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Sneaky Nintendo—at the end of a video advertising their upcoming Smash Bros. tournament at E3 in two weeks, the house of all things Mario just announced a GameCube controller adapter for the Wii U.

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Playing System Shock 2 is a frightening experience, and no moment is quite as shocking as seeing the face of the villain SHODAN for the first time. Now, one modeler is taking the time to render that scene in all its glory (Spoilers ahead).

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I’ve been watching people play Watch_Dogs via Twitch.tv and noticed how heroic the main protagonists looks at his cellphone 90% of the time. 

Ubisoft is giving us the hero we deserve!

Milk is full of a sugar called lactose, which needs a special enzyme called lactase to break it down. But children used to stop producing the enzyme around the age of 4 or 5—and those of us who still make it are, in fact, mutants.

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The cup of joe you get from those pod-based instant coffee machines like the Keurig might not be the best you can find, but they sure are convenient. And while instant soup is a logical next step for pod-based dining, the makers of the Flatev have actually found a way to churn out fresh, warm tortillas from a machine on your counter. The future is delicious.

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This past weekend, Godzilla's international box office pushes Warner Bros. over the $1 billion mark for 2014. It was the first studio to cross that milestone for the year.

According to The Wrap, the weekend brought in $34.5, upping its international total to $167 million, and its worldwide haul to $315 million. The U.K. has been the strongest overseas marke  so far, with $19.3 million, followed by Russia and Mexico, both $13.2 million. It opens in China on June 13 and on July 25 in Japan,

On a somewhat smaller scale, co-producer Legendary Pictures has posted art of the king of kaiju by Naoki Urasawa, the Eisner Award winning manga artist of 20th Century Boys and Monster.

Renowned Japanese manga artist Naoki Urasawa creates exclusive artwork for #GODZILLA! pic.twitter.com/wRuiKhpFMQ

— Legendary (@Legendary) May 29, 2014

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

Perhaps hoping to match last year's crazy E3 drama, Sony is taking their 2014 presser to the silver screen. You'll be able to watch the PlayStation press conference in movie theaters across the country. Yep, movie theaters.

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THQ closed down for good over a year ago, but the company's old corporate HQ remains, and in that time nobody has moved in to clean out all their old stuff. Games, posters, E3 prizes, the works, it's all just sitting there.

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This summer, Mercedes Benz is coming to Mario Kart 8 in Japan. No word yet whether or not the car will be available in the West.

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The recently revealed Gon from Hunter x Hunter figure is totally bonkers. You'll never forget it! The meme it's spawning in Japan will help make sure of that.

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Hey buddy, forgot your cup. Grabbed from YouTuber Robbaz's compilation, this is one of those Watch Dogs glitches with a happy ending.

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Even though Watch Dogs hasn't been out for very long, many folks have taken to Steam to give everyone their two cents on the game.

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My old PlayStation 2 just became a casualty of apartment cleaning, so it's delightful to see Dragon Quest VIII—one of the PS2's best role-playing games—on the iTunes Store in New Zealand today.

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Today Bethesda announced the first new title to come from their fairly new studio: Battlecry in development by...Battlecry. Battlecry is a free-to-play, third-person, 32-player team action combat game for PC. It plays and reads a lot like Team Fortress, but without the gunpowder.

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Some just can't wait till a new, HD Zelda arrives and start working on their own fan-projects. This superb gif is from animator PencilTest 's upcoming fan-movie, which—if it'll have the same overall quality as this teaser—will be quite ambitious.

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magnoliapearl:

fakegirlgamer:

Did you know Yosuke was originally intended to be a romantic option for the player?

There’s already a fair amount of romantically charged dialogue in his Social Links that wasn’t removed - his Rank 5 scene where he’s in the protagonist’s room asking where he keeps his dirty magazines definitely comes to mind, for example:

Yosuke: So, you ever invited a girl in here?

> “I haven’t.”

Yosuke: Haha, maybe you’re more of a man’s man than I thought.

