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  In This Fan-Made Brawler, You Kick Ass with Paper

  While trying to learn more about all the anime characters in the PSP crossover RPG Heroes Phantasia, I became interested in Read or Die. After watching the 2001 anime, I found myself already hunting for a game from the series. But despite eleven books, a manga, and two anime series, no game has ever been…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published April 13, 2012
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  Hey Sega, Put This Lady in Your Games

  Every year, Sega holds a cattle call to select a handful of women to appear in its latest Yakuza game. This year, there’s a porn star in the running—not a Sega first. The women typically play hostesses players can chat up in night clubs. But, Sega, why not pick the number one hostess for your…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 13, 2012
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  Beauty of China, Show the World Your Latest Kinect Copy

  China already has a handful of Kinect inspired game machines. But that’s not going to stop it from getting more. The latest is the iGame Move, a console with the tagline “Beauty of China Show the World”. Sporting 32-bit graphics (32-bit!!), the iGame Move is a motion controlled game system and is priced at around…

  Brian Ashcraft & Eric Jou Published April 13, 2012
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  Crazy Person Apparently Threatened to Chop Off Writer’s Head

  Noboru Aoi was not happy with Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (“There’s No Way My Sister Is That Cute”). After learning the email address of the light novel’s writer, Tsukasa Fushimi, the 32 year-old Aoi sent email after email—over five hundred in total. In them, he threatened the writer’s life. The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 13, 2012
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  Kotaku East

  Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and the Rise of the Googly Eyes

  The bigger, the better, right? For a generation of kids, doe eyes are all the rage. Photos of young women in both Asia and the West show that this trend isn’t going anywhere. Big eyes are here to stay. The look is a melding of both the real and the unreal. Eyes that existed only…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 13, 2012
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  Kotaku East Starts Now

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  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 13, 2012
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  Classic Video Game Moment Gets an….Anime Adaptation

  Daigo Umehara vs Justin Wong, the EVO finals, 2004. It’s almost universally accepted as the single greatest moment in competitive gaming history And it’s now been immortalised forever. In an anime. This clip is from Acchi Kocchi, apparently. If you’re short on time/memory and need to see the original, here it is EVO moment 37…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  The REAL Reason Peter Molyneux Left Microsoft: Chair Lady

  You’ve read the fluffy reasons Peter Molyneux left Lionhead, the studio he built, and Microsoft along with it. The general stuff. It’s important to know, sure, but I like the raw specifics a bit better. In another post-Microsoft interview, this time with Develop, Molyneux says it was all about the chairs. I had this unbelievable…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  Valve is Looking for Hardware Engineers. Interesting.

  Last month, Valve said that the company was “a long way” from shipping any kind of gaming hardware, let alone a dedicated games machine as some people had expected. Some new job listings for “electronics engineers” with the company, though, show that more people are at least being hired for that “long way” in the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  You Guys Like Giant Robots, Space Pigs and Fighting Octopus, Right?

  Concept artist Trevor Claxton has, in addition to working on projects like Magic the Gathering, also lent his talents to games such as Dust 514, EVE Online and Warhawk. If anyone’s going to draw awesome mechanical killing machines, it’s this guy. I’m not saying these images come from any of those games. I am saying,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  Video Games are Killing the Proud, Ancient Art of Lumberjacking

  Research firm CareerCast have long been cataloguing the worst jobs in America, and nearly every time, lumberjacks rank at or near the bottom. It’s easy to see why. The pay is bad, jobs are getting harder and harder to come by, it’s hard work and it’s dangerous work. According to Jake Rosa, the owner of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  Strangers Donate $130,000 to Cardboard Arcade Kid’s College Fund

  The feel-good story of the week is definitely the one involving nine year-old Caine, whose cardboard arcade is just about the cutest thing ever The slick film put together to document his arcade was done for a reason, though: it was aimed at gathering donations towards a college fund for Caine. Less than a week…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2012
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  8-Bit George Washington and Adolf Hitler Fight With Cyborg Dinosaurs in This Time Travel Art Show

  Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history’s greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin—looking a lot like Nintendo’s Mario—face off riding weaponized extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2012
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  The Time-Travelling Assassins of Looper

  Ah, finally, a trailer for upcoming sci-fi flick Loopers, about criminal time-travellers paid to whack people. Nothing could go wrong with that, right? Nothing except Bruce Willis.

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2012
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  When “Sexy” Meant “Fully-Clothed With Expensive Race Cars”

  I remember when I was 8, and my important bits still didn’t quite know what they were doing, I thought this was the single greatest image on the planet. A sexy European lady and a McLaren F1 car? It was heaven. Twenty-four years later, my bits know exactly what they’re doing, and…this is still pretty…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2012
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  Nintendo Won’t be Going to GamesCom

  We had a blast at Nintendo’s comfy GamesCom booth last year. We won’t this year, though, as the company has announced it won’t be attending. Suit yourself, Nintendo. More currywurst for us. [Develop]

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2012
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  CultureTotal Recall

  The Sad Story of a Japanese Gaming Legend who Pretends War Crimes Never Happened

  Here at Total Recall, we deal in history. Partly because I love my video games, but also because as a graduate in the field I love my history as well. So it saddens me deeply when I see people involved in video games trying to mess with real, actual history. Which leads me to something…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2012
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  Disappointment Dog is Disappointed In You

  Aww. I feel so bad when I let down Disappointment Dog. But I don’t feel bad to be here, and I hope that you don’t either. Welcome, Kotaku, to your Thursday night Open Thread. I hope your weeks have been going well! Here, assembled from around the internet, are some things to read and maybe…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 12, 2012
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  Video Game Sex Drive Ends in “Cougar’s” Busted Marriage

  There’s this German browser game called WAR2 Glory. You’ve probably never heard of it. “Alleged Cougar” Lisa Carroll, 39 (pictured), and her 16 year-old “fiancee” have, though, because it’s where they met, and it’s how they started knocking boots. After growing closer through the game, the pair actually got engaged – via Skype – and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2012
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  Star Wars: The Old Republic Manages to Piss Off Players By Handing Out Free Game Time

  After all the trouble Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen since its launch late last year, BioWare today decided to reward its “most valued players” that stuck with the game a free month of game time. How could that possibly go wrong? It’s all about the definition of “most valued players”. BioWare apparently defines…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2012