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  Here Are Some Beatmania Figures

  This September, what are you doing? Game company Konami is releasing two Beatmania IIDX figures. So there. Umegiri Iroha chocolate & Hinazuki Lilina strawberry are both getting 1/8 scale PVC figurines that are priced at ¥9,870 (US$108). These look familiar, you say? Good eye! The big difference is that these are alternative color editions. Perfect…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010
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  Microsoft: Halo 3 Outsells Uncharted, Killzone & Resistance Combined

  The public relations war we sometimes call E3 has begun a few days early, it seems, with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg taking to Twitter to fire a shot across Sony’s bow in the leadup to the big trade show. I’m sure it was intended to rally the Xbox 360 fanboys to the flag for the next…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010
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  Demented-Looking Pokemon Schoolyard Graffiti

  That might be a super sentai hero in the middle! As seen in Ikebukuro, Tokyo by a lovely Kotaku reader.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010
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  Old Lady Complains To Google About Pac-Man

  Not everyone loved the inclusion of a free version of Pac-Man on Google’s home page. In fact, one old lady was so incensed she felt the need to call Google tech support. I know old people can be frail, and a little slow with technology at times, but this is a bit much. The guy…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010
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  Curvy Onechanbara Actress Comes to New Yakuza Game

  Remember the feature film version of D3’s bikini-wearing cowgirl hack-and-slash game Onechanbara? No, not the first one. The sequel, Onechanbara The Movie VORTEx. The ample star of the second Onechanbara film, Yuu Tejima, will be bring her assets to the upcoming Yakuza PSP game, Yakuza: New Chapter Black Panther See? Model Anne Nakamura will also…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010
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  Namco Bandai: Nintendo Market Has “Collapsed”

  Is the bottom about to fall out of Nintendo’s software market? Namco Bandai certainly thinks so, saying the market for games on both the Wii and DS has “collapsed”. “It’s a tough market,” Namco Bandai’s Olivier Comte told MCV. “We had a lot of product, and the average quality of a game on DS and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010
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  Snorlax Makes A Great Dress

  This isn’t a cosplay per se. It is a Snorlax dress. Different! Over on website Deviant Art, ~bethanyagogo made this Snorlax pocket monster dress because her friend had a Pokémon-themed party. “I made the dress out of fabric from two XXXL t-shirts [one in dark teal and one in tan],” she writes. “I screenprinted eyes…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010
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  Rock Band 3 Teaches You To Rock With Real Guitars & Keyboards

  Rock Band 3 will, as expected, let you do something you’ve never been able to do in a Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) game before: play the keyboard. Yes, the fifth wheel of the rock world makes its long-overdue debut in Harmonix’s Rock Band 3, a report on USA Today showcasing not only the new…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010
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  Final Fantasy XIII Gets Dirt Cheap For A Lucky Few

  When role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII went on sale in Japan in December 2009, it was priced at ¥9,240 (US$101). Now, one retailer is offering the game for a discount. A huge one. This flier shows a new copy of the game priced at ¥500 ($5.48). That’s about what lunch at McDonalds costs! This is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010
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  How The Mortal Kombat Short Was Made (And What Happens Next?)

  Did you know Kevin Tancharoen, the man behind yesterday’s amazing Mortal Kombat short, shot it in just two days? And that much of the work was done for free? You do now. Tancharoen say down for an interview with Collider earlier today, and spoke about how the short film was made, and what he hopes…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2010
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  Online Video Game Lands a Rare League License — the NFL’s

  Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online football game, will bring NFL teams to its MMO-style team management simulation under one of the very few licenses the league’s given to a video game of any type other than Madden The deal, made public first through Kotaku, will deliver all of the logos, color schemes, uniforms, emblems…

  By Owen Good Published June 10, 2010
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  Kotaku Off Topic: Merry Wednesday

  I’m so excited, I think I’ll barely sleep a wink tonight, fellow off topic contributors. Tomorrow should be like Christmas Day, what with all the Team Fortress 2 games that shall be played and the embargoes that shall expire! I’d prefer not to overhype, but do make sure to turn on your internets tomorrow evening…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010
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  Sony Shows Its Faith In 3D

  The people behind the PlayStation have been proudly promoting their 3D wares throughout the year, but today at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, Sony brought some of its biggest guns, as executives presented its new technology push. Top Sony executives Sir Howard Stringer (CEO and President), Stan Glasgow, (Chief Operating Officer), Michael Fasulo,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010
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  Your Third NCAA 11 Demo Pairing is Kinda Redundant

  Tigers vs. Tigers. EA Sports told us the third matchup for the multi-team demo of NCAA 11 wasn’t going to be traditional and they’re right. Clemson and Missouri have played just four times. But hey, I suppose after Friday, once Nebraska pulls out of the tottering Jenga tower that is the Big XII, who knows…

  By Owen Good Published June 9, 2010
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  Rookie Sensation Strasburg Debuts in MLB 2K10 with an 87 Rating

  Stephen Strasburg could be appearing on your video game console as soon as midnight, and when he does, he’ll be the 15th-best starting pitcher in all of MLB 2K10 – just seven innings into his career. 2K Sports told Kotaku this afternoon that Strasburg, the Washington Nationals phenom who fanned 14 Pittsburgh Pirates in an…

  By Owen Good Published June 9, 2010
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  It’s a Prime Time to Talk Transformers

  The latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio is ready for you to download. Matt Tieger, a producer on the forthcoming Transformers: War for Cybertron, talked about that game with Stephen Totilo. Matt mentioned the game’s multiplayer “Prime Mode,” and also detailed what we can expect from the game’s demo, which releases tomorrow. Enjoy a full…

  By Owen Good Published June 9, 2010
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  Second Life Maker Laying Off 30%

  Virtual world creator Linden Labs is restructuring in an effort to “generate efficiencies and support investment in new platforms.” The quick translation on that into English is that the Second Life maker is canning 30% of its workers. According to the company, that restructuring will mean a consolidation of some internal divisions and a Second…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010
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  Modern Warfare 2 Going 3D on the PS3?

  A second video trumpeting the “PS4” also drops a half second hint that we may be seeing Modern Warfare 2 in 3D in the near future. Like the first one, this viral ad takes place in a lab, with a consumer/gamer acting the guinea pig while presumably evil Sony scientists test out 3D gaming on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 9, 2010
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  Fly Fly Away

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Drummer Dead At 40 🙁 I flew out to LA for the day yesterday for a couple of meetings and then flew back to Denver last night. Friday I fly out to St. Louis and then Trish and I are driving to pick Tristan up for camp Saturday and flying…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 9, 2010
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  Dead Nation, When Left 4 Dead Goes Super Stardust

  Click to viewSuper Stardust HD developers Housemarque know twin-stick shooters. And there isn’t a target more ideal than walking rotting flesh. Hence, Dead Nation, a PlayStation 3 exclusive that had better be at E3 2010. Dead Nation was originally unearthed at last summer’s Gamescom, but Housemarque and Sony have been a bit quiet on its…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010