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  Warcraft Re-Imagined in Retro Color Graphics

  Artist João Victor G. Costa took Warcraft and added old-school color graphics. The result is beautiful minimalism. According to Costa, “I know the black ’emptiness’ suck, but it’s for the sake of the gameplay, really.” Introduced in 1981, the Color Graphics Adapter was IBM’s first graphics card. Decades later, graphics cards have advanced, producing more…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  But Can Dark Souls Make Devil May Cry‘s Dante?

  Perhaps! That’s exactly what one Japanese netizen tried to do: Create Dante from Devil May Cry using Dark Souls‘ avatar editor. The result doesn’t look like a walking Dante clone, but it sure as heck looks better than that emo guy in DmC: Devil May Cry デビルメイクライのダンテを作ってみた[はちま] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  What is This, Mirror’s Edge or Real Life?

  Paying homage to a favourite game of his, artist Dave Payne has created this stunning recreation of the white-washed city featured in 2008’s Mirror’s Edge It’s not a photo, nor is it a screenshot of the game at full settings; it’s a 3D image, created in 3DS Max, Maxwell Render and Photoshop. As proof of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Wear GlaDOS In Your Hair

  Reader G.W. Smith points us towards this adorable little Portal headpiece, which can help the ladies (or long-haired gentlemen!) look like the villainous GlaDOS is sticking out of their scalp. The ornament was made by Luke Walker. What I like about it is how weird it is. It’s not just turning an existing thing like…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Capcom Wouldn’t be Capcom Without Akiman’s Amazing Art

  Japanese artist Akira Yasuda, better known by his pen name Akiman, is a legend in the video game art world, being responsible for more classic images, posters, box covers and characters than we’ve got space to share. So we’ll keep things brief, and just focus on some of his more memorable works. Akiman worked at…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  This Angry Birds Horror Movie is Awesome

  Continuing its series of short horror movies based on video games entirely lacking in horror, G4 has run The Birds of Anger, an Angry Birds flick that has more in common with Alfred Hitchcock than green pigs. While The Hunt was interesting in its treatment of the source material, this one is just great fun…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  How Nintendo Is Being Kicked When It’s Down

  In Japanese, it’s called “endaka” (円高), or “high-valued yen”. And it’s wreaking havoc on so much of the country. If you are living in Japan, getting paid in yen and then converting that into another currency, or if you are importing goods from outside the country, the strong yen is gravy. If you, like me…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  Just Cause 3 Coming Next Year

  According to a report in Xbox World magazine, Just Cause developers Avalanche will next year release a third game in the hit swarthy harpoon simulator series. I know. You’re probably as shocked as I am. A popular video game franchise getting a sequel! Unheard of. Just Cause is just the kind of series that needs…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  First Image of Phoenix Wright, the Handsome Japanese Movie Star

  Japan is making an Ace Attorney movie. Takashi Miike is directing, and actor Hiroki Narimiya is starring as Phoenix Wright. This is what he looks like as Phoenix Wright. The movie was filmed near Kyoto and is slated for an early 2012 release in Japan. This isn’t the first adaptation of Phoenix Wright. The all-female…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2011
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  Nintendo Stops Printing Money

  Yesterday, Japan’s Nikkei estimated that over the past six months Nintendo has lost ¥100 billion. Today, Nintendo revealed its official figures, and…they’re not quite that bad. The company instead has posted a loss of ¥70 billion. Here’s to silver linings!

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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  Sony Buys Sony Ericsson (Which is Important for the PlayStation)

  For a while now, Sony and Ericsson have teamed up to run a mobile phone company. That company released the Xperia Play, a device we used to call the PlayStation phone. Today, Ericsson is selling up its side of the business to Sony. This means the company, once a joint venture, will become a 100%…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011
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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