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The Xbox One Will Be China’s First Major Home Console Since The PS2
Microsoft is going to be able to start selling the Xbox One to the more than one billion people living in China starting on September 23. The company announced launch plans at a press event in Shanghai. Until recently, home consoles have been banned in China, with the PlayStation 2having the honor of being the…
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Fan Creates An Awesome Guild Wars 2 Mega-Trailer [UPDATE: One More]
Carl, who sent us the tip about the trailer, called this “the most incredible Guild Wars 2 video [he’s] ever seen.” Well, I can see where he’s coming from. The video itself isn’t long, but it’s “Mega” for the sheer volume of the source material—it’s a recut of several official trailers and timelapse clips, set…
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Smash Bros. Video Puts Mario In Real-Life Tokyo
And since he’s in real life, he has to take the subway to the Smash Bros. tournament. Just like everyone else The trailer was done by Japan-based visual effects artist Dean Wright, who’s worked on the teaser for the upcoming Mighty No. 9 animated series. It’s good! I could even see this used as a…
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People Are Buying The Wii U, But Nintendo Is Still Losing Money
Nintendo has released a report detailing their results for this financial year’s first quarter, and the Wii U seems to be doing better. Nintendo itself, on the other hand? Eh. The star of the report is, without a doubt, Mario Kart 8, but the Wii U’s numbers show improvement as well. Between April and June,…
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Link Dies 104 Times in this Ocarina of Time Supercut
Balls in the face might be the deadliest of them all, but the other 103 threats were still dangerous enough to take out the Hero of Time. At least in this video Master0fHyrule’s latest, ten-minute clip examines all the ways Link can die during the course of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s nostalgic, like that…
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Culture
Majora’s Cake, based on Majora’s Mask from… well, Zelda: Majora’s Mask, shared by redditor Njohns39 over at r/zelda. “The inside is a very dense and moist chocolate cake that could only be described as deliciously similar to a brownie. The filling is cream cheese frosting and the outside is mostly vanilla fondant.” Majora’s Cake [r/zelda]…
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You Don’t Want To Mess With Alien Mewtwo
In case you don’t know, Pokémon fusion, or Pokémon splicing, is when you take two Pokémon and smush them together to create a new one. You can do it yourself on a website, but the fusions you get that way may or may not look cool. These fusions, on the other hand, drawn the way…
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The Entire Story of Warcraft, Told in 40 Minutes
And that’s just the cliffnotes version! YouTuber Nobbel87 has done quite a few videos on the story of the Warcraft series in the past. In his newest, which is basically a large summary, he touches upon every key point of Azeroth’s lore, from the arrival of the Titans of prehistory to the ending of the…
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Someone Spent Five Months Making A Giant Cake in Minecraft
And not only was this giant cake built by hand, it was cooked by hand as well. In survival mode. That means they had to gather a lot of ingredients. Like, a lot. This is how you cook (or rather, craft) cakes in Minecraft: That’s three buckets of milk, three bunches of wheat, two piles…
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Why Superstar Saga Was The Best Mario RPG Of Its Time
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was the third Mario RPG released after Legend of the Seven Stars and Paper Mario. But what made it stand out? What was missing from the first two? ReallyFreakinClever’s opinion is that it was none other than Luigi. The video argues that Superstar Saga is like a perfect storm of…
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Huge Minecraft Desert City Was Built By One Player Over 20 Months
And it still isn’t done! Although Whiteark really is huge—it occupies a 1057 by 824 block area—the most amazing aspect is probably its rich lore. Reading over the description of each landmark or city district, you can slowly put together a history of slow expansion littered with raider attacks, of a city dominated by a…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Could the Wii U GamePad Go the Way of the Kinect? • Stumbling around in the dark: Metro 2033 with the English turned off • Stalker: Call of Pripyat Misery Mod. A Noob’s Tale TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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The “Largest Minecraft Project” Will Cover An Area Of Over 5,200km²
A group of people are working on Aerna, described as the “largest [multiplayer] server to ever exist in Minecraft.” Calling it merely ambitious would be a pretty big understatement. Apparently, this will be the third iteration of Aerna— a post on the server’s newly-created devblog describes the history of the project, and how it grew…
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The Smash Bros. Where You Can Play As Sora, Naruto, Ichigo, or Goku
The first Super Smash Flash was originally submitted to Newgrounds almost 8 years ago, in 2006. You can play its sequel right now, though it is still in development—in fact, it’s getting a huge update very soon. Essentially, the game is (currently) a stripped down version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl with different stages and…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Reviews: Kanon [Visual Novel & Anime] • 10 Things The International 4 Has Taught me About DOTA 2 • Back in the TAY Review: Ultraman – Towards the Future • In Defense of Sword Art Online TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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