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  Groove Coaster is a Finger-Tapping Musical Space Invaders Masterpiece

  Just when I was certain there was no new way to combine tapping fingers and music on the iPhone, Reisuke Ishida marries the aesthetic of his award-winning Space Invaders: Infinity Gene with an equally gorgeous collection of tracks in Groove Coaster I initially purchased Groove Coaster from the iTunes App Store yesterday simply because it…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 29, 2011
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  Let’s Dance. No, Really. Let’s.

  Nice Suit | TOKYO, JAPAN: Xbox Japan’s honcho checks out Kinect at a recent event. (Photo: Game Impress Watch) Nintendo President Takes Blame for 3DS, Getting 50 Percent Pay Cut Today in Tokyo, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata addressed shareholders regarding the Nintendo 3DS. For Nintendo, things have been better. Warcraft III -Inspired Heroes of Newerth…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  This Figure Will Put Your Eyes Out, Kid

  Valkyria Chronicles‘s Selvaria Bles is getting immortalized in resin. So are her demon tits. Congratulations demon tits! The 22-year-old, who helps lead the Empire’s Gailia invasion, will appear in sculptured figurine form sometime next year when this figure finally goes on sale. This is obviously the “swimsuit version”. Obviously. It’s unpainted because this is a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Warcraft III-Inspired Heroes of Newerth Goes Free-To-Play

  Multiplayer, action role-playing game Heroes of Newerth is now free-to-play, with developer reorganizing the Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients inspired game to include three types of accounts, developer S2 Games tells Kotaku The new basic account is a free account new players receive when they sign up. Once a player has surpassed a certain…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 29, 2011
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  Settle In With the Multi-Talented Art of Quentin Marmier

  A lot of the time here on Fine Art, we feature the work of an artist who does one thing. They might do character art, or level design, that sort of thing. So it’s great today to showcase the work of Quentin Marmier. His work for Ubisoft includes all kinds of stuff, from colouring to…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Nintendo President Takes Blame for 3DS, Getting 50 Percent Pay Cut

  Today in Tokyo, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata addressed shareholders regarding the Nintendo 3DS. For Nintendo, things have been better. At Today’s meeting, Iwata said the goal was to address questions why Nintendo cut the 3DS’s price. In an official release from Nintendo detailing the meeting, Iwata acknowledged that the price reduction does help retailers plan…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Water, Water Everywhere, so Let’s Go Fight a War

  If you’ve ever wanted to play a video game based on Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, only without Kevin Costner being anywhere near it, you should check out upcoming strategy title Oil Rush With slick cinematic sequences and a pretty game engine, Oil Rush is an RTS set on a future Earth where global catastrophe has risen…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Sorry, America, Still No Xenoblade Chronicles for You

  Not that this will be too big a surprise for suffering American Wii owners, but in Nintendo’s latest release schedule (out today), there’s still no mention of Xenoblade Chronicles being due for North America. It’s still scheduled for release in Europe, however, on August 19. The game has been the subject of an ongoing campaign…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  3DS Rocks Japanese Retail

  Yesterday’s 3DS price-drop was sudden. It caught many off guard, including some Japanese game retailers. One Japanese shop posted a notice that until August 11, when the price drops ¥10,000 (US$129), it will refrain from selling the 3DS. This is leading to speculation that retailers are being burdened with heavy inventories and might take a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Superman Returns (to Liberty City)

  Once again showcasing the fact the world of modding PC games is a weird and wonderful place, witness these videos of Superman buzzing around the skies of Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City. You’ll need a long laundry list of mods and files to get this up and running, but as the vids below show,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Let Zelda‘s Ganondorf Sing and Dance His Way into Your Heart

  Fuckin Ganondorf, always kidnapping Zelda. But he’s not such a bad guy. Well, no, he is, but he’s actually the sensitive type. You know, singing, tap dancing, the works. This is the latest game musical from RandomEncounters, who previously did “Needlemouse”, a musical about Sonic Thanks for the tip, Peter! You can contact Brian Ashcraft,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Why Wear One Pair of StarCraft Sneakers When You Can Rock Three?

  Reader Petey is on his way to MLG Anaheim to play some StarCraft. So he looked the part, he had some custom sneakers made, in a StarCraft theme. They’re amazing Why? Because not only did he get three pairs made, one for each of the game’s three races, but each is also customised with unique…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Report: The PS Vita Is Powered by Samsung

  According to Japan’s Semiconductor Industry News, Samsung is manufacturing the 45 nanometer processor that will power the PS Vita’s central processing unit. Sony made the PlayStation Portable’s CPU, so the move to Samsung is a remarkable change—remarkable because Samsung goods aren’t traditionally widely sold in Japan for a myriad of reasons (this is changing!). Microsoft,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Firefall is Making Bug-Killing Look Like a Blast

  Firefall is an upcoming co-op shooter for the PC, made by Red 5 Studios, which is helmed by the guy who was team lead on World of Warcraft. So it should know what it’s doing when it comes to online gaming. It certainly looks like it does, as this gameplay trailer is a blast. If…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  This The King of Fighters XIII Trailer Is Ready to Rumble

  This fall, arcade fighter The King of Fighters XIII is making its way to the PS3 and the Xbox 360. According to the game’s publisher, KOFXIII features “hugely improved features”. Check out the trailer for more info. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Bomberman Will Eat Your Dust and Lick…Your Crack? What?

  When I think Bomberman, I think good, clean, wholesome fun. I don’t think of a game where people tell me they’ll “break my fucking head with a ratchet”. Yet with a little digging around the files of 1997 PC game Atomic Bomberman, you’ll find vocal samples like that and many more of a totally not…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Is China a Little Less Joyous This Year?

  ChinaJoy, the country’s biggest online game convention, is less for video games and more for something else: ladies in skimpy outfits. They’re called “spicy girls”, and that’s exactly what they’re supposed to add to the show—spice. This year, that is changing. Earlier this year, there were reports that ChinaJoy was getting hard on spicy girl…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 29, 2011
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  Ubisoft Thinks its PC DRM is a “Success” (it is Wrong)

  Ubisoft has about the worst digital rights management system in all of PC gaming, forcing users to stay connected to the internet at all times to play a game, even if it’s singleplayer. Yet despite almost universal loathing for it, the company thinks it’s a “success”. An Ubisoft representative told PC Gamer earlier today that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Nintendo’s Former President Just Lost Half a Billion Dollars

  A disastrous last quarter in terms of sales has sent Nintendo’s share prices through the floor. If you own Nintendo shares, sorry! But hey, even if you do, it could be worse; spare a thought for former president Hiroshi Yamauchi. He just lost $500,000,000 in one day It’s not like he’ll be out on the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2011
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  Half of All Netflix Users Watch Movies on a Games Console

  In May, we learned that Netflix’s console traffic—just movies streaming to consoles now—accounted for 20 percent of Internet bandwidth usage in the United States. We have more data backing up the phenomenon: Half of all the service’s users watch movies on a games console, says Nielsen. What’s more, 42 percent of Netflix users watch directly…

  By Owen Good Published July 28, 2011