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  How Can Anyone Be Disappointed By Both Skyrim and Skyward Sword?

  Some folks loved the latest Legend of Zelda game but weren’t fond of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Others turned up their noses at Skyward Sword but embraced Bethesda’s latest wholeheartedly. Somehow commenter Sloopydrew found himself disappointed with both games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku we try to determine what sort of alien he…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012
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  A Bluetooth Gamepad, Daisy Chaining Headset, and Other Things SteelSeries is Showing at CES

  The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the time for gaming peripheral makers to shine, and not many are quite as shiny as SteelSeries. They’re doing up CES 2012 big with a tiny Bluetooth gamepad, some travel-friendly headsets, and mice, mice, mice. The most intriguing new product in SteelSeries’ lineup would have to be the new…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome back to Kotaku‘s official forum. Please talk here about video games. It’s better if you do. Thanks to reader Dissolved for today’s image. Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to our #TAYpics thread. Just remember to keep…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 10, 2012
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  Final Fantasy Origins Get Summoned to the PlayStation Network Today

  Folks looking to re-visit where Square’s big-deal JRPG franchise started—or encounter it for the first time—can do so today. Final Fantasy Origins bundles the first two Final Fantasy games in a downloadable package that can be had for $9.99 on the PlayStation Network

  By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2012
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  The Shapeshifting Glory of Muffin Knight Never Grows Stale

  I original planed on topping off today’s Gaming App of the Day with “Revolutionary Game Features Unicorns Pooping Explosive Rainbows”, but I didn’t want to oversell Angry Mob Games’ Muffin Knight A pint-sized platformer with role-playing elements, Muffin Knight has been around on iOS and Android devices since last fall, winning hearts with its colorful…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012
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  Nyko Parades PlayStation Vita Performance Enhancers at CES

  Nyko never met a console or portable it couldn’t make a ton of additional crap for, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita is no different. At CES 2012 in Las Vegas the peripheral maker debuts its launch lineup of Vita accessories. Accessories like the Power Grip, a rechargeable battery pack that boasts three times the battery…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012
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  Become the World’s Deadliest Tourist With Assassin’s Creed: Revelations‘ Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack

  Take a whirlwind tour of the Mediterranean on January 24 when Ubisoft releases the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, featuring three brand-new killing floors and a handful of Brotherhood leftovers. Slated for release on January 24, the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack gives Assassin’s Creed multiplayer fans a chance to romp through the…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2012
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  Lineage II Chocolates? Yum.

  Delicious | TOKYO, JAPAN: Part of a give-away to promote the game in Japan. (Photo: GameWatchImpress) Report: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plan in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony products. More »…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  Darth Vader Riding Charizard

  Thank website Doodle of Boredom and be glad Vader is out of the ladies room and back where he belongs: riding a Pocket Monster. Better than Dewbacks [Doodle of Boredom]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  Watch a Man Clone Himself and Sing the Skyrim Theme

  You’ve already seen a man clone himself and play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the violin. Now, you’re going to see a man clone himself and sing the game’s iconic theme. The man here is Diwa de Leon. Don’t fret; there are hats and instruments, too, including, yes, violins! Well, a violin that’s been…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  Report: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant [UPDATE]

  On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s. According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  How Halo has Spawned a “Type of Animated Pornography”

  It’s called “Machinera”. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg of yet another painfully funny post over on parody site Christwire By the end, you’ll see Halo revealed for what it is: a “Nietzschean New World Order” recruitment tool, played by dehumanised robots on their Xbox shooting consoles. You’ll also see how the Covenant…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012
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  The Sexy and Sadistic Nintendo Art of NekoshowguN

  You might not know Japanese illustrator NekoshowguN. But you damn well should. The young artist first made her splash as part of the Osaka art collective Digmeout. She’s done art for music games GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, but her highest profile work to date is lead character and weapon design for Goichi Suda‘s upcoming hack-and-slash Lollipop…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  What Does Over a Decade of Cosplay Look Like?

  For all intents and purposes, HezaChan has been cosplaying since the dawn of the internet. Granted, loads of people were online before 2001 (many of you included), but take a look back at her cosplay photos from 2001. It looks like a million years ago. HezaChan’s first cosplay was Saber Marionette J at the 2001…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  This Man Can’t Stop Building Awesome Mass Effect Weapons

  Hey, it’s Zander Brandt! Builder of fake Team Fortress 2 guns and fake Mass Effect guns, he’s back with…another fake Mass Effect gun. And this one’s great. It’s one of the best-looking guns in the franchise, the M-96 Mattock Assault Rifle, and doesn’t just look like it’s made of metal (it’s not, it’s made of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012
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  You Cannot Kill the PS2. It Will Not Die.

  The PlayStation 2 was released back in Oct. 2000. That’s well over a decade ago, and the damn thing is still selling—and selling lots As Kotaku marveled back in Feb. 2011, the PS2 continues to shift consoles. And today, Kotaku will marvel at this some more. According to an official Sony Computer Entertainment release, “The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  Stylish or Ugly? The PS Vita Gets New Carrying Cases

  Beams, the Japanese hipster brand, is designing a set of PS Vita carrying cases, straps, and clothes. Have a look. The Beams Design Pouch and Strap Set goes on sale Mar. 22 in Japan. Available in Dark Gray, Impact Blue, and Red & Dark Blue, each set is priced at ¥2,800 or US$37. The PS…

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  Refused: New Noise

  Some awesome news yesterday for anyone who’s going to this year’s Coachella: Swedish punk legends Refused are getting the band back together and will be playing at the show. If you don’t know why this is good news, see above. Formed in 1991, Refused broke up in 1998 just as their masterpiece, The Shape of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012
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  Who Wants To Crap Next to a Window?

  Tokyo is expensive. That new Shinjuku office Square Enix is moving into must cost a large fortune. Some of the country’s most expensive real estate is Tokyo’s Ginza and Osaka’s Umeda. There are deals to be had, but land is expensive and space comes at a premium in big cities. That doesn’t stop people from…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2012
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  The Ladies of Mass Effect Cosplayed Out of This Galaxy

  Photographer Darrell, aka BGZ Studios, has collected some of the best Mass Effect cosplayers around and shot them, with wonderful results. BGZ Studios [Blog, via Rampaged Reality]

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012