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  Video Games Are Getting More Like TV, and That’s Actually Good

  When casting about for media to compare gaming to, most minds land on film. Action movies and action games still draw inspiration from each other, and when game budgets and incomes draw comparisons, it’s always to Hollywood. But over at The Atlantic, writer Yannick LeJacq argues that really, video games and television have much to…

  By Kate Cox Published May 8, 2012
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  Here, Have a Gif of Tyrion Slapping The Crap Out Of Joffrey on Game of Thrones (Again)

  You know you want it. Everyone it. Every soul on earth loves nothing more than seeing that obnoxious tow-headed psychopath Joffrey get smacked around. And who better to do it than his Uncle Tyrion? It’s even an ancient proverb: Every time someone slaps Joff in the face/ the world becomes a healthier place. And hey,…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012
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  I’ve Never Seen a Magic System in a Video Game Without Glaring Flaws

  In today’s magically delicious episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Chris P. Bacon claims that while not one video game has portrayed magic perfectly, several have come close. He should know. He is a wizard. I’ve always been a fan of magic users in games. A magician who always has a bag of tricks…

  Speak Up Published May 8, 2012
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  Starhawk Reviewers Wisely Avoid Neopaganism, Focus on Shooting People

  You know what would be awesome? Warhawk, only in space. And we can name it after one of the most notable figures of the Neopagan movement! I can just imagine the game reviews now. Starhawk the game (some would say unfortunately) has nothing to do with Neopaganism or ecofeminism. Instead, it’s about a bunch of…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012
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  Ex-Bioshock Developers Announce Their Mysterious Exploration Game, Gone Home

  The Fullbright Company, a new indie outfit that consists of three developers who among other high-profile games worked together on the fantastic Bioshock 2 add-on Minerva’s Den, has announced its first game. It’s called Gone Home, and it’s a first-person game that revolves around exploration and discovery, rather than action or scares. The video above…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012
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  Five Comics That Will Make You Leave Your Humanity Behind This Week

  If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012
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  Exclusive: Powers Artist Michael Avon Oeming Shows Off His Latest Victories

  You might know Michael Avon Oeming best for drawing the cartoony yet gritty tales in the hits series Powers, written by Brian Michael Bendis. But the artist’s also a well-regarded writer in his own right. Oeming’s next work will be coming out from Dark Horse and Kotaku‘s got an exclusive look at the moody interior…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012
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  Read These Noir Comics Masterpieces to Get Ready for Max Payne 3

  When Max Payne 3 comes out next week, it’ll be the long-awaited return of video games’ best example of work done in the film noir tradition. There’s been some concern that the franchise might lose some his its shadowy edge by moving to the tropical climes of Sao Paolo. But the change in scenery for…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012
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  Something Brutal Happens Before Watchmen on the Cover on Minutemen #3

  As controversial as it’s been, DC Comics’ upcoming prequel to the Watchmen hold have also piqued the interest of comics fans everywhere. The book I’m most looking forward to is Minutemen, written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke. The lives of the first generation of costumed heroes—who were in a team called the Minutemen—in the Watchmen…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012
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  Panel Discussion Assemble!

  Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 8, 2012
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  Metalocalypse and Aeon Flux Makers Team Up On This Official Diablo III Animated Short

  Well before the events depicted in Blizzard’s forthcoming Diablo III, there was a great war between archangels and demons. This short film by Aeon Flux‘s Peter Chung and Metalocalypse animation house Titmouse, depicts “a fundamental moment in the battle between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.” Basically, it shows Diablo coming face to face…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012
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  Ocean Marketing’s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character

  Paul Christoforo, best known as the man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer went public last December, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. He’s going after N-Control CEO David Kotkin, the man who develops a gaming accessory called the Avenger Controller. Christoforo told Kotaku…

  By Jason Schreier Published May 8, 2012
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  Mojang Not ‘Boycotting’ E3, They’re Just Not Going

  Yesterday, the website MCV reported that Mojang was boycotting E3 due to the ESA’s support of SOPA, the Stop Online Patriot Act In the MCV article, Mojang’s Carl Manneh is quoted saying, “The organization behind the convention support the SOPA initiative in the US. We are against it, and have no wish to support those…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012
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  The First Official Adventure Time Video Game Talks Trash This Fall

  Pendleton Ward’s quirky cartoon sensation Adventure Time makes its video game debut this fall in Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! for the DS and 3DS. I’m so, so happy. Created by the 2D masters at Wayforward Technologies with story support by Mr. Ward himself Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012
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  This Sure Looks Like an In-Game Screenshot from Beyond Good & Evil 2

  We’ve already heard that Michel Ancel’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development, though it sounds like it might have to wait until the next generation of consoles for release. Here is an image posted to allgamesbeta described as an in-engine screenshot of the game. It matches enough with the look of that demo…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2012
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  Kevin Pereira Also Out At G4

  Two weeks ago, we reported that Adam Sessler had parted ways with television network G4TV. Today, popular Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira said he is also leaving the network. [G4TV]

  By Jason Schreier Published May 8, 2012
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  The First Facebook Game from the Creator of NBA Jam Is… Bubble Safari

  You are probably one of three people. 1) You might be a fan of NBA Jam and NFL Blitz fun, over-the-top arcade games masterminded by a guy named Mark Turmell. If you had to guess what his first game for his new bosses at FarmVille juggernaut Zynga would be about, you’d probably guess “something about…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2012
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  Meet The Awesome Russian Housewife Who Conquered a Video Game Made for Men

  Tatyana Zinovieva lives in Kursk, Russia. She’s 59 now, younger in the photo here. She only started playing video games three years ago, after getting treated for leukemia. She’d been depressed. TV didn’t help. Video games did. “My husband was playing King’s Bounty: The Legend then,” she said, through a translator in an e-mail I…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2012
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  The Tragic Mission of the Portal Space Core

  You know those really cheesy songs that you’re not supposed to like, but they’re too catchy not to? Jason’s familiar with the concept. For him, it involves his obsession with “Call Me Maybe.” And he’s not even embarrassed by it Although the context is something I can totally stand by—namely, anything and everything Portal—I’m not…

  By Tina Amini Published May 8, 2012
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  I Hate You, Ski Safari. Okay, One More Game.

  Defiant Development’s Ski Safari is one of those annoying-as-hell games that doesn’t have much to it other than an infuriating knack for making your finger hit the icon reflexively every time you even so much as glance at your iPhone. I see Ski Safari being compared to iPhone classic Tiny Wings quite a bit, and…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012