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  Dudes, Your Girly Desktops and Walls Are Driving the Ladies Away

  You might think those posters of big-eyed little anime girls are cute as a button. But according to FujiTV, nearly 80 percent of Japanese women polled give a big no thanks to dudes who cover their room with stuff like that. On the FujiTV segment, women were interviewed about whether it was okay for men…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  This Guy Has a Rare Arcade Cabinet. Is It Real?

  Sometimes I get stupid email from readers. Sometimes I get nice email. And sometimes, I get email from people with questions. Reader Joel sent me one of those: A question. This is a Puckman cabinet. Before Pac-Man was called Pac-Man, it was Puckman. “Paku paku” (パクパク) is the sound in Japanese for people opening and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  No, You Can’t Play Mario Kart On Facebook, Despite Scammers’ Claims

  There’s currently a rather clever scam fishing its way through Facebook at the moment, looking to cash in on one of the most popular video game series of all time: the humble Mario Kart You know you can’t play Nintendo games on Facebook. I know you can’t play Nintendo games on Facebook. But millions of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Can You Handle Zangief’s Tiny Red Shorts?

  Say hello to Mike Fass. You might be familiar with this guy if you watched Street Fighter: The Later Years or if you attended the Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition earlier this year. The Mr. Stonewall Bear Competition was to pick the top “bear”—or manly, hairy gay dude. Fass has worked as a rock drummer, an…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  Why Not Play Dark Souls In a Coffin

  You end up spending a lot of your time in Dark Souls dying. Being stabbed, burned, crushed, bludgeoned, whatever. So this custom rig for the game, built out of a coffin, seems wonderfully apt. The coffin was built for a competition run by publishers Namco Bandai in Australia, and features a big LCD TV, surround…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Hey Blizzard, It’s not a Good Idea to put Anti-Gay Slurs in a Blizzcon Video

  Blizzard’s annual Blizzcon is, for the most part, a friendly get-together for like-minded fans, a place where people can hang out and revel in the fact they all love the same games. It’s a shame, then, that this year’s show was closed out by a video featuring little else but slurs and a guy saying…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  The Best Street Fighter Movie Starred…Jackie Chan?

  You’ve seen the bad of the Street Fighter craze of the early 90s. Now see the good. No, not good. Amazing In this clip, from 1993 movie City Hunter, we see martial arts superstar Jackie Chan take a bit of a beating. After which he starts seeing things. Namely, characters from Street Fighter II. Then…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Reminder: Free Pinball FX 2 Table Available Now

  If you have Pinball FX 2, a new table is available today through next Wednesday for free. If you don’t have Pinball FX 2, the base application is free and, again, so is the table that is free through next Wednesday. Paranormal is its name. A holiday treat from Zen Studios, Paranormalinvolves “solving” a series…

  By Owen Good Published October 26, 2011
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  For the Second Time, Tiger Woods will Share the Cover of His Own Game

  Golfers Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy prevailed in a three-week vote-off to determine the co-stars of the cover of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, which will be the second game in the series’ 15-year run to feature a second golfer in addition to Woods. McIlroy, who charged upon the international golf scene with a dominant…

  By Owen Good Published October 26, 2011
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  Dark Towers and Screaming Headless Torsos

  Happy Wednesday, and welcome to another evening open thread. I hope your week is going swimmingly, and that you’re kicking back and getting ready to ride the post-humpday slide into the weekend. I finally finished A Dance With Dragons recently, and now I get to share the pain of all George RR Martin fans and…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 26, 2011
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  At Age 29, a Game Developer Must Battle Back from a Stroke

  When he got the vision floater in his right eye that morning at work, Mikey Neumann figured in the next 30 minutes he’d be asking someone to drive him home so he could fight off a migraine. But the walloping headache never came. By 6 p.m., he was still in the Gearbox Software office, playing…

  By Owen Good Published October 26, 2011
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  This Video Might Convince Your Doubtful Friends That Games Can Be Art

  For a relaxing time, sit back and watch this terrific PBS short documentary on the artistic merits of video games. The video runs only about 7 minutes, and features NYU’s Eric Zimmerman, game designer and researcher Jesper Juul, Kotaku contributor and secret nerdcore superstar Leigh Alexander, and Babycastles curator and designer Syed Salahuddin. “Even though…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 26, 2011
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  eSports, Now Streaming to Your iPhone

  TwitchTV, the eSports Web TV network, has released an iOS app with complete streaming and chat functionality. Now, you can get all your pro Starcraft watching done on the go

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 26, 2011
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  If This is the Only NBA on Your TV All Year, NBA 2K12 Supplies the Proper Camera Angle

  Baseball parks’ larger, varying dimensions and nonstandard playing areas make for unique camera angles, familiar for fans who watch the local broadcasts but markedly different to others. MLB 2K11 (and MLB The Show 11) sought to replicate this in this year’s game. But just because the court dimensions are uniform and the NBA’s arenas range…

  By Owen Good Published October 26, 2011
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  If Haruki Murakami’s New Book Were Sold Like a Video Game

  It’s easy to buy a book. It’s easy to be someone who buys books. Go to the store, pay some cash, walk out with the book. Or go online, punch in your credit card info and the book comes to your door. Or maybe you just turn on your Kindle and the book is yours…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 26, 2011
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  Gaming Pumpkins, Lets See Em

  It’s Almost Here –Halloween is coming. We have the year’s first game marketing pumpkin to prove it. Which dev wants to prove they can out class The Darkness II pumpkin? Should You Buy Battlefield 3? Yes Battlefield 3 was one of my most anticipated games of this fall. It is the latest iteration in a…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2011
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  Guess Who’s Making an Arcade FightStick for Soulcalibur V?

  If you’ve got a big-name fighting game on the way, Mad Catz has your high-quality Arcade Fightstick. Check out the sexy see-through number the stick maker has put together for next year’s Soulcalibur V It’s the same Tournament Edition controller we’ve reviewed on three separate occasions here at Kotaku, only this time the smoky transparent…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2011
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  A Cowboy in Gotham, a Spaceman and the All-New X-Men Highlight This Week’s Best New Comics

  Every week, there are lots of new comics out in comics shops around the world. There are also fresh new and old ones sold legit on digital devices, every Wednesday. I don’t recommend you buy all of them. Just some of them. My recommendations for this week: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops)…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2011
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  Battlefield 3’s Many Vehicles Seen on A Big-Ass, Triple-Screen Display

  We’ve got this massive three-screen Nvidia set-up sitting in the offices at Gawker. It’s only visiting, so we’re making the most of it. Today that means a lot of W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N Battlefield 3 gaming. Here’s a quick montage of what some of the vehicles look like when played super-sized. Oh, also a knife kill spread across…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2011
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  Ultima Creator Transforms Into a Robot to Work From Home

  With his new wife living and working in New York and his company and home base in Austin, Texas, how does legendary game developer Richard Garriott split his time between the two? He doesn’t, that’s what his robot is for. Garriott’s $15,000 robot patrols the halls of his Austin-based Portalarium development studio when the big…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2011