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  If There Were a Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy Would Be Finished

  Another day, another request for a Final Fantasy VII remake. The game was released in early 1997, and there are still calls for a remake. Endless calls. At a Square Enix meeting today in Tokyo, honcho Yoichi Wada was asked about, wait for it, the possibility of a FFVII remake. He replied that even within…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
• Kotaku East

  Japanese Politicians Are Thinking about Building Gundam. Like, Real, Working Gundam.

  Politicians everywhere are crap—even the ones who are thinking about building a giant, working mecha. In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party are apparently going to discuss the idea of building a real life Gundam. The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for over fifty…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
• Reviews

  Check Out My 12″ Boba Fett

  Um. Here he is. Part of Sideshow’s line of sixth-scale Star Wars figures, this Boba Fett piece arrived at my house this morning. He really is quite lovely. While loaded with around a billion accessories and display stands, this is a large-format (12″) “figure”, and not a “statue”. Much of his arsenal is interchangeable, and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  Shooting People is Boring. Let’s Drop Wieners on Their Heads Instead.

  Heads Up! Hot Dogs is an upcoming iOS game that’s described by its creators as an “ALL-NEW ALL-BEEF ALL-ACTION FRANKFEST”. Which seems fairly accurate given the trailer above. Not really sure why so many dudes are so down about a hot dog being slapped on their noggin. Free hot dogs falling magically from the sky?…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  Nintendo Games Turned into Edgy, Sexy Pin-Up Pics

  Artist Keith P Rein is noted for his colorful and erotically charged illustrations. What do you expect when the P in Keith P Rein stands for penis. When not working at his design studio, Rein makes pin-up style photos that often use visual puns and feature nudity. His work looks like a fusion of 1940s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 26, 2012
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  This New Game Looks Exactly Like an Old One (And Sounds Terrific)

  Oniken came out last week on the PC. Yeah, you read that right. The PC. Not the NES, not the Master System, a personal computer, in the year 2012. So thorough is the developer’s homage to the 1980s, though, and in particular Japanese side-scrollers, that I needed to actually point that out. Whenever someone makes…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  Darkness Developers Return With Shooter About ‘Space, Shooting, Swords & Suits’

  Digital Extremes, the studio most recently behind The Darkness II, have unveiled a new third-person shooter called WARFRAME. Their caps, not mine. The good news is that art direction looks great. The bad news is it’s a free-to-play game, so yeah. There’s a closed beta out sometime this Fall.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  Yeah, It’s Probably Time to Put the Resistance Series to Bed

  It just never really clicked, did it? Despite all the advertising and hype and expectations placed upon it, Sony’s Resistance series has always just…been there. People like it, sure, but it’s not exactly a blockbuster, certainly not to the level Sony were hoping/expecting when it debuted alongside the launch of the PlayStation 3. I remember…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
• Culture

  From Hawken to…Totoro, the Art of Khang Le

  Khang Le is the boss of Adhesive games, the studio behind the promising Hawken, a multiplayer mech shooter on PC. But he’s not just the boss. He’s also the game’s creative director. There’s a few Hawken pieces here, as well as some other mechs and robots. But there’s also some beautiful environment pieces featuring fantasy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  Here’s Your First Look At Skyrim‘s DLC In… Action

  This is Skyrim‘s first piece of downloadable content, Dawnguard, which comes out tomorrow for Xbox 360. I loaded it up for the first time about half an hour ago. Headed to the first new area, Fort Dawnguard. The video above shows what I found there. Enjoy your first look at Skyrim‘s DLC in action. (Exiting…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 26, 2012
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  What Nintendo’s New Paid DLC is All About

  Nintendo’s next Mario game will have paid DLC. In this video, company spokesmen outline the motivations behind such a move, and the means via which it will become available.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2012
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  CultureTotal Recall

  Captain Waffle, Video Gaming’s Unsung Hero

  Don’t try and make sense of Spinal Breakers, a 1990 coin-op game. It’s got a story that centres around nuclear war, something called “hildroids” (which look a lot like Nazis to me) and the alteration of the Earth’s axis. What’s important is that you play as a man (and walking Michael Biehn tribute) called Captain…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2012
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  CultureTotal Recall

  That Time a Porn Star Appeared in a Video Game About Giant Space Cats

  Like anyone else who played PC games in the early 1990s, I was, and still am, madly in love with Wing Commander III, perhaps the finest moment of the period’s fixation with using real actors. One thing always seemed a little weird to me though: why was there a porn star on the ship? Yes,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2012
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  Never Change, Aaron Sorkin. Oh, It Turns Out You Haven’t! Cool.

  Hello Kotaku, and welcome to a new week of open threads. It’s beautiful in North America, but apparently quite cold in Australia where Mr. Plunkett lives. If you’re somewhere warm, I hope you’ve been getting outside. Perhaps you have heard all the buzz around master writer (and West Wing, Sports Night, and Studio 60 creator)…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 25, 2012
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  When a Dog Eats a Nintendo 3DS

  NeoGAF user Joe Prodigy left his 3DS alone in a spot where his dog, Loki, could get it. So, yeah. Loki ate the 3DS. If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when an animal tries to eat a Nintendo handheld, now you know. Either that dog is smart, or just tenacious, because he managed…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2012
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  This Portal 2 Replica Turret Will Silently Protect Your Loved Ones for $300. Sound is Extra.

  Gaming Heads, the creators of fine Team Fortress 2 statuary, opens the valve on its new Portal 2 line with this gorgeous 16-inch turret replica, ready to fill speaking and non-speaking roles in your home security regime, depending on how much you’re willing to invest. Can you really put a price tag on quality replica…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 25, 2012
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  This Mod Lets You Drive a Car Around Skyrim

  The province of Skyrim is big. Really, really big. So big that horses might not be fast enough to cover the amount of ground that you need to cover. Fortunately, Skyrim Nexus mod-maker zdzichorowerzysta (nice handle, buddy!) has made the helpfully titled “Car Mod”, which replaces horses in the game with cars. There’s a real…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 25, 2012
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  There are Wine Glasses, and Then There Are Vine Glasses

  Over at Etsy shop The Basement Invaders, Jason and Alex make a variety of Nintendo-inspired goodies. There are Yoshi egg earrings aplenty, but my favorites are the piranha plant wine glasses. Or maybe the thwomp glasses, which glare angrily at you. Then again, they may be a bad idea; I’d be tempted to slam them…

  By Kate Cox Published June 25, 2012
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  What Are You Hoping to Get Out of Mass Effect 3‘s Extended Ending?

  In all the hullabaloo that was raised over Mass Effect 3‘s now famously controversial ending, I sometimes felt like I had lost track of what everyone actually wanted. Some people want closure, others want to see the results of all of their decisions. Others want to understand whether the endings broke the fiction of Mass…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 25, 2012