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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  This is Kotaku’s official forum. In the comments here, you’re free to talk about video games all you want. Free of charge. Thanks to Trakata for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  7 More Minutes of A Visually-Improved Morrowind

  Recently we told you about a fan project that gives 2002 role-playing game favorite The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind significantly upgraded graphics. Then this mod compilation got blocked due to complications. Still, here’s a new video of it. As our Luke Plunkett wrote overnight, all is not lost with the nixing of this so-called Morrowind…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  Burn It All Down

  To: Brian / Stephen From: Luke Here’s what you missed: GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Red Dead, Mass Effect & Uncharted Turn On The Charm

  Artist Emily Carroll’s video game-inspired works don’t fill the page with explosions, or large necks, or slutty women. They just show people smiling. Warm, happy smiles. While Carroll gets Red Dead’s Bonnie McFarlane 100% right, and assembles the sweetest team of Cerberus soldiers the galaxy as ever seen, that Chloe & Drake shot, from Uncharted…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Welcome, New Arcade!

  You only ever seem to hear about arcades closing these days, so let’s break that depressing trend and welcome the opening of a big new arcade instead. Pinball Wizard Arcade is located in Pelham, New Hampshire, and will be throwing its doors open on January 12. Not only does it have a great name, but…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Civ World May Be The Death Of Us All

  The game formerly known as CIvilization: Network – now more appropriately titled Civ World – is coming later this year. But if you’re lucky, you can play it this month. While the game’s open beta won’t be taking place until around June, beginning January 12 select alpha testers will be let in the front gates…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  It’s Not Really A PSP, But It’ll Do

  This “PS One Handheld Game Player” is in no way endorsed or supported by Sony. That doesn’t stop it playing PS1 games, though. For USD$77 you can buy the unit, based off an older PSP knock-off that was actually a portable TV and media player. This newer model, though, is more in line with the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Cave Maps Turn Into Dungeon Crawls

  The sandstone caves of Nottingham are a network of caverns and tunnels deep beneath the English city. There’s currently a project underway to “map” these caves, and the results look more than a little familiar. I never thought I would see the day where science, tourism and “noclip mode” intersected, but it appears that day…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Lord Of The Rings Tripled Its Revenue By Going Free-To-Play

  In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO. That’s quite a turnaround, though it does raise the question of what the game’s revenue picture looked like before the change. Still, LOTR Online’s…

  By Owen Good Published January 7, 2011
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  HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck

  Earlier today, Sony and Eidos reiterated the launch details for a trilogy of Tomb Raider re-releases destined for the PS3. Part of that was a reveal of the pack’s cover, which has us shaking our heads in disappointment. The box art, pictured above, features the three covers of the games the bundle is collecting. There’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks

  Over the past week, the PlayStation 3’s copy protection has been blown wide open, the very heart of the console laid bare. Yet Sony believes it can prevent homebrewers (and, let’s face it, pirates) from taking advantage. “We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it,” a Sony representative tells Edge. “We will…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action

  Along with a “review“, we’ve also got for you tonight some footage of the (rumoured) PlayStation Phone’s menu, game performance and screenshots of the thing in action. First up is the phone’s menu system, which as you can see here is able to switch neatly between “phone” mode and “PSP” mode when the PlayStation Pocket…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs

  Can’t remember the last time so much info spilled out about a piece of gaming hardware before it was officially unveiled, but whatever, it’s 2011, let’s roll with it: the PlayStation Phone has been reviewed Chinese website IT168 got its hands on a version of the phone (which it carefully points out may not be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword

  Hope you grabbed that big Morrowind mod pack released the other day, because it’s tough to find at the moment. Turns out the man responsible for the package didn’t get the approval of all the individual mods whose work was included, and after a succession of requests and threats Morrowind 2011 is now “under attack”,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Angry Birds Coming To A Board Game This Year

  If you treasure all that time spent building Mousetrap’s contraption and its inevitable collapse midway through, then Angry Birds: Knock on Wood, a board game due later this year from Mattel, is perfect for you. Yes, it has a slingshot. In the two-to-four player game, both sides will play a card-based strategy game that supplies…

  By Owen Good Published January 6, 2011
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  Singularity Among Nominees For Best Writing In A Video Game

  Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Fallout: New Vegas and Singularity (pictured) headline the six nominees for the Writer’s Guild’s Video Game Writing Award this year. God of War III, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II round out the field of nominees. The winner will be named Feb. 5 at the…

  By Owen Good Published January 6, 2011
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  iCade Makes Your iPad Feel Like A Real Arcade Machine

  What began life as an April Fool’s Day joke is now a real product at CES 2011. This is Ion Audio and Think Geek’s iCade, the mini arcade cabinet for your iPad. The iCade was on display and working at CES, playing a pretty good Asteroids, one of the games that currently supports the SDK.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published January 6, 2011
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  GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment

  GameStop’s stock lost almost 6 percent today even though it saw greater sales in the 2010 holiday season than it did a year ago. That wasn’t enough, apparently. GameStop sent out an exultant news release earlier today, touting $3 billion in sales for the season, up nearly 6 percent. But in America, forget revenue, forget…

  By Owen Good Published January 6, 2011
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  Watch Music Unlimited Stream Your Music Collection To A PS3

  Despite going digital, music remains oddly attached to the devices used to buy it. Sony hopes to change that with the advent of Music Unlimited, a service that can stream your music to a variety of devices including the PS3. Here’s a quick look at Qriocity’s Music Unlimited on the Playstation 3. The music is…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 6, 2011
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  MLB 2K11 Brings Home The Beard

  This “first look” trailer for MLB 2K11 is short on specifics, but says the game will feature improved fielding and new player models – illustrated, naturally, by the Giants’ sui generis closer, Brian Wilson. In a conversation about MLB 2K11’s Million Dollar Perfect Game challenge, 2K Sports executive Jason Argent hinted that pitching controls will…

  By Owen Good Published January 6, 2011