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  Batman Has Some Stupid Weapons

  Batman’s cool. Not only is he the smartest guy in the room, but he’s got fancy tech and gadgets to boot. And this set truly captures the arsenal at the disposal of the Caped Crusader®. Plus some extra. It’s finally here. From Hong Kong collectible toy company Hot Toys, here’s the Batman Armory from The…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published November 20, 2014
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  Manga and Anime Characters Made Beautiful

  Canadian digital artist Sakimichan does stunning portraits of famous manga and anime characters—often bending their genders and making them very, very beautiful. This isn’t to say the the characters aren’t originally attractive. They are! But whether the characters are male or female, Sakimichan just makes them pretty Kotaku profiledSakimichan’s lovely portraits back in 2012. Recently,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 20, 2014
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  This is Not Your Typical Open World JRPG

  I consider myself a fan of the open world video game genre. Give me a playground and I shall play. Then along comes D3 Publisher announcing a new open world game and I immediately became a mixture of intrigued, bemused, and perturbed all at the same time. From the game publisher that brought you games…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published November 20, 2014
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  Here It Is, the Official Persona Cheeseburger

  It was inevitable. This was bound to happen. Behold, an official Persona burger. Called a “Bear Meat Burger,” it features cheese that’s been sliced and layered to look like Persona 4’s Teddy. And no, the meat isn’t actually bear meat. The burger is being served at the Lil’Rire Cafe in Tokyo’s Shibuya. As Famitsu reports,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 20, 2014
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  This Might Be The Ghost in the Shell FPS You’ve Been Waiting For

  South Korea’s Nexon just released a trailer for its upcoming Ghost in the Shell first-person shooter. The online title is for PC and looks like it could be a good time. According to an Inven interview, the game is slated for the first half of next year. Locations from Ghost in the Shell have been…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 20, 2014
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  Attack on Titan Movie Stars Versus the Anime and Manga Characters

  Well, they’re making an Attack on Titan movie. Good for them. We now know what the actors look like in their Survey Corps uniforms. Let’s see how they compare with their anime and manga counterparts. The manga debuted in 2009, and the anime incarnation began in 2012. Personally, I don’t think the manga and anime…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 20, 2014
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  Japanese Artists Make Deus Ex A Little More Real

  The link to this story was actually sentout by the official Deus Ex twitter account, and with good reason: some of the stuff Japanese pair XSENSE (artists Yoshinori Sakamaki and Taketo Kobayashi) are coming up with looks like it came straight out of Human Revolution. Using 3D printers, they’re designing artificial limbs that go way…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  70s Alien Abduction Mystery Is Inspired By The X-Files

  To Azimuth is an “alien abduction mystery” set in Alabama, circa 1978. You play both characters of a sister-and-brother team looking into the disappearance of their brother, and work your way through a story that’s heavily inspired by stuff like The X-Files. What I’m liking the looks of, though, is the detail in their recreation…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
• Culture

  Dragon Age’s Concept Art Is Fantastic

  A number of artists worked on Dragon Age: Inquisition, and I don’t mean to ignore their contributions to what is a very pretty game, but I have a thing for Matt Rhodes’cartoonish style of concept art in particular. Rhodes, lead concept artist on the game, has released a ton of his work on Inquisition, and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  PC Game Has The Funniest Out-Of-Context Forum Topics

  As we’ve seen with its patch notes, Crusader Kings II is a game that, taken out of context, sounds completely insane. The game’s forums are no different. Here’s a selection of recent thread titles from CKII’s Steam forums, put together by @shadowmar Yes, they’ve been cherry-picked, but they’re hardly isolated instances. In the days since…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  The Worst Possible Ways To Play Team Fortress

  Thing about video game strategies is, they’re always helping you win. What’s the deal with that? What if you want to find the most spectacular routes to glorious failure possible? Well then, look no further. Muselk has an ongoing series of videos in which he selects the worst possible weapons for each TF2 class and…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014
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  Frozen Meets World Of Warcraft, The Cold Never Bothered Them Anyway

  Frozen’s Elsa meets WoW’s Lich King. Well, in this case, Queen. Cosplay by Chubear, photo by Darshelle Stevens. I’m surprised it took someone this long to think of this!

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  Far Cry 4 Tricks People Into Revealing They’d Pirated The Game

  If your copy of Far Cry 4 on PC doesn’t have FOV (Field Of View) options, and you complained about this on a forum, you might want to go and delete your comments. Because there’s a very good chance you’ve just outed yourself as someone who pirated the game. Ubisoft Montreal creative director Alex Hutchinson…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  Here’s The Attack On Titan Movie’s Cast, In Costume

  So, a live-action Attack on Titan movie is being made in Japan. And in case the spot where it’s being filmedwasn’t enough of a hint, these new posters revealing the cast in costume show it won’t be set in the manga/anime’s medieval-ish world. Instead, it appears to be set in a more modern post-apocalyptic location.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  People Are Scamming Walmart With Bogus Cheap PS4 Listings [Update]

  There’s nothing like some good ol’ fashioned corporation scamming on the holidays. And as we inch closer to Black Friday, some particularly ambitious shoppers have convinced the mega-chain Walmart to sell them PlayStation 4s for as cheap as $50 thanks to a simple new price-matching scam. Don’t cry for Walmart, though. Cry for price-matching. “We’re…

  By Jason Schreier Published November 19, 2014
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  World Of Warcraft Gains 2.6 Million Subscribers In One Month

  Enticed by the sweet siren call of the Warlords of Draenor expansion, World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have jumped from October’s 7.4 million to more than 10 million, all of them apparently on my home server of Moon Guard. Blizzard announced the massively multiplayer jump today, along with the news that 3.3 million copies of…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014
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  Your PC Must Be This Solid To Run Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

  Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE? Oh, sorry about the yelling. Just wanted to know what you’ve got under the hood of your PC. Konami’s released the PC specs for the (phantom) painfully long-awaited PC release ofMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the mini open-world prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Here’s what you’ll need…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014
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  ​LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham: The Kotaku Review

  Poor Hal Jordan. He can’t carry a movie, he can’t be trusted withhis own LEGO playset, and when Traveller’s Tales creates a LEGO video game that is very much an epic Green Lantern yarn, he has to take a back seat to Bruce Wayne, the tedious title character of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham It’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014
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  Someone Remade A Bunch Of Classic Custom Halo 3 Maps In The New Halo

  The ability to create and tinker with custom maps in the Halo series was first introduced in Halo 3‘s Forge mode. Players went wild with it, creating all sorts of maps and introducing new gameplay rules to go along with it. Take, for instance, Duck Hunt, where the objective isn’t exactly a team versus team…

  By Tina Amini Published November 19, 2014
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  When Dragon Age Goes Wrong, Everyone’s Michael Jackson

  Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker is no longer the moonwalking-est game on the block. Not by a longshot. Also, could Michael Jackson leap 800 feet in the air against his own will? Didn’t think so. Thanks to the dark magic that is glitches, Dragon Age: Inquisition characters absolutely can. OK, let’s start with the moonwalking, which can…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014