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  Killing Time With The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings

  Despite an unstable frame rate and horrendous loading times, PC role-playing game The Witcher sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. The Witcher 2 runs at 60 frames-per-second and has no loading times whatsoever. The Witcher was one of my favorite games of 2007. Based on a series of short stories and novels by Poland’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2010
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  Sony Online With a Chance of Chocolate Rain

  “Chocolate Rain” YouTube sensation Tay Zonday hangs with Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley at their booth!

  By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010
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  Listen To Six Kotaku Editors Talking About E3, Debating The Show’s Best

  The Kotaku Talk Radio E3 podcast spectacular was recorded earlier this week and now you can download it to hear six members of Kotaku debate the big news of the show and name some of our favorite E3 games. Host: Brian Crecente, with Brian Ashcraft, Mike Fahey, Owen Good, Michael McWhertor and Stephen Totilo (none…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  Metal Gear Solid Rising Bridges Three Games, Explains Raiden’s Makeover

  The next console Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Solid Rising, will bridge the gap between Metal Gear Solid 2 and MGS 4, the game’s developers revealed at E3 this week. Plus, we’ll finally find out how Raiden became cool. Metal Gear Solid Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama told reporters here in L.A. that the game will…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  Cross-Section Of A Castlevania Castle

  I shot this image of Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair from the new game’s E3 trailer. Harmony of Despair includes many characters and supports multiple players. But does it really ever look like this? Or is this a trailer trick? Castlevania games typically show a player’s hero in one room of a large castle or other…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  Xbox Kinect Does Not Play Well With Couch Potatoes

  Near the beginning of my trip out here in Los Angeles for E3, I heard the oddest of rumors: Microsoft’s controller-free sensor array, Kinect, would only work if you were standing up. No way, right? For the last several days I’ve been peppering the conversations I’ve had with game creators at this massive video game…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Why not type your thoughts about video games? And why not type them here? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  How To Control The Next Zelda Game

  These are the controls for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, that new 2011 Wii game I played earlier this week at E3. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? These Skyward Sword posters lined a wall back in Nintendo’s E3 2010 booth. People waiting to play the game were expected to stand along this…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010
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  Lucasarts, This Monkey Island 2 Trailer Was A TERRIBLE Idea

  Why? Because now, as nice as the special, revamped 2010 remake of Monkey Island 2 looks, I want it to look like this clip instead. Click to view

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Amazon Prices Kinect At $149

  While Microsoft has yet to release pricing details for the Kinect motion control camera, retailers are having no such hesitation, Amazon now joining GameStop in charging $149 for the device. This is still not official confirmation, of course, as it’s only a pre-order and pre-order prices can change, but when two of the biggest gaming…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  It’s Ladies Night In These Fable III Screenshots

  Swords and castles have been done to death in RPGs. So have spaceships. But tights, wigs, tricorn hats and muskets? That’s a bit fresher, especially given the slight whiff of Dickens emanating from those dim, cobblestone streets.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  E3 Recap: Day Two

  Yeah, we know. Day two wasn’t as big as day one. It never is! Just because it wasn’t as big, though, doesn’t mean it wasn’t big We still saw a ton of games. Wrote about a ton of games. And posted a ton of screenshots, photos and trailers from a lot of the games we…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Nintendo Says There’s No “Immediate Need” To Replace The Wii

  Some people thought this would be the week Nintendo unveiled the successor to the Wii. It wasn’t. And while that day will inevitably come some day in the future, it doesn’t look like it’ll be any time soon. “I do not think that there is an immediate need to replace the Wii console”, Nintendo President…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Gears Of War 3 Screens Give Marcus Time To Check Out The Ladies

  Just because Marcus Fenix has a neck of steel doesn’t mean he has a heart of steel. He is a man, and men have feelings. Which he may indulge from time to time, when he’s not busy chainsawing things.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Mario’s Creator On The Mystery Of Women (And Cats)

  Sounds like a covert pitch for Nintengirls to us

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Rumor: 3DS Allows Game Installs?

  It’s a feature that wasn’t disclosed during the public unveiling of the Nintendo 3DS, but Japanese business newspaper Nikkei is reporting that the new handheld will allow users to install games on its onboard storage. According to the paper’s report, “multiple games” can be installed off their original cart, meaning users could stock up on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Alice In Chains? Dubai? This Must Be The Spec Ops Trailer

  If Spec Ops: The Line was a movie instead of a game, and had released this trailer in 1994 instead of 2010, with all that slo-mo and Alice in Chains, it would be just about the most awesome thing ever Since it’s not, though, we have to take it for what it is: a shooter…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  Nintendo Might Go 3D With Next Console

  In an interview with Japan’s Nikkei, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has hinted that the company’s next home console may, like the freshly-unveiled 3DS, go 3D. “If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we’d probably do it with the next system”, he said. “We’re thinking that the timing should be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  These Aren’t (Or Maybe Are) The Force Unleashed II Screens You’re Looking For

  If you woke up as a clone of a man betrayed and killed, and were in a position to pick up a lightsaber and use it, would you? This guy is. The Force Unleashed II deftly side-steps the ending of the first game in just this manner, meaning you’re now back in (sort of) the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010
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  The WTF Video Of E3 2010

  I have been trying to tell you that Konami’s press conference was wacky. But if my liveblog didn’t convince you….if a photo didn’t convince you… then this video will. I guarantee it. I’m sure the developers of the Konami games you see here were trying well and speak better English than I do Japanese. A…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2010