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  We May Soon Have To Tell You Which Games Aren’t Coming Out On May 15

  Max Payne 3 is coming out on May 15. Diablo III is coming out on May 15. A Game of Thrones game is coming out on May 15. That’s not enough. Today, we have news that PixelJunk 4AM, the PlayStation Move-controlled interactive music performance program (it’s not quite a game, but is fun!) will be…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Today’s side-scrolling TAYpic makes Kicking Guy the video…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 20, 2012
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  Dead Space Developer on Gears of War : “Literally the Worst Writing in Games”

  A lot of games set out to tell engaging stories. Some use a narrator, lots of cutscenes or branching dialogue systems. Others embed plot points in the environment. Success rates vary, of course. But what’s the worst storytelling in video games? Why, Gears of War, says Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver. Eurogamer pulls out…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 20, 2012
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  Watch A Hyena and a Monkey Team Up to Survive in This Tokyo Jungle Gameplay Clip

  It may be too early to anoint any one game as a cult favorite of 2012 but Tokyo Jungle definitely looks like it’s in the running, based on its box art alone. The video above looks like it’s showing co-op gameplay, with what appears to be a hyena and a chimpanzee foraging through the game’s…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 20, 2012
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  I Shouted ‘Fus Ro Dah’ At Skyrim, And I Kinda Liked It

  Here’s a confession: I have absolutely no interest in Microsoft’s Kinect. The controller-free interface doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t want to dance around my living room or wave my arms to fling boulders at castles. I get bored just thinking about it. Shouting dragon words in Skyrim might have changed my mind. Kinda. Within…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 20, 2012
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  Spec Ops: The Line Multiplayer Pits Brother Against Brother Against Sand

  How refreshing is it to have a tactical shooter set in Dubai without one side having to be some sort of terrorists? It’s The Exiles versus The Damned in Spec Ops: The Line‘s online multiplayer sandbox. Not that Spec Ops: The Line is a giant, open-world free-roaming experience. In this case sandbox actually means boxes…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2012
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  Please Don’t Aim Games about Hostess Clubs at Kids!

  Earlier this week, I wrote about my first hour playing Girls RPG: Cinderellife. For a laugh, I poked and prodded the game, pointing out its less-than-inspiring portrayal of women—though this is nothing new when it comes to games or any other popular media really. Most of the things I poked fun at were a direct…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 20, 2012
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  These Japanese People Totally Meh Sony

  Beleaguered electronics giant Sony is having a tough time. It’s not only battling a strong yen and strong rivals, but also a giant lack of buzz. Just look at these folks on Japanese TV. No buzz! In the above photo from Japan’s TBS News, two women are asked if there are any Sony products they…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Shop Online, Get Your Goods Delivered by a Wannabe Model

  Good-bye FedEx! Hello, Tao Girls! For the equivalent of a mere $US1.60, one day soon you can apparently get packages delivered by young, fashionable ladies. In addition to product listings, Taobao.com, China’s fastest growing online retail business, also features an array of young Chinese women posing in pictures as well as looking for modeling gigs.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Japan’s Crappiest Looking Game Is Addicted to Delays

  Boy, Daisenryaku Perfect: Ruler of the Battlefield looks like dung. Maybe its horrible addiction is to blame—it’s addiction to game delays. The game was delayed last spring and pushed to fall 2011. Then, it was pushed to this April. It was supposed to be out yesterday, but was once again delayed to “further improve quality…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Confessions of an American Hostess: Getting Paid to Drink with Men

  “You have to pet their egos,” said Elizabeth. “That’s what a hostess does.” Now, in her early 30’s and married, Elizabeth is living a very different life but was still eager to share her experiences. But only a few years ago, she spent six months working at a hostess club here in Japan. Elizabeth came…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 20, 2012
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  Man Goes Berserk in Arcade, Ends Up Unconscious in the Hospital

  Yesterday evening, 25 year-old Kengo Katou kicked an arcade cabinet at “Play Hard” game center in Kasugai City. He’s now in a coma. After kicking the cabinet, arcade staff told him to knock it off. According to eyewitness accounts, Katou then became enraged and started acting violently. He pulled one employee’s hair and began throwing…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  How China Has Apple (and the World) by the Balls

  The iPad and the iPhone must be made in China. Ditto for, well, most everything. And it’s not only because of cheap Chinese labor. Or sprawling factories. Or lax regulations. Those are reasons, but there’s another one. And it’s one you might not expect: mud. The iPad—like other electronics—requires a large amount of rare earth…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Twelve Sexy Anime Characters Want to Date You

  Originally, Girl’s RPG Cinderellife was going to be a 3DS version of the popular cell phone title Kyabajoppi. In Kyabajoppi you manage a host club that is frequented by many famous anime characters. And while, Cinderellife now has you living the life of a single hostess instead of managing the club, the anime characters still…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 20, 2012
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  Climbing on the Side of a Building To Save a Suicidal Woman

  This week, a 32 year-old woman climbed out on a 12th floor window in China’s Dongguan City. Threatening to kill herself, the woman, tossed aside the rescue rope. Below an air mattress was inflated in case she jumped and hundreds of spectators assembled to watch. After three hours of trying, a firefighter climbed down the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  You’ve Got Final Fantasy XIII in my Fire Emblem!

  In the above Fire Emblem: Kakusei image, there’s a character named “Lightning”. In Final Fantasy XIII, there’s a character named “Lightning”. Hey, wait a second… This seems to be a player’s My Unit creation—and one that really, really looks like Final Fantasy‘s Lightning. Lightning appearing in Fire Emblem would make more sense than, say, Mass…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Studio Ghibli Boss Is Glad Japan Lost World War II

  Even for people in Japan, it’s easy to forget how awful World War II was. Entire cities were firebombed. Children were killed. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Horrible. That’s not counting the havoc the Japanese military unleashed throughout Asia and the Pacific. The whole thing was rotten. But for famed anime producer Toshio Suzuki, something good came…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012
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  Making Mass Effect Adorable

  Artist Andy Helms, of “Dude a Day” and movie pixel art fame, has for a little while been drawing these cute little portraits of the cast and crew of Mass Effect 2 & 3 He’s probably not finished yet, but there’s enough here already to give you an idea of where he’s going with it…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2012
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  Crysis 3’s First Trailer is a Little Short

  So don’t get too excited, OK? Actually, given it seems to be little more than a tease for a longer trailer, it’d help if you don’t get excited at all.

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 20, 2012