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  Here Are Your BAFTA Winners

  After a year off in 2008 to sort themselves out, the British Academy Video Games Awards are back. With proceedings in London now done and dusted, let’s see who took home a golden mask! Congratulations to Super Mario Galaxy, which took out best overall game. Other big winners were Call of Duty 4, which took…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009
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  First Peek At EA’s Grand Slam Tennis For Wii

  Electronic Arts has been pretty coy with deep details on its tennis effort for the Wii, giving us glimpses of character designs only. Today we get a good look at EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. The Wii tennis game, which is slated to use Wii MotionPlus for more serious racket control, goes for a nice…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  No More Heroes Slumming It With Red Steel For New Wii Bundle

  Say, Wii owner. Did you pass on No More Heroes? Well, shame on you! But if you have no taste, maybe you’d like to pick up Red Steel while you’re remedying that, thanks to Ubisoft. The French publisher is bundling both Wii titles in one package, a practice we’ve not seen much of this generation,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  See Valkyria Chronicles Anime Early (If You Are Lucky)

  The upcoming anime based on PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles looks great. Those who live in Japan could win a chance to see it a few weeks early. On March 28, a “premium event” is being held for the anime in Tokyo. The first episode will be screened, and there will also be a talk with…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 10, 2009
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  BBC Talk Show Man Mentions Fable III

  And the Twitter madness continues. Latest to let something slip? British television and radio presenter Jonathan Ross, who says he was just asked to do some voice work for a third Fable game. Or, as he puts it, “Goodnight all. Must go to bed. Got asked to do voice in Fable 3 tonight. Subarashi. Oyasuminasia.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009
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  Grand Theft Auto Creators Just Hit Paydirt

  The Houser brothers (and other top Rockstar personnel) are, no doubt, already rich. Filthy rich. But today it was announced they’ve all become a lot richer. You may remember in December 2008, Rockstar’s top talent (including Sam & Dan Houser, Leslie Benzies and “several other key members of the creative team”) signed a deal with…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009
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  Metal Gear Solid Touch Duck Hunts Itself A Release Date [UPDATE]

  Really, Konami, the best you could manage for an iPhone Metal Gear game was a re-skinned Duck Hunt? How depressing. Still! There are enough Metal Gear tragics out there who just won’t care. For you, then, in the absence of help, comes information: the game will be out on Apple’s App Store next week, March…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2009
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  Britain Jumps on Violent Video Game Tax Bandwagon

  Britain’s top authority on knife crimes is telling his boss — Prime Minister Gordon Brown — to tax violent video games just after Pennsylvania legislators considered the same thing. It’s not clear that there is a connection between violent video games and knife crimes in Britain, but knife crime adviser Richard Taylor says that young…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 10, 2009
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  Black Knight Producer Explains Sword-Swinging Sonic: “Preposterous”

  Sonic Team Producer Tetsu Katano is the man to blame if you’re not happy with Sonic and the Black Knight. It was his idea to slap a sword in the hands of a hedgehog. …after a sequence of sleepless nights that my boss came up to me and casually dropped on me the newss [sic]…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 10, 2009
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  Another Pretty Vic Viper For The Space Fleet

  You can never be too thin, too rich or have too many Vic Viper spaceships from the Gradius series. That’s why it’s so easy to recommend the latest, a special Gradius II edition. Wait. Didn’t we already have a Gradius II Vic Viper? My video game space ship spreadsheet is almost never wrong! In fact,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  PlayStation Store Gets A Booster Shot From NBC Universal

  Sony’s PlayStation Store got a massive passive entertainment shot in the arm today, thanks to addition of NBC Universal goodies and the drying of contractual ink. Wanna watch Milk tonight? Warm up the PlayStation 3! The official PlayStation blog drops word today that NBCU has delivered movie and television programming to the PlayStation Network as…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  Big Sis

  To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Pretty Sure Anything Tastes Good Fried I was surprised to see that our Big Sister rumor was confirmed so soon after we published the story. Good thing we ran it Sunday and didn’t wait till next week, huh? I probably should post that other rumor I just heard, just in…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009
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  Report: DS Will Soon Break 100 Million Lifetime Global Sales

  According to Japanese economic newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Nintendo DS will surpass an important milestone during the middle of this month. The DS will achieve 100 million in lifetime worldwide sales. As of December 31, 2008, the official global DS sales tally was 96.22 million. The Nintendo DS was first launched in North American…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 10, 2009
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  First Image of BioShock 2’s Big Sister

  Game Informer’s April cover confirms what Kotaku readers already knew: Big Sister will greet gamers when they land in BioShock 2’s Rapture later this year. The cover shows off the new creature, which we described as an amazonian version of the Big Daddy, wearing similar, though svelter, gear. The image depicts a Little Sister riding…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009
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  Find Body Parts, Win a Trip to Africa

  Hmm, I’m not sure if this is a great idea. To promote the upcoming release of Resident Evil 5, Capcom will leaving a trail of body parts through part of London. The person who collects the most valuable parts and announces their bloody loot to the world from the Westminster Bridge will win a trip…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009
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  What Is Nintendo’s Rock N’ Roll Climber?

  Australia’s game rating board has announced the arrival of Nintendo’s Rock N’ Roll Climber, maybe a bit earlier than the publisher was probably expecting. Sadly, details are slim, even for a governmental video game rating. Development duties on Rock N’ Roll Climber are credited to Vitei Inc. They’re a relatively young development studio based out…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  BAFTA Video Game Awards Happening Now

  The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards are starting to be handed out in the UK. So far the official BAFTA Twitter has named a few winners. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare picked up an award for gameplay, while Boom Blox landed one for casual and Race Driver: Grid won the sports category. The…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009
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  Grand Theft Auto IV Moves 13 Million Copies, Take-Two Sees Loss

  Take-Two Interactive has shipped over 13 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV, the company announced today, revealing sales of more than $256 million for its holiday 2008 quarter and a $50 million loss. GTA IV figures were dated to January 31st, prior to the release of the first downloadable episode The Lost And Damned.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009
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  Take-Two Still TBA on Platforms for BioShock 2, Beaterator

  Take-Two today laid out the list of games they plan to bring to stores over the course of their fiscal year, which ends this October. Take-Two’s lineup announced to date for the remainder of fiscal 2009 includes long promised Beaterator, BioShock 2, the second downloadable episode of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2009
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  J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Video Game Coming In May

  Star Trek D·A·C will be coming to a video game platform near you this May, timed with the release of the JJ Abrams’ film, according to Paramount Pictures. While the movie studio hasn’t officially announced the game, the promotional insert tucked inside the Blu-ray release of Star Trek Season One has. Trek Movie got its…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2009