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  Rejoice: Apples to Apples‘ Hilarious Evil Twin is Once More Available for Purchase

  Surely you know about Cards Against Humanity, right? It’s the super-funny, twisted version of Apples to Apples that replaces A2A‘s commonplace nouns and adjectives with more current, offensive, and plain bizarre options. (See here, a card I had in a recent game that makes the kind of high-quality obscure reference that sets the game apart.)…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2012
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  McDonald’s Snack Wraps: The Snacktaku Review

  A few years back the international nutrition conspiracy struck a powerful blow against the forces of eating, launching one of the most effective smear campaigns since cream cheese met bagels. The message was simple” Bread will kill you; eat tortillas instead. It’s a completely ridiculous idea that was immediately embraced by the people of the…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012
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  Great Moments in Gaming Humor: A Romantic Evening with Barret Wallace

  Cloud Strife has it tough. Not only does he have to help prevent the end of the world, he’s got to do it while juggling the affections of three women, and one incredibly manly man. Who should Cloud choose? The strong and independent Tifa? The mysterious and innocent Aeris? The mischievous Yuffie? Or will he…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012
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  A My Little Pony E3 Would Have Been a Fine E3 Indeed

  You know what was missing from E3 2012? The same thing that’s been missing from E3 for the past couple of years: My Little Pony. YouTuber LeFrenchBrony envisions an E3 where Reggie Fils-Amie took the stage at Nintendo’s E3 presser and was met by the deafening sound of thousands of stomping hooves. While the Friendship…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012
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  The Dorkly Weekly: What Happens After a Mortal Kombat Babality

  What, you expected the mighty warriors of Mortal Kombat to just dump the baby versions of their enemies in a landfill or something? That’s not how you save Earthrealm. Will somebody please think about the children? They might be wearing little versions of Mortal Kombat outfits (Halloween, hmmm), but that doesn’t mean they have what…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012
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  Fake Gamer of the Week: Ragequitting Baby

  We’ve all been there, Ragequitting Baby. You’re playing a quick round of capture the flag online, and there’s this guy on the other team who just won’t. Stop. Killing you. And as he does so, he lets loose an unending stream of invective, racial slurs, and all manner of other disgusting language. He probably doesn’t…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2012
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  The Triumphant Return of Kotaku Off-Kilter

  Memorial Day. E3 2012. They tried to keep Off-Kilter down, but they could not. Not ever. For the next 90 minutes, everything goes a little lopsided and you might feel a little funny.

  By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012
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  I Asked Sony: ‘Why Did You Wind Up In Third Place?’

  I spent most of my interview at E3 with Sony’s head of hardware marketing, John Koller, talking about the PlayStation Vita and what in the world is going on with Sony’s lovely handheld. But today I’m going to tell you about how he responded to a question about the PlayStation 3, a most basic question…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2012
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  Apple’s Game Center Is Coming To Mac

  Apple’s mobile Game Center application will soon launch on its desktop operating system, allowing you to share scores and games between platforms, the company said today at its WWDC keynote. Game Center will hit Apple’s new Mountain Lion operating system when it launches this July. You’ll be able to play turn-based games between the Mac…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 11, 2012
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  Animal Crossing For 3DS Is Still Alive

  Nintendo’s 3DS version of Animal Crossing, announced eons ago and slated for a fall Japan release, just no-showed E3. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime tells Kotaku: “Animal Crossing is a game that is in development.” That’s all we got!

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2012
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  Three Theories About Video Gaming in the Year 2032

  If you were watching the Spike livestream of E3, you may have noticed that Kotaku had some spiffy little videos to promote our coverage of the show. For those who missed out, here they are! The videos, titled simply “Gaming in 20 Years,” explore the possibilities of the medium. We went around and asked different…

  By Chris Person Published June 11, 2012
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  Sex and the City‘s Samantha Gets Turned On By Mario’s Raccoon Suit

  Now, I know that Samantha gets turned on by most things. But all the same, this one’s pretty funny. In a departure for Nintendo’s usually family-friendly celebrity spokespeople, a new British ad for Super Mario 3D Land features Sex and the City‘s friskiest character talking about her predilection for men who play dress-up. “I go…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2012
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  Classic Metal Gear is Mostly a Punchline in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

  “This is not a stealth game,” Platinum Games’ Atsushi Inaba said of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. That’s certainly true. Rising is the latest in the traditionally stealth-heavy action game series, and from what I saw and played of the game, it’s almost unrecognizable as a Metal Gear game. Moreover, the references that do exist to…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2012
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  This Size-Shifting First-Person Game Shows How Bigger Can Be Better—And Creepier

  One of the biggest ideas at this year’s E3 comes from a tiny indie game called Scale. It’s a twist on a first-person shooter that lets you change the size of anything in the gameworld. In the video above, you’ll see entire levels get shrunk down so you can cros them with a single step…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 11, 2012
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  Apple’s Next-Gen MacBook Pro Will Make Video Games Look Gorgeous—If You Can Afford It

  Apple revealed its new next-gen MacBook Pro laptops at the WWDC keynote today, showing off Diablo III to demonstrate the machine’s powerful new Retina Display. Apple’s newest laptop will have a 2880 x 1800 resolution, a quad-core i7 running up to 2.7GHz, up to 16GB RAM, GeForce Kepler graphics, and up to 768GB internal flash…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 11, 2012
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  Teabagging Returns in Halo 4

  Master Chief is back in Halo 4. So is the needler. And so is teabagging. The most famous and notorious act in Halo multiplayer, the crouching of one player onto a defeated player to simulate a simulated sex act, is back. But the people at 343 Industries who are making Halo 4 don’t call it…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2012
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  27 of the Best Video Game Ideas from E3

  How bad was this year’s E3? Not that bad, actually! If you knew where to look, played the games that were there and talked to enough game creators, you could find plenty of signs that video gaming is still full of interesting new ideas, big and small. It would have been wonderful if there was…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2012
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  The Side-Scrolling Shooter I Flipped on Its Side

  With DariusBurst: Second Prologue, arcade shooter DariusBurst blasts up iOS with side-scrolling shooting and a hailstorm of pew-pews. I love shooters—and I think the iOS is a viable platform for them. Yet, I’m not the world’s biggest horizontal shooter fan. I prefer vertical shooters, which is a layout that suits the iPhone. So while playing…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2012
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  Smash Bros. Was The Real Fight Club Before Fight Club

  Ok, fine. So the novel by Chuck Palahniuk came out several years before Super Smash Bros. was released in Japan. But the video game came out almost a full year before the movie did, so…Science! Regardless, it’s a comparison that I’m surprised wasn’t drawn up in video form earlier. The little bits of parallel detail…

  By Tina Amini Published June 11, 2012
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  Monday Watch This, Play This

  Watch This: Smash Bros. Was The Real Fight Club Before Fight Club Play This: The Side-Scrolling Shooter I Flipped on Its Side

  By Tina Amini Published June 11, 2012