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Oh No, The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Launches In English Next Month
This is not good. The only thing standing between my wallet and the more than 2,000 cards in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game was all of that Japanese text. Now Square Enix is launching the game in English. On October 28. Great. For nearly six years, Japanese Final Fantasy fans have been greedily devouring…
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Gal*Gun Has A Panic Button, For When Mom Walks In
Gal*Gun: Double Peace, thePlayStation game about shooting your love at schoolgirls is now on Steam, and it’s even managed to crack the top-sellers list. The more people playing, the bigger chance someone gets caught in mid-play. Luckily there’s a button just for that. Available on both the PlayStation 4 and Steam versions of Inti Create’s…
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Overwatch’s Zarya Translates Nicely Into Heroes Of The Storm
The great thing about bringing Overwatch characters into Heroes of the Storm is that their shooter skills are perfect for Blizzard’s MOBA. Zarya’s damage absorption and gravity manipulation skills make her a pink-haired point-and-click powerhouse. Absorbing attacks to up her own is Zarya’s thing, kind of like Bishop from the X-Men, only with a gravity…
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Playing Pinball With Marvel Comics’ Women Of Power
Today the pinball wizards at Zen Studios released a pair of new digital tables featuring just about every major female superhero in Marvel Comics’ current continuity. Yes, that includes Squirrel Girl. Yes, I wanted to headline this post SQUIRREL GIRL in all caps. While I show restraint in writing about the new A-Force and Champions…
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Figma Makes Good-Looking Twilight Princess Toys
Normally I’d pick fancy dress-wearing Zelda fover plain old green elf any day, but the DX version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ Link, packed with everything from the Ball and Chain to the Hawkeye mask is making it hard to decide. Up for preorder today through October 27 at the Good Smile Shop…
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ReviewsSonic Boom: Fire & Ice: The Kotaku Review
There’s a pretty good Sonic the Hedgehog game lurking under the padding and sports tape wrapped around Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice for the Nintendo 3DS. If people are wary of new Sonic the Hedgehog games given the franchise’s hit-or-miss quality over the past couple of decades, they are doubly wary of Sonic Boom games.…
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Forza Horizon 3 Is A Good Upgrade
Forza Horizon 3 is classified as a racing game, only really it’s not. It’s an open-world adventure game of the (mostly) four-wheeled variety, with a focus on celebrating everything exciting about cars and driving—even racing. This piece originally ran 9/20/16. We’ve added video impressions from the PC version at the bottom. Playground Games’ open-world spin-off…
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Lego Dimensions Year Two Starts Now
After four months of not having to buy anything, Lego Dimensions players suddenly have a whole new wave of friends to add to their collection. The new Ghostbusters, Adventure Time, Mission Impossible, The A-Team and Harry Potter make their Dimensions debut today. The 2016 Ghostbusters movie scores the game’s first Story Pack, a $49.99 box…
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Stan Bush Creates A Brand-New ’80s Anthem For Shadow Warrior 2
How does one craft a new anthem for a decade some 30 years past? I have no idea, but Stan Bush has done it. The man behind “The Touch” contributed a new track to a special limited edition Shadow Warrior 2 vinyl EP, and it’s so inspirational ‘80s rock it feels awesome. According to Stan,…
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Reviews
World Of Warcraft: Legion: The Kotaku Review
Over the course of the first five expansion packs, Blizzard has slowly evolved World of Warcraft into something very different than the MMO that launched back in 2004. The Legion expansion feels like an entirely new game. After 12 years of performing outrageous acts of heroism in the name of the Alliance or Horde, it’s…
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Sundered Is Hand-Drawn Lovecraftian Horror From the Makers Of Jotun
Following up on the success of Norse mythology action RPG Jotun, Thunder Lotus Games goes back to the drawing board with Sundered, a replayable Metroidvania heavily inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. The hand-drawn art that drew so many eyes to Jotun returns, only what we’re seeing in the first trailer and screens posted…
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Esports
The Philadelphia 76ers Buy Two Esports Teams
Hot off one of the worst seasons in NBA history, the Philadelphia 76ers invests in a different sport entirely. The team has purchased controlling stakes in Team Dignitas and Apex, merging them into a single esports team managed and maintained by the professional sports organization. Team Dignitas, an esports powerhouse founded in 2004, and League…
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It’s Dash Vs. The Shadowbolts In Chapter One Of The Guardians Of Harmony Comic Book
The somewhat more action-oriented My Little Pony: Guardians of Harmory line launches this fall, and it’s getting a matching comic book series from IDW later this year. We’ve got the first chapter of the first issue, in which Rainbow Dash meets up with some old illusionary enemies. The Guardians of Harmony line,revealed at Toy Fair…
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World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: One Last Dance
I’d originally planned to run our World of Warcraft: Legion review today, but due to circumstances firmly under my control, it’s now going to run Monday morning. The fact that I’m still playing the game every night probably didn’t help. Yes, three weeks and change later, I’m still pretty heavily invested in World of Warcraft’s…
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Forza Horizon 3 Runs Fine On PC
Forza Horizon 3 marks the series’ PC debut as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. I’ve been playing the PC version since yesterday, and so far nothing horrible has happened. In fact, almost everything is fine. It’s sad that a PC port of a game that’s traditionally been a console exclusive had me primed…
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Star Wars: Uprising Is Coming To An End
Last year around this time, mobile developer Kabam and Disney released Star Wars: Uprising, a “dull Diablo clone” set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. It’s shutting down in November. As of yesterday, folks still playing Uprising for whatever reason can no longer make in-game purchases, and they’ve got…
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Massive Spaceship Battles Make A Very Cool MOBA
When you replace traditional arenas for the depths of space and swap out colorful characters for massive capital ships manned by crews of 5,000, suddenly the term “MOBA” feels somehow inadequate. Yet that’s what Fractured Space is. A giant spaceship MOBA. Launched out of Early Access today on Steam, Fractured Space is a free-to-play multiplayer…
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CultureSnacktaku Eats Burger King’s Cheetos Chicken Fries
After setting the snack mash-up world on fire with Mac N’ Cheetos and bathrooms everywhere alight with the Whopperrito, Burger King follows it all up with the tamest combo yet, orange chicken fries. They are chicken fries. They are orange. Basically Burger King has taken the Cheez-It flavored breading that protected Mac N’ Cheetos tasty…
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