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  How Atari Sent Steve Jobs On a Spiritual Quest to India

  At his talk at GDC Online in Austin, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell talked about a wide variety of things, among which was Apple founder Steve Jobs, who he hired back in 1974. (For a complete story, see this great article at Gamasutra. “I gave Steve Jobs his first job,” Bushnell said, “That’s an interesting resume…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 10, 2011
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  It’s Time to Flaunt Your Video Game Message Board Cred

  In today’s historic edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Hongo details his extensive video game website message board history, and asks that you do the same. Where’ have you been? What is YOUR history when it comes to video game sites and boards? I started on a site called Nintendo Village as a member…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 10, 2011
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  Why The Deathmatch Kings Left Deathmatch out of Rage

  They invented the term, so why isn’t deathmatch available in Rage? The notion of players fighting against each other in a first-person shooter is so tied to the genre that it’s surprising when it isn’t included as a feature. More surprising though, is the idea that the people who may have coined the the term…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 10, 2011
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  Can the Creepy, Crossbow-Wielding Dark Meadow Beat the iPhone’s Greatest at Its Own Game?

  At first glance Phosphor Games’ The Dark Meadow looks like nothing more than a clone of award winning iPhone eye-candy Infinity Blade with a ranged weapon twist, but delve deeper into its madness and you’ll discover a character the sword and sorcery epic lacked. Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade showed the world the sort of graphics…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 10, 2011
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  Mafia Wars 2 is Live

  Stop farming. Stop building cities. Stop expanding your empire with your allies. Cease adventuring. You can now play Mafia Wars 2, which just went live on Facebook. Play it at this link

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 10, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Finish him! And talk here about video games, all you want. Thanks to reader Shadoroch for today’s image. Take a crack at being featured atop TAY some time this month simply by making a hilarious Photoshop or some other manipulation of the month’s image. Pull a clean version from this thread. Make sure your image…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 10, 2011
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  British Media Regulator Investigating Misuse of Video Game Footage As “Secret IRA Terrorism Footage”

  British communications regulator Ofcom is investigating how a UK documentary examining possible connections between Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA confused video game play for actual IRA footage of a helicopter being shot down. Ofcom received dozens of complaints about the misstep and they are investigating to see whether the incident should be considered a breach…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 10, 2011
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  The Time Xbox Japan Put People in Capsules

  Live | TOKYO, JAPAN: At the 2002 Tokyo Game Show, Xbox Japan rolled out Xbox Live pods. (Photo: Katsumi Kasahara | AP) First Look at the Blue Nintendo Wii To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Here’s Your First Look at Gameplay in Hitman: Absolution

  After a long teaser campaign earlier this year, Square Enix and Eidos finally revealed that everyone’s favorite bald, barcoded assassin would be making his debut on in a game built on this generation of consoles in Hitman: Absolution. Now, we’ve got a first glimpse at series hero Agent 47 in action, as he infiltrates and…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 10, 2011
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  Netflix Kills Qwikster

  In the face of raging fans and looming confusion, Netflix today said they are killing off their DVD mailing spin-off Qwikster “This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster,” according to a post on Netflix’s official blog by founder Reed Hastings. “Consumers value the simplicity Netflix has always…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 10, 2011
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  Xbox Employees Hard at Work on the Next Generation [Update]

  Doesn’t matter if Microsoft hasn’t made it official. The company is working on something that will succeed the Xbox 360. Employees at tech giants like Microsoft are always working on designing the future. Whether their work sees the light of day is another matter entirely, but several LinkedIn profiles, discovered by Twitter user @supererogatory, show…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  The Only Things Missing from This Model Spacecraft Are Lasers

  RayStorm, the classic 1990s shooting game, always felt like it got somewhat overlooked compared to the spate of shooters released that decade. Here’s a chance to once again give RayStorm the attention it so rightly deserves with a Kotobukiya model of in-game ship, R-Gray1. Like other Kotobukiya models, this is top notch stuff. The 1/144…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Hideo Kojima Wants Metal Gear To Keep Going after He Dies

  After every Metal Gear game he makes, Hideo Kojima usually says he’s done with the series. Sometimes Kojima even asks Kotaku readers to tell his boss that he doesn’t have to make Metal Gear games anymore. This time, it’s different. At a recent presentation at USC, Kojima said, “First of all, I just want to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  Carrie-Anne Moss Didn’t Jack into Silent Hill by Playing the Game

  As Claudia Wolf, Carrie-Anne Moss is very much playing an evil character in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It’s the big screen adaptation of the Konami game Silent Hill 3 Moss, who won over geeks everywhere with her portrayal of Trinity in the Matrix, didn’t spend endless hours playing SH3 to find the character.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  First Look at the Blue Nintendo Wii

  To mark the Nov. release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nintendo of Europe is releasing a blue Wii. To date, Nintendo has released Wii consoles in white, black, red, and now, blue. Previously, Nintendo released a blue Wii Remote in Japan to promote Wii Sports Resort. It is releasing a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  The Queens of Cosplay from the King of Fighters, Final Fantasy and More

  You know, it’s tough work settling on which cosplay images from the past week I’m actually going to feature in this main, first picture. Especially when there’s almost a dozen that easily deserve the spotlight. I mean, aside from those three, we’ve got some old-school Resident Evil cosplay. With rocket launchers. Catherine cosplay. With hair…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  First (Brief) Look at Team Fortress 2 Toys

  NECA, specialists in action figures and props based on video games, will be bringing out lines of figures based on Valve properties in 2012. While we haven’t yet seen the finished versions of these toys, we do today have some work-in-progress shots of Team Fortress 2’s Demoman. What’s more interesting than the pictures themselves is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  Nabbed Game Burglar Tries a Mission Impossible

  Remember that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise lowers himself down through a laser maze? Minus the lasers and the wire acerbatics, an unemployed 21-year-old named Yuuki Saitou tried a stealth entry of his own to swipe used games and consoles. At around 2:15am in the morning on Sept. 8 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Saitou…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011
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  The World Has Become a Video Game, and It Is Very, Very Sad

  This is a commercial currently airing on Australian TV. I won’t spoil the bizarre ending by telling you what it’s for, but that’s not the point. The point is how great the voxel effects look. Voxels, which had a trendy little run in the video game business in the 1990s with titles like Outcast and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011
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  This Is Nintendo’s Slide Pad Packaging

  Loud. Gaudy. The box art for the Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G 3DS Expansion Slide Pad bundle was madness. Nintendo’s take on the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad’s stand alone packaging is not. It’s restrained, standard—the simplicity you’d expect from Nintendo these days. The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad will be available separately on Dec. 10 for…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011