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  Too Many Shooters Would Make Nintendo Sad

  Looking at the company’s back catalogue, and the fact it had to get an American studio in to do a first-person Metroid series, it’s clear Nintendo is not a big believer in the West’s genre of choice. A point Nintendo president Satoru Iwata addressed during a recent investor Q&A session in Japan. While acknowledging that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  The Loving Embrace of a Darkstalkers Statue

  Toy company SOTA will be taking quite the exclusive to the San Diego Comic-Con later this month: this statue based on fighting game series Darkstalkers, showing Morrigan and Lilith in what they call a “loose embrace”. “Morrigan and Lilith fall, together, in a loose embrace, unaware of how much longer they have together” reads the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  Gran Turismo Developer Ditching Tokyo

  Polyphony Digital, creator og Gran Turismo, is moving its development studio across the country to Fukuoka City. The reason for the move is the March 11 earthquake. According to Gran Turismo designer Kazunori Yamauchi, out of various cities that were considered, Fukuoka, which is in the far West of the country, is a good place…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2011
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  The Man Who Has Every PS2 Game In America

  Ahans76, a PlayStation collector, is apparently more of a PlayStation collector than most, because he claims to now be in possession of every single North American PS2 game ever released. Having picked up a console on its launch day back in 2000, he began his collection with Ridge Racer 5. In the beginning, he simply…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  A Collection of Wiis Gathering Dust

  As more and more seasoned gamers let their consoles fall by the wayside, the jingoism “my Wii is gathering dust” became common. These Wii controllers? They’ve literally gathered dust. They’re part of a neat feature on Wired examining the whens and whys people stopped using their Nintendo Wii, mostly from gamers who just never really…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  When Disney Collaborates with… an Erotic Game Artist

  Fans make sexy drawings of various characters. From Peter Pan‘s Tinkerbell to Beauty and the Beast‘s Belle, they’ve done this for years. But Disney’s now hooked up with an honest-to-goodness erotic game illustrator, Aoi Nishimata, for an official collaboration. The end result, however, isn’t sexy. But is it any good? Nishimata is an in-house illustrator…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2011
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  Square Enix Pushing For Valve’s Help In Catching Hackers

  While pursuing those responsible for leaking a preview build of Deus Ex Human Revolution onto the internet, publishers Square Enix discovered that the game (well, part of the game) had been a copy they’d hosted on Valve’s Steam service. This happens all the time; often with PC preview coverage here at Kotaku, for example, we’re…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  The Mass Effect Movie Will be at Comic-Con

  Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures will be holding its first ever “standalone panel” at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. Why do we care? Because they’ll be talking about the Mass Effect movie, that’s why. Yes, tucked away at the bottom of the press release announcing the studio’s showings is the news that the film’s writer…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  The Amazing 1979 Song About Computer Games

  There have been plenty of songs written about video games over the years. You have your favourites, I have mine One that lingers in my memory, though, comes from a time before I was even born: 1979’s Computer Games, by the Australasian band Mi-Sex. What’s so memorable about this song isn’t the fact that it’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011
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  Nintendo Says Netflix Viewing on Wii U Controller is “Theoretically” Possible

  Credit to Forbes for pressing Nintendo of America’s president, Reggie Fils-Aime, on the take-it-anywhere capabilities of the Wii U’s touch-screen controller. In an interview, Forbes’ David M. Ewalt asked Fils-Aime whether it was possible to watch streaming video on the controller. “The messaging comes right from the console. So the programming would need to originate…

  By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011
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  Things We Got In The Mail

  Happy Wednesday, folks. Today’s been a good day, at least in terms of things that have shipped to my house. We’ll talk about these things in tonight’s open thread, where anything goes. What showed up today? Well, one set of Animal Crossing playing cards and a Nintendo DS game and stylus case, the fruits of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 6, 2011
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  Hey! Don’t Forget to Download Your Free Copy of Excitebike for Nintendo 3DS!

  Nintendo 3DS owners in North America, here’s your reminder to grab the handheld’s June eShop system update, which nets you a free download of the 3D remake of NES classic Excitebike. That free download offer expires July 7.

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 6, 2011
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  Swamp Ass, the Silent Tragedy that Strikes Each Summer

  July is now upon us, and even for those who use the month to explore the great indoors, that means humid conditions that trap heat and condensation. Nathan Fillion is here to urge gamers to know the risks, protect themselves, and do their part to eradicate the antisocial disease known as Swamp Ass. [h/t The…

  By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011
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  Xbox Live Indie Devs Plot Another ‘Uprising’

  On the heels of the “Indie Games Uprising” of the winter, Xbox Live’s indie development community is planning a 10-game indie blitz from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2. The organizers just put out that trailer and come Aug. 1, will begin taking a vote on candidates for inclusion through their Facebook page Meantime, the snippets…

  By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011
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  Rest In Peace, Digital Comics for PSP

  Enjoy today’s update to the Digital Comics store for the PSP. It will be the last, Sony says, putting an end to the 18-month-old service that offered downloadable comics from Marvel, DC Comics, Devil’s Due, IDW Publishing and more. The PSP comics store will tap out with more than 4,000 titles, comics that Sony says…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 6, 2011
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  EA Blames Post-Release Policies for Crysis 2‘s Disappearance from Steam

  Electronic Arts has followed its claim that Steam “expelled” the EA-published Crysis 2 with an explanation that some EA games will not be available over Steam, the leading PC download service, because of a dispute over how they are patched and updated. This comes, of course, a month after EA opened Origin, its own digital…

  By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011
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  Rock Band and Dance Central Creators Getting Down to Vidrhythm

  Harmonix recently trademarked Vidrhythm, which as it turns out is one of the Rock Band and Dance Central developer’s new projects. I’m guessing “rhythm game” and “occasionally confused with that new, weird Final Fantasy music game.”

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 6, 2011
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  Tinkatolli May Be the First Video Game that Gives Your Kids Points for Leaving the Game to Go Outside

  Most browser-based online games desperately want you to keep playing as much as you can—there’s always another level to gain, more of your friends that need persuading to join, items to unlock and buy that will keep you in front of the screen clicking away even longer. The four-person team behind the in-development Tinkatolli seek…

  By Joshua Rivera Published July 6, 2011
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  Man Deploys ‘Madden Defense’ to Beat Murder Rap

  A man on trial in North Carolina for killing his pregnant fiancée says he could not have been the killer, and is using a screen capture from a game of Madden NFL as his alibi. Michael Mead, accused of killing Lucy Johnson, 31, in 2008, showed a “screenshot from the gaming system to a private…

  By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011
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  Do You Believe In Ghosts? Ever See One?

  Meddling Kids | An apparition causes havoc by menacing two people in their kitchen. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series – 13 circa 1865 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images) Tiny Ships, Tiny Aliens, Tiny Galaga 30th Collection It’s been nearly 30 years since Galaga stormed onto the arcade scene, delivering to fans of fixed shooters…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 6, 2011