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  Six Minutes With Rage’s Lethal Pet Bots, Racing and Ballistic Bliss

  I’m still chugging my way through Rage, but so far I’ve grown quite attached to a game that feels like it comes into its own over the course of its dozen-hour-or-so campaign. What I’m experiencing now 9 hours in or so is very different from the Xbox 360 game and it’s play in those first…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2011
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  The Best PlayStation 3 Ad We’ve Ever Seen Will Give You Chills

  When Sony announced their “Long Live Play” campaign a few weeks back, the entire interwebs lit up with buzz as to what it would herald. A PlayStation Home re-launch? New on Vita? Now, weeks of speculation have come to this, the “Michael” advert: a parade of first-class characters from the best games available on the…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 5, 2011
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  Who Wouldn’t Pay a Subscription Fee for New Games Every Month?

  Commenter Blessrok remembers the good old days of the Sega Channel in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, and wonders how many gamers would flock to a monthly game subscription service on modern day consoles. No, PlayStation Plus doesn’t count. I remember fondly as a kid having the Sega Channel. I thought it was the best…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2011
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  Watch an Expert Zip Through Sonic Generations‘ Two Re-Mixes of a Classic Sonic Level

  I present to you a pair of videos from this fall’s Sonic Generations. To appreciate what Sega is doing with this new Sonic game, you’ll need to watch them both. The game takes levels from three eras of Sonic games—classic, Dreamcast and modern era—and lets players run through them either as skinny modern Sonic or…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 5, 2011
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  How to Speak Dragon: Here are Your Skyrim Achievements

  We already know that the next Elder Scrolls game’s going to suck up a bunch of your time. Days, weeks, maybe even months, depending on how you play. But how much is it going to spit out in sweet, sweet Achievements? For the answer, the officially unofficial Bethesda blog links to Xbox 360 Achievements, where…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 5, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Enjoying your hump day? It’s everyone’s favorite day of the week, to be sure, after that pesky Monday we all know and love. But Kotaku is here to get you through! And hopefully, your favorite games are too. So please, feel free to take this time to talk amongst yourselves. I would like to thank…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 5, 2011
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  Wizorb, Math Fighter and More Kotaku‘s Indie Picks

  Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favorites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. Wizorb…

  By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011
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  Play Through This Music Video

  Bullseye may not have a score, an objective, a plot, but it’s an application begging to be played with. A music video that’s made better by your poking, tilting and curiosity. Moonbot Studios, the folks behind the wonderful The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, created this little interactive music video for The Polyphonic…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2011
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  Hey Cosplayer, You Can’t Walk in Shoes Like That!

  Well Heeled | HONG KONG – A cosplayer takes a stroll at this summer’s Comics Festival and Game Fair in Hong Kong. (Photo: Vincent Yu | AP) You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  Outrageous Bikini Cowgirl Game Dons Outrageous String Bikini

  In past Onechanbara, you are a bikini-wearing, sword-swinging cowgirl out to kill zombies. In Onechanbara Z: Kagura, you do that, plus try on a new micro bikini. For the first print run of Onechanbara Z: Kagura, you can snag a “risqué swimsuit”. The dental floss is available to players via download code. Today, game company…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  Dragon Age Movie Got a Director

  As first mentioned in 2010, Dragon Age is getting an animated CG feature. Today, MSNBC reported that it will be directed by Fumihiko Sori of Ping Pong fame. It’ll be out in 2012 in Japan. [MSNBC]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  You’re Doing It Wrong

  Totally wrong. But bless you. The photo originally appeared in a South Korean newspaper a few years back—hence the PS2 game and DualShock 2. 超斬新なコントローラーの持ち方 [オレ的ゲーム速報] 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 October 5, 2011
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  It Was a Party. A Dream Party.

  Outside this fall’s Tokyo Dream Party, pesky cosplayers were getting in front of crazy cars. Inside, booth companions got in front of booths. The nerve! Held in both Tokyo and Osaka, Dream Party is a bi-annual event for bishoujo (beautiful young girl) computer games. Dream Party booths offered all the bishoujo nerd heroin (heroines?) you…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art

  To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a collection of art from its spiritual successor Dark Souls, out this week on the Xbox 360 and PS3. For a game that is about little but darkness, pain, brutality and despair, the art certainly gets the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011
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  A Classy, if Slightly Muddled, Text Adventure

  The Binary is a web-driven, text-based game in which you’re being sent back in time to make sure other people sent back in time don’t mess around with things. Sort of like the recent flick Source Code, only with less Chesty Jake, more Words on a Screen. It plays out at times like an interactive…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011
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  Will There Be an Xbox 720? Hollywood Thinks So.

  Real Steel, that new Hugh Jackman flick with fighting robots, is set in a near future, dominated by battling bots. More preciously, the movie is set in 2020. In one arena scene, corporate logos like Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, and, ahem, Del Taco light up a stadium. There is also a Bing logo and an Xbox…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  Help Real Japanese Earthquake Orphans Through Fiction

  The earthquake might have rocked Japan last March, but its effects still linger. Charity book Kizuna, a collection of short fiction by international writers, aims to help orphanages in the areas hit hardest by the quake and tsunami. [Kizuna]

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  Mega-Man’s Producer Is Making a Nintendo 3DS Game

  Keiji Inafune, former Mega-Man producer and Dead Rising designer, is hard at work on a new title. It’s called Kaio: King of Pirates and it’s for the Nintendo 3DS. It stars a penguin pirate. Inafune will be taking director duties. King of Pirates is a mix of pirates and Sangokushi. It’s an action role-playing game,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011
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  Enjoy This Badass 16-bit Title Screen Art

  We’ve seen title art from modern games. And from NES games. Today, we’re hitting the ground somewhere in between with a collection of animated title screen art from the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. These images come courtesy of Title Scream, a site run by Kiwi interactive designer Cameron Askin which is looking to preserve…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011
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  It’s Parks and Recreation, Not Parks and Buy Yourself an Xbox 360

  An employee of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department used a city credit card to purchase a little recreation for himself—namely, an Xbox 360. That’s not all the gaming recreation that the employee, Naikia Howard, indulged in: he also took a copy of Wii Sports and a Wii home from a Seattle teen center. An…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011