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  No More Heroes Developer Making Way More Social Games

  Grasshopper Manufacture and social network company DeNA established a new joint venture called “Grasshopper Social Network Service” that will make social games, exclusively for DeNA’s Mobage smartphone platform.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  Harrison Ford’s Big Mug Is All Over Tokyo’s Shinjuku

  Uncharted 3 spokesperson Indiana Jones Harrison Ford is currently plastered all over Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, and not for his latest movie, but for a video game. JR新宿のアンチャーテッドのポスター [TwitPic] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  A Celebration of the Art of the Uncharted Trilogy

  Uncharted 3 is out today! In honour of the occasion, I thought now would be a good time to have a little Uncharted party here on Fine Art, and showcase concept and 3D art from all three games in the series. This is a massive gallery, so you might want to go make a cup…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Rumor: Most Too Human Devs Given the Boot

  A rumour on 1UP reckons that nearly 75% of the staff at Too Human developers Silicon Knights have been laid off, leaving only 25 at the studio which last worked on X-Men: Destiny

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Why You Shouldn’t Always Listen to Loud-Mouthed Assholes on the Internet

  THIS GAME IS BROKEN. YOU NERFED IT. THE NEW SERVICE SUCKS. I HATE THIS NEW THING. Listen to “fans” of games on the internet and a lot of the time that’s what you’ll hear. Loud, indignant complaints. Sometimes, sure, they’ll have a point. But other times? They’re making noise. Being assholes. And aren’t always speaking…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Good Samaritan Attempts to Stop DS Theft with a Bat, Is Murdered

  On Monday in southern California, a fight broke out with one teen wounded and one baseball bat-wielding Good Samaritan ending up dead. All of this over a Nintendo DS. According to KTLA News, a teenage boy arranged to meet four teens met at a local shopping center to sell a Nintendo DS. The four teens…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  Put a Life-Sized Batman Head on Your Shelf

  Next year, Sideshow will be releasing a bust of Batman. This won’t just be any old slab of Dark Knight face-and-shoulders, though. It’ll be a 1:1 scale replica of Batman’s head. With a level of detail, and price, to match. The piece is 29 inches tall and 22 inches wide, and has been handcrafted. All…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Link on the Beach, Rapping with Girls

  In the Zelda games, Link doesn’t talk. He’s the silent type. In this video, he doesn’t talk either, he raps Internet person Hiimrawn is back with another game rap. This time, it features Zelda characters Link, Navi, Sheik, and Ganondorf. The above video is the “clean” version. LEGEND OF ZELDA RAP!! [YouTube] You can contact…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  Man Switches Countries During Pro Tournament, Causes Mass Shitstorm

  Jatt, a League of Legends player at the recent World Cyber Games qualifiers, has upset more than a few of his competitors after switching allegiances halfway through the tournament. He began the qualifiers representing a Canadian team. Yet when they were eliminated, he took advantage of his dual US/Canadian citizenship to promptly change teams, moving…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Brutally Graphic Adult Anime Coming To Life

  Kite is infamous. The hyper-violent 1998 anime features explicit sex scenes, explicit violence and explicit human brutality. And now, according to sources connected with the project, it’s going to be a “full-on female actioner” with “gritty realistic action”. Originally, Kite, or A Kite as it’s called in Japan, was two thirty minute anime shorts that…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  Battlefield’s Stupidest Weapons Don’t Look so Stupid now

  Maybe that’s a little harsh. Battlefield‘s defibrillators only look stupid. But everyone knows that, deep down, they’re actually deadly: Fear the man who enters the modern battlefield armed with naught but two hospital paddles. This clip, from Corridor Digital, shows just how great the humble paddles can be, especially when you get imaginative with them.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Can’t This Vita Lady Get Anything Right? [Update]

  Throughout Asia, it’s common to see attractive celebrities pose with game hardware. The celebs might not be gamers themselves, but they’re famous. Most can flub their way through without a gaff. Rainie Yang could not. At a recent press conference in Taiwan, Sony dated the PS Vita for the region, giving it a Dec. 23…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011
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  Why Video Games Work Better Without Narration

  Charming RPG Bastion had some gorgeous visuals, yeah, but it’s going to be remembered more for its novel use of narration than anything else. For Bastion, it worked, and it worked really well, given the way he was used as much to tell a story as to give a play-by-play. Give other games narration, like…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  The New MechWarrior Game is a PC Exclusive

  It feels like years since we heard anything about that new Mechwarrior game because, well, it’s actually been years since we heard anything new about that new Mechwarrior game. Until today! The wraps have finally come off the title, and…you may well not be happy with what lies beneath. The game is called MechWarrior Online,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  CultureTotal Recall

  Before There was Nathan Drake, There was Pitfall Harry

  The third game in the Uncharted series is out this week, and will once again bring to the fore the adventures of a man in sloppy clothing climbing all over stuff while stealing priceless artefacts. Which takes me back. Not the the first two Uncharted games. Way back. To the series that tipped its hat…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011
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  Voxatron is out!

  The wonderful Voxatron, which we’ve meditated upon previously, is now out. You should check it out. Especially since it’s pay-what-you-want.

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2011
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  Nintendo Sent Her Link’s Master Sword and a Stone. But She’s Not Link!

  This is Briana McIvor, one of the hosts of video game TV show Electric Playground. She’s trying to pull a fake sword from a fake stone. Who could resist? The sword is a big Zelda promotional prop intended to hype the November release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Hey, it worked! You can…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 31, 2011
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  The New Trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw Offers Tricks and Treats

  What you’ve got to love about Suda51 is the way his avid embrace of junk culture and grindhouse aesthetic informs everything he does. The buckets of gore in all of his games, the lucha libre wrestling mask he used to do interviews in and the foul-mouthed, hormone-plagued tension in No More Heroes and Shadows of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011
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  An Epic Adventure Inside the Box of the Gigantic Skyrim Collector’s Edition

  Unleash the dragon! The collector’s edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has arrived, and I’m taking you inside a box so epic it takes two generations of Faheys to get the job done. While it’s much bigger than it looked on the internet, the Skyrim Collector’s Edition is actually rather light, thanks to the…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2011
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  Wii Resident Evil Games Ready To Scare the PS3

  Wii titles Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles are coming to the PS3 as a HD single title called Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Selection, complete with Move support. Release date is TBA. [4Gamer.net]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2011