Sunday's Best Deals: Party Games, Projectors, Red Dead Redemption, and More
Portable projectors, party games, and a unique monitor arm lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.
Sunday Comics: True Name
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Gamer Diary: Stella Glow • Unequivocal Love For The “Before —-” Movies • Completing Xenoblade Chronicles X • I Was On BBC 1 With My Nintendo Collection • Down The Drain - Pinball Arcade’s Tables Through The Ages: The 90s [Gottlieb]
Download Some Mysteries and Thrillers to Your Kindle For a Few Bucks Each
Surprise, surprise, Amazon’s running a big Kindle ebook sale on a Sunday. This week, the theme is mysteries and thrillers, so go download some novels for just a few bucks each. A few of the most popular options are below, but head over to Amazon to see the rest.
Replay Red Dead Redemption On Your Xbox One For $15, Before the New One Comes Out
If you need to pass the time until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out, or you just want to refresh your memory of John Marston’s story before diving into the prequel, the GOTY edition of Red Dead Redemption is just $15 from Amazon.
New Death Stranding Trailer Stars A Very Golden Troy Baker
Kojima Prioductions closed out this year’s Tokyo Game Show with a Death Stranding presentation, complete with a short new trailer starring Troy Baker and his very expensive mask.
Wandered into an Akihabara store last night and had an amazing score: Nintendo’s 1970s electro-mechanical Duck Hunt toy! This was what inspired the NES game. The store, notorious for its high standards, had it marked at 3000 yen ($27) because it was missing the battery cover.
The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics
You can do a lot of things with city builder games. You can replicate real cities, or you can simulate massive natural disasters. A YouTuber going by the name of “donoteat” uses Cities: Skylines to explain the politics and power behind the creation of American cities.
Star Wars: A New Hope, But as a Classic '80s Anime
A Hanime, if you will.
Sign Up For Butcher Box, and Get Two Pounds of Ground Beef In Every Box, Forever [Exclusive]
Free ground beef. Forever. Do I have your attention?
Sunless Skies Now Has A Tabletop RPG
Sunless Skies, the follow up after Sunless Sea from Failbetter Games, now has a free tabletop RPG called Skyfarer that you can download from Tabletop Gaming.
Android 17 is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ alongside Cooler in the next DLC release on September 27.
Mysterious New Creature Appears In Pokémon Go, Confuses Everyone
A new creature has appeared in Pokémon Go, and no one seems quite sure what it is or what it is doing.
There is new X Games DLC coming for Steep on October 30. It is going to bring “a series of new ski and snowboard events across the Big Air, SuperPipe, and Slopestyle disciplines, as well as new freestyle challenges scattered across the Alaskan mountains.”
'Shop Contest: Princess Peach Forever, Winners!
The Mushroom Kingdom is in turmoil. The divine right of princesses has been challenged. Princess Peach must assert her authority. I asked you to ‘shop up some images that promoted Princess Peach, and you did not disappoint me.
This Week In The Business: I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling
QUOTE | “Psychologically akin to gambling” - A phrase used to describe loot boxes by two researchers who conducted a survey of more than 7,000 gamers. Their report said loot boxes as they exist right now can provide publishers with an unregulated way of “exploiting gambling disorders among their customers”.
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: A Lifelong Fan Guesses The Remaining PlayStation Classic Lineup • I Finally Found The NES Classic On Store Shelves • The Trailer Paradox • I Listen To The Sounds, Not So Much The Words • My Dog Stole My Wallet, So I Had To Get A New One
Stick It To Your ISP By Buying Your Own Modem - This One's $30 Off
If you’re still paying a modem rental fee to your ISP, buying a modem outright will pay for itself in short order. This model from NETGEAR supports cable internet speeds up to 500mbps, and at $70, it’s cheaper than ever. The $80 list price is actually already $20 less than usual, and a $10 coupon on the page makes the…
The Games That Drew Big Crowds At The Tokyo Game Show
Today was the first public day of the Tokyo Game Show. The crowds were massive, and the lines were long. Let’s look at which games were drawing the biggest crowds.
