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  I Don’t Speak Swedish, But This Seems Bad

  Kotaku tipster says the image here, which tops a Swedish story about a Wii charger gone ablaze, mistakenly thinks Nintendo makes bum recharge stations. Not so, but that’s no consolation for this lady. Louises laddare började brinna [Aftonbladet. Thanks, Forcen!]

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  EA’s Gun Clubbers Get To Cut In Line At PAX

  Sorry this is late. Had to show A Jawa how to use the comments. Anyway (reads from paper) Members of Electronic Arts’ “Gun Club” promotion have received emails saying they can skip the line for Dead Space 2 at PAX. As you can see above, Gun Club members may print out the latest email to…

  By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010
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  Ooo Tee Dee!

  Tandi kwa! Yanna kuzu peekay. Ikee nyeta go cona. Ookwass dok pundwa keena, go mob un loo, etee uwanna waa! Ny shootogawa! Ushabia namba kee koolee? Ikee go cona. Rubac nufuzu nyeta utinni vapoosza wass sooga. Chikua dikwass bom’loo? Keeza! Nekkel juuvar obwegadada. Ko lop jar k’oso jubinloo lopima. Okka. Shumeneez un toyneepa “hbrrrrrrrrrrrrhhrrbawwwrr?” Mombay…

  a jawa Published August 19, 2010
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  Gender-Bending Game Characters: The Revenge

  In his last role-reversal gallery, artist David Stonecipher largely interpreted female video game roles as if they were portrayed by male characters. He’s followed that up with a gallery of famous male characters, as portrayed by the fairer sex. Stonecipher prefixed all of these with “Lady” so, that’s not Mega Woman, Earthworm Jane or Samantha…

  By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010
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  Brink Is The Breakthrough That Makes 2011 Feel So Far Away

  The game I most wish I was playing right now is Brink. I played it a week ago. It delivered on an unusual promise. Brink is a first-person team shooter set on an advanced seaborne city of the future. You can play it solo or with up to eight players against either others. It’s one…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  Wii Party Keeps The Festivities Going In Japan

  Nintendo’s latest Wii hit shows its impressive legs once again this week, with mini-game collection Wii Party returning to its first place spot on the Japanese video game sales charts. Almost zero competition certainly helped. Really. There wasn’t much in the way of competition for Wii Party—or anything else for that matter. New PSP game…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010
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  EA Predicted Poor Reviews For APB

  Electronic Arts provided distribution support for APB, whose bankrupt studio is being sold off; today a senior EA executive said the game’s poor reviews were somewhat predicted internally and suggested to Realtime Worlds. “We did suggest that where it landed from a review score standpoint was where we thought it was going to land from…

  By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010
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  Today We Dined In Gardens of Beer

  To: Ash From: Crecente Sorry I keep talking about food while we’re here in Germany, I just can’t help myself. And not just because the food is so great, but because we have such a small amount of time to eat it. Today, for instance I missed lunch again, but did manage to snag a…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010
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  Castle Crashers Dated for PS3

  Almost two years to the day after it arrived on the Xbox 360, Castle Crashers will hit the PlayStation 3. The game’s developer today said it will release on the PlayStation Store on Aug. 31. The price is $15.

  By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010
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  How Multiplayer Kinect Dancing Works

  Dance Central, the body-controlled dancing game from the makers of Rock Band, has multiplayer. It’s no Kinect Adventures multiplayer where you’d be standing side-by-side, in a gesture vs. gesture frenzy. No. It does dance battles. You take turns. I chickened out of participating in a two-player Dance Central dance battle last week at MTV’s offices,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  Madden’s Facebook Version Slips Out

  Back in February, EA Sports president Peter Moore said the Madden franchise would be coming to Facebook; Yesterday, Bitmob stumbled across an error page that calls the game “Madden NFL Superstars.” That’s the screenshot Bitmob took of the page. EA Sports already has published a well-received FIFA Superstars game to Facebook. It’s essentially a football-management…

  By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010
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  Doom’s Warfare Gets A Little More Modern

  Doom was released in 1993, so most guns in the game that didn’t have the word fucking in the middle of them are looking a little antiquated by now. To give the game a more contemporary – dare I say Modern – touch, some enterprising souls have released a mod for both Doom and Doom…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2010
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  Diablo III Fans, You Better Prepare for BlizzCon

  Blizzard hasn’t been very talkative at this week’s Gamescom show, preferring to hold all of their big news for October’s BlizzCon convention. While Blizzard did talk a bit about their new artisan system for Diablo III, they remained mostly tight-lipped about the game at the show, not even bringing a new build of the game…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010
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  Knights Contract Cuts Its Way Through A Quickly Crowded Genre

  Namco Bandai’s Knights Contract is an action adventure game that combines bloody melee combat with magical spells. It’s also a game that shares a major similarity to a handful of other games on the verge of release. The “slash action” game is set in a stylized Middle Ages in Europe. The game’s producer, Ryo Mito,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010
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  Okamiden And Ghost Trick, In Action Again

  New video game convention = new trailers of two of the most promising upcoming DS games, 2010’s Ghost Trick and 2011’s Okamiden, both from Capcom.

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  Well, Limbo Certainly Sold A Ton Of Copies

  Creepy indie platformer Limbo is one of the surprise hits of 2010, not just with critics, but with the game-buying public, too. Developers Playdead have told Gamasutra that the game has sold over 300,000 copies since it was released last month. For a game about a creepy little kid dying a million times in a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2010
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  If People Make It To Mars, Give The Wii Some Credit

  There are six men currently living in cramped isolation in Moscow, enjoying and suffering 520 days of isolation as the Russian Space Federation simulates the loneliness of a manned flight to Mars. Good thing these guys have a Wii. Can they make it through 520 days? And what will happen to them in the process?…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  Video Game Tracks How Long You Stare At Playboy Centerfolds

  There are video games that track the calories you burn while playing them. There are games that count the number of virtual miles you race in them. Mafia II tallies how long you “read” its in-game Playboy centerfolds. I played a press demo of Mafia II several weeks ago and poked around in the game’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
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  LittleBigPlanet 2 Lets You Make Music (That Makes Levels)

  I played a LittleBigPlanet 2 basketball game with Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans today, then watched someone else control multiple Sackbots in a puzzle game. Both were very different from LittleBigPlanet’s platforming sections. Neither was as cool as the racing game Evans demonstrated. The racing game itself, which saw a Sackboy ride on a fuzzy…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010
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  Is That An EyePet In Your Pocket?

  Have you ever wanted to have a furry little friend in your pocket that you could pull out and play with whenever you felt like it? EyePet for the PSP can make that dream come true. EyePet is an adorable little augmented reality critter you can play with using your EyeToy and PlayStation Move. All…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2010