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  Dude, Why is Link’s Horse Called Ian?

  Remember back to 2010, dear readers, and you may remember a cute little comic about Link and Epona by British writer and artist Louis Roskosch Well, the book that comic was due to appear in is now finished, and it looks just lovely. It’s not all about Zelda, but there’s a lot of video game…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  The Battlefields, Hangar Bays and Future Guns of Mass Effect 3

  Brian Sum is a concept artist who has worked for Canadian developers BioWare since 2007. Before that, he’d been at Sierra and Microsoft’s FASA Studio. As a senior concept artist working on Mass Effect 3, Sum has produced some stunning vistas for many of the game’s galactic locations, ranging from the inside of alien starships…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  Capcom, Street Fighter, KONY 2012, Angelina Jolie’s Leg, Together

  What happens when the team at Taiwanese animation house NMA and Capcom get together for what looks like a little marketing? Street Fighter X Tekken becomes Angelina Jolie X KONY 2012. And the world is a better place for it.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  The New iPad’s Retina Display Can’t Stop Bullets

  Apple’s new iPad has already sold 3 million units, and it hasn’t even been on sale for a week. This is important video game news, but I understand, there are a lot of people who like to pretend that isn’t the case. For them, here is video of a man shooting a new iPad. Not…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  BioWare Takes Dragon Age Back to the Drawing Board

  With Mass Effect 3 hogging the headlines for all the right (and wrong) reasons this month, BioWare feels now is the time to reveal that the Dragon Age series is in for what sounds like a serious bout of self-reflection. After the second game in the series bitterly disappointed many fans, and with it now…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  When French Musicians Make Love to the Video Games of the 1980s

  Teaming up with French band Sna-Fu Grand Desordre Orchestre, artist Pierre Manry has made a clip for the group’s song Dream O Rama that is one enormous tip of the hat to the video games of yesteryear. If you like what you see, the band has alternate versions hosted on their site, like one as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012
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  And You Thought Mass Effect 3’s Ending Was Bad…

  When people get all misty-eyed about the amazing, original Syndicate from 1993, they often overlook something. The game’s ending. Or, to be more accurate, its complete lack of one. Maybe they never finished the game, I don’t know, but I did. And it was a tough game. So getting to the end I was expecting…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012
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  The Horror, the Glory of Treasure’s Ronald McDonald Video Game

  It’s time to put a smile on your face and a dangerously high level of cholesterol in your arteries! It’s time to hunt for treasure and wield ancient magical powers! It’s your chance to play as the world’s most famous clown! No, not Charlie Sheen – it’s time to take on the role of burger-shifter…

  Luke Taylor Published March 19, 2012
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  Total Recall Starts Now!

  Kotaku’s daily look back at the history of video games starts….now.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012
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  These Eyes Ain’t Just For Show

  Artist’s Credit: Glenn Rankin/Smithsonian Institution Greetings, readers. Today marks the 12th Monday—and week—of the year. Yes, that’s a dozen particularly dreadful rings of the alarm clock since your bright-eyed days of resolution-making. I don’t count the weeks, mind you. It’s just that Google Calendar allows for the display of Week Numbers. Useful? Nah, just strange.…

  By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 19, 2012
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  Binary Domain Coming to PC

  Sega’s Binary Domain, the robot-shooting title the Yakuza have been working on when they should have been working on Yakuza 5, is making the jump from consoles to PC. It’ll be out next month.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012
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  Microsoft Working on a Gaming Helmet, Glasses

  Since 2010, Microsoft has been working on a gaming display system so small that it wouldn’t need to be sitting on an entertainment unit or even held in your hands. You could wear it in a pair of glasses. Or in a stupid helmet. The company sees two avenues for such technology: the glasses are…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012
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  When Mass Effect 3 ‘News’ Goes A Little Bit Wrong

  The Mass Effect 3 Datapad is a free iPad and iPhone app that lets people read about the game’s alien races and other lore while they are on the go. It also lets them raise their Galactic Readiness in their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or PC versions of the game via a simple mini-game in…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012
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  EA Takes Down Online Servers For Eleven Games

  As has become something of a yearly tradition for Electronic Arts, the publisher is shutting down the online servers for eleven of its games. On April 13, EA will kill the online servers for FIFA 10, Bloom Blox, and MMA, among other titles in its library that it says are “no longer feasible” to keep…

  By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2012
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  Behold: Nintendo’s Most Pointless Peripheral In Years

  I possess an official stand for my Nintendo 3DS. Hooray. That’s like bragging that you’ve got a Wii Speak for your Wii or a propellor for your telephone. The Nintendo 3DS Stand (first seen in Japan) is free with every copy of this month’s Kid Icarus: Uprising, and it theoretically makes the game more comfortable…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012
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  Twitter’s Got Those Better Mass Effect 3 Endings You’ve Been Looking For

  Fan outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3‘s been boiling over since the week that BioWare’s hotly anticpated threequel came out, with charity protests, complaints being made to the Federal Trade Commission and noises about closure from BioWare. People want to something else for their Shepards, even if they don’t know what it is.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012
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  Free Apps Like Angry Birds Are Eating Your Phone’s Battery

  Wondering why your phone keeps dying after a session or two of Angry Birds? One study says it’s because you’re too cheap to pay. According to scientists at Purdue University who examined apps on Windows and Android-based phones, free applications only require about 10-30% of the energy they actually use. On the flip side, the…

  By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2012
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  The Banner Saga Begins Waving the Kickstarter Flag

  In February, a trio of former BioWare vets announced a somewhat mysterious but gorgeously drawn new project, The Banner Saga. Today, they’ve unveiled a Kickstarter campaign for the game, which comes with some further information about their plans and designs. The initial plan for The Banner Saga is for it to be a DRM-free release…

  By Kate Cox Published March 19, 2012
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  Let These Screenshots Tease You With the Sex and Power of Dishonored’s Alternate Reality

  We already know from previous glimpses at Dishonored that Arkane Studios’ upcoming game have shown that there’s going to be swordplay and stealth. Now you can add sexy times to that list, too. The first-person adventure takes place in a weird alternate reality where the nearly submerged world is ruled by an island empire that…

  By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012
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  Kid Icarus: Uprising Flies in the Face of Game Critics’ Expectations

  It’s been 21 years since the release of the last original Kid Icarus game. That makes hero Pit old enough to drink. Let’s see if the assembled game reviewers gave him reason to start. Kid Icarus: Uprising takes the original heavenly action-platformer from the NES days and transforms it into a third-person shooter. That sentence…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012