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Consensual Tentacle Porn Card Game Will Come Out In May
The card game Consentacle is an awesome exploration of the complexities of sex, as told via interactions between a human and a tentacle monster. True to its name, however, every interaction is aggressively consensual. Consentacle has been around for a few years now, but there’s only been a couple of copies in existence. Now, following…
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Sexy RPG Lust Doll Lets You Choose Your Own Kinks
In the world of sexy games, Lust Doll is unique: It’s an RPG that lets you choose what types of sexual situations you want to see as you journey through its world. Into feet, but not BDSM? Fantasize about futanari, but don’t particularly enjoy vore? Where other games start you with a character creator and…
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Strive For Power Is Like An X-Rated Stardew Valley
At first glance, Strive for Power seems unassuming enough. In this PC game, you have a mansion that’s fallen into disrepair and you have a servant, some stockpiled food, and a bit of cash. With that, you’re expected to survive. Then things get… sexy. (NSFW warning for partial cartoon nudity.) This world is peaceful, more…
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Trippy Dating Game Explores Toxic Relationships
Like falling into an old habit, I come back. Not because I need you. Not because I want you, even. But because I can’t pull myself together and let go of what’s easy and safe. I Woke Up Next to You Again, a game for PC, Mac, and Linux available on itch.io, explores the idea…
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Deep Dark Fantasies Is A Game That Doesn’t Understand Kink
Deep Dark Fantasies is a visual novel about a pornstar who runs a BDSM dungeon. It’s mostly a series of images that have all been pressed through the same lo-fi, pixelated filter, along with some accompanying text to click through. It picked up a good bit of attention because its main character, Van, is a…
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Steam’s Haphazard Sex Games Policies Hit Another Game
Strangers in a Strange Land is a point-and-click adventure game starring Billy, a college student on vacation with his step family. It’s also about watching people bone and catching peep shows when you can. These scintillating and voyeuristic themes have the game caught in the middle of the latest tussle over porn games on Steam.…
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4,158,323 Creatures ‘Died’ in Last Six Months of Dragon Age Development
Dragon Age Inquisition is a big game. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. In a chat with some people on the dev team though, they started to give me an idea… The BioWare team killed more than 4 million animals and monsters during the last six months of…
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Smash Bros. for Wii U‘s Soundtrack has 437 Songs
According to a thread on Smash Boards, a Gamefaqs user has found all 437 available tracks in Smash Bros. Wii U. The full track list and the stage each song can be played on is listed below. Battlefield / Big Battlefield: – Battlefield – Multi-Man Smash – Trophy Rush – Credits v2 (Remix) – Menu…
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Total Hours of Smash Bros. 4 Played So Far and Other Stats
Smash Bros. for Wii U has a “World Status” mode, which lets you watch a ticker of random statistics collected from players. These include total number of hours played, total number of Kos people have gotten, and the total distance the Sandbag has been launched in home run contest. All of this is show on…
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Dragon Age: Keep Has 300 Different Choices
If you include all of the race and gender choices for your protagonists as well as all the decisions you can have them make, then there are 300 different options. Most of them are pretty minor, but it leads to more than 1,427,247,692,705,959,881,058,285,969,449,495,136,382,746,624 different possible world states for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Damn. If you’re interested…
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Sweden Invests $36,672 in Gender Equality for Video Games
Sweden’s government has turned its eyes to the portrayal of women in games and gender issues. Swedish news site, The Local, reports that the Nordic country has issued a $36,672 (272,000 kronor) grant to research gender issues in Swedish games. Despite the country’s relatively small population (just under 10 million people), Sweden’s home to several…
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Ubisoft Stocks Fall 9% After Assassin’s Creed Unity Launch
Following a rough launch, Ubisoft’s taken a pretty big financial hit. The game had quite a few bugs and has been lumped in with other games like Call of Duty for seeing releases a bit too often. Tae Kim at Yahoo Finance suggest that it would have been better off delaying the game than releasing…
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Microsoft’s Gamble Worked Xbox One Weekly Sales Triple, Exceed PS4
On November 2nd, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One console would see a temporary $50 price cut. The move was a clear attempt to bolster sales going into the holiday season… and it looks like it’s paid off “Sales have skyrocketed since the new price took effect.” Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of marketing for Xbox…
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Games Industry Grows Four Times Faster Than The American Economy
In a new report from the Entertainment Software Association, the organization found that the games industry is growing far, far faster than the economy at large. That growth has translated directly into some of the strongest job growth in the US. From 2009 to 2012, the number of people working in games has grown more…
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17 Things The World Saw Since Blizzard’s Last New Franchise 17 Years Ago
Blizzard announcedOverwatch today, it’s first new franchise in more than 17 years. Children born when Starcraft came out (yeah Starcraft was their last new game) will graduating high school soon. If that wasn’t enough for you, here are 17 big things in the world/gaming that have happened since 1997. Facebook – 2004 iPods, iPhones, iPads,…
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Minecraft Diamonds are 11 Times Rarer than Real Ones
Diamonds are the second rarest material in Minecraft. You can mold them into the most durable tools and weapons, or just make a copy of the Statue of Liberty. If you’ve tried looking for them for any length of time, though, you know the material can be frustratingly rare. In fact, it’s even scarcer in…
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V’s Speech in V for Vendetta Only Has 53 Vs And That Makes Me Sad
They could have had 55, but no. I guess it is still pretty impressive, if you’re into alliteration. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @dcstarkey
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection Will Have 450 Achievements
The compilation also has 4,500 gamerscore – a new record for any Xbox title. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @dcstarkey
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The Ten Most Expensive Games Cost More Than $2 Billion
The past decade or so game budgets have ballooned and now often rival those of an average Hollywood movie, and according to AllTime10s, these are the most expensive of the bunch. 10. Deadpool — $102,100,246 9. Unreleased Halo MMO — $103,242,337 8. Max Payne 3 — $108, 776,623 7. Red Dead Redemption — $109,078,902 6.…
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4 Tips for Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume
I haven’t really dressed up for Halloween since I was a kid. Last year, I just grabbed my judo gi and pretended to be some kind of zombified martial artist. The year before, I wore a headcrab hat one of my roommates got me a few years back… and pretended to a headcrab zombie. You…
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