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  Mass Effect Infiltrator Delivers Galaxy-Hopping Combat to the iPad

  Let’s get that first niggling thought out of the way: this Mass Effect iOS game isn’t going to feel like that Dead Space iOS game. While they’re both spin-offs of successful multi-platform franchises, they extend the core experience in different ways, with Dead Space mobile focusing recreating the series’ scares. Infiltrator won’t be trying to…

  By Evan Narcisse Published February 9, 2012
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s time to grab a partner and hit the official Kotaku forum, where the video game conversation dances all day long. Reader / photo manipulator YorickB shows us that alas, characters from romantic paintings cannot quite grasp the subtle complexities of the ‘Lean Pop’ in today’s TAYpic. Want to see your own TAYpic atop a…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 9, 2012
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  EA’s Next Battle Plan: More Battlefield 3, More Military Shooters, Guns, Guns, Guns

  There is plenty of room in our gaming lives for more Battlefield 3, more Bad Company and many more military first-person shooters from EA, the giant game publisher’s number two boss told Kotaku this week. “I think the genre is big enough, and they’re different experiences,” chief operating officer Peter Moore said during a brief…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012
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  I May Stink At Wind-Up Knight, But You Should Play It

  I’d like to recommend a game I am bad at. I think you’d be better at it than I am. Plus it’s pretty and, did I mention that on Android it’s free? The game is called Wind-Up Knight, and I’m having trouble timing my wind-up knight’s jumps. The game is a runner, one of the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published February 9, 2012
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  This Preview of Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Reads Like a Fighting Game That Needs to Happen

  For all the hoariness of the heroes-vs.-heroes trope, the set-up of Marvel Comics’ next big crossover event rotates around an interesting premise: The cosmic power known as the Phoenix Force is coming back to Earth, apparently targeting a young mutant girl called Hope. Once bonded with mutant telepath Jean Grey, the Phoenix Force has been…

  By Evan Narcisse Published February 9, 2012
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  See How Well the Vita Plays With / Against the PlayStation 3

  The PlayStation 3 and PS Vita share the sort of relationship that the Previous Sony Portable could only dream of. Maybe the PS3 thought the PSP was the one, but now it’s found something much more intimate and personal. Vita players can play games against PS3 players. They can play games with PS3 players. They…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 9, 2012
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  What You Get When You’re Named “Gordon Freeman”

  Gabe | THE INTERNETS, AUSTRALIA: It even looks like Gabe addressed the envelope. If so, that’s nuts! (Photo: Twitter) Gamers Donate $400,000 IN ONE DAY To See Their Heroes Make a New Game Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  I Want My 3G, But I Don’t Wanna Use It

  According to a recent survey done by the Weekly Famitsu, for people who have purchased a PSVita, 59%* answered that they had purchased the 3G/Wi-Fi model, showing a relative popularity over the standard Wi-Fi model. However, when asked what network they used regularly, 90%** answered that they used Wi-Fi (compared to the 5% who used…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published February 9, 2012
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  Customers Petition Apple to End Worker Abuse

  Later this morning, Apple users will deliver over 250,000 signatures to the Apple Store in NYC’s Grand Central Station, demanding that Apple end Chinese worker abuse. [Change.org and SumOfUs]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Final Fantasy XIV Dumps Worlds for Merger

  If you’ve been playing online game Final Fantasy XIV, you know there are eighteen in-game worlds. That is going to change. Soon there will be ten. “In order to improve the player experience, we will be merging Worlds on Tuesday, March 27, 2012,” stated Square Enix. “After the merge is completed, there will be a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Popular Anime Remade into Gay Porno

  Uber popular anime Tiger and Bunny stars two male protagonists—Kotetsu T. Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr.—who battle as superheroes on the show’s Hero TV. The show is quite popular. In the past few years, popular anime are spawning porn parody after porn parody. Tiger & Bunny is no exception, and since it exists, there is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  In Conception, You Make Babies and Battle Impurity

  Game developer, Spike, is releasing a new role playing game for the PSP this April where one of the objectives is to save the world by conceiving children. In the world of Conception, the player plays the part of Itsuki Yuge, a high school student summoned to the magic world of Granbania. There he must…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published February 9, 2012
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  Foxconn Hacked

  A hacker collective named SwaggSec claims to have hacked Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic components maker. Foxconn assembles hardware for Apple as well as game consoles, such as the PS3, the Xbox 360, and the Wii. According to SwaggSec’s open letter, the hack appears to be retaliation for Foxconn’s notorious working conditions. The hack looks…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Just How Cute Is the Hello Kitty Plane? Pretty Damn Cute.

  You thought the Kitty-chan dentist office was cute? It is. The Hello Kitty plane, though, isn’t just cute. It’s cute that flies According to CNNGo, Taiwanese airline EVA Air is launching three Hello Kitty-themed Airbus A330-300 planes, serving Japan, South Korea, and Guam. Passengers get special baggage tags, Hello Kitty headrests and pillows, Kitty-chan soap,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Chinese Tifa Goes Camping. She Makes Curry Fried Rice.

  Kotaku has posted tons of cosplay over the years. Yet, I cannot remember any pieces the site did on cosplayers who cook, let alone camp. Tifa—that’s her name—does both. And with a name like Tifa, you betcha she’s dressed as the Final Fantasy VII character Tifa Lockhart So what the hell is going on here?…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Gamers Donate $400,000 IN ONE DAY To See Their Heroes Make a New Game

  Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for a new graphic adventure has reached its goal of $400,000. That means around 10,000 regular humans on the internet (maybe you!) donated $400,000 out of your own pockets to see some legends of an…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012
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  In Indonesia, Pirated Games for Two Bucks a Pop

  Spotted at an Indonesia game shop by Japanese site Game Watch Impress. All these Wii games are priced at Rp.20,000 or around US$2.30. The game shop, like so many in the region, also had binders and binders of pirated Xbox 360 games—here, XGame 360. “規制”から”支援”へ変わりつつある中国市場と [Game Impress Watch] (Top photo: Game Impress Watch)

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  This Awesome Music Video Thinks it’s a Very Old Video Game

  After I posted Sole’s new video yesterday, I was inundated with emails from people saying “OH YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS MUSIC VIDEO THAT’S LIKE A VIDEO GAME”. Most of them were rubbish, but this one, from Polinski, was great The entire clip plays out like an old Spectrum game, down to the tape loading…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012
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  This Pro Gamer Lady Will Electrify You

  Early last year, pro gamer Linda Liao made waves when she joined Team Razer’s competitive gaming team. Lao isn’t only a pro gamer. Oh no, she’s much more. In her native Taiwan, she’s an actress and pop star, who stars in dramas like Chase or They Are Flying and movies like horror flick Twisted. She’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2012
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  Adventure Time Game Ideas Sound like Something for Awesome Old PC Gamers

  The creators of Adventure Time have long been dreaming of the perfect video game adaptation for the series. So much so they’re starting to write stuff down. And share it! These sketches are the product of a little brainstorming session between Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and Patrick McHale, one of the show’s writers. I…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012