 01. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

  July 3, 2012 Update: Still holding strong at the top spot, despite recent Apple statements that they’re not interested in making a console. As long as iPads and iPhones keep flying off the shelves and attracting tons of gamers and game companies, it’s hard to argue that Apple doesn’t have a ton of power and…

  Kotaku Published July 3, 2012