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  Let Gaming’s Greatest Creator Totally Sike You Out

  During Nintendo’s E3 press conference in Los Angeles, Shigeru Miyamoto appeared on stage to act like a goofball, introduce Wii U launch title Pikmin 3, and to totally psyched everyone out.

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  Watch Street Fighter x Tekken Beat Up the iPad

  Here’s tech demo footage of Street Fighter X Tekken for the iOS. No word if (and when) this is coming out. It’s just a tech demo. Capcom Is Thinking About [SG Cafe]

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  This Is More Than 15 Seconds of Live-Action Badass Mecha Battles

  Mamoru Oshii, director of such animated films like Ghost in the Shell was recently revealed as the director of the Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor trailer. In the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, the director offered his insight to the creation of the trailer and some impressions on the game itself. The 15 second trailer was…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 7, 2012
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  Goodness Gracious, That Perofella Adult Video Actress Has Been Busy

  While porn star Tsubomi recently appeared in the Persona porno parody, that’s not all the 24 year-old has appeared in. She’s appeared in far more dirty films—a mind boggling number, actually. Her official blog recently announced an important milestone: Tsubomi appeared in her ONE THOUSANDTH blue movie. Granted that does include complations　and supporting roles, but…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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  Borderlands 2‘s Horse Cannon Kicks Like a Mule, and I Want You to Have the One I Used [Update]

  The Borderlands 2 hands-on demo at E3 involves a bunch of 25-level characters from each of the game’s four classes, partly to give players a chance to spec out higher-level characters and see what that’s all about, and also to give them a taste of combat midway through the campaign. But the gang at Gearbox…

  By Owen Good Published June 7, 2012
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  Madden‘s Developers Built a Working Canadian Football Game—but Don’t Look For It Anytime Soon

  Canadian football—with 12 men to a side, longer and wider fields, and the single point for touchbacks—is feasible within technology available to Madden NFL‘s developers. Back in April, I was told that some developers once built a working CFL game internally, with uniforms and helmets skinned using NCAA Football‘s TeamBuilder tools. I told this to…

  By Owen Good Published June 7, 2012
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  Will You Let Peter Molyneux Peek in Your Brain and Sell You a $77,000 Chisel?

  Game designer Peter Molyneux is a man with ideas—big ideas. And with his new startup, 22Cans, that isn’t stopping. “Human beings can read emotion in faces down to a level of fidelity we can’t even dream of in games at the moment,” Molyneux recently told New Scientist. That, Molyneux thinks, he can change. And change…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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  Report: One Thousand Workers Riot at Foxconn

  Earlier this week, a riot broke out in Foxconn’s Chengdu plant. According to reports, up to a thousand Foxconn workers ended up rioting and police were called in to subdue the crowd. Initially, the outburst began in the factory’s male worker dormitory. Security guards arrived on the scene to stop a thief, and allegedly, some…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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  That Stunning New Final Fantasy Tech? That’s Not for Sale.

  Square Enix caused a lot of jaws to drop at E3 with the unveiling of its new Luminous Studio engine. The new game engine offers a whole new world in high quality graphic content for the creators of Final Fantasy. Square Enix CEO Youichi Wada spoke in an interview with Famitsu about the creation and…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 7, 2012
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  Kotaku East Starts Now!

  Kotaku East runs from 4am to 8am Eastern. For more info about Kotaku East click here

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  Dear Mr. Bradbury, Thank You for the Christmas Wishes

  When I was young, I spent my money on video games and baseball cards like so many kids. But perhaps, unlike other kids, I spent it on something else: stamps. From Sandra Day O’Connor to Colin Powell, I wrote an array of people I respected and looked up to. I’d ask them questions. Depending on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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  Don’t Freak Out, But Nintendo Will be Reading (and Censoring, and Delaying) Your Wii U Comments

  One of the more pleasant surprises from Nintendo’s E3 showings this week has been the fact that the Wii U will have a proper online community. If you think that means you’ll be able to write “TITS” and draw rude things all over the place, though, you’re wrong. You’re also probably 12, and should be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012
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  Luigi’s Mansion’s 3DS Trailer Scares…OK, Nobody

  I still can’t believe they’re making another Luigi’s Mansion game. I mean, I see this trailer, and some part of me acknowledges it, but other parts just laugh and say “right, Luke, and next thing you know they’ll make another Pikmin game…”

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012
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  Left 4 Dead Prequel in Development

  According to a report on CVG, Overkill Entertainment – developers of multiplayer shooter Payday: The Heist – are currently working on a new Left 4 Dead title While some kind of crossover title was announced between the pair last month, this report is a little more specific, claiming that the new game is a Left…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012
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  Mass Murderer Angered over World of Warcraft Connection

  Anders Behring Breivik is currently on trial in an Oslo District Court for killing 77 people. The mass murders sent shockwaves throughout the world. And now, prosecutors have offered more evidence to explain his motivation: between November 2010 and February 2011, Breivik played World of Warcraft an average of 6 hours and 50 minutes every…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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  Paper Mario: Sticker Star, or as we Call it, Take My Damn Money

  Nintendo held four conferences this week. At least two of them should have been just about this game

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012
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  These E3 Attendees Look A Little Out Of Place

  Just outside the LA Convention Center today, between the energy drinks and the first-person shooter advertisements, I found some people yelling at me to accept Jesus. Which I guess is sort of like the marketing I saw inside the Convention Center. With less dubstep.

  By Jason Schreier Published June 7, 2012
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  Iron Man? Nah, Let’s See Iron Woman

  For some reason, unlike just about every other superhero there is, Tony Stark has never really had a female opposite number that stuck. An Iron Woman So it’s totally fair game for artists to step in and try to imagine what one would look like. I almost entirely like this effort, from SgtHK, because it’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012
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  Wow. This 140-Foot-Wide Call of Duty Trailer Is Incredible.

  This is most of the stunning Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer that is stopping crowds at E3. This is the spectacle of E3, in terms of stopping hordes of people in their tracks… and with good reason. The screen Activision is running this thing on is over 100 feet wide. It’s a hell…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2012
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  Imagining Sony’s Next Home Console: The Octave

  Swedish designer Daniel Åberg has, just for kicks, taken a crack at designing not just the logo for Sony’s next – and still unrevealed – home console. He’s also designed its packaging, game art, menu screen and even a system boot-up sequence. While it’s as far from official as you can get, you should still…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012