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  Pokémon Black and White Has A Presidential Theme Song

  If you were in attendance at this weekend’s launch fiesta for Nintendo DS game Pokémon Black and White, you might have seen ’90s musical sensation The Presidents of the United States of America belting out their newest jam “Can’t Stop (Catchin’ ‘Em All).” If you weren’t fortunate enough to bask in that pop pap, please…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Going Crazy For Alice: Madness Returns

  A decade on from American McGee’s Alice, a stylishly gothic and twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, gamers are given the opportunity to return to this twisted world with Alice: Madness Returns. It’s not crazy to delight in that not much has changed over the past decade for Alice, is it? For those unfamiliar with…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  A Mega Man That’s More Than Meets The Eye

  Mega Man and the gang play a little game of King of the Hill in this killer entry for UDON’s Mega Man Tribute Contest created by Joe Ng and GENZOMAN More great Mega Man Tribute entries can be found HERE! Mega Man Tribute – Lines by Joe Ng (Twitter) | Colors by GENZOMAN Need your…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  The URL That’s Also A Game

  URL Hunter is lo-fi gaming at its finest/simplest/most clever. Control the letter ‘O’ in your browser’s address bar and try to kill as many ‘a’s as possible in 30 seconds. An impressive little experiment.

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Grumbly the Orc Says Hello

  I’ve been getting slightly, every so slightly, addicted to Dungeon Overlord. It’s a kinda fun, kinda interesting Facebook game that has enormous potential, which I worry won’t be realized. Uncharted 3 Has a Hard Target. Your Heart. Nathan Drake is a klutz. That’s why we care what happens to him. Back when Naughty Dog was…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2011
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  PlayStation Store Update: Mortal Kombat Plus

  That PlayStation Plus membership will feel like a much better investment today, now that the Mortal Kombat demo for PlayStation 3 is online and available only to PS+ subscribers. The rest of us can taken consolation in a huge flood of new PSone Classics. It’s a veritable feast of new old PlayStation games in this…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Blizzard Shuts Down NASDAQ

  Blizzard Entertainment co-founders Frank Pearce and Mike Morhaime play a little StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty on the big screen at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York City, just before ringing the closing bell on Monday, March 7. The ceremony was part of Blizzard Entertainment’s year-long 20th anniversary celebration. Gameface is a photographic celebration…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Tiger Blood Energy Potion Brings Out The Raving Lunatic Actor In You

  Watching a celebrity dissolve before your very eyes is entertaining, but Charlie Sheen’s reign as everybody’s favorite frothing-at-the-mouth WINNER can only last so long. Luckily for Blood Energy Potion creators Harcos Laboratories, printing out stickers doesn’t take long at all. Perhaps I’m only jealous because I’m not winning, but that could all change once I…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  Shadows of the Damned Is A Kick To The Nuts Of Convention

  It may be hard to take Shadows of the Damned‘s journey into the depths of Hell too seriously, when you have a disembodied ex-demon skull named Johnson—who can transform into a weapon dubbed the Boner—as your sidekick. When demonic pubic hair and eyeball-eating baby heads serve as key obstacles in this horror game, you’ll find…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  Blizzard’s Next MMO Is ‘A Total Ball To Play’, Follows Diablo III

  There’s this guy who says that Blizzard’s next massively multiplayer game is “a total ball to play.” He says the game, code-named Titan, is “the type of game that will have a very long life, much like World of Warcraft has.” This guy is biased. He’s Paul Sams and he works at Blizzard. He’s the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2011
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  The Many Ways To Kill In The Darkness II

  The Darkness II is a grisly video game. The bad guys nail the lead character’s hands to a board. The good guy spikes people in the head with parking meters. One day, the mother of one of the game’s creators looked at her son’s e-mail inbox and noticed her son would be gathering with his…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2011
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  Modern Warfare 2 Patched Up To Fix Rampant Hacking On PS3… Is It Working?

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward just issued an update to the PlayStation 3 version of the first-person shooter, an attempt to curb rampant hacking in the game’s online multiplayer mode. It appears to be working (so far). “The Modern Warfare 2 patch to address hacking is now live on PlayStation 3,”…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 8, 2011
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  We’ll Show You Our Dragon Age II Character If You Show Us Yours

  Dragon Age II is here, finally giving players the chance to cobble together their own version of the game’s answer to Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard. Watch me craft my version of Hawke, and then show us yours. The character creation function was locked for the Dragon Age II demo, leaving us stuck playing the male…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  Epic Games’ New Unreal Engine—This Is What Next Gen Gaming Looks Like

  Fresh off the surreptitiously filmed, embargo-breaking train, it’s the video footage of the engine that we previously showed you only in stills. This is the engine Epic describes as beyond what modern consoles can do. It’s just one of many signs that a new crop of consoles are coming ’round the bend. [VentureBeat]

  By Joel Johnson Published March 8, 2011
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  Let’s Not Celebrate DRM Just Yet

  Don’t be fooled, I say. Ubisoft, amongst others, have been getting a lot of good press lately, including from this very site, [Kotaku editor’s note: he means Rock Paper Shotgun, where this originally ran.] for the apparent backtracking on the DRM that had crippled a number of games. By insisting that players be always online…

  John Walker, Rock Paper Shotgun Published March 8, 2011
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  Uncharted 3 Has a Hard Target. Your Heart.

  Nathan Drake is a klutz. That’s why we care what happens to him. Back when Naughty Dog was first developing Uncharted they knew they wanted a character-driven game. Making sure that happened was one of Amy Hennig’s main axes to grind when she came on as the series creative director and head writer. “We have…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2011
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  Can Video Games Keep Your Children Physically Fit?

  Can exergaming really take the place of going for a brisk walk or doing a few laps in the pool? A study out of Brigham Young University finds that certain video games do count as legitimate exercise for kids. Regular exercise is wonderful, but it tends to tear us away from the television set, forcing…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011
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  A 5-Second Halo Drive-By, For Laughs

  A brief, cute and impolite stop-motion video made from Halo action figures and photos from real road trips, cooked together for a 5-second road trip contest by Vimeo user Brockoli. [NEWB]

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 8, 2011
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  A Reality In Which I’m a Terrorist

  In a slightly different reality Japan is a vassal state to the Greater Republic of Korea, much of the United States has become the New Korean Federation of Occupied America and I’m the shadowy figurehead of a seditious and violent anti-Korean movement. This isn’t the fiction of the Homefront video game due to hit PC,…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 8, 2011
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  Nyko Doubles The Battery Life Of The 3DS

  Disappointed with the three to eight hour battery life of the Nintendo 3DS? Accessory manufacturer Nyko will be ready at launch with the Power Pak+, an add-on device that promises to double the interval between 3DS battery chargings. What you’re seeing here is actually two products Nyko has lined up to support 3DS gamers when…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 8, 2011