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  Here’s That Portal-Themed Beyonce Parody You’ve Been Waiting For

  Move over, Weird Al. Portal‘s autotuned robot is taking your job. At least until you release a video game-themed cover of Call Me Maybe. Warning: this video contains spoilers for Portal 2 Portal 2 – If I Were A Core (Beyonce – If I Were A Boy Parody) [YouTube]

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  Spellsword Keeps Endless Battling Addictive And Fun

  Sometimes you just want to wander around a room and slash things with a sword. While listening to great 8-bit tunes. And squishing adorable baddies like bees and slimes. And collecting spell cards that poison or freeze or incinerate your opponents in glorious violent fashion. Spellsword‘s got you covered. Spellsword, a new arena battle RPG…

  By Jason Schreier Published May 1, 2012
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  Tuesday Watch This, Play This

  Watch! The best dorm room I’ve ever seen. Watch! Beyonce sounds better with some Portal. Play! Jason gets his RPG fill with Spellsword on the iPad. Watch! Don’t anger the old Sith man.

  By Tina Amini Published May 1, 2012
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  Feeling Bluer Than a Certain Cerulean-Hued Hedgehog?

  Call it reverse Seasonal Affect Disorder. Call it a recently realized jealousy of city park employees. Call it being stuck in a 9-5. Call your bad mood whatever you’d like—because no matter what, the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the birds are tweeting, and you’re stuck inside on Twitter. So goes the life…

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  I Want a Prometheus Video Game. Does That Make Me Crazy?

  Absolutely stunning movie trailers for The Dark Knight Rises and Prometheus exploded all over the web in the last 24 hours. A few weeks ago, it was the promo clips for Looper that got everybody buzzing. Like lots of other folks, I eagerly watched all those teasers over and over again. And I can’t stop…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 1, 2012
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  Max Payne 3 DLC Will Last Through The Fall, All Yours For Only $30

  The full run of downloadable content for Max Payne 3 is available for pre-order starting today, two weeks before the game’s console release (and about a month before it’s PC release). All of it is multiplayer, and all of it can be bought in one $30 gulp if you don’t want to buy it all…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 1, 2012
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  Angry Birds Land is Now a Real Place, and It’s In Finland

  Angry Birds remains big business. The original, now-classic game continues to expand, and the sequel, Angry Birds Space, just hit the 50-million download milestone in 35 days. You can get Angry Birds fruit snacks, costumes, playground equipment, and any other kind of irritated avian-themed merchandise you can possibly think of. And now, Eurogamer reports, the…

  By Kate Cox Published May 1, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s May. Many games will be out this month and some of them might even be good. You can talk about those games right here in Talk Amongst Yourselves, the official Kotaku forum. Feel free to air your views on all things video games, and even some things not video games. Here we are at…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 1, 2012
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  Here’s How You’ll Make Test Chambers with Portal 2’s Level Creator

  It’s already been announced that Valve will be releasing DLC that lets PC and Mac owners create their own additions to Aperture Science’s brain-teasing architecture. Now, a leaked video shows what the Perpetual Testing Initiative looks like in action. The video seems to have originally come from level creator TopHatWaffle, who had early access to…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 1, 2012
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  Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologizing for Them Now?

  A few weeks ago, the Atlantic magazine published a profile I wrote of the developer Jonathan Blow, a man known in gaming circles as much for his criticism of the mainstream game industry’s intellectual shortcomings as he is for Braid, the outstanding game he created. To put it mildly, this article pissed a lot of…

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  Science Says Don’t Play Super Mario Galaxy Before Trying to Shoot Someone in the Face

  The zombie is five steps away, you’re cornered, and you’ve got one last bullet in the chamber. If you were just playing Super Mario Galaxy you might as well turn the gun on yourself. A recent highly scientific study found that when it comes to putting a bullet in a humanoid target’s brain, Super Mario…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 1, 2012
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  Seems Like Doom Might Have Inspired Valve to Build Steam

  It’s common knowledge that Gabe Newell used to work at Microsoft, right? In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the Valve CEO discusses learning that the first Doom outranked Windows as the most used software application: But what was so shocking to me was that Windows was the second highest usage application in the U.S. The…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 1, 2012
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  Call of Duty: Black Ops II Is Official

  Call of Duty‘s UK webpage confirms the long rumored sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops The website has this info about the game: “Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Dead or Alive 5 To Feature See-Through Shirts

  The Dead or Alive series has always been known for one thing: boob physics. The game’s developers pride themselves on their ability to render realistic—or what they think that means—in-game breasts. For Dead or Alive 5, the developers at Team Ninja are working on clothing that can become transparent over the course of a fight.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Japan’s Favorite Gay Porn Star on an Anime Motorcycle

  In the West, porn star Billy Herrington is known for flicks like HotMen CoolBoyz. In Japan, he’s an internet icon and dubbed “aniki” or “big brother”. He’s achieve meme status, and his clips are often humorously mish mashed and edited. He’s the live action equivalent of the Yaranaika Guy In Japan, there are even Billy…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Would You Like To Own Your own Sega Product To Pee On? You Can!

  Remember Toylets? It’s that toilet-based gaming system Sega created for drunk people to pee on. If you thought that you had to go out to bars to enjoy pee-powered Sega mini-games, you were wrong. Sega recently let it dribble out that individuals can purchase the system, too. The hardware is ¥140,000 (US$1,747), while each mini-game…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Buy Photos of Bikini Cosplayers from Cosplayers in Bikinis

  Late last week, cosplay event Cosgallery!4 kicked off in Tokyo. It was an event for cosplayers and cosplay fans. Increasingly there are more and more of these types of get togethers. And like many other cosplay events, the cosplayers themselves operate booths and sell their cosplay ROMs and DVDs—while in costume. The cosplayers were also…

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  Metal Gear Solid HD Trailer Sneaks Out

  Konami released a rather polished trailer for the previously announced PS Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition that walks through the Vita specific features. None of the info seems new, and it’s (mostly) in Japanese, but you should be able to follow along even if you don’t understand the lingo and enjoy the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Don’t Confuse Japanese Kids in White Face with Wanting To Be White

  For years now, teens in Tokyo’s fashionable Harajuku have been pushing the envelope with their Gothic Lolita outfits. Many young Japanese are fashion conscious, but cliques in Harajuku excel at wearing truly head-turning duds. Whenever there is a colorful youth movement in Japan (and there always is), some Westerners look at the images that filter…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012
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  Leaked Call of Duty: Black Ops II Screenshots Apparently Confirm Near Future Setting

  Throwing more fuel on the Call of Duty: Black Ops II fire, here are a couple new screenshots apparently from the upcoming game. Last month’s leaked art images showed the gun-toting “quadcopter” that appeared in internet videos and on the game’s website. The quadcopter also appeared in these latest screens, courtesy of Japanese site Doope.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2012