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  How Chinese Browsers Are Aiming for the Big Leagues

  Unity Technologies and Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd announced last month of an agreement which will allow over 400 million Chinese Internet users to access Unity3D-powered 3D games through 360 browsers. Qihoo’s 360 browser along with its 360 anti-virus software are immensely popular in China. So popular in fact that according to Baidu.com’s statistics that…

  By Eric Jou Published May 14, 2012
• Kotaku East

  Would You Like To Pilot the Life-Sized Gundam? Virtually?

  Yahoo! Japan is running an auction that will give one lucky winner the chance to virtual pilot the one-to-one scale Gundam in Tokyo’s Odaiba. Don’t get too excited just yet. You don’t actually get to sit in the cockpit. The winner will get his or her image displayed on the one-to-one scale’s virtual cockpit. Thus,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  Angry Birds Pork Products, How I Wish They Came With Scrambled Eggs

  China has some very interesting culinary habits some of which folks from the west will find just outright whacky. One slightly normal but definitely strange habit is the Chinese love for pork products, and in particular the ham sausage (火腿肠). Now Rovio and Chinese pork products producer, JoyCome, have partnered together to bring Angry Birds…

  By Eric Jou Published May 14, 2012
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  You Don’t Have to Rip Out Your Spine for an English Translation

  Because the folks at PlayStation Japan kindly posted one! Here is the Soul Sacrifice presentation in English for your listening pleasure. In it, there is game imagry, Japanese game people, and flashing lights. Who doesn’t love flashing lights?

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  This Nightmare Car Crash Looks Like a Video Game, But It’s Real and Awful

  It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real—and almost very deadly. Last week, a Hyundai YF Sonata pulled out of traffic and went tearing down the street, weaving through traffic, and piling into a stopped car. Ten people were injured (the driver broke ribs, while the passenger’s vertebrae was damaged), and the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  Countdown to the Next Tales Game

  As previously posted, Namco is working on a new Tales role-playing game. Here is the countdown clock if you are into those. I’m not! Namco]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  Teacher Ate SD Card after Allegedly Photographing Up a Woman’s Skirt

  On May 12, a 54 year-old junior high school teacher spent the evening at anime shop, Animate, in Osaka’s geek district, Den Den Town. The teacher, Manabu Wakita, was a regular, but he wasn’t looking for DVDs or anime goods. He supposedly had something else in mind: trying to snap photos up a woman’s skirt.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
• Kotaku East

  That Sure Looks Like a Final Fantasy Logo

  For the Final Fantasy role-playing games, the logos are iconic. You can spot them a mile away and immediately recognize them. Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII is no exception, which makes this kwinky-dink all the more noticeable. Level-5, which has developed several titles for Square Enix, is working on a new multi-platform game called Time…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
• Kotaku East

  Good Foreigners Doing Good and Bad Foreigners Doing Evil

  It was a touching scene. A young American male sat outside of a McDonald’s in Nanjing, sharing a meal with a homeless lady. He had purchased two orders of French fries and poured water into her water bottle. A passerby snapped photos and uploaded them onto a Chinese social working site. Online, people praised the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012
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  The Game of Thrones Theme, Performed by Two Ladies With Electric Harps

  Twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, fresh off their tag-team effort harping (is that even a verb?) the theme to Skyward Sword, return with their take on the intro to Game of Thrones. It’s dorky as all hell, especially since these are electric harps and they’re in costume, but hot damn, it sounds great. Like the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  It Doesn’t Get Much Cornier Than a Series Called Video Game High School

  Internet superstar Freddie Wong’s Rocket Jump studios has made the jump from short comedy clips into full-blown syndicated drama, with the debut episode of Video Game High School. It’s about a high school for video game players. There are kids. And games. And corn. So much corn that at times it’s so corny it’s funny,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  See Halo, Mass Effect, Battlefield & Modern Warfare Stab Each Other in the Guts

  Some of the biggest shooters in the world (and Mass Effect) go head to head in this clip by Corridor Digital, which compares each series’ “instakill” by having a whole lot of people get stabbed. Of course, there can be only one winner. And it’s none of the games mentioned in that headline… Art of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  The Terror, and the Laughter, Behind the PC’s Latest Zombie Craze

  DayZ, a very rough mod for serious PC shooter ArmA II, is winning over a ton of new players daily with its brutal, hands-off approach to the zombie apocalypse In my time spent with the mod so far, I’ve died falling down a ladder, been robbed blind by murdering assholes, eaten by zombies and…partied on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  The Worlds of Batman and Lord of the Rings, Brought Together by Art

  Stacey Clark is a senior concept artist at Warner Bros.’ Monolith Productions. In this gallery, you’ll find some of her work for games such as Lord of the Rings: War in the North and Gotham City Imposters. You’ll also find some personal pieces. Check out Stacey’s blog and sketchbook for more of her stuff! Fine…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  Tomb Raider Reboot Kicked Into 2013

  It was only Friday we were saying amongst ourselves “hey, what happened to the Tomb Raider reboot?” Turns out that set Eidos’ ears on fire, because today we have an answer: it’s not coming out this year. Originally planned for release in 2012, and looking very promising, it’s now coming out in early 2013. Crystal…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  Video Games and Comics Team Up for a Cosplay Extravaganza

  There wasn’t a whole lot going on last week in the world of cosplay, but that’s OK. This week is all about quality, not quantity. We’ve got two amazing Borderlands outfits, some Avengers Black Widow, a Devil May Cry duo, a Tekken cameo and even some Princess Mononoke Throw in some X-Men, Zelda and Darkstalkers…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012
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  A Bonus 25 Minutes’ Worth of Cave Johnson Talking At You, Not With You

  Portal 2’s latest DLC doesn’t just include the chance to create your own maps, it includes the chance to run around them hearing the delightful JK Simmons – aka Cave Johnson – command, dictate and berate you senselessly with almost half an hour’s worth of new content recorded just for the level creator. If you…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2012
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  An Afternoon Spent With $350 Worth of Lara Croft

  You know you’re about to unwrap something expensive when a box that you know contains a Tomb Raider collectible needs to be carried into my house by two people Sideshow’s new Lara Croft piece, announced last year but only just recently released, depicts the classic character as she appeared in 2010’s Guardian of Light (read…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2012
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  Some Stylish Tributes to Sword & Sworcery, One Hell of a Stylish Game

  The Sworcery A/V Jam was a chance for artists to pay a little tribute to one of the coolest games around, Sword & Sworcery. The developers of the game asked for submissions from fans, and submissions is what they got. They got a ton of them. There weren’t really any rules on what could be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2012