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  Wow, the Xbox 360 is Absolutely Killing it (in the US, Anyway)

  I tend to let monthly sales charts wash over me these days because, well, I’m 31 now and don’t give a shit which console sells more than another in any given month. Sometimes, though, I like to get a little hypocritical and take a peek at annual sales. And 2011’s make for interesting reading. While…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012
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  You Better Believe Internet Cats Can Fus Ro Dah

  I shouldn’t enjoy this. It’s an internet cat video, playing out a tired video gag from a game I’m pretty sure I’ve over-consumed in the past two months. And yet…here it is. After I laughed. In spite of all that. I think it’s more the victim’s reaction after than the shout itself, because unlike the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012
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  The Fun And Games Of The FBI

  Republished from Kotaku Australia A member of the FBI is in the room but we’re not sure who or where he is. He probably already knows everything about us. Our phone lines are probably already tapped. We’ve probably been x-rayed in our sleep. We bet he loves black coffee and cherry pie, too. We keep…

  Tracey Lien Published January 18, 2012
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  Alienware Launches PC That’s Disguised as a Console

  As consoles become more like personal computers with their patches and their upgrades, so too do PCs become more like consoles, with more people using control pads and hooking them up to TVs than ever before. Alienware sees a market in this, with the launch of the X51, a small PC that looks, and is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012
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  Why George Lucas Won’t Make Any More Star Wars Movies

  From an interview with The New York Times (Top photo by Ethan Miller | Getty)

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012
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  Here’s Your Borderlands 2 Lilith Model, in the Flesh

  Gearbox’s long and no-doubt exhaustive search for an attractive young woman who looks like an attractive video game woman is over. Australian Yasemin Arslan will be playing the part of Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands 2. You can see her in-character in the clip below. Hopefully with this competition over Gearbox can now turn their…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012
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  Hand Over the Roast Beef and Nobody Gets Hurt

  Happy Tuesday, Kotaku-eers. Welcome to another late-night open thread. I’m your friendly MC, Benekirk Humblethatch. Have you had a good start to your week? Are you as excited as I am that Justified‘s third season begins tonight? You may be taking tomorrow off to boycott SOPA, but we’ll still be here at Kotaku, reporting SOPA…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012
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  Let’s Watch the Intro to Syndicate, Circa 1993

  The single best piece of video game news today is that the original Syndicate is this Thursday going on sale over on Good Old Games for $6. You’ll get more fun out of that game than you will most games costing 10x as much. So let’s celebrate. Here’s the intro to the original 1993 game,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012
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  Mass Effect 3 + Kinect Looks Like This, Beta On February 14

  Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out. It’s…well, it doesn’t look too bad! Though these commands are all rather sterile. How well it works with my eyes full of tears or my…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012
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  Shadow of the Colossus, Amalur Demo, Uncharted 3 DLC New This Week on the PlayStation Store

  Some good stuff in this week’s PlayStation store update. We’ve got full-game downloads for a number of solid titles, including Crysis 2, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and individual downloads for the HD versions of both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. That latter one, in particular, is certainly worth $20, even if you played it on…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012
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  Hey, Valve, What’s Going On, Eh?

  Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun Valve have created themselves an interesting situation. Presenting themselves as bastions of consumers, remarkably accessible to gamers, regularly inviting in groups of modders – often to give them jobs – and always being present to offer a quote on how customers deserve to be treated with more dignity, they establish…

  John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published January 17, 2012
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  Power.

  Mood lighting | U.S. Marines take aim in a scene lit like an action game. (Image via Flickr.) These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games The world of video games is full of mighty people-people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 17, 2012
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  I See a Faster Fable in the The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo

  You get exclusive items for Mass Effect 3 if you play the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but that shouldn’t be the only reason you play it. From the demo, Reckoning looks like it could be a fairly entertaining and worth-while RPG. If you played Fable and thought, “Man, this combat is too slow!”…

  By Nick Vannucci Published January 17, 2012
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  Double Fine’s Latest Gets a Launch Date

  Double Fine’s latest game, the Kinect XBLA minigame collection Happy Action Theater, now has a launch date of February 1st. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points, or $10.

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012
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  Would You Let Hissing Cockroaches Crawl On Your Face for a PlayStation Job?

  Season three of Sony’s The Tester sees competitors doing completely ridiculous things for a chance at a production associate at PlayStation’s Santa Monica Studio. What sort of ridiculous things? See for yourself. I’ve gone through a great deal of shit in the pursuit of gainful employment over the past several decades, but I can honestly…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012
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  ‘Retreats’ Delay SOPA Hearings To February

  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has issued a statement that due to Republican and Democratic “retreats,” hearings regarding the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) will resume in February. SOPA’s Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, is scheduled for a vote on January 24th.

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012
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  Does The Gore in The Darkness II Make You Squeamish?

  Ready for a bit of the ‘ol ultra-violence? Featured here are the grossest, gnarliest, and most stomach-churning moments contained in the demo for upcoming video game The Darkness II If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, The Darkness II‘s demo is available to you right now. PC, PS3 and non-gold Xbox players can grab the…

  By Nick Vannucci Published January 17, 2012
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  Uncharted as a Gay Romance? It Kind of Works!

  I recently opined that one of the things I didn’t like about Uncharted 3 was that it lacked a delightful love-triangle like the one in Uncharted 2. Turns out maybe there was one, and most of us just missed it. The jokers at “Touchbone Pictures” have put together this parody trailer for Uncharted: Drake’s Devotion,…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012
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  Bury Yourself in Soft and Cuddly Plush Worms

  After spending the past 17 years trying to kill them it’s a lovely change of pace to be able to cuddle them. Team17 has just launched a new line of plushies based on one of the most adorable war game franchises ever, Worms With such iconic character designs it’s a wonder we haven’t been buried…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012
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  Be Advised, Halo 4 Beta Sign-Ups Are Fake

  David Ellis of 343 Industries’ Halo team has tweeted: “If you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 beta be advised, IT’S A FAKE.” Hear that? It’s a faaaaake

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012