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  Why Can’t Video Game Villains Be More Vulnerable?

  Commenter Fuzzymail wonders why the villains we face in video games can’t be just as scared and uncertain as the heroes in today’s episode of Speak-Up on kotaku. Why does the main “bad guy” always have to be so calculated and self assured? Why can’t they present their struggle to achieve their goal the same…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2011
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  Lay Your Quarter On The Console In Mortal Kombat‘s King Of The Hill

  Back in the day we used to gather around the Mortal Kombat machine at the local arcade, cheering or booing the current set of kombatants as we waited our turn to play. Next week’s new Mortal Kombat brings that feeling back with the King of the Hill online mode. We’ve seen spectator mode in online…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2011
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  Netflix on Xbox is Now Kinect Enabled

  If you use Netflix on your Xbox 360 and have a Kinect, you’ll now be able to control the interface with all the waves and solo high-fives you’ve been using for the regular video player. Reboot, ya dummy! [Major Nelson]

  By Joel Johnson Published April 14, 2011
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  The Difference Between A Resident Evil Zombie And A Dead Rising Zombie

  The video game zombies of Resident Evil and Dead Rising are equally undead and equally at ease with chewing on your neck. There are differences, though, in the shambling hordes of these two popular series from Capcom. I recently asked creators of each to define what makes their zombies different. First, a zombie perspective from…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 14, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Pick yourself up off the mat and talk about video games, right here in the comments section. Thanks to ShinLord for today’s pic. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 14, 2011
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  Sometimes 3DS Demo Units Break

  OUT OF ORDER | JAPAN: This 3DS unit is currently not in commission. (Photo by 2ch) So How Far Along Was Duke Nukem Forever Before It Was Binned? In 2009, Duke Nukem Forever was cancelled after over a decade in development. It’s now famously back from the grave, but if you’ve ever wondered how far…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  Deserted Theme Parks Are Creepy. This Silent Hill Set Is Creepier.

  Photographer Sara Collaton recently swung by the Ontario, Canada film set of upcoming horror flick Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. She took a handful of long exposure pics of the movie’s carnival set. The results are both stunning and creepy. These photos might even be better than the flick itself, which just started shooting. We’ll have…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  The Game In Which You Film A High Schooler, And Hit On A Mom

  Gachitora! ~Hooligan Teacher in High School~ lives up to its name. The main character, Torao Kaji, is a thug turned teacher. Besides chasing down a photographer who is stalking a student, Kaji also takes a schoolgirl to a love hotel, films that student in hopes of helping her overcome her shyness and uploads the footage…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  Fleeing Foreigners Hurting Tokyo’s Geek Mecca

  “Fly-jin” (aka, the foreigners who fled Japan after the quake) are sending ripples through Tokyo. Big-spending Chinese tourists are apparently absent in Akihabara, and maids report fewer foreign customers at maid cafes. More in the link. [via Japan Probe]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  Could We Have Gotten A Second Jade Empire Game?

  Rafael Brown, a designer who now works at Doom creators id but once worked for Mass Effect creators BioWare, has an interesting project listed on his resume: he says he worked on Jade Empire 2 Jade Empire was a Chinese-themed role-playing game released by BioWare in 2004. An entirely original IP, it was the developer’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  The Deadly, Sexy Guns Of The Mass Effect Universe

  You might think Mass Effect is all about the chit-chat, but it’s not. The talking and running and sexy times are just filler between lots and lots of shooting. Really, then, it’s all about the guns. So let’s take a look at them. These weapons were all designed by Brian Sum, a concept artist currently…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  Seeing Mario From A New Perspective

  The world’s most famous plumber certainly looks…hairier from down here. A Star Is Born by David Shearer

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  Microsoft’s Official Kinect Software Is Better Than Most Hackers’

  Looking to remind people, hey, we made this thing, Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect software development kit for the PC (which anyone can grab) will include a variety of features most hackers and code enthusiasts haven’t been able to manage on their own. One of those features is the ability for the camera to track the skeletal…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  This Year’s Most Unusual Action Game Gets A Japanese Cafe

  El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron not only has God on speed dial, in Japan, it’s got its own cafe. The game, which features a pre-fall Lucifer, already has its own designer blue jeans, so this is par for the course, really. The cafe is a temporary cafe at the Nakameguro Longue in Tokyo’s Nakameguro.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  No, This Isn’t Box Art For A PS2 Game

  Mysterious Wii game Pandora’s Tower gets box art and black box packaging – which Japanese netizens are saying looks PS2-esque. The Nintendo published title will be out in Japan on May 26. No word on Western release. Wii『パンドラの塔』のパッケージから神ゲー臭がする

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  2011’s Prettiest Platformer Will Be Out In Two Weeks

  Outland, a platformer from Ubisoft that looks like the product of Tron and Flashback spending a sexy evening together, will be out on April 26 (PSN) and April 27 (XBLA) respectively.

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  There’s A Nice Lady In That Cyborg Suit

  Omi Gibson is not only a talented cosplayer, she’s the queen of Metal Gear cosplayers. Her latest photo set of a Cyborg Ninja prove exactly why she earns that moniker. The outfit she wears is killer, but while it looks fantastic, Omi blogs that it was incredibly difficult to see out of the helmet –…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  These Killzone Action Figures Are As Gray As You’d Expect

  Only six years after the release of the first Killzone, you can finallybuy action figures based on Sony’s sci-fi shooter series. These two 6.5 inch figures constitute the entirety of Killzone Series 1 from toy company DC Unlimited. They’re a Helghast Assault Infantry soldier and a Helghast Sniper (those buying the fancy edition of Killzone…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011
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  What This Man Really Wanted Was To See Breasts In 3D

  Senran Kagura aims to please. So does game designer Kenichiro Takaki. According to Takakai, what inspired the game is probably what will inspired players to buy it: boobs. In a post over on the game’s official site, Takaki, who also developed PSP game Half-Minute Hero, talks about how this is the age of 3D games.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 14, 2011
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  Your NGP Games May Look More Like This

  While Sony wowed the crowds with the quality of the NGP’s graphics at the handheld’s unveiling last year in Tokyo, this clip may give us a more realistic idea of what to expect from the PSP’s successor. It’s a technical demo for Trinigy’s Vision Game Engine running on the NGP, showing off the kind of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2011