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  These 3DS Girls Are Freaky

  The Nintendo 3DS is not a new platform. It does have a bunch of games, but even then, I can safely say this is the most screwed up character design the handheld has seen. These faces belong to characters in upcoming 3Ds game Hime Gal Paradise, which like the manga it’s based on features girls…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  With a Wink, One Epic Game Shrewdly Delivers Less Than It Promises

  Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II…

  By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012
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  Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices

  Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. He had been dead for up to nine hours. Intense levels…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012
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  How to get Lightsabers in Skyrim

  There’s a lot of talking here at the beginning. A lot of boring crafting stuff. Stick with it. Eventually, you’ll see that you really can get lightsabers in Skyrim. And canon be damned, they are awesome The mod has actually been available since late last year. If you don’t have it installed, get on it!…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  Ultraman Is a Fancy Dresser

  Ultra Cool | TOKYO, JAPAN: Ultraman (men?) pose in 2006 at the opening of an Ultraman movie. (Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi | AP) IKEA, and the Logic of Video Game Design A visit to IKEA usually means house moving, renovating, and too much fun spent with LEGO for grown-ups. But is there an element of videogame…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Man Lights Fireworks. Man Blows Up Manhole.

  A man in a blue jacket crouched, lighting a firecracker on a manhole. The children stuck their fingers in their ears. What happened next was caught on a security camera. It can only be described as unbelievable. Gas in the drainage system unexpectedly caught fire, causing an explosion that sent the 44-pound manhole several stories…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Perverts Running Amok with NSFW SoulCalibur V Character Creation!

  If you allow people the freedom to create things, you can count on this: sex. Just look at all the dick faces people made with Nintendo Miis. Nintendo Miis! They’re the most innocuous things imaginable, and bam, cocks So, when you have a game like SoulCalibur V, which has been baiting hyper sexuality, you’re going…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Let This Gothic Lolita Shoot Up Your Shelves

  DeathSmiles is a horizontal shmup from bullet hell developer Cave. It’s not my favorite Cave title by any stretch, but it does have a sizeable following due to its Christmas-in-Hell asethetic. Plus, the game stars Gothic Lolitas, like batgirl Casper. People seem to like those. This figure was first released back in 2009, but the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Leave It to this Italian To Bring a South Korean MMORPG to Life

  Way before cosplay was mainstream, Italy’s Giorgia was doing her thing, dressing up as game and anime characters. She’s been cosplaying since 1997, which, in internet time, must be a century. Giorgia’s photos are extremely well done—ditto for the outfits. No wonder she won Best Individual Cosplayer at the 2005 World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Japan’s PlayStation Store Is Buggy and Needs A-Fixin’

  According to Sony, the PlayStation Store’s search function is buggy and not working. The Tokyo-based electronics company is investigating and working on a fix. Sit tight. [PlayStation Japan]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Marvel at Sony’s Amazing Gravity Rush Whiteboard Drawings

  Sony invited a group of Japanese press to its offices to check out upcoming PS Vita game Gravity Rush. These types of tours can start to blur into each other, with game developers giving the press the hard sell. But this tour had something I’d never seen before: whiteboard drawings! The game creators created these…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  The Horror of Plastic Figures

  You might think this statue of Nene Anegasaki from Konami’s love sim Love Plus looks pretty nice. You might think it’s well sculpted and well put together. But wait until you see it in pieces. The horror! Obviously, this is the kit deconstructed form, but man, that’s some scary sauce. Orders are being taken now,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Hello Dentist. Tokyo Gets the Pinkest and Cutest Clinic on Earth.

  Hello Kitty is an icon. You don’t only find the cat in video games, on toilet paper, and even an infamous vibrator. And now, Hello Kitty has a dentist office. Last month, the Heart Dental Clinic opened in Tokyo’s Koto-ku. It’s wall-to-wall Kitty-chan, Sanrio approved, and pink. Really, really pink. Inside, it’s a Hello Kitty…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  In the Grim Future There Might not be a Warhammer 40K MMO

  A few weeks back, the future of THQ’s Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium MMO was very much up in the air. Comments early yesterday had seemed to ease fears over the project, but comments later yesterday brought the fears right back. It seems beleaguered publisher THQ doesn’t have the stomach or coin to fully back the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  Report: Video Gaming Interrupted by Sadistic Sisters. Cruelty Ensues.

  It started out as any other fall afternoon. High school student “Joseph” was in his room playing video games when he got a call from Amanda Johnson, 17, to come over to her house. Joseph’s last name is being withheld to protect his privacy, because as Wisconsin’s St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office stated, what happened…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2012
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  Some Kick-Ass Robot Designs From One of Hawken’s Artists

  Multiplayer shooter Hawken snuck into our collective megacity last year and stole our robotic hearts. Sadly, it’s been a very long time since we heard or saw anything about the game. To satisfy both yours and our appetite for more hot giant mech fighting action, then, here’s a collection of mechs, tanks, robots and other…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  Spiderbait: Monty

  Time for a little antipodean rock n’ roll on Soundtrack tonight, I think. This is Monty, from Spiderbait’s finest work, 1995’s The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake Another standout from the same album is Sam Gribbles. For something a little older, and which may be the most Australian song you will ever hear, see…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  Some of Ubisoft’s PC Games Won’t Work Next Week. Not Even Singleplayer.

  Next week, Ubisoft will be moving around some of its servers. What this means for those of you saddled with Ubisoft PC (and Mac!) games that have restrictive DRM is that, in some cases, your games won’t work while the move takes place. At all PC games affected include Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2, Might &…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  Man Plays Every Zelda Game in a Month, Writes Paper on Timeline

  So Nintendo has, more or less, settled on some semblance of an official timeline for the Legend of Zelda series. You may have thoughts/concerns about this. You also probably don’t have as many as reader Zach does, though. A little while ago Zach, who writes at website View From Heaven, sat down to play every…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012
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  The Well-Spoken Horror of Video Game Novel Audiobooks

  If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. If Gears of Wars’ Jacinto’s Remnant doesn’t do it for you, you could try Halo: Cryptum,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2012