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  Some Lucky Bastards Are Playing The 3DS Right Now

  We’re still a few hours away from the official launch of the Nintendo 3DS in Japan, but as is the way of the world, the handheld has already been unofficially launched in Hong Kong. An example: CNN tech writer Ravi Hiranand picked one up yesterday in a store in Hong Kong, and has been enjoying…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  MotorStorm Game Yanked In New Zealand After Earthquake [Update]

  MotorStorm: Apocalypse is an upcoming racing game that features buildings falling down all around you. In the wake of a devastating earthquake in the city of Christchurch, that’s apparently resulted in the game no longer being released in New Zealand. We’ve been told retailers began notifying pre-ordering customers yesterday, saying that while the decision has…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  Girls Can Be Jerks On Xbox Live Too, You Know

  Last year, an antagonistic man learned a very valuable lesson: don’t talk shit to girls on Xbox Live. Today, he’s learning…nothing. They’re just trolling him now. Warning: this is totally not suitable for work Click to view

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  Could This Be The First Nintendo 3DS Unboxing Video?

  Remember when game machines used to have street dates? China doesn’t. Hong Kong-based game publication GameWave snagged a Nintendo 3DS a day before it will go on sale in Japan. No word whether the portable was given to GameWave by Nintendo or not. Reports indicate that the portable, which was apparently skimmed from shipments from…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011
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  I’m Commander Shepard, And Now You Can Dress Just Like Me

  Treehouse Brand Stores make official clothing for many of Electronic Arts’ biggest franchises. Like Mass Effect, for which it will soon be releasing this It’s a hoodie that does as good a job a hoodie can do of looking like Mass Effect’s trademark N7 armour, complete with shiny bits and, best of all, a hood…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  PS3 Hacker Threatened With Prison And Million-Dollar Fine

  A legal document posted on PS3Crunch.com, reportedly from the offices of law firm Arnold Ruess, shows that the hacker whose home was earlier this week raided by police is now facing threats of jail time and/or massive fines. The report, which appears to have been signed by the firm’s Professor Doctor Peter Ruess, states that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  And So Nintendo 3DS Fever Begins…

  Tomorrow morning Japan time, Nintendo is launching the successor to the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo 3DS. Getting a Nintendo DS on launch day back in 2004 was not a problem. The 3DS could prove more difficult. Crud. Back in 2004, Nintendo was coming off the disastrous GameCube. Rumors swirled that the company was going to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011
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  This Game Has Asian Girls! Robot Girls! Dead Girls!

  It’s a shame this isn’t an official trailer for fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3. It certainly does a great job of selling the thing. This animated spectacular was put together by Newgrounds user JohnnyUtah, and cuts out matters of canon and characters and gets right to the heart of the game: the number of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  Some Of The Prettiest Games You Can’t Actually Play

  The “demoscene” is a place where video games and music videos meet. It exists on the periphery of both mediums, but that doesn’t make it any less pretty to look at (and listen to). Unlike the “demos” you’re generally used to — samples of commercial video games — the demoscene is a place where videos…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  From The Ashes Of Bizarre Creations Comes A New Studio

  Project Gotham developers Bizarre Creations may be no more, but several key employees of the studio have formed a new company: Lucid Games

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  The Game That Lets You Kill Gaddafi

  Now seems as good a time as any to rid the planet of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. Especially when you get to make a tasty burger in the process. Libyan Hamburger Recipe is required playing for anyone keeping tabs on this week’s biggest news, because not only do you get to take out the good…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  3DS Games Will Keep You Waiting

  Nintendo is recommending players take breaks every fifteen minutes while playing the 3DS in 3D. Who plays video games for fifteen minutes? Nintendo is not alone. The fifteen minute break interval is also what the Korean government is recommending while viewing 3D. Capcom realizes that most players don’t play in chunks of 15 minutes. At…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011
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  Where Geeks Get Their Hair Cut

  Real hair or fake hair, it doesn’t matter. Akihabara salon Fuwat will totally cut them both. Located five minutes from Akihabara Station and opening last fall, the salon has a sandwich board out front, like many salons. But the game-inspired drawings, like the cat from Monster Hunter, provide a hint at the otaku-friendly service offered…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011
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  The Wii’s Sexiest Game Just Got Sad (And Creepy)

  Ubisoft is shooting for “sexy” with its upcoming Wii party (?) game We Dare. But this fan-made trailer isn’t sexy at all It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you take the footage from a trailer featuring women in slinky business outfits and dudes with their shorts off and lay over the audio from…a zombie…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  Guess Which Country Just Banned Mortal Kombat

  The upcoming Mortal Kombat game is brutal as hell. Meaning, and this shouldn’t come as too great a shock to most of you, it’s been “banned” in Australia. I say “banned” because, like all other recent cases of a commercial title being barred from release Down Under, it’s actually been “refused classification” (as Australia lacks…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  Zelda’s Redead Can Absolutely Fuck Off

  The ReDead isn't a Nintendo zombie. It's so much worse.

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011
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  And Dudes Dream of Electric Sheep

  Even when you work from home you can still dream about work, though it does take that whole “I went to work naked,” anxiety dream off the table because hey, who’s around? I might be butt naked typing this right now. Think on that for a little bit. When you work in this space, though,…

  By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011
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  The Gunstringer Aims For Good Kinect Control (And Hits Its Target)

  Twisted Pixel’s new shooter for the Xbox 360, The Gunstringer, might make you feel better about Kinect controls. It is, after all, a Kinect game you can play while sitting down. The makers of Splosion Man, The Maw and Comic Jumper aim to establish the “marionetting-based platformer/shooter” genre with The Gunstringer, an Xbox Live Arcade…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2011
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  Playing With The Sesame Street Game That Makes You Feel Like A Kid

  The delightful Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster for Xbox 360’s Kinect controller is easily the best Sesame Street video game I’ve ever played. Please, don’t let the fact that it’s also the only Sesame Street video game I’ve ever played diminish that praise. Also, please don’t think that just because Once Upon A Monster…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2011
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  A Brutal Initiation to PvP — But One I Chose

  I was adjusting my costume atop a skyscraper in Gotham City when a tour bus soared up into view and hovered there. There was a red diamond on my mini-map, meaning an enemy human player. Had I created Wile E. Coyote here in D.C. Universe Online, I would have cowered under a tiny umbrella, or…

  By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011