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  Fifteen Years Of PlayStation Domination

  Fifteen years ago Phillips, Sega, and 3DO were struggling to get North American consumers to accept CD-based gaming. On September 9, 1995, Sony came along and showed them how it’s done, changing the face of gaming as we knew it. Up until 1995, Sony’s major contribution to North American consumer electronics had been the Walkman,…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 9, 2010
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  MC Frontalot’s Spoiler Alert World Premiere

  Hot off his appearance at last week’s Penny Arcade Expo, MC Frontalot, nerdcore hip hop singer extraordinaire, is dropping a brand new music video on us. Check out Kotaku’s exclusive world premiere of Spoiler Alert featuring Frontalot and Molly Hager. If you’re into Frontalot, then check out his latest album, Zero Day, or hit him…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 9, 2010
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  Haunted House Then And Now

  How do you bring a 1982 Atari 2600 survival horror game up to date? Developer ImagineEngine and Atari show us how in a series of then and now images for the upcoming sequel to Haunted House. We’ve come a long way from the plotted blocks of the Atari 2600 days. That’s the clear message I…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 9, 2010
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  Witness Spider-Man Bravely Battling Nothing

  During the climactic battle with the Goblin in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Madam Web urges me to “look for areas of weakness.” I’d say my archenemy falling through the world and becoming untouchable counts. This clip is just one of many technical problems I had with my review copy of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on the Xbox…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 9, 2010
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  Bangladesh, Lean Back, Get Low Confirmed for Def Jam Rapstar

  Konami today unveiled seven more of the tracks that will be playable on their upcoming Def Jam Rapstar game, and confirmed that Bangladesh will be providing instrumental beats for the game’s freestyle mode. Here are the rundown: New Confirmed Tracks Busta Rhymes Put Your Hand’s Where My Eyes Can See DMX Ruff Ryder’s Anthem Fat…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 9, 2010
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  Bastion Was The Other Buzz Game Of Penny Arcade Expo, For Good Reasons

  ‘He gets up.’ That’s the line I can’t forget from Penny Arcade Expo last week. Duke Nukem had some good one-liners, sure. But Bastion is the other game people couldn’t stop buzzing about. To understand it, you needed to listen to it. Bastion is a top-down action role-playing game that looks like just a pretty…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 9, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Talking about video games is one of the things you can do at Kotaku for free. Do it here, will you? Thanks to Yossarian for a terrific Rubens riff. Submit your image for Talk Amongst Yourselves to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 9, 2010
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  Budget Sub-$150 Solid State Drive Round-up

  High prices are always a stumbling block to new tech adoption and with SSDs it hasn’t been any different. We’ve come a long way from first generation drives that suffered from severe slowdowns, but solid state drives are still far from replacing traditional storage and this is easily explained by comparing cost per gigabyte. Recently…

  Steven Walton Published September 9, 2010
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  Do You Know Any Good Swimming Exercises?

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Japan Podcast Been going to the pool a lot recently — plan to continue going more and more. I enjoy it! Micro-Bash and Mrs. Bashcraft go sometimes, too. So it’s a family outing of sorts. I guess I am able to swim. When I was a freshman at Cornell, I…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  School With Erotic Game Connection Is Changing Its Name

  A school in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture, Japan’s largest cherry producer, discovered it had the same name as an erotic game brand. The city’s mayor refused to change the name, but that was then. The school’s name “Sakuranbo Shougakkou” (“Cherry Elementary School”) is similar to an adult game brand’s website that features questionable illustrations of young…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  Monster Hunter Bundle Includes Fanny Pack

  And who doesn’t love fanny packs? Monster Hunter Portable 3rd will be released in Japan on December 1. The game will sell a bajillion copies, and the entire nation will buy it. Those shopping on Capcom’s online shop have an opportunity to buy more than the game. They can get a Monster Hunter Portable 3rd…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  New Resident Evil Movie Is 3D From The Ground Up

  Most 3D movies were made as 2D movies, then just have 3D effects added later. Not Resident Evil: Afterlife! “I wrote things into this script that I knew would work well in 3D like lots of sets with depth-like tunnels, elevator shafts, and big wide landscapes,” says Paul W.S. Anderson, the movie’s writer, producer and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2010
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  Firefall’s Gameplay Looks As Pretty As Its Cinematic Trailer

  So what if it’s Dune, Starship Troopers and Tribes thrown in a blender. This cinematic trailer for the multiplayer shooter looks expensive, and sure is pretty. If you think this all looks and sounds a lot like Blizzard meets Tribes, well…two of the men behind it are former Blizzard lead designer Mark Kern and former…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2010
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  A Picnic Fit For Mario

  As seen on Flickr via The Tanooki

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  The Horror: Okami

  With vibrant colours and fluffy puppies, Okami should be the stuff of dreams. This? This will haunt me the rest of my living days. As seen on Game Informer

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2010
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  Nazi Zombies, Auschwitz And Uwe Boll

  Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for his film versions of video games, is helming two movies about World War II. Both films were shot back-to-back. One is based on a video game and features zombie Nazis. The other? The other is based on history and features things far worse. The first flick, BloodRayne:…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  Minecraft Creator Hiring Help, Working On New Game

  Markus Persson, aka Notch, the man behind current cult darling Minecraft, has revealed that he’s about to get a little more serious, setting up a studio and hiring some help to work on a new game. He’s gone into business with a “close friend”, and will be bringing on some more developers so the studio…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2010
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  New Yakuza Game Finally Gets A Name

  Sega is releasing a new Yakuza crime game this month in Japan. This game already has a title — Yakuza: New Chapter Black Panther. The Japanese company has another new Yakuza game. This game doesn’t have a title. Rather, it did not, because it has one now. The game is called “Ryu Ga Gotoku: To…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010
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  Kinect’s Object Scanning Isn’t For Now, It’s For Later

  Despite being one of the cooler elements of Kinect’s original E3 2009 reveal, the ability to “scan” real world objects and use them in games won’t make the peripheral’s launch. But that doesn’t mean the tech is forgotten about. Speaking with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda has said that while we won’t be seeing any games…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2010
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  Video Game Idol Scores Atari Condoms

  Haruna Anno is not a simply an idol. Run-of-the-mill idols aren’t kick ass at Street Fighter and… Spelunker. Anno is a game idol. And she’s got Atari raincoats to prove it? While visiting a Japanese Q&A company, Haruna spotted some rare Atari items — Atari rubbers. She playfully recalls the “terrible” conversation that occurred when…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 9, 2010