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  I Rapped As Snoop Dogg For You

  The self-conscious games reporter does not rap in public. He raps at home, with a preview build of Def Jam Rapstar, video-camera activated. But then, though he might regret it later, he shares the videos with you. During my vacation last week I agreed to test whether my enjoyment of rap music and my enjoyment…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010
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  New Bulletstorm Media Kicks You In The Face With Its Giant Feet

  What is it with Epic games and GIANT BOOTS? Does everyone in the dark, gun-riddled, post-apocalyptic future suffer from severe orthopaedic ailments? And if so, who makes them? Was Marcus Fenix once a cobbler?

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Once in a rare while Talk Amongst Yourselves has a subtle image. Figure it out and comment here about video games. Thanks! And thanks to reader Roth for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010
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  Peter Molyneux’s Son Calls Out Valve On Half-Life 3 Delay

  Perhaps calls out is too harsh a phrase. Really Lucas Molyneux just asks, almost begs, Valve’s Gabe Newell for more details on the perpetually not-finished Half-Life 3 All the while Peter Molyneux, creator of Black & White, Magic Carpet, and Fable, peppers his son with advice and questions like, “What would you say to the…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010
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  I Like This Team Fortress 2 Mod’s Pepper Sauce!

  This is such a great idea I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing of it: it’s a Team Fortress 2 mod where one team plays as a team, and the other team plays as Saxton Hale. That’s about the gist of it. The Red Team plays as normal, the Blue “Team” is a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  The Game Menus Of The Future Will Be In 3D

  We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Happy 121st Birthday, Nintendo!

  Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy

  As we were all expecting, rental chain Blockbuster has this morning filed for bankruptcy. You win this round, Netflix.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  (LEGO) Thor Is Here!

  While Blizzard and LEGO continue to sleep on what would surely be a trillion-dollar industry, it’s left to fans to come up with their own brick-based creations based on Starcraft II. This amazing Thor was put together by the talented Sven Junga, who has left no detail unattended in recreating Starcraft II’s most Austrian of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  In This Case, Video Games ARE Art

  Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs, and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier. They’re part of a larger series called “Cross-Cultural Contamination”, which also stars Godzilla and Cobra Commander. So, yeah. Awesome. You can even buy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  LittleBigPlanet 2 Delayed

  Bad news, LittleBigPlanet fans: the game’s sequel, originally due out in November, has now been delayed until January 2011

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Woman Charged With Using WoW “To Entice An Underage Person Into Sexual Activity”

  Angie L. Jenkins told a boy she played World of Warcraft with that she was 21. She’s actually 35. He told her he was 20. He was actually 15. You know where this is going. After meeting in 2009, the pair developed a relationship that began online, moved to phone conversation and ultimately ended with…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  See Super Street Fighter IV’s New Boys In Action

  Yun and Yang, the two new characters in the Japanese arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV, are going at it in this gameplay footage. We know, their opponents aren’t fighting back; it’s training room stuff, designed to show off the pair’s moves, especially their ultras. Ultras, artwork and images of Yun & Yang in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  These Dreamcasts, They Are Glorious

  Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah Artist Torsten Rachu likes to airbrush stuff, consoles included, but even his finest work on current-gen systems pales in comparison to what he’s doen with four Dreamcasts. Long gone the console may be, but seeing a full-body Jet Set Radio piece on one of the old beasts…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Professor Layton Covers Up New York Metro’s Sex Issue

  The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles. That’s right, Nintendo took over the New York paper with…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010
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  Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Prologue: Character Creation

  They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with character creation. You might recall the four-part MMO log we did earlier this year leading up to our review of Star Trek Online. Well we’re doing it again, and by we I mean me, for Final Fantasy XIV. Kicking things off is a video of…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010
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  Photography Returns To Dead Rising

  When Frank West departed at the end of Dead Rising, so too did the game’s amusing photography mode, which is absent from Dead Rising 2. Now that Frank’s back in Dead Rising 2: Case West, so too is the picture-taking. In an interview with Dead Rising 2’s Rob Barrett, Eurogamer asked about the possibility of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Rumor: Project Milo Canceled

  Fable developer Lionhead Studios’ ambitious Milo project for Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have finally been put to bed. Sources claiming to have knowledge of the tech demo’s development tell Kotaku that Project Milo has been effectively shut down. That same source indicates that the technology that powered Project Milo—which has also been referred to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010
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  How They’re Trying To Sell Dead Rising 2 In Japan

  Dead Rising may not be the hit in Japan it is overseas, but Capcom’s ads for the home market are better than anything we’ve seen in the West for the game. The first clip is the ad itself. The second is an out-take, posted only because that song is so damn catchy.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
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  Would You Like Some 8-Bit Wood?

  8 Bit Wood specializes in making video-game themed pixel art with thousands of little blocks of wood, stained and glued together and then sealed. The website for 8 Bit Wood shows off amazing wall art inspired by Contra, Adventure, Ninja Gaiden, Excite Bike, Mario and more. But since there’s no price listed (you have to…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010