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  How About Silent Hill with a Shirtless Man?

  Shot in an abandoned Japanese mining town, Silent Hill: Stolen Heart is an homage to the Konami horror series. The fan film was filmed in an old hospital. According to Stolen Heart‘s director Paul Leeming, the real town where the film was shot was apparently deserted in 1974—that’s the same year Silent Hill was supposedly…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Blizzard’s Korean Fans Make Lovely Art

  During G-Star, Blizzard showed off impressive fan art at its booth’s community zone. The Grand Theft Auto inspired World of Warcraft Cataclysm art is cool and all, but check out those mini-figures. Wow! Also, on display were StarCraft paper…craft. Kotaku posted a gallery of these StarCraft II models back in May. They were awesome them.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Let the PS Vita Play Your Digital Recordings

  Torne, the popular Japan-only TV tuner, is getting Vita remote play in a future update. The PSP already has the feature, and so will the Vita. Torne can record live TV, even while players game and has Trophy support. [4Gamer]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Persona 4 Is Being Turned Into a…

  Not a movie, nope! In Japan, Persona 4 is being made into a stage show called Visualive Persona 4 Based on Persona 4, the stage show will combine movie-style special effects with a live performance. It will star Toru Baba, Takashisa Maeyama, and Minami Tsukui Visualive Persona 4 opens next March at the Sunshine Theatre…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Today’s Nutty EA and Wii U Rumor!

  From a Nintendo fan site and, ungh, apparently an EA intern via an EA network engineer (still with me?), the rumor states that Nintendo is in talks to make EA’s Origin the Wii U’s digital distribution service. [GamerInformer]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Cosplay? Skyrim? Cosplaaaaayyyyyy!

  The internet has heard my cries. Not seven days since I bemoaned the lack of quality males to feature in Fancy Pants, I’m happy to present a bunch of dudes who are killing it with their video game cosplay. That’s not to say this week’s round-up is lacking in ladies, though, as they’re also well-represented.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  Rough Night, Mario? Luigi?

  Maybe they should have stuck to the mushrooms. [Subway Douchery] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  Guess Which Excited Sentence Belongs to Which Video Game Review

  With the end of the year approaching, and the inevitable “Best of 2011” lists along with it, Mitch Krpata’s Insult Swordfighting has taken a look at some of the year’s biggest game reviews. Well, maybe not biggest. Some of the more excited would be more accurate. His look is worth looking at, though, because it…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  When Action Games Come to Life, Bosses are Even More Awesome

  Internet wizards Corridor Digital are to thank for this video, which sticks a camera over a man’s shoulder and shows us what a third-person shooter game would look like in real life. So, yeah, if you’re currently playing through Uncharted, with all its fancy punching sequences and cinematic grapples, this one goes out to you.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  The World’s Economy Needs Rescuing. Super Mario Is On the Case.

  Europe is in a mess right now, so much so that it threatens to drag the whole world down into another global financial crisis. Sounds like a job for…Super Mario? [News]

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  These Skyrim Launch Celebrities Had No Fucking Clue

  Not all of them, but many of them were completely in the dark. Website GamerZone was on hand to talk to the celebs at the Skyrim launch and suss out who was there for Skyrim and who was simply…there. Music group The All-American Rejects said they got their fill on gaming with the NES, adding…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Is This the Reason People Love Call of Duty?

  You can thank/blame marketing and a Michael Bay-on-steroids storyline all you want, but there’s a reason people come back to Call of Duty games year after year, and it has nothing to do with zombies or sideburns. It has to do with how the game feels There’s a quickness to Call of Duty games that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  The Country That Loves PC Gaming So Damn Much

  Just the mention of South Korea conjures up images of net cafes and online gaming. The country is one of online gaming’s passionate players. Something that was proven once again over the weekend when Korea played host to G-Star, South Korea’s biggest online gaming expo. Do you like online gaming? You’ll like this. Unlike Japan,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Reviewing Uncharted 3 Could Kill You: The Movie

  We’ve seen the serious side to people bitching about one man’s thoughts on a video game, now see the movie based on the terrifying, dramatic events of an Uncharted 3 review. As someone who’s reviewed games once or twice myself, I can say the greatness here isn’t the pressure exerted on the protagonist. That’s a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  Get Unlimited Gold in Skyrim. Easy!

  A glitch in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim apparently allows players to earn unlimited gold by picking up copies of The Doors of Oblivion over and over and over again. The book is worth 50 Gold, so by picking up copies of the book over and over again, you have a seemingly endless supply of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Halo Jumps into Hell in This Web Series

  Halo: Helljumper is one of many Halo fan films, but it doesn’t look like any old Halo fan project. It looks fantastic The Halo: Helljumper web series kicks off next January. More info at Helljumper‘s Facebook page Halo: Helljumper Official Trailer [YouTube] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011
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  Watch Kids be Confused, Excited by Minecraft

  The popular “Kids React” series on YouTube figured it’d be an interesting idea to see what the young people of 2011 thought when you sat them down in front of Minecraft Some of them know the game, and know it well. So well, in fact, that we even get a kid hatin’ on Call of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  Is This Man the Star of Grand Theft Auto V?

  While Rockstar has released almost no details concering the cast or characters of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, that’s not stopping people from speculating. Or, in this case, making rather convincing arguments. Some detective work from the Official PlayStation Magazine and some GTA fan sites has turned up the name Ned Luke, an actor…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  When Pokémon and Magic Cards Went to War

  They don’t seem that similar aside from the fact they’re printed on cards, and they were never really competition, either, but in October 2003 that didn’t stop the companies behind Magic Cards and Pokémon battling somewhere other than the tabletop or the schoolyard. This story begins in the late 1990s, when role-playing giants Wizards of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011
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  Kids Still Play Outside After All

  Two kids enjoy playing their stickered-up DSes outside on a sunny day in Japan. (Image by Miki Yoshihito; seen via Tiny Cartridge) Resistance Site, Forums are Down; Hacking Alleged Visitors to MyResistance.net, the official site for the Resistance franchise of PS3 games, say the site was serving up malware yesterday. One of them alerted Insomniac…

  By Owen Good Published November 13, 2011