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  The Wonderful Windosill Turns Your iPad Into A Mysterious Toybox

  As we fumble our way through action and strategy games on our touch-screen devices, it’s easy to lose track of the simple, sublime joys of touch. We get so caught up in rules and mechanics, learning unit strategies in Amoebattle or finagling bullet-time in Max Payne Mobile that we forget that the joy to be…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 25, 2012
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  This Sandvich Won’t Replenish Your Health, But It Does Look Delicious

  Team Fortress 2‘s Sandvich is a delicious treat that helps your Heavy class gain health mid game. As lowly, non-minigun-wielding citizens, we at least have the option of a sugary sandwich to eat. And I guess you can do so with a belt of bullets around your shoulders. Rosanna has baked a bunch of other…

  By Tina Amini Published April 25, 2012
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  A Beautiful Rendition Of Mass Effect 3‘s Melodies

  No matter your opinions on the controversial ending to Mass Effect 3, if you’re a fan of BioWare’s sci-fi role-playing game series, you might dig this great original song, written and performed by singer Malukah. The background music is all from Mass Effect. Reignite – Mass Effect/Shepard Tribute Song [YouTube via Reddit]

  By Jason Schreier Published April 25, 2012
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  Wednesday Watch This, Play This

  Watch! Cake Sandvich inspired by Team Fortress 2 looks delicious. Watch! The Mass Effect 3 theme made even more beautiful. Play! Kirk plays the weirdly wonderful Windosill on his iPad. Watch! Octodad glitches are terrifying.

  By Tina Amini Published April 25, 2012
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  Help Prove That Video Games Aren’t Dumb

  In an article published by The Atlantic earlier this month, writer Taylor Clark posited that “video games, with very few exceptions, are dumb.” Nevermind the ridiculousness of such a hyperbolic, inflammatory statement, responds Brainy Gamer’s Michael Abbott. We can prove Clark wrong So Abbott is constructing a list, one brainy offering at a time, to…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 25, 2012
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  Watch Two Guys Get Robbed From Setting a Long Jump Record in Trials Evolution

  Two men, three hands and a pair of rubber gloves may not sound like a recipe for video game victory. But it is! Until a cruel glitch denies them their massive accomplishment. Reader Jeff sent in this profanity-laced video of what’s presumably him and his buddies pulling off an epic vault on one of Trials…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 25, 2012
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  What Video Games Teach Us About Marriage

  Roughly two million couples in the United States get married each year, give or take a hundred thousand. Every pair does it for their own reasons, from the idea of a fairy tale happily-ever-after to the decidedly more prosaic need to share health insurance costs. It’s a big decision, coming with a number of legally…

  By Kate Cox Published April 25, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Don’t let Wednesday win. Stay strong, everyone! 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! In…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 25, 2012
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  These New Game of Thrones Screenshots Sure Look Generic

  These are screenshots from the upcoming Game of Thrones RPG. You can tell this because they all say “Game of Thrones” in big letters. If not for those labels, would you have any idea what they were from? Or would you think, “Oh, great, another generic fantasy role-playing game.”? As a huge fan of both…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 25, 2012
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  If We Scored Games By The Quality of Their Dragon Cutscenes, We’d Give Dragon’s Dogma a 10

  Here at Kotaku, we’ve fallen in love with the possibly-broken-but-who-cares-because-it’s-awesome video game Dragon’s Dogma. We have hopped on the bandwagon despite or because this is the kind of game that lets you fight a goblin who asks “who let the dogs out?” We do not want you thinking that Dragon’s Dogma will be a perfect…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 25, 2012
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  Man Guilty of Stabbing Wife After PS3 Argument

  This week, a British court convicted Aymen Korbi, 21, of grievous bodily harm for stabbing his wife. Back in November 2011, a dispute broke out in their home in England after Korbi’s wife threatened to leave him. The previous night, the couple had an argument over how much time Korbi spent on playing his PS3.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Monster Hunter Cannot Quit the PSP

  Even though the PS Vita could really use a Monster Hunter game, the next spin-off installment in Capcom’s monster hit series is PSP bound. In Japan, Monster Hunter has been key in the PSP’s success. Like Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village, the game is a spin-off and features those fictional cat people. The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Lady or Stabby Stabby? Find Out If You Are a Positive Person or a Negative One.

  Quick! What’s the first thing you notice? The lady? Or the knife she’s carrying? According to this manga on mental health, positive people notice the lady, because they like to have fun! Negative people notice the knife. They are so not fun. Boo. But what if you’re simply not interested in ladies? Not everyone is!…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Capcom Making Two New Sengoku Basara Games. Both Are…Eh…

  Hey, you like Sengoku Basara? You know, those samurai games Capcom makes that are wildly popular in Japan and aren’t exactly historically accurate? Well, good news. And bad news. The good news? Capcom is making two new Sengoku Basara games. The bad news? They are a card-based mobile phone game and a browser game. Oh.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Foxconn Workers Use Suicide Threats as Bargaining Tool. Again.

  In China, workers’ rights kind of suck! So when the folks who make your game consoles and electronics want to protest, they take to the roof and threaten to kill themselves. Lovely. Earlier this month in Shenzhen, while the world was watching how their iPads really got made, a group of approximately twenty Foxconn laborers…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Another Real-Life Mai Shiranui Has Appeared!

  It’s the battle of the ladies cosplaying as iconic fighting game character Mai Shiranui. Earlier this year, Taiwanese model Yoyo appeared dressed as the jiggly ninja to promote her new picture book. This time? This time it’s Chinese model Li Mengtian, who also goes by the moniker Shan Shan Maity. Earlier this spring, she released…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Colonel Sanders Is Ready to Destroy Your Stomach Samurai Style

  In front of (almost) every single KFC in Japan, there is a life-sized Colonel Sanders statue. And for the past few springs, the Colonel Sanders in Akihabara has been covered in samurai armor to mark May 5, the Boy’s Day celebration. In late April and early May, families with sons display miniature armor in their…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  From God of War to The King of Pop, Here’s Dragon’s Dogma‘s Character Creator

  Whenever a new game or demo hits, Japanese gamers love to fire up the character creator and see which celebrities they can reproduce. So when the Dragon’s Dogma demo hit, that’s exactly what they did. In the above gallery, you can see an array of celebrities—from real life ones to in-games ones. In some, the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  A Most Perverted PS3 Game Got Cancelled

  In puzzle game Dancing Eyes, the goal is to cut out swatches of cloth from young girls’ clothing. Namco planned to do a hi-def remake of the game, but now, it seems the Tokyo-based game company has cold feet. The upcoming issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu reveals that Namco decided to pull the plug…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012
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  Why Are Chinese (and Japanese) People Sniffing Their iPhones?

  Folks in China are apparently putting their iPhones under their nostrils and giving them a good old sniff. What do they smell? Pineapples. Yum. Many Chinese are saying the iPhone’s headphone jack smells like pineapple while charging. Online, thread after thread confirms the odor, with some even claiming that the iPhone emits whiffs of peach,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012