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  Little Kid Tricked Out Of His PSP

  Twenty-six year old Takanori Osanai didn’t have a job. He didn’t have a permanent address. But he apparently had a plan to steal PSPs. “My goal was to sell the PSP I swindled away,” Osanai told authorities in Omiya in Saitama Prefecture, which is outside Tokyo. On March 23 at around 2:15pm, Osanai approached a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  Dynasty Warriors Studio Vandalized With “Shit Game” Graffiti

  Koei, the Yokohama-based game company best known for Dynasty Warriors, was recently vandalized. The studio’s offices were graffitied with red spray paint. “Shit game”, “die”, “garbage” and “divine retribution” were spray painted on the front of the building. There is speculation online that the graffiti is related to the most recent Dynasty Warriors. However, Japanese…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Comes With An Evil Revelation

  On sale this June, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D for the 3DS will be bundled with a demo for the upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations. [via IT Media]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  Handcuff Yourself For Extra Battery Life

  The Universal Gadget Wrist Charger sports a 1,500mAh 5.5V rechargeable lithium ion battery that comes with nine different adapters to charge a whole host of portable devices like the iPhone, the PSP, the DS Lite and the DSi/3DS. The bracelet has LED lights to gauge battery life and weighs only 82 grams. It can be…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  If This Is The Future Of Space Games, Sign Me Up

  For all its political intrigue and gorgeous player models, EVE Online is still, like all other MMOs, a little stale. This concept trailer shows how developers CCP are planning on spicing things up a little. To complement the EVE Online MMO, a first-person shooter called Dust 514 is due for release sometime in the next…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  Even Street Fighters (And Tekken!) Are Helping Japan’s Quake Victims

  In a cute piece of national solidarity, Osaka-based Capcom has released a pair of supportive wallpapers for Japanese (and other!) fans to help parts of Japan get back on their feet following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  3DS Turns Up Used In Spades

  While the West is just getting the Nintendo 3DS, which went on sale over the weekend, the console has been available in Japan since February 26. As evident by this story, used 3DS handhelds are not in short supply. All of these used 3DS handhelds are available slightly cheaper than the price for new units.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  First PlayStation Phone Is “Buggy”, Has Partial UK Launch Delay

  The Xperia Play, Sony Ericsson’s first mobile platform making use of the PlayStation Suite, has seen part of its UK release delayed after a telcom provider found several bugs in the phone’s software. “We’ve been testing the phone non-stop for several weeks,” says O2’s lead tester Stuart Hibberd, “and have found some bugs in the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  If All Music Games Were Mixed Into One Title

  Artist Ken Taya, who’s currently at 5th Cell, debuted his last creation at Giant Robot’s Game Over 4. More here at his blog Top image is courtesy of Giant Robot’s Flickr, and full size image courtesy of Ken Taya

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  The First 3D Pin-Up Photos For The Nintendo 3DS

  If the success of Julie Watai’s 3D photos are any indication, this could be the start of something big. Watai, who is a photographer herself as well as a pin-up model under the name “Ai Amano”, decided to offer 3D cheesecake photos as a free download. In the first two days they were available, the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  China Gets 3D Street Fighter For Arcades

  Taiwanese arcade distributor Wahlap Technologies will be releasing in the Chinese market something of a novelty: a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet that lets you play the game in 3D. This isn’t the existing 3DS version of Super Street Fighter cleaned up and re-released. In fact, it’s not Super Street Fighter IV at all. What…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  Will Japan’s Earthquake Impact The Tokyo Game Show?

  The streets of Tokyo are darker these days. It’s not only rolling blackouts, but restaurants, convenience stores and electronics shops are turning off their signs at night in hopes to conserve electricity. The goal in conserving electricity is to divert it to the power grids in northeastern Japan that need it most. There are a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  The Man Who Already Broke His Brand New Nintendo 3DS

  Over the weekend, the Nintendo 3DS finally went on sale in the West. Kotaku reader Alastair saved for months to get his own Aqua Blue 3DS. Then, he totally ruined it. “Within a couple of hours of opening the box I managed to spill metal polish on the desk on which the new handheld was…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011
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  Is The 3DS Suffering From A “Black Screen Of Death”?

  Now that the 3DS is in the hands of customers across the Western world, people are finally playing the thing in large numbers. Large enough, it seems, to have found a “black screen of death” error affecting the handheld. It doesn’t seem terribly widespread, so don’t panic. But those who have encountered the error have…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  Mortal Kombat’s Final Roster Leaked

  If you think looking at a character select screen for a fighter is a spoiler, move right along. If you’d like to see what looks like the final roster for the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, though, please continue! There is of course no way to verify the select screen at this time. If you’re working…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  Only In The 80’s Would They Put Video Games On A VHS Tape

  Video games have made their home on any number of storage mediums over the years, from compact discs to cassette tapes to plastic cartridges. Someone even, in the 1980s, thought it was a good idea to put them on video tapes. It wasn’t. In the mid-to-late-80’s, three companies began working on consoles designed to use…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011
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  Get Your Game Face On — In 3D

  The 3DS Faces the Public | Kelly Yeom of Brooklyn and Roberto Sanna of Manhattan play Face Raiders while waiting for the midnight launch of the Nintendo 3DS at Best Buy’s Union Square location in New York.. (Photo: Anders Krusberg for Nintendo of America) Nintendo 3DS Buyer’s Guide We’ve played the games. We’ve shown you…

  By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011
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  3D and Short Play for Madden NFL Football

  Madden NFL has had a largely tractionless history on Nintendo’s platforms since the Wii supplanted the GameCube. It’s a version that simply lacks identity, floating from cartoon characters attempting to play simulation quality football, to real world strategy that has to account for gameplay gimmicks. Madden NFL Football for the Nintendo 3DS doesn’t do much…

  By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011
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  Legends in Your Living Room

  Hype for Augusta National Golf Course’s appearance in Tiger Woods: PGA Tour 12 has reached near saturation limits. Did you know another legendary figure also ends a long absence from video games? If golf is too sedate for you, Randy “Macho Man” Savage returns to the ring in WWE All-Stars, his first appearance under the…

  By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011
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  GameFly Implies It’d Double Monthly Profits If It Got the Netflix Postage Rate

  GameFly has been at it with the U.S. Postal Service for nearly two years now over what it perceives as preferential treatment to Netflix, whose mailings GameFly alleges are given higher priority by postal sorters, not to mention a better postage rate. So much that savings from the postage rate Netflix enjoys would double GameFly’s…

  By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011