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  The Cutest Indie Game Plushie Ever

  Indie game developer Edmund McMillen goes full circle, so to speak, as Bigshot Toyworks releases a couple of plush toys based on his award-winning PC game Gish, starring a loveable ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. With a new Gish game on the horizon and a cameo by the grinning black ball in…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 30, 2010
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  Medal Of Honor Developer: “Afghanistan Sort Of Chose Us”

  This fall, one of the biggest war video game franchises will be set in a current war, the conflict in Afghanistan. Why? Not politics, a developer told Kotaku. Not current events. “We never chose Afghanistan,” Medal of Honor executive producer Greg Goodrich said in a recent interview in New York City. “Afghanistan sort of chose…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2010
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  Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighters

  UDON Entertainment gets down and dirty with every Street Fighter character to ever go a round this June, with the release of the Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia, with information ranging from fighting styles to favorite foods. Did you know high school ninja Ibuki loves roasted sweet potatoes and is an extremely fast eater, or…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 30, 2010
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  Man Arrested Allegedly Trying To Steal Early Copy of Game At Convention

  Atomic Games’ Xbox Live Arcade shooter Breach impressed one PAX East visitor so much he apparently attempted to steal the code, and he might have succeeded too, if not for one fatal mistake – telling the developers he was stealing it. We don’t condone stealing here at Kotaku, but we do enjoy being helpful, so…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 30, 2010
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  Modern Warfare 2 Charity Raises Unemployment Awareness By Handing Out Games

  To celebrate today’s release of Modern Warfare 2’s new Stimulus map pack, publisher Activision delivered copies of the game to more than 300 U.S. Navy ships, submarines and recreational facilities around the world. In this video we see crew members of the U.S.S. John C Stennis getting their free copies of the game in San…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 30, 2010
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  Come Chat Blur Live with Bizarre Creations Tomorrow

  Join us tomorrow on Kotaku Talk Radio to chat with Bizarre Creations about their upcoming racer Blur. A project lead from the team behind Project Gotham Racing and upcoming Blur will be on Kotaku Talk Radio this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Kotaku Time (that’s 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT), giving you a chance to…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 30, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  With the latest firmware upgrade, TAY is dropping text-in-word-balloons support. Sorry about that. Please keep commenting here about video games anyway. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2010
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  Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack Is Live, But Broken [UPDATE 4]

  Details are still sketchy, but we’re getting a number of reports that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack that hit this morning is not entirely working. The Stimulus Pack delivered five new maps for the multiplayer portion of Activision’s popular shooter for 1200 Microsoft Points. But readers are reporting a slew of…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 30, 2010
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  This Is Not Spain

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: From DSi XL to iPAD I went on a vacation recently. Not to Spain, though! I have never been to Spain, sadly. I’d love to go one day. My uncle lives in Barcelona. And I really like the Whit Stillman movie Barcelona, so yeah. We went to Spain Mura (“Village”),…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  Korean Girl Group DSi Ads Are Not Exciting

  One of South Korean’s most popular girl groups, Girls’ Generation, is appearing in DSi ads for Nintendo of Korea. The ads are, to put it kindly, dull. Here is one ad. Here is another ad. But come to think of it, pretty much all DSi commercials aren’t exactly thrilling television. Girls’ Generation music videos shilling…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  Hacker Working To Save PS3 Linux Support

  Next month, the PS3 will be ditching its Linux operating system support — something that the console has had since it launched in 2006. There must be a way to stop this, no? On April 1, Sony will release the next firmware update for the PS3, bringing it to v3.21. It seems the sole purpose…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  Vintage Catalogues Revive The Ghost Of Nintendo Past

  Reader Brett must have known our adolescent selves were in need of entertainment, otherwise he wouldn’t have pointed us towards this motherload of vintage Nintendo merchandise catalogues. From the Japanese publisher’s 1992 edition (Packed with gift ideas!) to a magnificent “Zelda Box” released in Japan in commemoration of the release of Wind Waker, there’s a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2010
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  LeChuck Piece Makes All Other Tattoos Walk The Plank

  Not sure how we missed this tattoo of Monkey Island antagonist LecChuck last year. Maybe it was so fantastic it burned clean through our collective consciousness. As seen on Geekologie.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2010
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  Gundam As Girls

  Yes, Gundam are mobile suits. They’re mecha! And sometimes, they are cute doe-eyed girls. Since 1982, MS Shojo (MS Girl) has been published in monthly publication Gundam Ace. Familiar with most anyone who follows Gundam, MS Shojo was created by veteran Gundam mecha designer Mika Akitaka and pretty much spawned the entire young-girls-as-mecha subgenre. Akitaka’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  Wii Upscaler Review: Can The Wii Really Do High Definition?

  When we first heard about VDIGI’s new VD-W3 Wii upscaler, a product that promised it could bring high definition graphics to the Wii, it sounded too good to be true. “Better review it, then” we thought. Just to be sure. The VD-W3 is hardly a new idea – standalone “upscalers” have been around for years,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2010
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  Alan Wake Motion Capture Expert Calls Heavy Rain “Visually Uneven”

  PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain looks fantastic. Mark Carson, head of mo-cap specialist CaptiveMotion, told website VG247 that while the psychological thriller is “beautiful”, it is also “visually uneven”. Here’s the quote: “It’s beautiful and brilliant but visually uneven at points, which unfortunately is the nature of the industry because of the scope, budgets and time-frames…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  This Is Why You Don’t Buy A PS3 In A Parking Lot

  A man from Evanston, Illinois found a PS3 for sale on Craigslist for $250. So he arranged to buy it. The meeting was scheduled to take place in a parking lot. Oh dear. When he got there, he was greeted by two men emerging from a car. They met him, took his money, then…drove off.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2010
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  The Greatest School Bus In Japan

  Kindergarten is a tough time for some kids. It’s the first time that they are away from their mother or father for an extended period of time. To help ease the experience, Japanese kindergartens and pre-schools have cute, colorful buses. The buses are supposed to hopefully make children want to ride them — and thus,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010
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  Thank You, Dad

  David Wildgoose, Editor of Kotaku Australia, now finds that the Civilization franchise has a much greater, personal significance than it did a month ago. On Monday March 15 my father passed away. Just a few days earlier I had told him there’d always be a piece of him in everything I do. This is why……

  David Wildgoose Published March 30, 2010
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  How Can Ho Chi Minh City Stop Its Porn Game Problem?

  Adult video games are flooding Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Time to fight the good fight. Or the not-so-good fight. Whichever! Touch screen games asking players to discern the differences between sexy girls have been popping up in Vietnamese arcades — often in plan view of others. This has alarmed some. “How can kids play…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010