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  Ride the Bull

  DIP | Sony today confirmed that hackers were able to steal personal information for PSN users from their database. This is a screen grab of the company’s stock values today. (Marketwatch) Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in stolen…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 26, 2011
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  Twitter Cracks Wise About PlayStation Network Hack

  Your personal information may have been stolen from your PlayStation 3’s online account by a malicious hacker. Your credit card number may have been compromised, though the people at PlayStation aren’t sure. There is a bright side to this news: now we have more hilarious jokes, specifically about the PSN hack. Take it away, people…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2011
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  Super Street Fighter IV: Hyper Cute Anthropomorphic Edition

  Five Street Fighter legends take on rad animal form in this fan art piece by Chie Yamamoto Boyd. FIGHT! Street Fighter by Chie Yamamoto Boyd (deviantART) (Flickr) (Twitter) Via: Capcom-Unity Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 26, 2011
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  Jurassic Park: The Game Delayed, Full Refunds and Freebies Served As Apology

  Telltale Games’ take on Jurassic Park was supposed to hit in April, bringing prehistoric episodic fun to gamers. But the company behind Jurassic Park: The Game now expects the title to hit this fall, according to an e-mail sent to those who pre-ordered the game. Telltale CEO Dan Connors explains the delay in an e-mail…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 26, 2011
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  Johnny Cage Comes Alive in Mortal Kombat: Legacy

  The live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series takes a lighter turn this week, taking a break from shattered arms and broken faces to focus on Hollywood’s sweetheart, Johnny Cage. Electric Playground’s Victor Lucas kicks off episode three of Mortal Kombat: Legacy with a look back at the life of Johnny Cage, complete with a cameo…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  That Crazy New Call of Duty George Romero Zombie Map is Big and Made for Snipers

  It’s not enough that you can play as the stars of Machete, The Walking Dead, A Nightmare On Elm Street and Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the new Call of The Dead map going on sale next week for Call of Duty: Black Ops. You’ve got what is said to be one of their biggest…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2011
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  L.A. Noire Can Be Rockstar’s Easiest Game or One Of Its Toughest (Your Choice)

  The next big game from Rockstar Games and Team Bondi will be challenging—or easy—in unusual ways. The game, L.A. Noire, is a detective story, a dialogue-heavy noir adventure punctuated with brief moments of violence. Much of the game involves searching a crime scene for clues, pondering the wounds on dead bodies and scrutinizing suspects’ facial…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2011
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  Nintendo Regrets Going It Alone With The Wii

  For a console with an impressive install base of more 86 million, you might think that Nintendo wouldn’t have any regrets about the Wii. But Nintendo’s CEO says he does have one regret, one that he intends to address in the future. “I now regret that we didn’t tie up with someone outside the company…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 26, 2011
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  Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data

  A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in stolen personal information, Sony confirmed today. Sony says while personal information was likely stolen they don’t believe credit card numbers were and that they hope to have the Playstation Network service back up within a week. The news comes more than nine…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 26, 2011
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  Darkspore is now Building Better Battlers

  Maxis splices the DNA of Will Wright’s Spore with Diablo with today’s release of the PC action RPG Darkspore, now available in stores and fine downloadable retailers across North America. I can’t wait to play.

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  Buffy, Freddy and Machete Are Call of Duty‘s New Zombie Slayers

  Dropped on a mysterious, ice-covered Siberian island, Call of the Dead has players control a dream-team of zombie killers as they fight to survive an army of the Soviet undead led by the set-light wielding reanimated corpse of George Romero. Call of the Dead, part of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation pack, stars…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 26, 2011
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  Madden 12 Promo Video Spoils the Bills’ New Uniform Surprise

  A teaser trailer for EA Sports’ Madden 12 shows off the game’s unparalleled eye for detail, right down to the new uniforms the Buffalo Bills weren’t quite ready to show the world. ESPN has confirmed with sources within the National Football League that the Bills uniforms seen in a teaser trailer briefly available last night…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  World Of Warcraft‘s Rise of the Zandalari Patch Feeds The Trolls

  The Zandalari tribe once sided with the Alliance and Horde against their troll brothers in Zul’Gurub and Zul’Drak. In World of Warcraft patch 4.1, their sympathies have changed. Coming soon to a World of Warcraft server near you, the Rise of the Zandalari patch brings sweeping changes to the once-friendly troll tribe. Now fighting to…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  How does one invent an economy based on orc genitalia? Orc Stain’s James Stokoe fills us in

  If you like your fantasy comics grimy, roguish, and filled with orcs trying to lop each other’s dorks off, you’ll love James Stokoe’s Orc Stain. And if you don’t, you’re dunderheadedly depriving yourself of some of comicdom’s finest artwork. Orc Stain, which (in a herculean effort) is written, drawn, and colored by Stokoe, follows the…

  By Cyriaque Lamar Published April 26, 2011
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  Nintendo Worried People Aren’t Buying 3DS’ Magic

  Nintendo’s glasses-free 3DS portable gaming system isn’t selling as well as the company expected because people don’t understand how great the gadget is or how to properly use it, the president of the company theorizes. Addressing a gathering of analysts in Tokyo this week, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata seemed to place most of the blame…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 26, 2011
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  What Can Terrorists Learn from Video Games?

  Gamification is the act of applying video game-like rewards to non-gaming situations as a form of motivation. Imagine earning experience points for taking out the trash, or scoring well on a customer service survey, or learning how to create homemade explosives for use in terrorist acts. The same mechanic that shows so much potential for…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  In Search of a Massively-Multiplayer RPG that isn’t World of Warcraft

  Commenter ValeriaHeart is looking for suggestions for a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game to play with her partner that isn’t World of Warcraft in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Won’t you help her? Are there any MMORPG players out there that are playing something that isn’t WoW? How is that game? Would you recommend it?…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2011
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  How Did the Worst-Sounding Wii Game Become My Most-Anticipated Wii Game?

  There are two ways to describe Nintendo’s next Wii game, Wii Play: Motion. Well, three ways, if you include Game I Was Never Going To Touch Based On Its Original Description. For Nintendo, there were two: 1) There was the way the company described June’s Wii Play: Motion on their official product page when the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2011
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  Valve’s “Three Turret Moon” T-Shirt So Behind the Curve It’s Ahead Again

  The famous turrets from Portal 2 howl at the moon, having gone feral under the leadership of the mighty Animal King. Twenty bucks from the Valve store. (I’m resisting. If I want it by the next full moon, I’ll pull the trigger.) Three Turret Moon T-Shirt ($20) [Store.ValveSoftware.com]

  By Joel Johnson Published April 26, 2011
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  Rhythm Paradise Brings Most Exciting Keynote Slide of the Year

  Follow up to the cult portable series Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Paradise is coming to Wii this summer. We don’t know much beyond that it designed to be played “only with buttons”. But it’s clear from the slide a whole world of spaghetti stabbing awaits. Nintendo Heaven Financial Results Briefing (March 2011) [Nintendo.co.jp] Update: It has…

  By Joel Johnson Published April 26, 2011