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  Commander Shepard Can Punch Women, But Can He Beat Boba Fett?

  In many ways, Mass Effect is what it is because its developers made a successful Star Wars game. So it’s about time we go to see the franchises square off. Artist Edrice Waliyar has done these two images, depicting some of the stars of the respective series taking each other on. In one pic, the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Half-Life Goes Back In Time

  William “Robotwo” G from Sweden reimagines Half-Life as a Master System game. There’s shades of Batman: Caped Crusader here. Which is a very good thing.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  How To Put The 3DS Back Together Again

  Screw warranties! Real men (and women) don’t need them. They are fearless when it comes to taking apart the 3DS with their bare hands. Putting it back together? Eh… That’s hard Here, a disassembled 3DS is reassembled with nothing more than tweezers and a screwdriver. Oh, a pair of hands, too. It’s a bit like…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  Choose Your Own Left 4 Dead Adventure

  If the actual Left 4 Dead is a little too frantic for your tastes, why not try this “choose your own adventure” version of the game by web comedy troupe Game Station. It’s nice and slow, giving you ample time to consider your choices, then decide on what seems the most logical course of action.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  A Dude In A Fursuit. Dancing. For Charity.

  WolfPupTK, the dude in the suit, is on a mission to raise awareness for the American Red Cross. And to do that he’s making videos, like this: Here he’s playing In the Groove on expert. In his fursuit. “The American Red Cross is a wonderful organization that is constantly helping others and saving lives,” writes…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  WiiWare Losing Its Video On Demand Service In Japan

  “Minna no Theater Wii” (Everybody’s Wii Theater) is a streaming Wii service that launched in Japan in early 2009. And later this year, it will end. The service allowed Wii owners to rent movies like Inception or anime like Astro Boy with Wii Points. Fujisoft, the Kanagawa-based IT company behind Minna no Theater Wii, today…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  Oh God, The Colors, They’re So Beautiful

  Sadly, indie developer Joakim Sandberg seems to be going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment. So he’s released an in-progress version of a game he’s been working on, called The Iconoclasts. And it’s great. Great for what it is, anyway, which is a glorified demo of sorts of a vibrant 2D…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Eventually, There Might Be A New No More Heroes

  At a recent charity event in Tokyo, No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda said he’s up for making another NMH “someday”. Obviously, he’s got his plate full at the moment with action title Shadows of the Damned. [via Famitsu]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  It Looks Like An Xbox 360, But It’s Actually A Small Heater

  In Akiba’s Trip, the PSP game in which an otaku dude strips “vampires”, a black machine appears in-game. It looks like an Xbox 360. In fact, that’s what I thought it was. That assumption, however, is totally wrong. Players can use a wide variety of otaku-flavored items as weapons in Akiba’s Trip. For example, plastic…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  There’s A Second Penny Arcade Game (Only This One’s For Tables)

  I’ve never been the biggest fan of Penny Arcade’s “spin-off” works, but the recent Lookouts comic series (or at least attempt) was awesome. So it’s even more awesome to hear that the fantasy world is getting its own “hybrid role playing and board game experience”. Here’s the synopsis from the game’s creators, Cryptozoic Entertainment: The…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Mega Man Universe Is Totally Canceled

  Mega Man Universe was supposed to be out this year on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. It won’t be. Capcom, the game’s developer, is shutting the title down and ceasing development. Mega Man Universe has been canned. In an official release, Capcom says the game is being canned for “various circumstances”. It is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  Digital Idol And Real Pin-Up Girl Blended In Pixels

  Even though she’s performed in concerts, Miku Hatsune is an entirely virtual creation. Pin-up model Risa Yoshiki, however, appears to be real! In the latest issue of Japanese tabloid Weekly Playboy, both idols, 2D and 3D, come together. Here’s how the promotional video for the photoshoot explains it: Beyond the limits of science, she came.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  You Won’t Need A Kingly PC To Run Fable III

  For those of you still excited at the prospect of playing Fable III on the PC after its long delays and, well, complete lack of cohesion, here are its system specs

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Is EA Cooking Up A New Ultima Game?

  Ultima IV, an oldie-but-goodie role-playing game from one of the PC’s most revered franchises, has been available for free since 1997. And nobody gave a hoot. Then, yesterday, EA suddenly gives a hoot. A number of sites hosting free (or flash) copies of the game – first released in 1985 – have been ordered by…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  From Chernobyl To Sony’s New Handheld

  The whole world watched as an explosion took the roof off Fukushima 1. The situation is far from resolved. Thankfully, the crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant now appears to be stabilizing. Deactivating the reactors, however, could take decades. For game developer Alexey Menshikov, it brought back memories of something close to Kiev, where…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011
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  Please, THQ, Stop Stealing Assassin’s Creed Developers

  Patrice Désilets, the former creative director behind the Assassin’s Creed series who left Ubisoft for rivals THQ last year, was not alone in making the move. He brought others with him. So many that THQ has had to go get a court order. Désilets left Ubisoft in May and announced his new role at THQ…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  This Pikachu Fancies Himself In A Fight Against Godzilla

  “I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us…”. As seen on deliri0us

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Let’s Talk About The Very First Street Fighter

  Not Street Fighter II , that was...the second Street Fighter

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011
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  Sony’s MMO Makers Close Three Studios, Lay Off One-Third of Workforce

  Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned. Word began spreading when George Broussard, best known as the co-creator of Duke Nukem Forever, tweeted earlier this evening that SOE was seeing layoffs and “studio closure is…

  By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011
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  PlayStation Emulator Yanked from Android Store — Foreshadowing PS Phone’s Release?

  ZodTTD’s PlayStation emulator is on the Android store. The soon-to-be-released PlayStation Phone is an Android device. Can you guess the punchline here? Available for nearly six months, now PSX4Droid has been judged by Google to have a “content violation,” and poof, off it goes. ZodTTD, via Twitter, said he’d been working like hell on an…

  By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011