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Mega Man‘s New Mobile Ports Are Garbage
After weeks of being hyped on Twitter and Facebook, fresh mobile ports of Mega Man 1 through 6 have arrived on iOS and Android, and they are quite possibly the worst way to experience six classic NES games. Capcom Mobile posted a series of trailers to its YouTube channel to celebrate the release of the…
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Smite Gets Celtic Gods And Another New Game
Hi-Rez Studios’ 2017 celebration of itself kicks off today in Atlanta, making it the perfect time to reveal one of Smite’s coolest gods yet, The Morrigan, and a third (that’s right, third) game in the mythology battles franchise, Smite Rivals. What began as the annual Smite World Championships has blossomed into a fan convention with…
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Razer’s Latest CES Showstopper Is A Laptop With Three Screens
It’s too bad Razer already used the name Switchblade for its CES 2011 micro laptop concept, as it’s would have been perfect for Project Valerie, a gaming laptop that expands from one to three displays with the press of a button. Multi-monitor desktop gaming is easy, but setting up a pair of additional screens to…
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Diablo III‘s Riff On The First Diablo Is More Homage Than Remake
Diablo III’s 2.3.4 update has hit the public test realm, giving PC players a chance to play through a 16-level retro dungeon packed with bosses from the 1996 original. It’s not quite a remake, but it hits all the right notes. Update: 2.3.4 is now live on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Originally run on…
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Accidentally Released Forza Horizon 3 Developer Build Reveals Unannounced Vehicles
Players downloading yesterday’s Forza Horizon 3 update on PC got a bit more than they bargained for, in the form of a 53 GB unencrypted developer build of the game, revealing a whole slew of unannounced vehicles that also screwed up players’ save files. The Forza Horizon 3 version ending with .37.2 went live on…
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A Brand-New Unofficial Vanilla World Of Warcraft Server Launches This Saturday
Havingsuccessfully resurrected the popular Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft servers followinglast year’s Blizzard shutdown, Project Elysium gives players a chance to take a fresh stab at old school player-versus-player with a brand new vanilla PVP server. It’s going to be so crowded. World of Warcraft has come a long way since it launched back in…
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CultureThe Good, Bad And Ugly Things Snacktaku Ate In 2016
2016 was a year of dazzling heights and dismal lows in the realm of snackology. A year of fast food crossovers, foul cookie combinations, depression day doughnuts and election night tequila. Also we ate a thing that looked a lot like nightmare poop. This piece was originally published on December 22, 2016. Here at Snacktaku…
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The Year In Patch Notes [Updated To Version 1.02]
2016 was a fine year for gaming at launch, but over the course of the past 12 months various updates and bug fixes have made it even better. Here are some of the year’s finest patch notes. Can you tell which games they are from? Before we jump into the notes for this year’s update,…
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I Introduced My Mom To VR For Christmas And She Took It Like A Champ
On Christmas evening, after the rest of our extended family had fled to their respective homes, I hooked up my Oculus Rift to the new Razer Blade Pro, pushed aside the plants and cat food bowl on the keeping room table and introduced my 70-year-old mother to virtual reality. It went quite well. The idea…
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Fahey’s Top Ten Games Of 2016
When I’m not eating snacks or playing with toys, I like to relax with some video games. Through a careful selection process that mainly involved me staring at at a large list, shaking my head and swearing, I’ve managed to narrow the games I played in 2016 to ten favorites. I started off with a…
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The Gravity Rush 2 Demo Is A Good Time
Between the Nier: Automata demo we played yesterday and this dizzying 20 minute slice of Gravity Rush 2, PlayStation 4 owners have some pretty amazing trying-before-buying to do over the holiday weekend. Bright, colorful and cheery, the demo for SIE Japan Studio’s Gravity Rush 2 is a lovely complement to Nier: Automata’s monochrome post-machine invasion…
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The Nier: Automata PS4 Demo Is Live, And It’s Awesome
Christmas comes a couple days early for PlayStation 4 owners with a playable demo of Nier: Automata. It’s a half-hour packed with slick hack and slash action, novel camera angles, a little drama and massive boss battles, and it’s so good. Platinum Games’ hack-and-slash follow-up to 2010’s Nier, follows combat android 2B, her companion 9S…
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World of Warcraft Guild Forgets To Screenshot Raid Boss Kill, Starts Drawing Them In MS Paint
When European World of Warcraft guild Wiping with Enthusiasm missed capturing a screen of its Elerethe Renferal kill during the Mythic Emerald Nightmare raid, their guild leader started documenting their progress using MS Paint. And that is how art is born. Looking through the comments onKordusain’s Reddit post showing off Wiping’s non-wiping moments, capturing key…
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Secretlab Brings Its Comfy Gaming Chairs Stateside
After taking a tour of Australia last year, Singaporean company Secretlab is making its line of premium gaming chairs available in the U.S. This includes the Titan, a bigger gaming chair for larger-than-man-sized people. As a half-giant, I am pretty excited. Being a largish person (6’6″ and upwards of 300 pounds), I do horrible things…
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Reviews
Razer Blade Pro 2016 Review: The Top Of The Thin Line
Since the 2011 debut of its first super-skinny gaming laptop, Razer has supplemented the Blade line with models either smaller or less expensive than original. Starting at $3,699, the new Blade Pro bucks that trend, resulting in Razer’s the most impressive desktop replacement yet. PC gamers laughed when the original 17 inch Razer Blade debuted…
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Killer Instinct‘s Thunder Gets A More Culturally Accurate Outfit
Despite working with members of the Nez Percé tribe during the development of the Killer Instinct reboot, developers didn’t get the details of Native American warrior Thunder’s costume quite right. Today’s free Legends of Thunder costume fixes that. According to a post by Killer Instinct senior marketing manager Nicole Fawcette on Xbox Wire, the rush…
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Culture
Please Help Me Assemble This Star Wars: Rogue One Model Kit
Inspired by the space battles of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I’ve decided to take a stab at model building. And though Bandai Hobby’s Red Squadron X-Wing Starfighter set is a simple snap and sticker affair, I’m really worried about screwing it up. Got any pointers? The folks at Bluefin started bringing over Bandai…
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ReviewsSuper Mario Run: The Kotaku Review
If you were worried that Nintendo’s move into mobile gaming would change the quality of their games, Super Mario Run should be a relief. Auto-running and screen orientation aside, it’s a full-featured Mario game that just happens to run on your phone. Originally posted 12/21/06: Now that everyone on iOS is done playing, Android gets…
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Asheron’s Call Calls It Quits After 17 Years
On November 2, 1999, Microsoft and Turbine launched Asheron’s Call, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game that stood toe-to-toe with the likes of EverQuest and Ultima Online. On January 31, Asheron’s Call and its sequel are coming to an end. Asheron’s Call was my first serious MMO, before I got my hands on EQ…
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