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Lock Up Your Dancing Daughters, Here Comes the Internet

If you’ve spent any time on Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga, you’ve seen them: young girls dancing to cutesy pop music. It’s their chance to live out their adolescent idol fantasies for viewers with adolescent idol fantasies of their own. In the video above, the girl’s mother tries to barge in, but her daughter…

There Is Still a Small Town in America That Bans Arcade Games

As incredible as it is to imagine, until a recent vote a small town in the United States of America had outlawed arcade machines. Thankfully, that vote has now been held, and…hey, wait a minute, arcade games are still banned? Yes, even harder to imagine than placing the restriction in the first place is the…

In the Next Assassin’s Creed, You Play an Old Man

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the next game in Ubisoft’s stealth action series, and it’ll be out later this year. It’s also the third game where the player takes control of Ezio Auditore, meaning, yes, by now he’s very old. According to a feature in the latest issue of Game Informer, the former smooth-talking ladies man…

Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Mother’s Day

OMG Puppies | Nintendo threw a posh Mother’s Day event featuring Nintendogs + Cats in Beverly Hills, Calif. this weekend. (Photo: Chris Weeks | Getty Images) Which One Is Worse? At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s…

Stephen Colbert Joins Noble Team (Well, Not Really)

After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show. For those who might think this…

Get Your Hands on an Original NES Software Development Kit

This may look like a busted up Nintendo Entertainment System, but its seller says it’s actually an NES development kit, recovered about 10 years ago from the warehouse of a defunct Las Vegas-area developer. It’s up for bid on eBay, currently topping out at $305. The seller is, evidentely, not a video gamer, saying his…

Bin Laden’s Compound Now Available as a Counter Strike Map

Should you lack Kuma War II, which on Saturday published a free episode recreating the raid on Osama bin Laden’s final hiding spot, you may also download a free map of the Abottabad complex created with Counter Strike: Source The map’s creator says it “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage…

Sex Sells

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Top 10 Sexiest Video Game Commercials [Joystick Division] Some of these are reasonably tame. Many aren’t even actual ads. All-Stars that are include the…

Sony Ponders Reward Offer as It Insists PSN’s Security was Up-to-Date

Sony is weighing whether to offer a reward for information on the hackers behind the massive PlayStation Network outage, now in its 18th day, CNET reports. Its potential amount was not mentioned. Quoting unidentified sources, CNET said Sony is discussing the pros and cons of such a decision but has yet to get any go-ahead…

Freestyle Championship

This image is ridiculous. You might say it’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen. That would be hyperbole. I think that this is just the beginning of the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen. That is the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, a zillion-time gold medalist, demonstrating Michael Phelps: Push the Limit for Kinect. That’s right,…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Mornin’ gang. Hope all of you have said a very Happy Mother’s Day, not only to your mom, but to all who have mothered you. Once you’ve finished with the breakfast and the card and the gift and the hugs, feel free to talk about video games, confident in a job well done. Today’s TAYpic…

AR Games in Real Life: The Winners

Last week’s ‘Shop Contest asked readers to imagine the 3DS’ AR Games as a kind of special lens through which we see the world as it really is, not as our feeble minds perceive it. What they showed us was quite disturbing, indeed. First off, plenty of folks tried a Star Wars angle. Both ARYXANDRE…

AR Games in Real Life Finalists

When Will the One-Year Career Come to an End?

It really doesn’t matter how many times My Player is an NBA All-Star, nor how durable he is on the Road to the Show, or to Glory, or to the Masters. Every one of them will suffer a career-ending injury: The release of next year’s game. More than five years into its modern concept, the…

Valve Turns to ‘Singleplayer-Plus,’ not ‘No More Singleplayer,’ Says Chief

Practically anything said institutionally by Valve, or especially by its co-founder, Gabe Newell, is parsed for any potential meaning to the unannounced, eternally awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3. So when Newell, in an all-access feature charting the development of Portal 2, said the game was “probably” the last one with any isolated single-player experience, Half-Life…

Black Ops PS3 Bundle Coming in Three Weeks

A pair of retail sources informs Kotaku that a Call of Duty: Black Ops PlayStation 3 bundle will be available in North America on May 24. The unit—which features a 160 GB hard drive—lists for $299.99 USD. Kotaku has reached out to representatives of Activision and Sony Computer Entertainment. Any comment will be updated here.

Which One Is Worse?

At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death: Which is worse? Let’s leave aside the data breach, though it is one of the largest in history, and is the feature of this disaster that…

Gears of War 3‘s Big Head Mode in Action

Gears of War 3 will offer a novelty big-head mode, and those in the game’s multiplayer beta saw it in action yesterday. In addition to quadrupling the dome size, COG and Locust will speak in higher pitched voices. This should make headshots a lot sillier. Click to view Xbox 360 Games – E3 2011 –…

The Best Videos of the Week

Maybe you couldn’t keep up with your favorite Gawker Media sites this week. Or perhaps you could just use something fun to do this afternoon. Well, whatever the reason, we’ve got your prescription: Here are some of the best videos we watched during the crazy, post-bin Laden week that was. Video of Osama’s $1,000,000 Secret…

Modern Warfare 3 to Get a June Reveal

To no one’s surprise, there will be a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. (C’mon, when Electronic Arts’ CEO is talking tough about Battlefield 3 versus Call of Duty, he doesn’t mean Black Ops.) Official PlayStation Magazine‘s latest edition includes a teaser for the game’s big reveal in next month’s edition. See it here.