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  The PlayStation Vita Will Come in a New Color. This Is It.

  The PS Vita doesn’t only come in Crystal Black. Today, Sony revealed that the handheld is getting a new color. Say hello to Crystal White. Going on sale in Japan in June, the Crystal White PS Vita is priced at ¥29,980 (US$375) for the WiFi/3G model and ¥24,980 ($313) for the WiFi only model. Also…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 8, 2012
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  See What a Cosplay World Record Attempt Looks Like

  In October 2011, Wisconsin set a cosplay world record by gathering 425 people together in the one spot, all of them dressed up as someone else from a video game. It’s a record that didn’t stand for long. The world mark is, pending an in-the-mail approval from Guinness, now held by Melbourne, Australia, with 470…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 8, 2012
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  Holy Crap, This Transformer Toy Can Transform Itself

  No more weird instruction manuals, no more bleeding thumbs, no more broken Transformers. This custom figure from Japan transforms itself. Just like a good robot should. It was designed by Kenji Ishida and JS Robotics, and while it won’t win any awards for its looks, it wins two awards from me, one for the transforming,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 8, 2012
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  Before Menu Screens, we Adjusted Consoles With Buttons

  These wonderful shots are courtesy of Bleeping Relics, and show the control boards of a trio of old Pong consoles. These old analog systems weren’t adjusted via menu screens or fancy UI systems. If you wanted to change something, well, there was a button right there on the console. Bleeping Relics [Flickr]

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2012
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  Straight from 1990, One Kid’s Adorable Painstaking VHS Guide for Beating Mega Man

  Before the internet existed, millions of players toiled away in lonely obscurity to find the best way to beat the oh-so-hard games of yesteryear. Lots of us scribbled in notebooks, drew our own maps and called tips lines to figure out how to beat the games we were obsessed with. And then we shared this…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 7, 2012
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  Is That a Bomb in Your Underpants, Or Are You Just Happy to Be a Terrorist

  Hello there, Kotaku. It’s a new week, and with a new week comes a whole bunch of new stuff to chat about in the Open Thread. Here as always, are some things for you to chat about. These guys have make “frequent flyer” seem like a huge understatement – They also make Clooney’s character in…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 7, 2012
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  It’s Time to Take These Old MMO Games Out Back and Shoot Them

  From the disappointment over The Elder Scrolls Online to the steep decline in subscriber numbers for Star Wars: Old Republic, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the time of the traditional MMO is drawing to an end. It’s not done. There are still ten million people playing World of Warcraft, for example, and millions more…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2012
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  The Best Way to Get New Games? By Playing Other Games

  We’ve all noticed that Achievements, Trophies and other game-specific accomplishments don’t mean squat in the real world, right? You can’t go to your local video game store and say, “Hey, I’ve Platinum-ed in Uncharted 3; can I get a copy of Starhawk, please?” They’d laugh at you. But, a new program from gaming social network…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 7, 2012
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  Play Minecraft in Minecraft, Thanks to Mineception

  People have made all sorts of things in Minecraft. Just recently, we’ve seen cities from both Game of Thrones and Final Fantasy VII But no one has made Minecraft in Minecraft… until now. Welcome to Mineception Created by Codecrafted, Mineception is a game-within-a-game where players hold a “screen” that shows their in-game game of Minecraft.…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 7, 2012
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  A Peek Inside the Grinding Gears of an Awesome Angry Birds Clock

  Here’s an entirely made-up figure for you: Every five seconds, 700 people launch an Angry Bird at a hog-lined structure. Sounds pretty good, right? And while that number may not be “accurate” or “factual,” surely there are a good number of people wasting time with playing the game at any given moment. And so, an…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 7, 2012
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  Will The Next Star Wars Video Game Star Boba Fett?

  It’s not exactly news that there’s a new Star Wars game coming. (Guess what: There is!) But the name for which Lucasfilm has filed for a trademark actually is kinda interesting, in a speculation-y way. The company has applied for a trademark on the name “Star Wars 1313” for an upcoming video game. This was…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 7, 2012
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  Mass Effect 3 Writers Didn’t Want Same-Sex Romance to Be “a Straight Guy Writing Lesbians for Other Straight Guys to Look at”

  Mass Effect 3 became the game in the sci-fi series where BioWare finally opened up the relationship possibilities for players wanting to romance a character of the same gender, with characters Esteban Cortez and Samantha Traynor only available for wooing if you played as a male or female Commander Shepard. Given the level of fan…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 7, 2012
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  The Actual Singer Of The Actual Pokémon Song Actually Made A Version For Actual Presidential Candidate Ron Paul

  Really. This is Jason Paige, the guy who sang the original theme song back in 1998. He’s a big Ron Paul fan, I guess. I don’t even know anymore. (Thanks, Zack!)

  By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2012
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  Datura: The Kotaku Review

  Let me tell you about a dream I had. I was walking through a forest filled with butterflies and horseflies. Before me was a tree with the face of a man. I tore away at the bark, to find a pick-axe. Suddenly I was on a frozen lake. I looked down, wiped away an inch…

  By Chris Person Published May 7, 2012
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  This is a Weird, Depressing Way To Unlock a New Assassin’s Creed Trailer

  Earlier today, we got to see just a portion of a new Assassin’s Creed III trailer. Just a glimpse! Like this series on Facebook and you can see the whole thing! Or so we thought… I liked Assassin’s Creed on Facebook and I was led to the image you see here, an image that manages…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2012
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  Beat Levels of Super Mario Bros. By Hitting Tennis Balls At Them

  Mario Tennis Open, due out for your 3DS later this month, has a few mini-games available for your Mario tennis ventures. But one in particular lets you traverse the Super Mario Bros. world by hitting tennis balls at Goombas and coins. Take a look at Elyas’ preview of this mini-game in the video above, featuring…

  By Tina Amini Published May 7, 2012
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  Where The Heck Are All the Co-Op Buddy Cop Video Games?

  In today’s hilariously mismatched episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Paradox Me raises one hell of a point about the distinct lack of buddy cop video games a ‘la Lethal Weapon. Seriously, what the hell? With co-op having swept the industry this generation, where are all of the buddy cop games? This seems like…

  Speak Up Published May 7, 2012
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  Wendy’s Fries in a Wendy’s Frosty: The Snacktaku Review

  Anyone can open up a package and devour the contents, or order an item off a grease-smeared backlit plastic menu. The true connoisseur knows that the most transcendent snacking experience lies away from those convenient, often slippery beaten paths. It’s the enlightened snackster that looks at a pseudo chocolate milkshake and a salty cardboard container…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2012
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  Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Also Wonders Why the Avengers Need an Archer

  “There is always the risk that you will run out of arrows. There is never a risk that The Incredible Hulk will run out of Hulk.” Hawkeye from the Avengers suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous Nintendo president in the latest installment of Nintendo Gamer‘s lost Iwata Asks files. No one is safe from…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2012
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  There Will Be a New Need for Speed This Fall

  Collect your winnings, people, on one of the safest bets in video games. There will be a new Need for Speed this fall, a fact EA believes it already told us (they did?). They’ve got it listed in a new slide that shows all their “announced” games for the rest of their financial year (ending…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 7, 2012