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  Square Enix Is Releasing A Brand New, Original, Old-School Final Fantasy Game

  It’s called Final Fantasy Dimensions, and it will be out for iOS and Android this summer. Looks like Final Fantasy IV or Final Fantasy V, no? It’s not: it’s a nostalgia-themed original game with touchscreen controls and some seriously classic gameplay. It was also released in Japan two years ago under the name Final Fantasy…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 7, 2012
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  And Now I’m a Frog. A Singing Demonic Frog

  Earlier this week Sony Online Entertainment revealed its new SOEmote technology, which enables EverQuest 2 players to map their facial expressions and mouth movements to their in-game character. This creeped many people the fuck out. I just had to try it. So I met up with the company’s resident frog and king of all things…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2012
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  Do Not Show Your Children This Trailer for Skylanders Giants

  It might be well-animated and feature the voice of someone I am relatively sure is Bobcat Goldthwait, but the only thing this trailer for Skylanders Giants is really good for is making your children annoying and your wallet ache. I mean look at that. Not only are there a ton of new toys to purchase,…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2012
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  Watch the Moga Change an Android Phone Into a Portable Gaming System

  Last week in advance of its E3 2012 debut, Power A’s MOGA mobile gaming system is a complete controller solution for mobile phone gamers and game developers. After a brief demonstration at Power A’s booth earlier today, I’m convinced they’ve got a better way to play mobile games on their hands, or in ours. For…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2012
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  Japanese Gaming’s Unexpected Influences

  In this week’s Weekly Famitsu, 12 game creators were asked what their 3 greatest influences were, from movies to books to other video games. Here’s what some their answers were: Katsura Hashino Game designer for Persona 3 and Persona 4, Hashino’s greatest film influence was the David Lynch film, Mulholland Drive. So much so that…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published June 7, 2012
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  They Actually Made a Free-to-Play Theme Song. This Is It.

  I guess we’ve reached critical mass for free-to-play? To promote free-to-play PS Vita game Samurai and Dragons, Sony and Sega roped in curvy bikini lady Ai Shinozaki to sing a theme song that’s actually called “Play for Free”. The b-side better be “Cool Armour Is Extra”. Skip ahead to 57 seconds in to watch Shinozaki…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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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.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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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

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012
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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