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  Here’s Your King Of Fighters XII Roster

  Street Fighter IV’s able to whip up an internet shitstorm every time it announces one character. King of Fighters XII, meanwhile, likes to be a little more subtle, announcing its full, seemingly final roster quietly. Those residing on the pointiest end of the KoF fanbase may already have pieced together most of this from trailers…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  The Gaming Laptop Of A Wealthy, Wasteful Future

  Gaming on a laptop? It’s hardly ideal. But that’s going off the hardware limitations of 2008! By the distant future, who knows what gaming on a laptop will be like. Might even be like this. Kyle Cherry is the man behind this gaming laptop concept, and we like it because it just does not fuck…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  PS3 Production Costs Have Dropped By 35 Percent

  Do something long enough and you get better at it. Manufacture something long enough, and it gets cheaper. No surprise that Sony has cut the PS3’s component cost by 35 percent. According to research firm iSuppli, the first generation PS3 cost a hefty US$690.23, based on mid-2007 component prices. What about late 2008? Based on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Play World Of Warcraft Free For The Rest Of Your/Its Life

  Boy, World of Warcraft can get pricey. You pay for the game, you pay a monthly stipend, you pay for expansion packs. So it’s nice to hear of a charity that’s giving away a lifetime subscription. If you donate $25 or more to the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, you’ll be in the running to score…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2008
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  “We Are Sorry About The Lots of Boobs Set”

  Pure postal embarrassment. Members of erotic game maker AKABEi SOFT2’s fan club who ordered a set of boob-shaped mousepads got a surprised in the mailbox. The brown box the ¥15,000 (US$166) set of boob mousepads were packaged in was hardly discreet: The outside read, “Oppai ga ippai set” or “Lots of boobs set” in English.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 30, 2008
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  Gary Busey Would Approve Of These Saints Row 2 PC Specs

  While THQ’s budget sadly doesn’t extend to having Gary Busey endorse Saints Row 2’s PC requirements, we can make believe. Just imagine crazy eyes, some enormous teeth and two thumbs up. Posted on the game’s official boards, here are both the minimum requirements and the recommended requirements: Minimum Requirements: – Windows XP / Vista –…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  We Can Only Hope 2009 Brings Us These Sackboys

  Looks like LittleBigPlanet fansite LittleBigPlanetoid got a copy of Photoshop for Christmas, because they’ve been busy dreaming up, then drawing up, a wish list for celebrity gaming sackboys for the new year. Some appear feasible (Dante), some appear possible (Vader), some appear impossible (Master Chief). All, however, are adorable. Oh, and before you start bitching…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  Alone In The Dark With Added Crecente Creepy

  Burno sends along this entry. It is TOTALLY UNSETTLING. Adds Burno, “It’s AO, so you better get that trenchcoat and Fedora if you plan on picking this one up.” We’re giving away a copy of Alone in the Dark to one of you reader people. Here’s the contest: Make your own Alone in the Dark…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2008
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  ESRB Denies Working With Iran

  A report from last week claimed Iran had ‘joined’ the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The ESRB, meanwhile, has no idea where that came from. “We have not had any discussions with Iran about adopting our rating system,” said Eliot Mizrachi, Assistant Director, Communications at the ESRB. More questions were raised, however, when a second report…

  By Jim Reilly Published December 29, 2008
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  Call Of Duty Series: 35 Million Sold

  Ever stop and wonder just why it is Activision have two development teams working on Call of Duty? It’s not for the hell of it. Or even, mm mmm mmmm, for the smell of it. It’s because people can’t seem to stop buying the various iterations of the franchise. An innocent little Reuters story from…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2008
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  “Sony Is Doomed!” Ray Redirected Toward PSP

  It’s been a rough couple of months for Sony and the PlayStation 3, particularly in the mainstream press. Now that the two year old console has been sufficiently thrashed, we think the PSP is due. And so does Yahoo! Games, who paints a very bleak picture of the PSP’s current performance and its future. Clearly,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Wii Fit Moves Out Of Electronics, Into Women’s Clothing Department

  Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers: the mega retailer is currently doing massive reductions on women’s self-esteem, moving the Wii Fit advertising kiosks from the electronics department to women’s clothing. A diabolical tactic! Yes, that’s a full length body mirror adjacent to the Wii Fit kiosk, a deviously placed hint that’s not so subtly telling Wal-Mart shoppers “Hey,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Yuji Naka Explains Why He Left Sega, Created Let’s Tap

  When Sonic the Hedgehog programmer and Nights creator Yuji Naka left Sega, we expected big things from his Prope studio. We got Let’s Tap instead. So why’d you leave Sega again, Mr. Naka? In a nutshell, Naka wanted to get back to real game development, away from that high level managerial nonsense. He tells Gamasutra…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Soulja Boy Tells ‘Em With His NXE Avatar

  Soulja Boy’s new song "Grind On" makes its video debut by way of his Xbox 360 Avatar. As horrible as it is for me to say this, I think it’s actually a semi-catchy song. The video itself isn’t anything spectacular. It’s just him spinning his avatar around for three or four minutes with a few…

  By Jim Reilly Published December 29, 2008
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  Classic Metal Gear Moves Work, But Only On Pro Wrestlers

  Hiding from your enemies in a cardboard box doesn’t work too spectacularly in the real world, or even in Metal Gear Solid, but it works in the squared circle, as proven by Akiba Pro Wrestling. Famitsu.com reports that the wrestling league recently tried to lure in the video game otaku — and probably promote some…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  What Star Wars: Battlefront III Might Have Looked Like

  With Free Radical Design having effectively kicked the bucket, shedding most of its workforce and desperately seeking buyers, here come the leaks. We’ve already seen what Timesplitters 4 might have looked like—how about Battlefront III? High poly-count renders and in-game meshes from the third Star Wars: Battlefront were leaked by one of Free Radical’s former…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Amazon’s “Best of 2008” Video Games Are All Wii

  Amazon.com, still bursting with self-promotion from what it called its best holiday shopping season ever, has revealed its “Best Of” products from 2008. In the video game category, it was all Wii, all the time. How did Amazon decide what was the “best” of the past year? It let its customers decide, breaking down the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008
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  Capcom Has A “Whole Slew” Of Titles Coming To PSN And PSP In ’09

  I think Sony’s PSN could use some more PSone downloadables. I’m glad to see Capcom agrees with me. John Diamonon from Capcom writes on the Playstation Blog: “So what’s in store for 09? Well, I’m working with Grace and Ro at SCEA to come up with some innovative ways we can offer games and programs…

  By Jim Reilly Published December 29, 2008
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  Here Comes the New Year

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Get A Present? Give A Present So we’re a little more than half way through publishing our in-game podcast interviews. I should be able to wrap them up by the end of the year. Tomorrow I’ll be running or nominations for Kotaku’s Game of the Year. I wonder how the…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 29, 2008
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  Namco Bandai’s Fragile Looks Really Good*

  *You know, for a Wii game. And we mean that in the nicest way possible, as if there were three GameCubes powering this role-playing game. Oh, I kid! Fragile just looks plain old good. No word yet on whether Namco Bandai’s bringing this one to our side of the Pacific yet, seeing as how we’re…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 29, 2008