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  What Do You Call a Physics Puzzler Starring an Irish Human Cannonball?

  It takes a special kind of man to shoot himself out of thousands of cannons, bouncing his way through 120 puzzling levels filled with deadly obstacles. Or maybe just a really drunk guy. Nowhere in the description for YoYo Games Rick O’Shea does it actually mention our hero taking a couple of shots of whiskey…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2011
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  British Tabloid Warns of Xbox Live Con Artists

  Phishing scans are not unique to the Xbox 360. They aren’t even unique to game consoles. Anytime you connect to the internet, your passwords, your info. and your credit cards could be at risk. According to British tabloid The Sun (I know!), con artists are going after gamers. Crooks are sending out emails, directing people…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  Game Boy Classic Metroid II Coming to Nintendo eShop on Thanksgiving

  Before the 3DS launched, Nintendo promised that it’d be rolling out a catalog of Game Boy classics for their new handheld. While that roll-out hasn’t been as fast as some fans has wanted, a genuine classic’s hitting the system this Thursday. Metroid II: Return of Samus sends the iconic bounty hunter to the home planet…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 22, 2011
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  Kojima Playing Metal Gear

  Solid | TOKYO, JAPAN: Idol Haruna Kojima at a recent Konami press event. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) You’d Better Pay Attention to Spec Ops: The Line Spec Ops: The Line is a little bit Heart of Darkness, a little bit Apocalypse Now and a whole lot of shooter innovation blended into a postmodern game about…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  One Million People Are Paying for Call of Duty Elite

  Never mind that the rollout for Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty‘s stat tracking and social service, hasn’t been smooth, Activision is sending out a press release this morning to proudly announce that it’s sold one million premium accounts. Congrats! GameStop alone sold 600,00 Elite membership. According to Elite‘s status page, “Service Is Intermittent”.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  You’d Better Pay Attention to Spec Ops: The Line

  Spec Ops: The Line is a little bit Heart of Darkness, a little bit Apocalypse Now and a whole lot of shooter innovation blended into a postmodern game about honor, choices and morality. Here’s a quick look at the game’s new trailer and some of its amazing set pieces, all set in Dubai following a…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2011
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  If Bayonetta Were a Gay Adult Video…

  It’s not, but what if it were. Then, it might look like something like this. Kotaku commenter Travakh pointed to this clip, which originally appeared on Japanese video site NicoNico Douga a while back. It is NSFW From PlaplatintinGames Inc., “Bayolante” features spliced and edited footage of gay porn. If naked butts, wrestling, and bad…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  Don’t Be the Hero of Time. Be the Hero of the Kitchen.

  You Americans will soon be cooking up Thanksgiving feasts. I’m thinking of the Australian Christmas BBQ. Either way, we could all look the part in these Zelda aprons, hand-made by Janeille Pita. There are two available, both based on the Wind Waker designs of Link and Zelda. Actually, now I look at them closer they…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Report: Skyrim Contains the Entire Elder Scrolls Landmass, Including Morrowind and Cyrodiil?

  Holy shit. An intrepid Elder Scrolls player, curious as to why the game stopped him at the border between Skyrim and Morrowind (the playable landmass of the third game in the series), engaged noclip mode and decided to look beyond. What he claims he found was…the entire continent of Tamriel. The whole damn thing. He…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Bruises Make the Best Pokémon

  You might look at a bruise as something to cover up. Hide it until you recover. One Twitter user saw something else: A Pocket Monster. Here, Pokémon Gastly, a black ball of glowing matter surrounded by purple gas, takes the place of an unsightly black-and-blue spot. The text bubble reads, “Ah! A wild Gastly appeared!”,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  The Colourful, Robotic Art of Killzone 3

  It’s funny, considering Killzone 2 was so bleak, Killzone 3 remains one of, if not the best-looking game on the PS3, an explosion of vibrant colours and, amazingly given the franchise, style. Part of that is thanks to the guys at art studio Karakter, who we’ve featured here before, but it’s also down to the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Dark Souls, You’re Looking Awfully Cute Today

  Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls. Two of the nastiest, most unforgiving game of this console generation. So why the hell are they looking so adorable? It’s the Paul Robertson treatment, the pixel artist turning what were once menacing foes into cuddly friends. You can read our Dark Souls review here. Note it’s not as cute…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Minecraft’s Statistics Will Crush Your Mind

  At Minecon, Minecraft’s big convention held over the weekend, a panel revealed some terrifying statistics on not just how popular the once-indie darling is, but how often people screw around with it. The development team at Mojang used a talk to reveal the statistics from Minecraft.net, the game’s launchpad of sorts, and those stats are…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Japanese Earthquake Game Wasn’t Cancelled Because of the Earthquake?

  On March 11, Japan was hit with a massive earthquake and tsunami. The country was left in ruins. Within days, Japanese game developers began canceling, altering, and postponing games. One game, the latest Disaster Report, got the axe. It was assumed that the game Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories, which dealt with the aftershock…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  The Best Star Wars Toy Ever? That’s…Possible

  Hey, Stars Wars fans with too much money. Get a load of this. It’s a Hot Toys Luke Skywalker figure. Of the badass, handless, Bespin variety. Just in time for the Christmas wish list of your dreams Really, I don’t know where to start with this. It’s a Hot Toys figure, so you know there’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  How Does the Steins; Gate Porn Parody Stack Up to the Anime?

  If it exists, there is a porn of it. Steins; Gate exists as an Xbox 360 game and an anime, which means, yep, there is a dirty version of it. This is it. The flick is called Layers; Gate, and it has naked people in it, bumping uglies. Sister site Kotaku Japan posted a comparison…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  Yakuza 5 Sounds Massive

  The next Yakuza game may be the first to spur a complete overhaul of the series, upcoming Ryu Ga Gotoku 5 to offer five playable locations, seamless transitions between battle and chit-chat and an overall game of “massive volume”. [Andriasang]

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Fans Helping Fix Uncharted 3’s Terrible Aim

  I think Crecente was a little kind with his Uncharted 3 review. For me, the changes made to the gunplay (namely in the speed and accuracy with which you aim your weapons) nearly killed the game for me, and for an adventure where you spend so much time playing with guns, that’s a big problem.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011
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  Don’t Be Shy. You Can Sing Alone in a Kickass Space Pod!

  Much of Japanese social life revolves around three things: Eating, drinking, and karaoke. Maybe you’re a pro at eating and can hold your own with the bottle, but what to do when you cannot carry a tune? Because, one day, you’re going to need to sing to impress your co-workers or a date. Ah, crap.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 22, 2011
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  New Xbox Dashboard Launches On December 6

  As the headline states, Microsoft announced overnight that the new Xbox 360 dashboard, one designed to bring the company’s user interfaces on console, PC and mobile phone closer together, will be out on December 6. Aside from looking nicer, the new dash also has better (read: more deeply-integrated) voice recognition for Kinect users, while it’ll…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011