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In an inspired bit of blogging last month, Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft presented these two images of "Mirror's Edge" protagonist Faith.

He showed the official version made by EA-owned Swedish development studio DICE, as seen up to the left here. And he showed a version made by a gamer on a Korean message board apparently in the interest of depicting what that gamer found to be a more appealing vision of Asian female beauty, which is on the right.

The result:

• Hundreds of comments debating the depiction of women in games
• Dozens of arguments about designers from one culture who craft characters drawn from another culture
• And... what we didn't know until now, at least one crest-fallen developer at DICE.

I asked "Mirror's Edge" producer Tom Farrer if he'd seen the images -- of course, he had -- and what he thought of them. His unvarnished answer: Read more...

Not sure what to do at lunch time today? We've got something good for you to watch, though a bit unusual and not without controversy. And of all the things I've worked on for Gamer's Week, it's my favorite. Here's the tease...

What if you could win points for it in a game about arguing about video games?That's what 'The Metagame' is about.I saw one performed at GDC earlier this year and have been wanting to show a session to MTV viewers ever since. I participated in a running of the game hosted by its creators Eric Zimmerman and Frank Lantz two weeks ago and had a great time.So did Tim Kash and I pull out a win?

Scroll on down for the rest of the segments, including everyone's favorite -- the third round arguments about which games are sexier than the others. Do you agree that "Virtua Fighter" is sexier than "Super Mario 64."

(For extra reading and debating, a full list of the gaming opinions that we debated can be found here).

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