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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
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  God of War 101: Best Shirtless Classical Dudes Flicks

  With gaming’s favorite shirtless Greek, Kratos, now beating up and killing baddies in God of War III, it is time to look at some of the best shirtless guy films. Because when you’re done playing a shirtless guy, you want to watch shirtless guys. Here is a list of five of the best classical-style epic…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Rumor: New Xbox 360 Model Slims Down [Update]

  These pictures apparently show the guts of a new model of the Xbox 360. The important bits? The fact that for the first time the console combines the CPU and the GPU in a single chip. Oh, and it’s small The pic above shows the board in question, with the chip part of a rumoured…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason!

  For the most part, Heavy Rain is an entertaining exercise in story-telling. For the most part. The parts where you’re yelling at small children, not so much. Anyone who’s played the game, and got as far as the clown scene at the mall, will know how awful the part that happens next is. Really, Quantic…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Kotaku Census 2010: PIRATES!

  Today’s census questions are all about pirates. Yaaarrrrrrrr! It’s a touchy subject in the video game business. Despite having been around since the dawn of time, when young men swapped 3.5 inch floppies on the school playground (ooo eerrr), piracy is increasingly being cited as a serious problem by video game publishers and retailers, who…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Tokyo’s Virtual Child Porn Bill Delayed

  What do you think happened after some of Japan’s most famous manga creators showed opposition to a Tokyo proposal that sets out to ban provocative “visual depictions” of characters who appear to be 18 years-old and younger? The Asahi Shimbun reports that the bill has been put on hold. Manga artists Go Nagai, Tetsuya Chiba…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2010
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  Mario’s Inferno Sticks It To EA’s Marketing Team

  Few trailers in recent memory have polarised gamers as much as EA’s Dante’s Inferno clip for the Super Bowl. Would you have liked it more if, say, Dante was not Dante, but Mario? I like it more. Well, except for the Bill Withers. Even in this parody version, it still doesn’t sit right. If you…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Battlefield Drops SecuROM DRM

  The Steam version of EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 is about to get a new patch, and amidst the little tweaks and fixes is some welcome news: the game’s SecuROM DRM software will also be uninstalled. SecuROM has been a pain in the ass of every PC gamer since it first turned up a few…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010
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  Kotaku Off Topic: Turbo Teen

  Hey, Kotaku readers, how about a little off topic conversation to wrap up the day? Did you see anything cool on the internet or in real life that you’d like to wax off topically about? If you do, would you mind dropping in some of your favorite uncommon vocabulary selections? See, mine has seemed to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010
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  Will You Start Caring About Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Now?

  The newest trailer for Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, the charming co-op adventure from the folks who made Genji and Folklore, might be the boost you need to start caring about this game. Sure, it may have a terrible name, whether you want to call it Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, as it’s known in…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010
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  Batman: Arkham Asylum Game Of The Year Edition Hops On 3D Bandwagon

  Or should that be batwagon? Regardless, Eidos has set dates for the re-release version of Rocksteady Studios’ surprisingly good comic book hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, confirming that we’ll be battling the asylum’s inmates in a new way this spring. Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year edition tosses in a pair of 3D glasses for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010
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  It’s Business Time, Kratos

  Reader ryandesu used paper cutouts to dress up a poster he got with God of War III today. “Since this may be Kratos’ last game, he’s gotta get a real job, but can’t go to interviews in his normal attire.”

  By Owen Good Published March 16, 2010
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  Bad Company 2 Video Spoofs Modern Warfare 2’s “F.A.G.S.” PSA

  When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 riffed on rival Modern Warfare 2‘s “Mapathy” promo last week, it could be seen as a playful poke. This, however – a comprehensive parody of October’s infamous “F.A.G.S.” video – is a straight-up nutshot. For those not familiar with C.C. Sabathia or why he would be in this video, his…

  By Owen Good Published March 16, 2010
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  EA Sports MMA Serves Up Four Courses of Pain

  Having seen it at GDC, Totilo gave us his impressions of EA Sports MMA yesterday. Today, EA Sports released a batch of 16 screens. How about that ballroom setting? Nothing like fine dining while two guys pound each other senseless. I’ll confess to being a neophyte at MMA, so the combatants aren’t very familiar to…

  By Owen Good Published March 16, 2010