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  Can Game Creators Really “End” Their Games?

  For years, Japanese gamers have enjoyed the Momotaro Dentetsu series of train-themed, board game-style video games. If all good things must come to an end, it sounds like Momotaro Dentetsu is finished. Kaput. Earlier this year, Akira Sakuma (not pictured), who created Momotaro Dentetsu, said he would “end” Momotaro Dentetsu if Konami, who enveloped the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  Turning Doom Into Thief

  The Dark Mod is a modification that turns PC shooter Doom 3 into something a little more akin to what fans of the Thief series are used to. More men in armour, less monsters in closets. While it’s been out for a while, it recently received a big update, and in promising news may get…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Some of the World’s Best Young Gundam Model Makers

  You’ve already seen the best Gundam models made by Japanese fans. Now, you get to see some of the best Gundam models in the world. Lucky you! These are the world finalists for the “Gunpla Builders World Cup 2011”, the first international competition devoted to Gunpla, or Gundam model building with finalists from the following…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  Diablo III, Cammy and Iron Man Walked Into a Bar…

  You can tell there’s a competition on at the moment for a Lilith look-a-like, because cosplaying circles are suddenly swamped with people dressed as the Borderlands star. We’re featuring two Liliths in this week’s gallery, in fact. Everyone else, though, is an assortment of men and women from the world of video games. And maybe…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  The Lich King is Ready to Battle Your Recycling Bin

  He is Arthas Menethil. The Lich King. Scourge of Azeroth and star of his own World of Warcraft expansion. And today, courtesy of Chinese artist Chao Yuan Xu, also a nice new wallpaper for the WoW-loving gamer’s desktop. Arthas Menethil, the Lich King [DeviantArt, via Coolvibe]

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Metal Gear Rising Was Killed Off

  For a spell there, Metal Gear: Rising fell off the map. That’s probably because the game had been canned. Now, as evident in the game’s latest trailer, Rising is back in a big way. During the latest Kojima Productions podcast, it was revealed that the game’s core mechanic, the ability to chop up whatever, was…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  Press a Button, a Man Swears At You

  Clay, a company that specialises in “innovative digital media experiences”, built this table covered in buttons for an exhibition that kicked off in London last Friday. It’s called the “Periodic Table of Swearing”, and took all this to build: It’s constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC’ed and laser cut MDF, direct to media printing, over…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Bet You Couldn’t Play Street Fighter with Your Feet

  AJ loves arcade games, and he’s not going to let his disability get in the way of that! In the above video, AJ plays everything from fighters to shooters to classic arcade games—with his feet. Check out his YouTube Channel, appropriately titled OnlyUseMyFeet. How I play Arcade Games with my FEET! [YouTube]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  It’s Cute That Sonic Runs Like An Idiot

  On Friday, artist Zac Gorman thought aloud “I think it’d be cute if Sonic ran like an idiot”. He accompanied this thought with a cute little animation. The internet did the rest. A bunch of other artists and Tumblr users agreed, posting Sonic running like, well, an idiot. And you know what? He is cute.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Solesides: Freestyle Rapping

  For the next 7:06, if you have any appreciation of how hard it is to come up with rhyming verses off the top of your head, any at all, prepare to be blown away. Hi. Welcome to Soundtrack. Tonight, we’re looking at Freestyle Rapping In the early 1990s, some students at the University of California…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Young Idol Makes Out with Older Dude. Misses Gran Turismo 5 Event.

  With over thirty members, you’d think it’d be no biggie if AKB48’s 17-year-old Yumi Wakatsuki was M.I.A. Yet, this weekend when she didn’t show at a Gran Turismo 5 event, people began wondering whether her absence wasn’t merely because she was under the weather. People began wondering if she had been benched for one of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  “Ashton” Is Not Short for “A Shit Ton”, Nintendo

  Internet person Aston recently purchased a Nintendo 3DS and created a Mii. Aston seems to like his 3DS. Nintendo doesn’t like his name. After entering his name, a warning screen popped up, noting that others might find the moniker “offensive”. On his friend’s 3DS, Ashton’s name is censored and replaced with question marks. Ashton’s a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  What Does “BioWare” Even Mean Any More? It Doesn’t Mean Command & Conquer.

  In saying the next Command & Conquer game is coming from “BioWare”, it seems EA is hoping a little of gamer’s good will towards the RPG powerhouse will rub off on the game. Instead, unless Generals 2 is amazing, it’s probably going to backfire. How? When people think “BioWare”, they think of the Canadian developer…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  …And China Rips-Off the PS Vita

  Sony is making the PlayStation Vita at a Chinese factory. And, surprise, another Chinese company is releasing a new device that looks an awful lot like the Vita. Anyone remember the iPed? Called the Yinlips YDPG18, the Android-powered portable has a gravity sensor, front and back cameras, a large LCD screen, 1080p support, and a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011
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  The Spike VGAs Red Carpet Had Celebrities, Developers (and Sometimes Both!)

  Over the weekend, the Spike Video Game Awards were held. While you would have seen a few people get up on stage, there were a lot more people in attendance. Lots of developers, yeah, but lots of celebrities as well. Ever wonder just who among those celebrities scores an invite to a free meal and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Darksiders II: What Starts With War, Ends With Death

  I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I’ll admit, that’s a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel. This trailer was released over the weekend. It’s short on gameplay, but long on soft focus and dripping blood. Darksiders 2 is out on PC, PS3 and 360 sometime in 2012.

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  The “Spike Holiday Video Game Extravaganza” Might be a Better Name

  “The Spike Video Game Awards are not everyone’s ideal version of a video game award show, and complaining about them has become an annual event, like the show itself.” Totilo wrote that over the weekend, and I agree 100%. Complaints over the show and its format are getting as tiring as the show itself, so…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011
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  Get Item!

  Get Item! | Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, accepts the Video Game Awards’ inaugural hall of fame award on behalf of the game and Nintendo. Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this…

  By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011
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  A Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight

  Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It’s a got resource gathering, but it’s not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can’t say it’s Team Fortress; zombies and headshots,…

  By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011
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  Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All

  Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this afternoon he did not, in fact, lose an unreleased PlayStation Vita in a Los Angeles cab after his performance at last night’s Spike Video Game Awards. “I just wanted to see how much management would freak out over it,…

  By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011