> Yosuke seems happy…

As does his Rank 8 scene where the player has the option to hug him on the riverbank if they’ve chosen certain dialogue in the Rank 7 scene. The hugging is notable because it’s a Japanese game - in the States it isn’t a big deal to hug your friends, regardless of gender. In Japan, hugging someone when you’re a dude is a much more intimate gesture, and not something you’d really do to your male best friend. (I was always mad about why no one hugged the player goodbye before his train leaves at the end of the game, but this is why.)

But! There are a few interesting unused audio files that are still in the game itself of cut dialogue from Yosuke’s Rank 10 scene that make things pretty clear, as well as some other stuff from the game.

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This is super interesting. I remember my brother telling me that he was convinced that Yosuke was going to turn out to be gay by the end of the game. I thought that was a funny/over-optimistic way to read his character, but I guess there is a little bit of truth to that! I wish it was still in the game… OR BETTER YET, KANJI

Final Fantasy III is now available on Steam. The first legitimate PC version of the game is a port of the relatively recent 3D remake, and will set you back $15.99. Be sure to give your Warriors of Light distinctive names, so they aren't confused with all of the other nameless, world-saving orphans.

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This is "amezaiku" (飴細工) or, literally, "candy handiwork." And there's one way to best sum up this traditional craft: How sweet.

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A PR stunt for Ubisoft's new Watch Dogs game has backfired, with a Police bomb squad called to the offices of an Australian news station.

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Masami Ochiai, the Chairman of Index Corporation, and his wife, Index president Yoshimi Ogawa, were arrested on fraud charges for allegedly cooking the company's books. Index Corporation previously owned the Atlus brand, which has since been transferred to Sega.

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Meet Pushmo World. It is the upcoming sequel to Intelligent Systems' 3DS puzzle games, Pushmo and Crashmo , and it's coming to the Japanese Wii U (yes, Wii U) eShop on June 19. UPDATE: Nintendo has confirmed that Pushmo World will also launch on the US (and EU) Wii U eShop on June 19.

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Goodness! Just when you thought unusual sushi couldn't get any more, well, unusual, there's this: Caramel banana sushi. Starting tomorrow, conveyor belt sushi chain Kura is offering it in Japan.

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The question in Akihabara last week was "would you drink your ship daughter's coolant water?" The KanColle anthropomorphic war ship phenomenon has inspired bottles of "Coolant Water" energy drink to be produced for sale in the otaku mecca with the Kotobukiya shop reportedly being the most reliable place to find them.

Selling for 200yen for a 500ml bottle of the blue drink, incentives include a sticker of destroyer girl Shigure for buying two, along with posters with the purchase of six... which meant that a good otaku had to purchase eight to get both.

Like most of her sisters in rain-named Shiratsuyu class of destroyers, "Shigure" translates translates to "drizzling rain in autumn," so, it seems like they were going for something cool and refreshing with the selection of this fleet girl... she was also one of the remarkly lucky ships.

ジャンク通りに、艦娘冷却水の自販機が出来てますね！ #艦これ #akiba pic.twitter.com/3qaWqX9GLq

— akiba_asterisk(*)α (@akiba_asterisk) May 26, 2014

三月兎の「艦これ時雨汁」自販機、時雨汁が完売。 #akiba pic.twitter.com/nBn9HTYM7b

— Coo ＠Seaside Tears 2 (@AT_Coo) May 27, 2014

via http://osake.eshizuoka.jp/e1299898.html

via http://ro-subaru.at.webry.info/201405/article_3.html

via http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/wakiba/find/20140524_650087.html

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

neopianangst:

at last, Adam and Donna’s AMA clears up the scientology thing once and for all.

Looks like Lucina might be legit cancelled at this point. If they don’t show her in tomorrow’s stream I’m afraid we probably wont ever see her. 

If you've ever picked up a new video game and thought "Gee, I wish this had a bunch of terrible Internet humor," this one's for you.

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Shawn Thorsson, master props builder and costume maker, has outdone himself this time with a life-size, movie-quality replica of RoboCop's ED-209.

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One of the things I've noticed about living in Japan is that the country's non-native speakers are fuck all at using the fucking f-word.

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The World Cup is starting soon—real soon. June 12, actually! You know what that means? Merchandising. And in Japan, that means Pokémon merchandising.

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As the tagline for the Kickstarter video says: "How is this not a thing yet?"

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