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  It’s Not Like Arcade Cabinets Grow On Trees…

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  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Red Steel 2, Yes, Multiplayer, No

  Having first been teased on the magazine’s website, the issues of Nintendo Power blowing the lid off Red Steel 2 have begun hitting mailboxes. So what’s inside? Not much! Most notable of the limited news on-hand is that the game won’t feature any multiplayer, with the developers choosing to focus on getting the singleplayer experience…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Red? How About Glowing Cat Eyes?

  James sends this. We applaud the red, but are totally freaked out by the cute cat. What’s happening? We’re giving away a copy of futuristic third-person-shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla, platform of your choice. Here’s how you can win it: Take a picture of red things – the more the better! Be sure to include a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  Red Orchestra Gets Sequel, Redundant Subtitle

  We’ve quietly been fans of Tripwire’s Red Orchestra mods/games for years now. But three years on from the release of Ostfront 41-45, the game is showing its age. Time, then, for a sequel! Ahead of a cover-blowing announcement in this month’s PC Gamer – which appears to have caught the devs off-guard – Tripwire have…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  iDOLM@STER Characters Stretched And Shamed

  The Japanese internet has discovered (hacked?) the “debug mode” for PSP title THE iDOLM@STER SP, making iDOLM@STER character posing possible. Make that, embarrassing NSFW posing possible. Proceed with caution. You have been warned! The discovery of this mode turns the PSP game into a make-shift version of adult PC erotic title 3D Custom Girl (not…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  Nintendo Forces Swedish Dental Surgery To Change Name

  Not a headline you’d expect to read first thing on a Monday, granted, but it’s true: Nintendo’s lawyers have made a small dental surgery in Malmö, Sweden, change its name. Why? The surgery is called “Wii Smile”. And while one of the two partners running the joint, Christer Wihlborg, says the name came about because…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Nothing Says Charity Auction Like Mai Shiranui

  Will the Mai Shiranui statues ever stop? No, no they won’t. This figurine adds to the deluge, but all for a good cause. At the Volks Osaka hobby showroom has a Mai Shiranui from SNK’s The King of Fighters. She’ll be up on the Volks charity auction block. The proceeds will go to the Make…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  J Allard? No, It’s Doctor J Allard

  J Allard has, tragically, been in hiding for some time now. And still is! But his name, at least, has come out of hiding. We’re glad. And so, so glad that when it did resurface, it was to share the limelight with some illustrious company! Yes, the former Xbox pin-up boy, who played a big…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Xbox 360 Propaganda For Japan

  Take free! This “Xbox 360 super catalogue” is being distributed at Japanese retailer Messe Sanoh. Don’t be fooled by the cute Xbox 360 console character, it’s good old fashioned propaganda. The cover reads, “Xbox 360 over PS3 if you are picking multi-platform games.” At the bottom of this pamphlet, there’s the Xbox 360 console line…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  Spore: Galactic Adventures Trailer

  While we’re appreciative of the new weapons, how different can “protecting the oracle” and “defending the priest” really be? Video Games – Cheat Codes – Video Game Trailers

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Hugh Jackman: Wolverine Game “More In-Depth”

  Some are already calling the Wolverine video game better than the Wolverine movie. Hey, actor Hugh Jackman is impressed with the game, too. During production, Jackman was so dazzled that he had some of the video game dialogue shoehorned into the film script. “In fact I was able to bring some of the lines of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  Former Chinese WoW Operators Releasing Shameless WoW Rip-Off

  Never mind that The9 have lost the contract to run World of Warcraft in China to a rival firm. They’re going to compensate by releasing a new game! Which…looks a lot like World of Warcraft. And sounds a lot like World of Warcraft, as the game’s name is World of Fight. Oh, and the game’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Myst Is On The iPhone Right Now (And Big For An iPhone Game)

  The iPhone port of Myst has gone live. The game is priced at US$5.99, and the download size is extra large. As we posted back in August, Cyan — the developer behind the puzzle-based series — announced it had a small team working on a port of it’s 1993 point-and-click classic Myst. The team may…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  What Sequels Does Japan Want?

  Lots of games get sequels. Some of them Japanese games want, and others Japanese games want really bad. Game magazine Famitsu polled its readers about which franchise sequel they crave the most. Here’s the raw data: (Oh, and do please tell us which sequel you would like!) 1. Sakura Taisen (aka Sakura Wars) 267 votes…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2009
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  Quote/Unquote

  To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Big 8 Twenty years ago this month, my father’s newspaper back in my hometown decided to try something to gin up reader interest and participation. “Quote/Unquote” it was called; it ran on Mondays down the left side of the front page. Anyone could call in to an answering machine,…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009
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  Week in Games: Steel Drums

  Fallout 3’s latest round of DLC deploys this week for 360 and PC; it’s joined by Patapon 2 on the PSP, and Crysis: Maximum Edition for the PC. Otherwise, May comes in like a lamb, which is fine. Don’t you have enough games already? This week’s count: Five for Wii and DS, four for PC,…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009
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  Protest Against Video Game Army Recruiting Ends in Arrests

  Yesterday in Philadelphia, a crowd of 100 marched on a mall demanding the shutdown of the “U.S. Army Experience” – a video-game based recruiting station. Seven were arrested for cosplaying Shyguys wearing masks. GamePolitics tweeted the showdown, which began back in March with ideas of gathering in the mall as ordinary shoppers and then descending…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009
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  Survey Says …

  Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print “Please be assured this is a legitimate research study.” Of course it is. Their surveys must be frequented by A-list developers all the time, because here they felt the need to offer a…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009
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  Forza 3 Event Spits Out Another Perfect Dark Tease

  Last week’s Xbox 360 event in Sao Paolo, which teased Forza 3, also spun off another rumor tidbit: That pic, sent over to Destructoid, which is the second in-the-wild sighting of Perfect Dark on XBLA. The image, says D’toid, comes from someone who attended the Brazilian showing and quickly snapped the image. A video of…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009
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  Housers Named to Time’s ‘100 Most Influential’ List

  Time’s latest issue is its “Time 100” in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the “artists and entertainers” category. I couldn’t tell if Sam and Dan together count as one influential person, or if they took two whole spots…

  By Owen Good Published May 3, 2009