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You’ve been dying to play Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, or The Portopia Serial Murder Case…right? It’s a 25-year-old Famicom title that never made it to the states, and now it’s been given a fan translation. You can check out some footage of the translation below, and then click over for even more videos. [...]

#screengrab Something Awful, on target as always, skewers side mission premises in Fallout: New Vegas. Eight more ads are at the link. Seen on Something Awful. More »

- studio is in Valencia - Anima Games Studio - artwork by Wen Yu-Li - action-platformer - set in the world of Gaia - NES-style controls - 1 for attack, 2 for jump - ground and air combos - dodge moves and platforming - studio looking for player feedback - chose Wii as the console because they believe it to be a great place to [...]

Jeremy Parish just took a romp through the original Mega Man Legends, which also happened to see release on the Nintendo 64. With another installment in the series coming to the 3DS, I think it’s best to go back and bone up on the title that made it all possible. Perhaps Mr. Parish’s [...]

Just incase you guys wanted to see the actual page of information that goes along with the rumor we posted up earlier today. No doubt the magazine says it, but we don’t know if it’s accurate or not! Of course, make note of the date listed for Japan, which may point to the [...]

The quest to uncover the North American and European release dates for the Nintendo 3DS became a little bit easier earlier this week, when the megapublisher confirmed that the eye-popping handheld would visit itself upon our store shelves in March. However, the exact date of its arrival is still up in the air -- though scans of the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine obtained by VGTribune might just clear up the confusion. According to the mag, the U.S. and European 3DS release date is March 11, 2011.

There's no way of knowing if the magazine's report is on the money until Nintendo makes an official announcement -- after all, it's possible the article's mistaken, due entirely to the fact that March '11 looks a whole heck of a lot like March 11 on paper. Also, though Nintendo is accustomed to launching new gaming hardware in European territories on Fridays, those kinds of releases usually come stateside on Sundays. We've contacted Nintendo for a comment on this supposed due date but, as is the case with these things, we're not likely to get anything official until the Big N puts it into a press release.

#callofduty Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams has long had Nov. 9 circled. Not because his team will play LeBron James and the Miami Heat then. Because it's when Call of Duty: Black Ops releases. Williams says he's "addicted" to it. More »

#stickjockey It was little coincidence that THQ and Ultimate Fighting Championship waited until Oct. 19 to announce an eight year extension to their exclusive video game pact. That was the day EA Sports MMA released. More »

Activision's recent conference call wasn't all facts and figures, you know. The company also outlined the future of some of its biggest franchises over the course of the next calendar year. According to CEO Eric Hirshberg, the publisher will launch titles from "proven franchises including the Hero brand, Spider-Man, X-Men and Transformers, which will be supported by what is expected to be another major blockbuster movie from Michael Bay." Sounds like they're kinda putting the cart in front of the giant, shapeshifting robot-car with that one.

Hirshberg also made the unsurprising announcement that 2011 would also see the release of a new Call of Duty, explaining "in the back half of 2011, we are launching a new, large-scale Call of Duty FPS title." Considering the last installment in the franchise had like, ten different scenes where nukes went off, we don't know how much "larger" the proceedings could become.

Unless, of course, Hirshberg was referring to Activision's oft-rumored plans to monetize the series' multiplayer component. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, who previously predicted Activision would subscriptionalize the franchise this year, released a statement shortly after the conference call, stating, "We expect Activision to announce plans to monetize multiplayer online some time in 2011, and expect greater visibility into the release schedule throughout the year."

#screenshots Get your talon-like hands on this batch of 15 multiplayer screens for Dead Space 2 that Electronic Arts sent out out yesterday. In addition to the humans, you can see a couple types of playable necromorphs. More »

#clips This uproarious short - a finalist in Empire Magazine's "Done In Sixty Seconds" competition - reduces all the key dramatic scenes and dialogue of "There Will Be Blood" to 8-bit presentation. Pick up that milkshake! More »

#china It says a lot about how hideous Sony's rumoured PlayStation Phone prototype is that a Chinese knock-off using the PSPgo as a template is a more desirable piece of hardware. More »

Listen, if you're a dyed-in-the-wool Wii owner who hasn't already purchased the entire Super Mario catalog on Virtual Console, you're probably going to pick up the 25th Anniversary Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition package. Nintendo recently revealed exactly what the game you'll be hunting for is going to look like, posting the game's official U.S. box art on the company's Twitter feed.

Also, the latest installment in the Iwata Asks saga sees the president pressing a few Nintendo EAD composers about the music which will come in the bundle's soundtrack CD. Give it a read, if you're interested in the history of the franchise's timeless accompaniment -- just don't get surly with us if you get "Slider" stuck in your head for like, a month.

#gameoftheweek When we say any sports game qualifies for Game of the Week, we mean it. That goes for Ganbare Dunk Heroes, in which Kotaku reader Skutarth finally triumphed over those no good hicks on the "Texas" squad. More »

#wiki Fallout: New Vegas released 18 days ago. That's 432 hours. Since then, more than 475,000 hours have been spent reading and editing the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. That's 58 years. More »

Don’t ask me why the image shows a Black Wii. This bundle deal is for the Red Wii with two more games of your choosing, from a specific list. Check out the deal here

We're nearing the end of 2010, and with it comes not only the sweet sounds and scents of the holidays, but the yearly retreat of a few popular game titles to the next calendar year. Armored Core 5 is the latest game to join the migration -- a big announcement last January promised the game in 2010, but Famitsu is now reporting that From Software has pushed the date into early 2011.

Mech enthusiasts with their calendars marked might be disappointed, but the news shouldn't overheat anyone else's thrusters, as we've already almost got more games to play this holiday season than seems necessary.

I think we can all agree that the Japanese boxart for Perfect Dark is a lot more appealing than the one that North America got. Why is it that we often find Japan getting a much more artistically redeeming boxart when compared to the North American or European counterpart? Why are these changes [...]

#dealtaku Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't preorder Star Wars: STFU II with a free shipping coupon he'd melt my brain. More »

The Tote Bag may not have been as popular as the Messenger Bag, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a hot item. The Tote Bag is now out of stock as well. It just took a couple more days to disappear than the Messenger Bag did! Thanks to KnucklesSonic for the [...]