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LOS ANGELES | A show attendee wears a box on his head as he walks the Los Angeles Convention floor during the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Tomb Raider Hopes to Recreate a Gaming Icon https://kotaku.com/tomb-raider-hopes-to-recreate-a-gaming-icon-5812523 Don’t think of Tomb Raider as an origin story, think of it instead as a sort of metaphorical creation myth, a game that won’t redefine just who Lara Croft is, but also the world in which she exists. Gone not only is her over-sexualized physique, two guns and ponytail, but also her past, her way of… More » How Do You Stop a Team Fortress 2 Addict From Playing? https://kotaku.com/how-do-you-stop-a-team-fortress-2-addict-from-playing-453102484 Playing video games is normally a harmless hobby, but when a game consumes every single waking hour of your existence there’s a problem. Commenter Wtfisthisidonteven is looking for help breaking his little brother’s Team Fortress 2 habit in today’s very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku. More » More » Dig These Minecraft Pads https://kotaku.com/dig-these-minecraft-pads-5812601 Joining a host of t-shirts and fridge magnets born of a Minecraft licensing deal are these foam pickaxes and sticky notecubes. Now you can wear a Minecraft Union shirt and smack around a block notecube with a faux pickaxe while you kill time waiting for the game to finally launch. The notepad,… More » More » Troll Faces and Empty Jackets Populate This Animated Look At the Hacker Civil War https://kotaku.com/troll-faces-and-empty-jackets-populate-this-animated-lo-5812635 Next Media Animation’s army of computer graphic animators churned out a story today neatly encapsulating the week’s escalating hacker wars. LulzSec, depicted as the bad guys in this video, are responsible for attacks against a number of sites including Sony, The Escapist, Minecraft and Eve… More » More » One Very Odd Circus of Video Games https://kotaku.com/one-very-odd-circus-of-video-games-5812564 They call it E3, which isn’t that cool a name. Absurdly, you may have also heard, that E3 is Video Games, or what (some/most) of the big, rich companies in the gaming industry would have you believe is Video Games. That’s kind of right. More » More » Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Unite Inverted and Un-Inverted Gamers http://kotaku.com/5812366/shigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-unite-inverted-and-un+inverted-gamers During the same Nintendo developer roundtable where we were given a Tanooki suit history lesson, Nintendo godfather Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the new control scheme for Star Fox 64: More » More » A Look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation in Action https://kotaku.com/a-look-at-call-of-duty-black-ops-annihilation-in-actio-5812682 Here’s our first look at the next map pack coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the video we get a quick walk-through of Annihilation’s four maps: Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo and Hazard. Hanger 18 takes place in Area 51 and is packed with conspiracy-theory Easter Eggs. More » More » You Don’t Have to Play Battlefield 3’s Silly Pre-order Game to Get Its ‘Physical Warfare Pack’ https://kotaku.com/you-dont-have-to-play-battlefield-3s-silly-pre-order-ga-5812689 Don’t worry, Battlefield fans. You don’t really need to engage in pre-order incentive nonsense for Battlefield 3, at least not if you want the “exclusive” weapons, ammo and add-ons that Electronic Arts is dangling in front of first-person shooter enthusiasts. Earlier this week, Battlefield 3, the… More » More » What Is Japan’s Fetish This Week? Foreign… Flair https://kotaku.com/what-is-japans-fetish-this-week-foreign-flair-5812554 Someone once told me, “Half-Japanese kids grow up to either be TV celebrities or porn stars.” Flip on television, and there’s half-British male model Joy selling Samurai Road 4 or singer Becky promoting her latest CD single. More » More » Redbox Game Rentals Are Live https://kotaku.com/redbox-game-rentals-are-live-5812699 Starting Friday the denizens of grocery stores, Walmarts and gas stations nationwide can quickly rent video games from kiosks at $2 a day. Ignoring for a second the option to rent by mail through Gamefly, that means a month’s rental will end up running you about the same amount you’d spend on… More » More » Take Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect and Other Gaming Greats, add Jedi https://kotaku.com/take-assassins-creed-mass-effect-and-other-gaming-grea-5812704/ Everyone loves Star Wars. If you don’t love Star Wars, you’re wrong. Some people love Star Wars so much, they [[link]] want more things to be Star Wars. Forevergeek.com has taken 50 Star Wars Mashups from all over the internet and thoughtfully put them all in one place. More » More » We’ve covered enough shows together Ash that you know I’m not a big collector of swag. Heck, I give away everything sent to me each year as part of a charity auction. But this year there were two things I kinda wished I had grabbed: That Minecraft box head up in the image and an autograph from the creators of Phineas & Ferb (they have a game coming out) for my son. He’s a HUGE fan. 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