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Xbox One Is Getting a $50 ‘Holiday’ Price Drop, Will Cost $349
Starting on November 2, the no-Kinect Xbox One and two of its related bundles will be sold at a discounted price of $349. The price cut applies to the Kinect-less XBO Assassin’s Creed Unity bundle and the also Kinect-less XBO Special Edition Sunset Overdrive bundle, the contents of which are detailed in the announcement (and…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Designer’s Corner: Beyond: Two Souls • Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit: The TAY Manga Review • Game of The Week — Surgeon “Simulator” [Trauma Center: Under The Knife] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: 6 Prequels That Surpass Their Originals • TAY Explores Comics: D Gray Man • You Should Be Watching Your Lie in April • Gonna be the Twin-Tail! is My Hype Show TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Here are the first-gen starter Pokémon, looking as adorable as ever—but in a physical, huggable form They come courtesy of Ashley Muldoon, who sells crocheted dolls in her Etsy shop, StarCraftsCo. She’s planning to do the third-gen starters next, in honor of the impending release of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire My finished crocheted mini…
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You can now play a very, very early version of Return of the Obra Dinn, the upcoming first-person mystery adventure game from the creator of Papers, Please. You cannot save your game, and there are no menus at all, but you can at least check out the (pretty cool) visual style for yourself.
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Blizzard released a status update on the upcoming Android and iPhone/Android phone versions of their online CCG, Hearthstone: Android tablets are slated to get the game before the end of the year, while the phone versions will arrive early next year. They also included a neat infographic which you can look at below.
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Players Can’t Stop Playing Destiny • Hopefully Hatred Is a Better Game Than Its Trailer Promises • The Evil Within: What It Is And What It Could Have Been TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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A TIE Fighter and the Iron Giant, from artist-slash-game-dev Derek Laufman. These are part of the Inktober campaign, where artists create one ink drawing a day in October to improve their skills. Laufman’s already pretty good, as you can see. There’s more of his stuff below, and on his deviantART and Tumblr pages. Derek Laufman…
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Amazing Unreal Engine Project Took Just 7 Weeks to Make
Unreal Engine 4 is capable of some great visuals, but it can’t just come up with them by itself. For that, you need some talented individuals—like this seven-student group from Montreal’s National Animation and Design Center. The students’ task was basically to design, model, and animate a chase scene in seven weeks. What they came…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Vector Thrust is Gorgeous, Unfinished • Amiibos are Pointless (But I Still Want to Collect Them All) • Locodol was a Light Comedy, Which is Just Fine • Minecraft Party Requires 110% Imagination to Appreciate • The Hype Train, Revisited TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…
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Here’s a very good example of what rendering software (in this case, Chunky, combined with a texture pack) can do for Minecraft screenshots. It’s like comparing a finished CG shot from a film to a photo of the set, though here, you get Minecraft blocks standing in for a greenscreen. Look below for the hi-res…
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Let This Man Explain What Makes Half-Life So Great
Half-Life turns sixteen this year. It’s likely older than some of you. Yet, aged graphics aside, it’s still one of the best games—or rather, one of the best experiences—the PC has to offer. There’s a couple reasons why. As YouTuber XboxAhoy argues in his video, the first Half-Life was influential not just because it played…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Weird Theory: Do Pokémon have a greater purpose? • NES-30 [Controller] Impressions and Review • In Defense of the Idol Show • The Curious Case of DRIVECLUB’s Identity Crisis • Rockmandash Reviews: Hanasaku Iroha [Anime] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Evolve’s “Big Alpha” Test Begins at the End of the Month
Turtle Rock Studios’ 4v1 multiplayer shooter, Evolve, will be having its closed “Big Alpha” test at the end of October. The specific dates are October 30 to November 2 for Xbox One, and October 31 to November 2 for PC and PS4. To apply, you need to fill out the form here (or here, if…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Chariot: The TAY Review • Trainime New Season Impressions! Part 1 • Game of The Week—Not Very Stealthy, But Great Nonetheless [GoldenEye 007] • Short Peace: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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The trailer for the upcoming backer-exclusive alpha version of historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance paints an idyllic picture of a medieval village. Presumably, it shows what the place was like before that corpse-packed-battlefield dealio. The game is still on track for a late 2015 release on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
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If I Moved to Space, This Is Where I’d Live
I don’t think I have the brains to become a terraforming scientist, though. I’d just tag along and look out windows all day. This scene was created by 3D Environment Artist Liam Tart, who’s worked on games like Black Mesa, Natural Selection 2, and more recently, Alien Isolation. He chipped away at this project in…
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