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  The PS4 Doesn’t Sound Like It’ll Be Download Only

  The PlayStation 3 was released in 2006. Sony has famously said the console will have a ten year console life. By that math, we can expect the PlayStation 4 sometime after 2016. But can we expect a digital-download-only console? Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai discussed digital downloads and their future in Sony consoles. “We…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  BioShock Loses Court Case Over Its Internet Home

  You’d think that the URL www.bioshock.com would take you to the official site for 2K’s BioShock series, but no, it does not. And after the publisher lost a recent court ruling, it probably never will. The domain is currently owned by Name Administration Inc., a company that specialises in…purchasing domain names then sitting on them.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  Hey, It’s Milla Jovovich Landing A Plane In Resident Evil

  Milla Jovovich returns this fall as Alice in the latest installment in the Resident Evil film series, Resident Evil: Afterlife. She’ll be landing a plane, it seems. Good for her. Afterlife will be shown in 3D. This clip isn’t in 3D, it’s in 2D. So you’ll just have to imagine the 3D bits. Sorry! Here…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  The Games That Made Me

  In this line of work, I’m continually reminded of how big a part games like Castlevania, Mega Man and Contra played in raising a generation of gamers. Which is funny, because I never played any of them. Being raised in Australia, where the NES never really played as dominant a role as it did in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  Giant Gundam And No Official Parking

  Over 500,000 people have visited the 1-to-1 scale Gundam near Bandai Namco’s Gundam figurine factory in Shizuoka, Japan. And there is no official on site parking. Street parking is out, too. What to do? Japanese website Byoukan Sunday has couple possible workarounds for motorists who want to visit the site — and not take public…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  First Mega Man Online Trailer Isn’t Screwing Around

  And here we were thinking Mega Man Online, the Korean MMO being worked on by Capcom and Neowiz, would be a pedestrian affair. Seems the pair have something a little more epic in mind. At least, they do in this teaser trailer for the game, which owes as as much to something like Akira as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  Sega Offers Larger Robot Chest Code

  This December, mecha game Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Force is coming to the Xbox 360 in Japan. Sega is keeping the world abreast of its pre-order present. Those who reserve the game will get “Fetish Unlock Code” from Sega that enables players to select the chest size of Virtuaroid robots Fei Yen and her sister Angelan.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?

  The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains. Goto, who designed not only the PlayStation but the PS2 and PS3 as well, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that it was all about keeping it simple. “That was…pretty…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  There Are Common Threads Of “Fun” In Japan, American And Europe

  Hiroyuki Kobayashi, designer of Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings), talks East vs. West. Via 1Up

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  The 288,945 Most Popular Websites On The Internet

  Earlier this year, Alexa sat down and compiled a list of the top 1,000,000 websites in the world. Listing those sites would be good reading, but looking at a picture of the most popular ones is much cooler. Nmap have run a script that gathered the 288,945 most popular websites from that list, stuck their…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  When Will Final Fantasy Versus XIII Be Out? One Day

  Role-playing game Final Fantasy Versus XIII was first shown in 2006 at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. It’s now 2010, and the game is not out. And don’t expect the game to be out in 2011. “We have no release date information to update,” Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase told website Gaming Union. “Unfortunately…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010
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  Playboy Gets Into The Online Gaming Business

  Playboy has had enough of letting people simply license games based on the magazine and its bunnies, today revealing a deal with online developer Bigpoint to host games on the magazine’s website. The first of these games, due out later this year, is called Poisonville, which as you can see by the trailer is a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  Could You Play Modern Warfare 2 Without Killing Anyone?

  And I don’t mean in singleplayer. I mean multiplayer. Because Glen McCracken is doing just that, trying to reach the maximum level 70 in multiplayer without killing a soul. How the hell is he going to do that? He uses a riot shield, and gets his XP from grabbing flags in the game’s Domination mode.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010
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  No One Has Ever Been This Excited By Time Traveler

  As seen in Flickr user Bathlander’s Strong National Museum of Play photo set.

  By Mike Fahey Published August 25, 2010
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  Guild Wars 2 Necromancer Revealed

  Now that I’ve posted my impressions of playing one at Gamescom, ArenaNet has gone ahead and posted the official reveal of the next Guild Wars 2 class, the Necromancer. Once I got home from Gamescom, I hopped onto the original Guild Wars, which I purchased following my post on the Ranger class that everyone loved…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 25, 2010
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  Cowboys Stadium Is A Venue In EA Sports MMA

  Recently, the CEO of MMA promotion Strikeforce mentioned he’d visited Cowboys Stadium. As Strikeforce is a licensing partner of the upcoming EA Sports MMA, some took that to mean the site might show up in the game. They’re right. MMA enthusiast site MiddleEasy.com pinged EA Sports’ Randy Chase to ask about Cowboys Stadium – considering…

  By Owen Good Published August 25, 2010
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  The Cutest Okamiden Book Cover and Marker Ever

  Found over on the e-Capcom online store for Capcom Japan, this adorable little soft book cover includes a button, picture of Chibiterasu’s cub face and a bookmark that looks like his tail. Okamiden Book Cover [Capcom-Unity]

  By Brian Crecente Published August 25, 2010
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  The Rise Of Jetpacks, The Beasts Of Halo, Two Rants And More

  Crecente and I hosted the latest Kotaku Talk Radio podcast today, and now you can download the one-hour show to hear us talk Gamescom, Halo Reach and both the future and noisiness of jetpacks. Jetpacks… everybody is wearing them, in video games at least. That’s just one of the deep topics we cover. I do…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 25, 2010
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  Avenger, Assembled

  The M8 Avenger rifle from Mass Effect, as constructed by Volpin Props and spied by reader Kai N. Check the link for many more images of its construction.

  By Owen Good Published August 25, 2010
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  Newest Madden iPhone Management App Now Available

  EA Sports has published an update to its free iPhone application allowing Madden players to manage their Online Franchises away from the console. Madden NFL 11 Online Franchise Companion’s greatest utility is in proposing and accepting trades among members of your online franchise. You may also keep track of schedules, results, roster moves and other…

  By Owen Good Published August 25, 2010