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  You Know What Would Make an Awesome Video Game Documentary?

  Commenter GiantBoyDetective has the drive, the limited resources, and the low-cost manpower to create the ultimate low-budget video game documentary. Now he just needs a subject. Let’s brainstorm in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So since I love making movie and videos and I also love video games I think I may do a documentary…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2011
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  Have Japan’s Xbox Mission Men Been Restructured?

  In early 2010, Xbox Japan launched a new mascot, Sanrokumaru (literally, “360”), a businessman with an Xbox logo for a head. A year and a half later, he seems to have vanished. Poof! As part of a then new commercial campaign, Sanrokumaru was part of the fictional “Xbox Mission Department”. In each of the subsequent…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  The Next Big Racer From the Folks Behind Trials HD

  Racing—real racing—is all the line, finding the best approach to a turn, the best route through a curve and into a straight away. iPhone and iPad game DrawRace 2 is also all the line: tracing arcs with your finger along the race course as quickly as possible without marring your route with a bad turn…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Ah Wrestling. The noblest and most realistic of the Pay-Per-View programs. Anyone else feeling nostalgic for Andre the Giant? While I go watch Princess Bride, howsabout you all chat about video games? Big thanks to our submissions veteran Incursor for today’s testosterone-fueled TAYpic. To get your TAYpic featured here, be sure to submit your images…

  By Jen Schiller Published July 20, 2011
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  The Wii U Has One Big Problem, But Still May Be the Signature Gaming Console of Our Times

  I haven’t held a Wii U in more than a month. I hadn’t even watched videos of myself playing it. But I just watched a bunch, as I tried to make sense of what Nintendo is trying to accomplish with its next big video game machine and as I endeavor to figure out just how…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011
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  Is It Wrong That This Game Makes the BP Oil Spill Fun?

  The latest diversion from the people behind cute, addictive iPhone games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope has you fighting an evil conglomerate (initials BP) accused of mining the earth’s riches and destroying the environment. In Blopster you control a cartoonish bit of red liquid tasked with cleaning up after a sloppy and greedy…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011
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  Did You Know Charlie Murphy Helped Launch the PS3?

  Chas | NEW YORK, NY: Back in 2006, Charlie Murphy appeared at the PS3 launch at the Sony Style Store. (Photo: Brad Barket | Getty) This Video Game Art Packs Twice the Infamy We featured the art of Bjorn Hurri (Total War, Steampunk Star Wars) only a few weeks ago here on Kotaku, but since…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  The GoldenEye Double-Remake for Xbox 360 and PS3 Runs Fast, Adds a Few Things

  With no new James Bond movie coming out soon enough for Activision, we are indeed getting another polish of the GoldenEye remake for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as a screenshot dumpl from yesterday more or less confirmed. Today, the game is official, announced in the form of a press release that manages to…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2011
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  Is a 3DS XL Incoming?

  In spring 2010, Hitachi showed off a 3.1 inch screen that could reproduce 3D graphics without graphics, shortly after Sharp revealed a 3.4 inch one. At that time, rumors swirled that either Hitachi or Sharp would be providing the 3D top screen for the then unreleased 3DS. Since then, details have been scant about who…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  Wing Commander-Inspired Space Combat Game In the Works

  A team of Austin developers are working on a new space combat sim inspired by the likes of Wing Commander, Star Wars: TIE Fighter and Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War Seamless Entertainment tells Kotaku that they hope to reinvigorate the dying space combat simulation genre with SOL: Exodus, a game that will have players…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011
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  Shadows of the Damned Director Leaves Studio

  Massimo Guarini, who directed Shadows of the Damned, left developer Grasshopper Manufacture to start his own studio, Ovosonico. Previously, he directed Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. So far, Shadows of the Damned hasn’t sold well. [GameSpot]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  This Video Game Art Packs Twice the Infamy

  We featured the art of Bjorn Hurri (Total War, Steampunk Star Wars) only a few weeks ago here on Kotaku, but since then he’s been given the all clear to release a ton of content from his most recent project, inFamous 2 Like Wesley Burt’s art for the same game (which we’ve also shown you),…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2011
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  Did Pokémon Beat Ghibli?

  In its first weekend, anime Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie placed second at the Japanese box office, behind the new Harry Potter. Ghibli’s Kokurikozaka kara, co-written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son, placed third. [Eiga.com via ANN]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  Magic: The Gathering’s Creator Is Working on a Video Game (about Cards!)

  There’s no shortage of video games that are essentially card games running on a computer, but few have the pedigree of upcoming browser title Card Hunter. New indie studio Blue Manchu is headed by Australian Jon Chey, co-founder of Irrational Games and a man who’s worked on games like BioShock and Freedom Force. Also on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2011
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  Watch the New Pokémon Airplane for Almost Six Whole Minutes

  There’s a new Poké jet. This is it! On July 18, this All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-300 Peace Jet landed in Hokkaido. The plane then taxied to the arrival gate. This isn’t the first plane featuring Pocket Monsters, and this plane aims to promote the latest Pocket Monster animated feature film. However, the “Peace Jet”…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  This is Some Serious Role-Playing

  This isn’t role-playing as you generally associate it. There are no levels or perks here. Instead, this is role-playing in the strictest sense of the word, as a bunch of gamers act out the roles they’ve assumed in-game. This is footage from a British ArmA II group, who not only went to the trouble of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2011
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  Xbox.com Now has Games for Your Browser

  Presumably as part of the coming together of Games for Windows and Xbox.com, you can now play four free “trial” games (ie demos) on the Xbox 360’s homepage, right in your browser, no install necessary. The games are Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 3, Zuma’s Revenge and Text Twist 2. [Xbox]

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2011
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  With Lollipop Chainsaw, Highschool Life Is the Best!

  Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind No More Heroes, is working on a new game. It’s called Lollipop Chainsaw According to the latest issue of Famitsu, the game stars a chainsaw-wielding cheerleader named Juliet from fictional San Romero High, slaying zombies. Since she’s a cheerleader, the game has acrobatic-style action. The style is poppy and colorful,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011
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  The Super Hard Gay Brothers

  Often, the cosplay we feature here on Kotaku skews towards exquisite costumes or pretty ladies. Because, well, that’s what’s generally the best we can find. Today, we’re flipping the tea table. Trying something different. A recent spread in internet magazine/art/thing Muto features gay cosplay, like a sexy black Mickey Mouse and the hardest, gayest Super…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2011
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  New Final Fantasy PSP Gets a New Trailer

  Final Fantasy Type-0 is a big game—so big that it’s coming on two UMDs. Big games need big trailers. And when they’re not big, they can at least be long. The latest FF Type-0 trailer clocks in at five minutes. The game, which features a theme song by Japanese rockers Bump of Chicken, will be…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2011