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Van Damme “Showed Cammy His Thailand” While Filming The Terrible 90s Street Fighter Movie

Just in case you needed a little more background to the relationship between Jean-Claude Van Damme (Guile) and Kylie Minogue (Cammy) in the 1994 Street Fighter movie, know that according to the Belgian brawler/breakdancer the pair enjoyed a real-life “affair” behind the scenes. So, um, who gives a shit? I do, because he describes it…

Just Cause 2 Mod is Redefining the Term “Massively Multiplayer”

To recap: smart people are introducing multiplayer to the PC version of sandbox shooter Just Cause 2. A public beta was held last week, and another is just winding up now. It continues to look like just about the best thing ever Rather than only letting 4-8 people onto the game’s enormous map at a…

If Only This Beautiful Majora’s Mask 3DS Was Real

As far as we know, Nintendo isn’t working on a 3DS version of classic Zelda title Majora’s Mask. So as far as we know, they’re not working on a special Majora’s Mask edition of the Nintendo 3DS, either. Pity. Fan Cameron Smith is, though, and has drawn up his idea for what such a handheld…

Report: GameStop is One of the Worst Places to Work in America

Using data from online employment portal Glassdoor, business site 24/7 Wall St has compiled a list of what they claim are the worst places to work in the United States. Everybody’s favourite specialist retailer GameStop managed to make the cut, finishing in tenth place. Why? The chief reasons cited from current and former employees include…

“XBOX Durango Development Kit” Sells For $20,000

The nondescript black PC tower that its seller claims is a Durango (ie, the next Xbox console) development kit has now been sold. The winning bid? Oh, a trifling $20,100. For that price, the buyer has either got themselves an unexpectedly early look at the future of the Xbox brand or the world’s most expensive…

No, This Isn’t a Photo From an Upcoming Tomb Raider Movie

The best cosplay images rarely involve someone who just has a nice costume, or someone who can act the part, or even pretty photos. It’s usually the result of all three things combined, something this amazing shot certainly manages. Photographer Balázs Sármai and model Csenge Huszár, with make-up and effects assistance from Karolina Neszteli and…

At Least One Man Still Plays Draw Something, And He’s Damn Good

Its popularity may have been the very definition of “flash in the pan”, but there are still some people out there playing social smash Draw Something. And some of those people have gotten good. Real good. James Corbe has been cataloguing his images, most of which are off-kilter answers that involve tributes to the Criterion…

DayZ Hackers Introduce Death by Teleporting Dance Party

Hackers are rampant throughout zombie survival mod DayZ, and while this can often by a massive pain in the ass, it can also – occasionally – be cause for celebration. Like this elaborate move, which teleported an entire map’s worth of human players to an airfield, where they were left dancing the night away until…

The Game is the Same and the Rules Don’t Change—So Why Do the Controls?

In basketball, it was the three-point line, or the reintroduction of the zone defense. In baseball, it’s the designated hitter, or an All-Star game played for stakes. In American football, it’s instant replay, or the two-point conversion, or moving the goal posts to the back of the end zone. All sports have confronted and incorporated…

Sons Of Anarchy Game Adaptation Has ‘No Traction,’ But That’s Better Than Being ‘A Piece of Shit Like Game of Thrones‘ Says Creator

Done right, the well regarded FX biker gang series Sons of Anarchy would seem to be a natural fit for a game adaptation. It’s got guns, violence, antiheroes and a natural open-world setting. Doing it right, however, takes a lot of money and commitment. That is is why the series is getting “NO TRACTION” toward…

Epic Confirms Three More People Fly from Gears of War: Judgment

People Can Fly, the Poland-based studio behind 2011’s Bulletstorm and the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment, said goodbye to creative director Adrian Chmielarz (pictured) and two top artists today, according to Gears developer Epic Games and Chmielarz himself. “Gears fans, you’re going to love Judgment. It’s in great hands,” Chmielarz said via Twitter about 1…

Catch the Pokémon World Championships Live This Evening

For the first time in tournament history, the Pokémon World Championships will livestream the both its trading card and video game final rounds in the Masters’ Division. You can see the action here, beginning at 8 p.m. EDT, and you can check the final round pairings here. Pokémon World Championships 2012 [Official Site]

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Kitchen Sink

Gang, we’ve gotta save this marriage. The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has been publishing every week for more than 2 1/2 years, and let’s face it, the thing is in trouble. We haven’t had a full 20 in the finalist pool for more than a month. I can blame myself for uninteresting exploitables; you can blame…

This ‘Airport Virtual Assistant’ Looks Like the Ancestor of Avina from Mass Effect

Meet AVA, a hologram projected onto a human-sized piece of plexiglass. The idea is that AVA, at some time, will respond to questions, offer answers, and provide reliable guidance in multiple languages to travelers who have just landed and need help orienting themselves and understanding local services. Sound familiar? Sounds to me like Avina, the…

Team Fortress 2‘s Gray Mann Surfaces as Signs Point to All-Robot Faction [Update]

Diehard Team Fortress 2 fans have spent all weekend sleuthing out Friday’s tease, in which a “Gray Mann” is revealed to be the brother of Redmond and Blutarch Mann, owners of the game’s RED and BLU teams. Tons of evidence suggest this is going to mean the introduction of a robot faction, which Valve itself…

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Someone’s Trying to Sell an “XBOX Durango Development Kit” on eBay [Update]

An eBay seller is attempting to offload what they’re calling a “Microsoft XBOX Durango Development Kit”. At time of posting, a bid of $425 will get you out front with a chance to buy it. Interestingly, the seller’s name is “superdae”, which matches the handle of the person who, last week, was claiming to have…

Crowning King Gary: The Winners

Decked out in plate mail fashioned from Nintendo 64 consoles and cartridges, Gary, King of the N64, certainly looked regal at Otakon 2012. His background, however, seemed kind of stale and bland. We handed Gary over to our smart ‘shoppers to put him in more heroic, noble or leaderly circumstances, and we’ve got this week’s…

All-Star Athlete Rehabs Knee by Using a Leg Press as a Video Game Controller

Wiihabilitation is so 2008 and, yes, Adrian Peterson of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings is doing some of that as he tries to come back from a devastating injury in American football—the torn anterior cruciate ligament. But what’s more interesting here is Peterson has a custom set of exergames to go along with ski jumping on…

Fake Gun, Fake Currency, Real Jail Time Figure in Alleged Runescape Robbery [Corrected]

A 19-year-old Fordham University student is looking at 15 years in the slammer after allegedly putting a BB gun to the head of a classmate Fordham University student and demanding that 4.7 billion Runescape coins be transferred to his character, reports the New York Post [Correction] An earlier version of this story misidentified the suspect…