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  Ratchet & Clank Future Screens

  Ratchet & Clank are back. Again. In Ratchet & Clank Future, for the PS3. Here’s what it looks like!

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 9, 2009
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  Koei Tecmo Encourages Employees To Have Babies (With Money!)

  The Japanese population is shrinking. People are not having babies like they used to. Koei Tecmo, the folks behind hack-and-slash Dynasty Warriors and boobs-and-high-kicks Dead or Alive, to the rescue! Starting this month, the company is offering the a gift payment that’s the equivalent of US$20,300 to employees who have their third child. Those having…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2009
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  Let’s All Take A Look At Guitar Hero: Van Halen (And Learn Some Things)

  Oh good. I’m not crazy. I could have sworn I saw this trailer at Activision’s E3 booth, but since it never showed up online for download/embed, figured my jetlag was playing tricks on me. Thankfully for my own state of mental well-being, it was playing at Acti’s booth, and while it’s yet to be released…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 9, 2009
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  Old Is New: Nintendo Released A Bio Sensor A Decade Ago

  The Wii Vitality Sensor tracks a players pulse while playing. A novel Nintendo idea — or is it? Nintendo has never been afraid of mining its own past for new product ideas — take the DS’s dual screen design that echoes Nintendo’s own Donkey Kong multi-screen Game & Watch. The Wii Vitality Sensor appears to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2009
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  PSP Resident Evil Is An “All-New Title”

  Resident Evil 5 aside, it seems everywhere you look these days, there’s a Resident Evil remake popping up. So when a PSP Resident Evil game was announced last week, few people seemed to care. They probably, like I first did, assumed it was just another remake of some PS1 or PS2 RE game. Yawn. Never…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2009
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  Heroes Star Producing Family Movie Based On MMORPGs

  Masi Oka, star of TV’s Heroes, has pitched a movie concept to studio DreamWorks based on massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Called The Defenders, it’s a family adventure based on Oka’s own experiences playing MMORPGs, and follows a group of gamer teens who only know each other via their online identities. An unnamed threat rears…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2009
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  Tracking The Ups And Downs Of Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference

  After looking at the “popularity contest” study done on Nintendo’s E3 press conference yesterday, many asked when it would be Microsoft and/or Sony’s turn. Today, it’s Microsoft’s turn. Bitmob’s Andrew Hiscock has applied the same methodology – tracking the positivity or negativity of comments on hardcore gaming board NeoGAF – used for the Nintendo study,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2009
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  Tetris Claymation Watches Tetris Orgy

  What better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tetris than with a claymation Tetris block watching hot square on square action? There’s block masturbation. And moaning and “Korobeinki“. Hardcore Tetris Pornography [Topless Robot]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2009
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  Nintendo Scrapped New Portable Hardware Over “Momentum” Concerns

  Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata isn’t afraid to make hard decisions, having recently scuttled a new piece of Nintendo hardware that might never see the light of day, never to put smiles on faces. According to a report from CNBC, Iwata says that Nintendo had another handheld gaming system in the works as recently as…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  A Bright Idea: Sims 3 USB Christmas Lights

  To go with the reviewers’ copies of The Sims 3 Collectors Edition (plum-bob USB memory stick included), EA also sent a set of USB Christmas lights, also in the shape of plum-bobs. The tips of the lights are sharp enough to cut skin or a small child’s mouth should they attempt to gum them. According…

  By AJ Glasser Published June 8, 2009
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  This Is Why I Thought Just Cause 2 Was “Best In Show”

  I called Just Cause 2 the best thing I saw at E3. That’s a big call for a sequel to a so-so game. So, just in case you think I’ve gone mad, watch this. It’s the same developer demo I sat through behind closed doors at E3. It runs for around 10 minutes, but it’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2009
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  Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Marches To DSiWare

  What new digital treasure await the Wii Point and DSi Point bearing Nintendo fan this week? Perhaps most noteworthy is arrival of Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!, announced last week for the Nintendo DSi and available right now. This week’s new downloadable titles for WiiWare, DSiWare and the Wii Virtual Console has a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  Games For Cheaper Auto Insurance

  Allstate Insurance and Posit Science, a San Francisco start-up, are looking into brain-training video games as a way to give drivers a discount on auto insurance. SF Gate reports that a driver who played used the “brain-training software” game called Jewel Diver narrowly avoided a car accident when another driver ran a red light at…

  By AJ Glasser Published June 8, 2009
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  New Tekken 6 Campaign Mode Spawns E3 Screen Shot Of Show

  Namco Bandai announced that Tekken 6 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 would one-up its arcade counterpart with the “Scenario Campaign” mode, a single and two player online co-op campaign that makes for great screen shots. You might be able to kick giant pandas in the face or battle women made of wood in…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  Recovered?

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Have You Recovered From E3? How can I have recovered from E3 when it’s still happening in my head and my writing. The amount of content we still have to post, really good content, could possibly outweigh what we’ve already reported. How crazy is that. This morning we started to…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 8, 2009
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  Grapple Buggy Hands-On: Swingin’ Through VALD-END 317

  Nathan Fouts‘ Grapple Buggy immediately conjures up warm, fuzzy feelings of Bionic Commando, Super Metroid, Contra III: The Alien Wars and Blaster Master. Damn good retro company to be kept in. Fouts brought the work-in-progress Grapple Buggy to E3 2009, giving us a hands-on demo of the adventure platformer, showing us around the world of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  Sony Explains Unnamed New PS3 Motion Controller A Little More

  The head of marketing for the PlayStation brand told us at E3 that Sony’s new PlayStation 3 motion-control tech could be the thing to get hardcore players into “motion gaming.” We covered Microsoft’s new motion-control system, Natal, heavily last week. And that’s without us getting a firm release date for it. But what of Sony’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2009
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  New Aliens Vs. Predator Screens Feature Aliens, Predators

  Sega’s first game to cash in on the Aliens license is Aliens Vs. Predator, which, if I can count correctly, is the ninth video game* to chronicle the epic battle between Aliens and Predators. It’s definitely the prettiest. It was one of the games at E3 2009 that I didn’t get to play, unfortunately, but…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  Gran Turismo For PSP Was Almost “Gran Turismo Spyder”

  Polyphony Digital‘s “real driving simulator” Gran Turismo is finally coming to the PSP this October, some four years after it was announced as Gran Turismo 4 Mobile. But now it’s just simply Gran Turismo. Why is that? We sat down with Polyphony president Kazunori Yamauchi at E3 last week to find out more about the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 8, 2009
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  PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe Preview: Marital Bliss

  I’m not writing the following preview for Kotaku readers. I’m writing it for my wife, who loves PixelJunk Monsters and has demanded more information. PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is the first PSP release in the well-reviewed, artsy-retro PixelJunk series that has been a delight for PS3 owners (and for a certain someone I live with). Announced…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2009