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  Talk Amongst Yourselves… The Next Generation

  You’ve probably noticed the Gawker Network’s brand-new comment system has landed on Kotaku today. It’s going to make Talk Amongst Yourselves an even better place to chat about the things you love and hate about video games and anything else that you want to share with fellow Kotaku community members. Go to the TAY forum…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 28, 2012
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  Angry Birds Creators’ Next Game Stars an Actual Human

  Everyone’s been waiting to see if the next game from dev studio Rovio would capture the same kind of insanely huge audience that’s downloaded their hit Angry Birds titles more than 1 billion times. We’ll all be finding out next month. Amazing Alex—a new game based off a previous title called Casey’s Contraptions—won’t have any…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 28, 2012
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  Nintendo Seems Ready To Give Up On 3D. And That’s A Good Thing.

  In March 2011, Nintendo threw a launch party for its then-brand-new 3DS. As midnight approached, a couple hundred loyal fans and less loyal reporters gathered outside the Best Buy in Manhattan’s Union Square to watch Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime extol the virtues of his company’s new system. “The era of 3D glasses ends…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 28, 2012
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  Guild Wars 2 Leaps Into Action August 28

  It’s going to be the future soon for denizens of Tyria, as ArenaNet reveals an August 28 release date for the eagerly anticipated massively multiplayer free-to-play role-playing game Guild Wars 2 Beta testing has gone swimmingly, yesterday’s stress test seems to have passed without much stress, and now MMO players have a date to put…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2012
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  Next Time, on The Walking Dead Video Game…

  Episode two of The Walking Dead hit Xbox Live yesterday, with the PlayStation 3, PC and Mac versions shambling along tomorrow. I can honestly say I’ve not been this excited for a Telltale Games release since they brought Sam and Max back from the dead. Episode two, “Starved for Help” continues the story of fugitive…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2012
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  Pokémon Black And White Version 2 Coming October 7

  The next two Pokémon games will launch for DS on October 7, Nintendo said today. Nintendo will also release Pokémon Dream Radar, a new 3DS app you can buy and use to catch and transfer Pokémon with your 3DS’s camera.

  By Jason Schreier Published June 28, 2012
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  The Road to Final Fantasy XIII-2

  At the GDC in Taipei held at the Taipei International Conference Center in Taiwan, Motomu Toriyama of Square Enix held a presentation on the development between Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Toriyama, who held the position of director for both games, took the podium and revealed the inner working of development on Final…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 28, 2012
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  Dead or Alive 5‘s Newest Character Kicks Out a Debut Trailer

  As previously posted, Dead or Alive 5‘s newest character is Rig, a Canadian taekwondo fighter. Above is the first footage of Rig in action. Check it out.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Fret Not! Dragon Quest‘s Slime Chewing Gum Isn’t Really Slime Flavored.

  Fit’s is a brand of Lotte chewing gum, and this August, there will be “Slime flavored” gum for you to chomp on. But it’s not really “Slime flavored”. PHEW. “Slime” (スライム or “suraimu”) is used as a pun: “suppai-raimu” (スっぱいライム). “Suppai” (here, スっぱい) means “sour” and “raimu” (ライム) is Japanese for “lime”. The flavor is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Welcome to our New Discussion System

  Hello. Scroll down to the bottom of this post. Then look back up here. See anything new? If so, welcome back, regular Kotaku reader. You’ve just seen our new discussions system. You’ll probably think of it as our new commenting system. But we like the word “discussion”, because it sounds a little more like the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 28, 2012
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  LEGO Getting a New MMO

  Online game developer Funcom revealed today that it’s signed a deal with LEGO to make an online game based on LEGO Minifigures. LEGO Minifigures, of course, are the little inhabitants of the LEGO universe: whether that is knights or policemen, Minifigures have been a LEGO mainstay for decades. According to the release, “The massively multiplayer…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  How Virtua Fighter Was Dead Or Alive‘s Daddy

  Fighting games featuring characters from other fighting games or completely different genre games is nothing new. Still, the Virtua Fighter characters Sarah Bryant and Akira Yuki appearing in Dead or Alive 5 holds a little more meaning for the creators at Team Ninja than the average guest appearance. In a three-way interview with Weekly Famitsu,…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 28, 2012
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  Japanese Ministry Unsure If It Was Cyber-Attacked by Anonymous

  This week, hacker-activist collective Anonymous allegedly attacked a number of Japanese government sites, such as the Finance Ministry’s site and the Supreme Court’s site, among others. New, strict Japanese copyright law that could imprison people for illegally downloading copyrighted content incited the attack. A website, dubbed AnonPR, claimed to speak for the group and launched…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Namco Bandai’s Latest Gundam Game Is Free*! (*Not Completely)

  Gundam is a bit like a Japanese version of Star Trek: It’s an epic sci-fi fantasy series with multiple spin-offs and games (some of which fans don’t like to talk about), a massive fan base, a gargantuan library of technical information, and it all came from an original series that was canceled during its initial…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 28, 2012
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  This Gaming Mouse Has a Fan. A Spinning Fan. Really.

  Taiwanese peripheral maker Thermaltake created this: a gaming mouse with a fan that, and I quote, “blows away your gaming tension and sweat.” Better than just saying “it blows”. Thermaltake’s Element Gaming Mouse Cyclone Edition’s cooling fan is detachable, because, c’mon. The Cyclone Edition is the world’s first pro-gaming mouse with a fan—and probably the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Raw Liver Rush Ends in Stomachaches

  Raw liver has long been a delicacy in Japan, but after food poisoning worries, the country’s health ministry decided to ban the raw food. This week, liver lovers have been rushing to restaurants to get their last taste. Four of them ended up ended up ill. According The Mainichi Daily News, four women in Fukuoka…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Nintendo Says More 3DS Models Would “Perplex” Gamers

  Right now, there’s one type of 3DS handheld you can buy. This summer, a larger 3DS, called the 3DS XL, will be released. So, you’ll have two options. What about a third option? You know, with the add-on extra circle pad already on board? At a Nintendo meeting today, honcho Satoru Iwata (above, blowing crap…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  The Feel Good Fighting Game Story of the Summer

  The fighting game community gets a bum rap. Sometimes it’s deserved. Often it’s not. There are good people in the fighting game community. People like Daigo Umehara. People like Osamu Ichikawa. And people like the folks at Shoryuken. Osamu has cerebral palsy, a condition he was diagnosed with when he was one. For his whole…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Kotaku East runs from 4am to 8am Eastern. For more info about Kotaku East click here

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2012
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  Former Age of Mythology Star Now Makes a Killing Playing Pro Poker

  Not long after we brought you the story of Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger, former pro Counter-Strike player and now pro poker player, comes another tale of a champ gamer hanging up the controller in exchange for a cold stare and a fistful of cards. Englishman Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery has made over $600,000 playing poker, using skills…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 28, 2012