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  Plants vs. Zombies vs. Adversity

  PopCap games is auctioning off art from its games for children’s charities in the US and UK. The auction runs from now until July 12- and 100% of the proceeds go to said charities. [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/20…]

  By Joshua Rivera Published June 17, 2011
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  Your Last-Minute Father’s Day Video Game Guide

  There’s a game for every kind of man. So why not show dad some love this Father’s Day with a new one? Whether you’re a video game know-it-all or can’t stand them, dad might enjoy something new to play. Use our handy guide to figure out what game to give him after the barbecue this…

  By Sam Winstrom Published June 17, 2011
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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  Summer video game drought? Ha! This is turning into one of the busier weeks (for me anyway), as a slew of games that hit this week and the next are demanding my attention, namely Trenched, Dungeon Siege III and Child of Eden I’ll be playing all three for fun and coverage, but one of them…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 17, 2011
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  Hands-On With The Wii U’s First Third-Person Shooter

  Ghost Recon Online for the Wii U is a third-person shooter for Nintendo’s next big thing packed with tons of cool bells and whistles. It also demonstrates some of the big hurdles the new console will face when trying to satisfy hardcore gamers. I’m a long-time shooter fan, so I was very excited for a…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011
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  Dirt 3 Introduces: The Reverse Uncanny Valley

  We’ve seen plenty of games trying to achieve photographic realism, but how often do we come across attempts to make real life look more like a game? The folks over at Codemasters have done just that, with their latest tie-in video for last month’s racing title Dirt 3 Shot using a tilt-shift lens, this video…

  By Drew Cohen Published June 17, 2011
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  It’s the Albanian pop music version of Tron: Legacy!

  If your favorite part of Tron: Legacy was the bar scene, then this insane pop song from Albanian star Aurela Gaçe is for you. Called Ca$h, the music vid is set in the Eurotrash Tron universe (watch and you’ll see what I mean), and the sound is pure Italo Disco retro. Get ready for Friday…

  By Annalee Newitz Published June 17, 2011
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  The LulzSec Manifesto: More Sec Than Lulz

  In honor of its thousandth tweet—and on the heels of compromising the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony, and more—the crew of the good ship LulzSec has presented the world with a manifesto, of sorts. So who is LulzSec? And what is it they want? Surprisingly, and contrary to previous indications, they’re not just…

  By Brian Barrett Published June 17, 2011
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  Sega Hacked, Says Payment Info Not Compromised

  Sega joins Bethesda, Codemasters and Sony among the gaming companies to suffer a hack. The personal info of users of its Sega Pass online service users was compromised, but payment data was not. Here’s the e-mai the publisher is sending to affected consumers: Dear ———-, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011
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  Happy (Early) Father’s Day From Prototype 2

  Who’s your daddy… or what’s your daddy? Activision sent out these digital Father’s Day cards just in time for the big event this Sunday. Are you prepped for the weekend. I know as a father I expect to be carried around and fanned at all times.

  By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011
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  “Bill McDonagh was riding an elevator up to the top of the Andrew Ryan Arms—but he felt like he was sinking under the sea.”

  Head to Tor Books’ website to read an excerpt from author John Shirley’s “BioShock: Rapture,” a prequel novel set for release on July 19. [Tor Books]

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011
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  We Debate Real And Fake Gaming Problems With College Humor

  One of your (favorite?) Kotaku editors is on College Humor‘s Nerd Alert show. The topics: Duke Nukem Forever not being very good. EA possibly imbalanacing Battlefield 3 through some downloadable content shenanigans…then we talked to a quadraplegic gamer who wants developers to make controls re-mappable so people like him can play them (which he does…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011
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  The BioShock and Skyrim Show

  I recently rearranged my life so I could see two important video games: BioShock Infinite and Skyrim. They are two games for which you should rearrange your life—or at least your Thursday in early June. They were the games people were buzzing about last week’s E3, their titles the words people said when I asked…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2011
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  The Forever Man

  You’ve probably seen this 10-year-old Duke Nukem Forever preorder receipt before – perhaps even here. What you may not have known was that it belonged to Bill Stiernberg, a 27-year-old attorney who was recently interviewed for the game’s release this week. “It was kind of surreal to turn this fading, disintegrating pre-order [receipt] to the…

  By Joshua Rivera Published June 17, 2011
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  CityVille Creator Sues for “Copying”

  Zynga, the social gaming empire behind CityVille and FarmVille, is suing Brazilian social gaming studio Votsu over copying game features, branding, producing strategy, and, according to PocketGamer, mission statements and company benefits. [PocketGamer]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011
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  No! This is the Cutest Link You’ll Ever See

  This is Mannix. He’s so convincing a Link that we’re told Nintendo has approached him about cosplaying the character at conventions officially. But for now we see the child in a photo shoot by the talented Sid Ceasar in some dark and forlorn wood. He’s an altogether different sort of cute Link, than the one…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011
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  Wii U Development Kits Coming to a Game Studio Near You, Soon!

  At this year’s E3, Nintendo showed off Wii U “games” that were actually taken from 360 and PS3 versions According to one report, the reason for this was that developers only had access to “underclocked” Wii U development kits, able to produce games that weren’t quite up to current gen snuff. Sega West production boss…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2011
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  Kid Gets School Ban On Pokémon Overturned

  New York student Lucas Ayala, who goes to Out World Neighbourhood School in Queens, was so sick of a ban on playing with Pokémon cards during breaks that he wrote the school a letter, asking them to reconsider. Somehow, that actually worked The school’s assistant principal, moved by Ayala’s politely-worded letter, not only replied, he…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is a general video games forum; please do bring up any and all topics pertaining to video games. Have fun everybody! Side note: We’re running out of TAYpics again. We had a bunch, but went through them pretty fast. If any of you TAY hot-shots have been saving your…

  By Mike Epstein Published June 17, 2011
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  Need For Speed: The Run Is Mostly Not Running

  Mirror’s Edge meets Need for Speed: That’s what I was expecting, hoping for as I stood in line last week to see Electronic Art’s new racing game. The brief glimpse I caught of Need For Speed: The Run prior to my meeting showed a racing game that let you get out of the car and…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2011
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  Riptide GP Rips Android Gamers a Console Quality Racer

  I knew absolutely nothing about gaming on the Android platform before Vector Unit sent me a build of its jet ski racer Riptide GP and a couple of devices to play it on. Now I want to know everything. Shortly after I wrote up Hydro Thunder Go for the Windows Phone 7 as a gaming…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2011