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  My Pokemon Battle Went Downhill From Here

  That’s me vs. MTV Multiplayer’s Russ Frushtick, before our Poke-battle yesterday. Despite the wonderful Pokemon advice that the world’s best game designers gave me, my Level 15 Totodile could not beat his Level 17 Totodile. Gory details at MTV’s site

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010
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  Comic Book Series Helps Make Sense Of Nier

  DC’s Wildstorm imprint makes video game comic book magic once more with Nier, a three-part online comic book series detailing the fall of humanity and its lasting effects in Square Enix’s upcoming action RPG. Nier is a video game with a strong focus on one particular plot point: Nier fights to find a way to…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010
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  Drop Into Skate 3 In Early May

  Riding high on the failure of Tony Hawk: Ride and feeling absolutely no threat from Ubisoft’s upcoming Shaun White skateboarding title, EA gears up for an early May release for the third installment of the Skate series. Skate 3 isn’t just the latest game in the Skate franchise, complete with a whole new city, a…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010
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  Guilty Party Offers Billions of Mysteries to Solve

  Think of it as Guess Who for the Wii set, or, if you’re in mixed company and want to sound smart, maybe Mastermind. Both classic boardgames have you trying to figure out an unknown variable (a person in the case of Guess Who and a “code” in the case of Mastermind) through the process of…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010
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  Mass Effect, Dragon Age Creators Consider The Post-Release “Romance Pack”

  The doctors behind BioWare, the hallowed game studio behind Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, were telling Kotaku last week that their plans to add content to their recent games is flexible. More vehicle missions are possible. More sex? “People actually do ask: ‘Why don’t you do more relationships?'” Greg Zeschuk told Kotaku as…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Press a few buttons in order to comment here about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010
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  Go To Hell With Today’s Live Podcast

  It’s hump day, it’s also St. Patrick’s Day, but much more importantly, it’s Kotaku Talk Radio day. Today we’ve got Hans ten Cate, senior producer, for Dante’s Inferno. Cate will be joining us live this week to talk about Dante’s Inferno, their recently released Dark Woods prequel level and the game’s upcoming downloadable content, including…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010
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  Cannot Find My House Key

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Infinite Space Any idea where I put it? What you missed last night Rumor: New Xbox 360 Model Slims Down [Update] Tokyo’s Virtual Child Porn Bill Delayed Bad Company 2 Video Spoofs Modern Warfare 2’s “F.A.G.S.” PSA Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus Kotaku Census 2010: PIRATES!

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Resident Evil Creator Wants To Make 3D Horror Game

  Shinji Mikami, the game designer behind Resident Evil, has always had a game he’s been dying to make. “When it comes to my personal desires, I’d like to make a true-3D horror game, something where you’d use glasses like in the Avatar film,” he told Japanese game magazine Famitsu. “It’s been my goal since the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Why Hello Kitty Is Collaborating With This Popular Franchise

  Hello Kitty, affectionately known in Japan as “Kitty-chan”, first appeared on a coin purse in the mid-1970s. From these humble beginnings, that cat created an empire of cute. But how? Before the Hello Kitty purse went on sale, Sanrio, originally a silk company, was looking to create characters to appear on “gifts”. Whether it be…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  So, How Laggy Is PlayStation Move?

  While at GDC, we noticed that the new PlayStation Move controller has a little lag. Want to see how much lag? The technical gurus at Digital Foundry took a 60 frames-per-second camera to GDC, went and used the Move for a bit, and took this footage. It doesn’t take the 20% speed to see that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  PC Sales Charts, From The Land Of The Boxed Copies

  While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly – and often hilarious – lists. Let’s look at February’s. As you’d expect, they look a little different to those found on Steam or Direct2Drive. While those are often quite contemporary,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Open Darth Vader’s Head, Eat Gum

  Ever wonder what is inside Darth Vader’s helmet? Well, besides actors Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse. Japanese corner stores are selling this “Darth Vader Gum Pot”. It includes the Vader helmet “gum pot” as well as shinny black mint-flavored chewing gum. Yours for a ¥760 (US$8.40) a pop, er pot. Whatever. Darth Vader Mint Chewing…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  When Gun Nuts Meet Video Games

  Firearms enthusiasts. Hardcore video gamers. They sound like two completely different groups of people, but both have one thing in common: everyone else thinks they’re crazy. That’s one of the key take-aways from a great piece over on the Escapist, written by a man who is both a gamer and a gun lover, a games…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  EA Sports Is Looking Forward To Tiger Woods’ Return

  Scandalized golfer and serial cheater Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Game company EA Sports is thrilled. “We’re looking forward to seeing Tiger back on the golf course,” blogs EA Sports exec Peter Moore. “All eyes will be on Augusta in a few weeks.” And then after that, people will slowly forget that Woods had…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Finally, A Gaming Mouse For Left Handers

  The world can be a tough place for left-handers. Which is why there are things you can buy to make things easier for everyday actions, like opening cans, playing golf, playing video games on your PC… …wait a minute. People play video games on their PC left-handed? Enough to warrant this, the Razer DeathAdder Left…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Love Plus Simulator Getting Inevitable Schoolgirl Figurines

  Love simulator Love Plus is quite popular in Japan. There’s an upcoming manga, a Love Plus inspired massage parlor and t-shirts for brave souls. Heck, it’s even in Nintendo DSi XL TV ads. What’s next? Characters Nene Anegasaki, Rinko Kobayakawa and Manaka Takane are all getting their own figurines. DO NOT BE SURPRISED. The figures…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Final Fantasy Creator SHAVES HIS MOUSTACHE?

  Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is known for two things: Final Fantasy, and his moustache. So imagine the horror when he posted this on his Twitter account. Say it ain’t so, Gooch! Not the mo! Thankfully, it was all for laughs, Sakaguchi later revealing that he’d been messing around with Moustache Removing Software, otherwise known…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus

  To depict the true meaning of game over, artist Kordian Lewandowski called on Mario, Princess Peach and, well, Jesus. Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalized in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Greed Corp Micro-Review: Is Greed Good?

  Running a corporation is hard. It’s even harder when your business is mining, and there’s less and less land to mine. Competition heats up. Time to bust out the cannons. Time to play Greed Corp. Developed by W!Games, Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy game that puts players in charge of a mining operation. Players…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010