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  The Only Things Missing from This Model Spacecraft Are Lasers

  RayStorm, the classic 1990s shooting game, always felt like it got somewhat overlooked compared to the spate of shooters released that decade. Here’s a chance to once again give RayStorm the attention it so rightly deserves with a Kotobukiya model of in-game ship, R-Gray1. Like other Kotobukiya models, this is top notch stuff. The 1/144…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Hideo Kojima Wants Metal Gear To Keep Going after He Dies

  After every Metal Gear game he makes, Hideo Kojima usually says he’s done with the series. Sometimes Kojima even asks Kotaku readers to tell his boss that he doesn’t have to make Metal Gear games anymore. This time, it’s different. At a recent presentation at USC, Kojima said, “First of all, I just want to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Carrie-Anne Moss Didn’t Jack into Silent Hill by Playing the Game

  As Claudia Wolf, Carrie-Anne Moss is very much playing an evil character in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It’s the big screen adaptation of the Konami game Silent Hill 3 Moss, who won over geeks everywhere with her portrayal of Trinity in the Matrix, didn’t spend endless hours playing SH3 to find the character.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  First Look at the Blue Nintendo Wii

  To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo has released Wii consoles in white, black, red, and now, blue. Previously, Nintendo released a blue Wii Remote in Japan to promote Wii Sports Resort. It is releasing a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  The Queens of Cosplay from the King of Fighters, Final Fantasy and More

  You know, it’s tough work settling on which cosplay images from the past week I’m actually going to feature in this main, first picture. Especially when there’s almost a dozen that easily deserve the spotlight. I mean, aside from those three, we’ve got some old-school Resident Evil cosplay. With rocket launchers. Catherine cosplay. With hair…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  First (Brief) Look at Team Fortress 2 Toys

  NECA, specialists in action figures and props based on video games, will be bringing out lines of figures based on Valve properties in 2012. While we haven’t yet seen the finished versions of these toys, we do today have some work-in-progress shots of Team Fortress 2’s Demoman. What’s more interesting than the pictures themselves is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Nabbed Game Burglar Tries a Mission Impossible

  Remember that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise lowers himself down through a laser maze? Minus the lasers and the wire acerbatics, an unemployed 21-year-old named Yuuki Saitou tried a stealth entry of his own to swipe used games and consoles. At around 2:15am in the morning on Sept. 8 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Saitou…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  The World Has Become a Video Game, and It Is Very, Very Sad

  This is a commercial currently airing on Australian TV. I won’t spoil the bizarre ending by telling you what it’s for, but that’s not the point. The point is how great the voxel effects look. Voxels, which had a trendy little run in the video game business in the 1990s with titles like Outcast and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  This Is Nintendo’s Slide Pad Packaging

  Loud. Gaudy. The box art for the Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G 3DS Expansion Slide Pad bundle was madness. Nintendo’s take on the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad’s stand alone packaging is not. It’s restrained, standard—the simplicity you’d expect from Nintendo these days. The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad will be available separately on Dec. 10 for…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Mass Effect 3 Has Multiplayer, Says PC Gaming Magazine

  Australian magazine PC Powerplay is showing off the cover for its next issue on the publication’s official site, and it says as clear as you can get that the game features multiplayer. In big writing, cross the middle of the front page, it says: MULTIPLAYER COMES TO MASS EFFECT 3: FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR FRIENDS AS…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Let This BlazBlue Star Stick a Plastic Gun in Your Face

  Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. The Queen’s Gate version of Vermillion is priced at ¥7,980 (US$104). Orders are being taken later this month through November. The figure will be released next spring. 初のフィギュア化…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Watch a Man Shoot a Home-Made Rocket Called Quake all the way Into Space

  Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there’s a bounty called “The Carmack Prize“. It’s named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. The first people to claim the prize will pick up…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Crazy Christians Say Pokémon Are “Oriental Demons”, Minecraft‘s “Distracting”

  Minecraft, congratulations! You’ve officially arrived. Religious nuts are railing against you. For years now, Pokémon‘s been a favorite target of those outside the religious mainstream. Dorothy Spaulding from Watchmen Broadcasting, a local Christian broadcast network in Georgia, discussed the perils of Pokeémon with guest Henry Lewis. Apparently, Pokémon are “Oriental demons”, and the names of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Link, Be a Lady Tonight

  You see your fair share of ladies cosplaying as the hero of the Legend of Zelda series. Not as much fan art. Let’s change that. This piece is called, well, Female Link, and is by Albanian artist Edli Akolli. It’s just one his many amazing fantasy-inspired works, more of which you can check out at…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Grown Woman Threatened for…Being a Grown Woman

  Aki Toyosaki is 24 years-old. A big Grand Theft Auto fan, she works as a voice actress, voicing Yui Hirasawa in K-On as well as Cinque in the upcoming Final Fantasy Type-0. She’s an adult, and she’d be free to live her life as an adult. That is, if she wasn’t a voice actress in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  RAGE’s PC Version has Been Updated, Might be Better now

  The PC launch of id’s anticipated shooter RAGE has been, well, a “Cluster!@#$”. And that’s in the developer’s words. Does a massive update released over the weekend help things? It certainly helps help things. The update, which is out now, adds many of the hardware configuration options people were mystified weren’t there in the first…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Skyrim’s Map Leaked, Looks Massive [Update]

  Reportedly obtained via Russian (where else) collector’s edition copies of the game, here’s what’s likely your first look at the game world of the upcoming RPG blockbuster Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Scanned by members of a Russian fan forum, it shows a world that is surprisingly large; if you remember Oblivion’s map, it used a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  The Gorgeous Background Art of Lucasarts Adventure Games

  From Monkey Island to Full Throttle, Fate of Atlantis to Sam & Max

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  It Takes Two to Make NBA Jam Go Right

  The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defense, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was…

  By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011
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  Team Fortress De-Booted

  Team Fortress, De-booted | Low-resolution Team Fortress 2 classes, made cuter for older systems. By PixelBlock, an artist who’s done these and numerous other demakes in the past month. Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who…

  By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011