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  You Must Watch This Hilarious Video Game Web Series

  Over the past few weeks, the funny folks over at Dorkly have been running a great web series called Best Friends! Videogame Club. I won’t waste your time with an in-depth description: all you need to know is that there are a bunch of best friends and they like to play video games together. Here’s…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 14, 2012
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  Pettington Park Is Not Doom for Doggies and Kitties, Even Though John Romero’s Involved

  The latest game from one of the architects of the first-person-shooter genre probably isn’t what you expect. There are no BFGs, no demons and no space marines. There is conflict of a furry nature, though. John Romero’s Loot Drop studio—founded along with fellow designer and academic Brenda Brathwaite—has partnered with Zynga to release Pettington Park…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 14, 2012
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  Spider-Man, Mega Man X2, Mad Dog McCree… Nintendo Download, are You Trying to Seduce Me?

  Your lackluster performance at E3 2012 is completely forgotten, Nintendo, for you have brought the glory of Mad Dog McCree upon the 3DS, given Wii owners Mega Man X2 , and given portable players an early taste of The Amazing Spider-Man Yes, I realize Nintendo has nothing to do with the creation or development of…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2012
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  With Metal Gear‘s Splendid Vita Version, I Finally ‘Get’ Portable Console Gaming

  Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a true gaming classic, held up by many as not just the best game in the Metal Gear series, but one of the best games ever made, period. In just the past six months, I’ve had several different opportunities to finally play the game. There was the PS3…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 14, 2012
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  This is What It Looks Like to Lose Your Level 60 Diablo III Character Forever

  Aw, man. This is rough. Diablo III‘s hardcore mode is not for the weak-willed or the unfocused. It’s not for the casual or the stoned. It’s a winner-take-all, loser-take-it-on-the-chin setup where a single death kills your character forever, no matter how far you’d made it in the game. And so it’s all the more heartbreaking…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 14, 2012
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  Songlines Makes Creating a Beautiful Video Game World As Easy As Waving Your Arms

  The best-looking Kinect game at this year’s E3 wasn’t at Microsoft’s massive booth. Instead you had to go to the IndieCade area to see the kaleidoscopically beautiful Songlines. It’s a game based on the Australian indigenous myth of the dreamtime and lets you create unique colorful landscapes. In a year when Microsoft didn’t emphasize its…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 14, 2012
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  Nintendo’s Top People Are Discussing Ways To Make Their New Games More Like Their Old Ones

  There was something magical about Nintendo’s earliest Mario and Zelda games. Something simple. Something pure. Something Nintendo has gotten away from. Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who led the creation of those first games and is still the chief game design force at Nintendo knows this. He’s noticed that Nintendo’s big games have been slow-starters, that…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2012
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  ‘Indie Game: The Movie’: The Kotaku Movie Review

  “Indie Game: The Movie” has finally been released into the wild. The much anticipated documentary centers on the creation of Super Meat Boy and Fez, along with the men responsible; Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes, and Phil Fish. It also seeks to enlighten the general audience on the magical work of independent games as a whole.…

  Matt Hawkins Published June 14, 2012
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  Creepy Dude Stalks and Terrorizes DayZ Players. Hilarity Ensues.

  Arma II mod, DayZ, has spawned a ton of abnormally fun rounds, with players partaking in all sorts of activities outside avoiding and killing zombies. But this one guy who stalks and terrorizes two players might be my favorite so far. He runs around in circles, chases them, and mumbles some really non-sensical, funny-yet-disturbing words…

  By Tina Amini Published June 14, 2012
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  This Is About As Close To Zelda As Your Phone Can Get

  Unless you’ve hacked your iPhone and turned it into a jailbroken, SNES-rockin pirating party, you probably can’t use it to play Zelda. Good thing there’s My Little Hero, a lovely top-down action-adventure that channels the spirit of Link in almost everything it does, from its spammy one-button hack-n-slash combat to its top-left-corner heart gauge. But…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 14, 2012
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  Thursday Watch This, Play This

  Watch This: Creepy Dude Stalks and Terrorizes DayZ Players. Hilarity Ensues. Play This: This Is About As Close To Zelda As Your Phone Can Get

  By Tina Amini Published June 14, 2012
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  This Game Is Half Rhythm, Half RTS, And 100% Weird

  This is Orgarhythm, an upcoming Vita game to be released by publisher XSEED later this year. It’s super weird and Japanese and cool and I can’t wait to play it.

  By Jason Schreier Published June 14, 2012
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  Fable: The Journey Just Might Be The Second-Best Kinect Game

  There are 19 million Kinects in the wild and very few good games to play on them. I think most people will say that Dance Central is the best (partially because it seems to work more than 75% of the time). What’s second best? It could be this holiday season’s Fable: The Journey I grabbed…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Portal: it’s the joke/meme/concept that keeps on giving.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 14, 2012
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  Who’s Making Star Wars 1313? A Rebel Alliance Inside George Lucas’ Empire

  It’s a transitional time for the video game division of the kingdom built by Star Wars. It’s been about two years since Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the last full-blown game released by LucasArts. TFUII got blasted as a major disappointment and squandered the goodwill built up by its predecessor. Then, severe cutbacks to…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 14, 2012
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  Foxconn Suicide Followed by Suspicious Rumors

  This week, a 23 year-old Foxconn worker fell to his death from a Foxconn company apartment. It’s believed to be a suicide. Today, Foxconn confirmed the worker’s death, which happened outside Foxconn’s Chengdu plant at a company apartment. The suicide is the first since Foxconn and Apple reached agreement over improving conditions for its 1.2…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012
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  Street Fighter X Tekken Coming to iPhones This Summer, Probably Won’t Have On-Disc DLC

  That tech demo we saw of the Street Fighter X Tekken crossover running on an iPad earlier this month becomes a real boy, as Capcom shrinks Ryu, Nina, Chun-Li and Kazuya down until they fit inside iOS devices. Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile features the same great fighting action of the console version, only without…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2012
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  Microsoft Not Attending Tokyo Game Show or Gamescom

  Today, Microsoft announced that it will not be appearing at either Gamescom or the Tokyo Game Show. Instead, it will rely on its partners and, in Japan’s case, its own events. In an interview with Famitsu, Microsoft stated that it was not abandoning Japan and is planning end of the year promotions. Microsoft did say…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012
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  New Super Mario Bros. 2 Features The Midas Touch And Co-op Play

  It looks like Nintendo’s latest Mario game, New Super Mario Bros 2, which is scheduled for release in August, is going for the gold. Literally. The Mario series has always been adding new costumes for the mustached plumber with every game. The previous announcement that New Super Mario Bros. 2 would include a variation of…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 14, 2012
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  Beware Parents! Your Child Could Get into The Animes.

  Via Tumblr Yaoi Fight, here are some signs that your child might be under the influence of the substance commonly known as “The Animes”: •making an account on deviantART.com – While it appears innocent, this website is actually a black market for different types of “The Animes.” It contains the highest concentration of animes abusers…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2012