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  The “British STALKER” Continues to Look Fabulous in Tweed

  In case you’re just joining us, Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an upcoming indie game that promises to be “a procedurally-generated first-person, open world game, with some sneaking, some shooting, some tweedpunk adversaries, and plenty of fleeing in terror.” It’s coming along very nicely, so nicely in fact that there’s a whole new bunch…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 3, 2012
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  Tiny LEGO Models of Giant Moments in Cinema

  LEGO site The Living Brick recently held a contest asking readers to submit famous moments from movie history as microscale LEGO models. While they only had a limited amount of space and a limited amount of pieces to work with, what they could accomplish is extraordinary. You can recognise each movie from just a thumbnail…

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  There’s Beauty in a Game’s Menu System

  And here you thought Fine Art was just about the guys making the stuff that goes in the game. Today, we’re looking at the work of design firm 1910, who design stuff that goes before, or on top of, a game. Specifically, they’ve designed menus and user interface systems for games like Syndicate, Bionic Commando…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 3, 2012
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  Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux [UPDATE]

  A number of Diablo III users have complained in the last few days that they’ve been banned from playing the game for doing nothing more than using WINE, a means of playing Windows games in the Linux operating system. It’s a tricky situation. On the one hand, Blizzard appears to be banning the accounts because…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 3, 2012
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  Well, These Dantes Certainly Don’t Like Devil May Cry’s Redesign

  Reader Eric, a mean Devil May Cry cosplayer (centre, standing), was at the recent ACEN 2012 in Chicago, where he joined some friends in visually expressing their feelings towards Dante’s redesign in the upcoming DMC.

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 3, 2012
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  Bringing the Perfect Pixels of the Past to Life

  Noirlac’s Tumblr is maybe one of the best in existence. The mysterious man, known only as an anonymous Ubisoft employee, has a site cataloguing weird and wonderful pixel art from old video games, many of them obscure Japanese titles that you haven’t even heard of, let alone played. We’ve featured him a few times here…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012
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  Some Things You May Not Know About Mario

  You know he’s got a moustache, a red beret and a penchant for jumping on people’s heads, but have you ever stopped to wonder what you maybe didn’t know about Mario, the world’s most popular and iconic video game character? He’s Had Three Names In Mario’s first ever video game appearance, as the hero of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012
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  5 Ways The Legend of Korra Went Wrong

  Last Friday, I wrote a short post about how I was disappointed with the first season of The Legend of Korra. I kept it pretty short and sweet, but enough people seemed interested in the subject that I thought I’d expand on why I felt the show’s first season fell short. As I mentioned last…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 2, 2012
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  Here Now, Kotaku Off-Topic

  Hi there. I’ve been in charge of the “Off Topic Thread” for a little while now, and it’s gradually morphed into something a bit different than it was when I started. Given that we’re all getting used to our new Kinja-Ninja Kimbra-Nimbra discussion system, it seemed like a good time to simplify and reorganize our…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 2, 2012
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  Meet Team Fortress 2’s…Batman? Rap Video?

  The fun people are having with Valve’s new Source Filmmaker continues. Not long after the secret of the Pyro’s identity is revealed do we now get some rap, some Batman and a plea to please, please stop with the remixes of Meet the Heavy. Did Valve realise that the release of this suite would unleash…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012
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  Who Knew Turning People Into Squares Made Them So Cute?

  I wouldn’t have guessed it, but deviantART artist Theresa Cartwright has a whole gallery dedicated to proving the naysayers otherwise. They don’t just include video game characters, either. Everyone from The Last Airbender’s Aang to Breaking Bad’s Jessie appears in that gallery. Even Jessie’s meth head makeup is somehow, slightly, oddly charming in the squarified…

  By Tina Amini Published July 2, 2012
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  Our Love Affair With the Undead

  Well, people are eating other people now. Wait. Let me say that a better way: People are eating other people now, and everyone is dying to see it. What do your young friends usually say when you ask them if they watch the news? “No, it’s too depressing. Every time I turn it on, they’re…

  by Lisa Foiles Published July 2, 2012
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  Which Video Games Should Be Live-Action Musicals?

  I would like to open up a discussion on this topic because, as I’ve seen from past comments, many of you have solid, creative ideas. Thusly, I would like to hear these ideas and, also, take a shot of tequila every time someone says, “Musicals suck.” You just became my Monday night entertainment! Musicals are…

  by Lisa Foiles Published July 2, 2012
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  Kicking Off Kotaku Presents: Lisa Foiles

  Hey guys! Lisa Foiles here, kicking off my month-long season of content on Kotaku with a comedy sketch starring SMBC Theater‘s Jon Brence. In this true-to-life documentary, you’ll witness many of my ideas getting hastily shot down by Jon before he realizes they’re actually brilliant. Reminds me of the time I crept up behind Tom…

  by Lisa Foiles Published July 2, 2012
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  EA: ‘We’re Going To Be 100% Digital’

  The publisher behind games like Mass Effect and Madden says it won’t be selling its games at brick-and-mortar stores for much longer. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said it won’t be too much longer before the company goes completely digital: It’s in the near future. It’s coming. We have a clear line…

  By Jason Schreier Published July 2, 2012
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  Nike’s Brilliant New Commercial Turns the World Into a Video Game

  This new commercial for Nike, aimed at using social media and the company’s Nike Fuelband gear to inspire athletes to train with/against each other, does a pretty good job of making me wish this is what Wii Fit actually looked like.

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012
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  How Mainstream Video Games Are Like Porn

  Video games are very popular. So is porn. If you ask game designer, Metagame co-creator and NYU Game Center founder Eric Zimmerman, they have some fundamental things in common. Today, Zimmerman tweeted the above one-liner, pointing out that both games (particularly mainstream blockbusters) and porn center around repetitive activities premised on “visceral pleasure and spectacle.”…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 2, 2012
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  Finally, I Can Recommend a PlayStation Mini To You

  For reasons that I’m sure are my fault but may also have to do with their placement in an unlit corner of the PlayStation Network’s digital store, I’ve not been able to recommend a PlayStation Mini to you. These little games are playable on PS3’s, PSPs and Vitas. They’re little, like the iPhone games I…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 2, 2012
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  A Weekend Without Internet Made Me Worried About the Always-Streaming Future

  Friday night, we went out to a movie. And when we stepped out of the theater to come home, we found ourselves standing in a maelstrom the likes of which neither of us had ever before seen around DC. The storm caused astonishing levels of damage in under an hour, and left 1.3 million of…

  By Kate Cox Published July 2, 2012
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  You Know What? Ryu Kind Of Sucks.

  In today’s Speak Up, Daemon_Gildas confesses that Ryu just flat out sucks. Especially compared to his rivals. Dear Capcom, Listen, I know it’s been a while since we talked. I maybe said some things, and you maybe locked me out of some on-disc content. But I like to think we’ve really grown since then. So…

  Featuring Daemon_Gildas Published July 2, 2012