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Smite Launches Its First-Ever PVE Event
Smite, Hi-Rez Studios’ deity-based MOBA, is normally all about putting the hurt on a team of opposing players. In the special Xing Tian’s Mountain mode, launched this week as part of the 201 Odyssey event, players go on an MMO-style raid encounter. Weird, but good. In Xing Tian’s Mountain, players form teams of five and…
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CultureSnacktaku Cooks And Eats Hostess Deep Fried Twinkies
For decades state fairs across the country have reeked of things that aren’t generally deep fried—Twinkies, candy bars, drifters—receiving the hot oil treatment. Hostess has decided it’s time to capitalize on one of those. Let’s cook us up some Hostess Deep Fried Drifter. By Deep Fried Drifter I mean Deep Fried Twinkies, and by cook…
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Let’s Judge The New Limited Edition Pokémon 3DS XL
Earlier today, Nintendo announced a new limited edition Pokémon Sun and Moon 3DS XL arriving next month. Is this a must-have, or is it ugly, but not ugly-ugly? We’re conflicted. Nintendo’s not been having a great run of limited edition 3DS systems lately. Partial blame can be cast at the eagerly sought-after Majora’s Mask 3DS…
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Koei Tecmo Takes All The Characters They Have And Drops Them Into A Dynasty Warriors Game
After tossing together several successful all-star Dynasty Warriors-type games based on other people’s properties like Dragon Quest Heroes and Hyrule Warriors, Tecmo Koei gives its own famous characters a shot a killing many things at the same time in Musuo Stars. The last time Koei Tecmo let their characters out to play in such a…
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The Gleefully Stupid Alien Invasion Continues In Earth Defense Force 5
Will the Earth ever be free of the giant insect alien menace of the purposefully-schlock Earth Defense Force series? God, I hope not. D3Publisher just made Earth Defense Force 5 for the PlayStation 4 official. It has a giant frog soldier in it. A guilty pleasure to those who play it and an ugly mess…
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The Galaxy’s Most Addictive Game Is Hidden In Star Trek: Timelines
In a season five episode Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise crew falls under the spell of a dangerously addictive augmented reality game. That same game lies buried within mobile game Star Trek: Timelines, an easter egg so well-hidden only one player has uncovered it, and they don’t even know it yet. Next Generation’s…
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Naruto’s Kid Stars In His Own Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Story DLC
Arriving in North America on February 3, Road to Boruto is a $19.99 story expansion pack for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 that tells the tale of Naruto’s little Burrito and his friend Salad. The story pack will allow players to take on the role of Naruto’s son, playing through the events of Boruto:…
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Reviews
CybertronPC CLX Scarab Gaming System Review: Big Power In A Small Package
CybertronPC has around since 1997, but its CLX line of custom luxury gaming beast machines are a recent development. Today we look at the line’s small-but-powerful desktop, the Scarab. Before we begin, let me establish that the Kansas-based computer company has no connection whatsoever to Hasbro’s popular line of transforming robots, who happen to hail…
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Titanfall Gets A Mobile Trading Card Game
Coming this fall to Android and iOS from Nexon and developer Particle City, Titanfall: Frontline is a strategy trading card game in which massive battles between IMC and Militia forces play out in turn-based fashion. Yes, there are burn cards. Taking the role of brigade commanders, players form decks of pilots, Titans and the aforementioned…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Cartoon Villainy By A Wide Margin
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published September 10. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: The Other Side Of The Level Cap
When you’re working through the post 110 content of World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion with one Alliance character and are getting bored of running through the same content on five others, sometimes you need to take a walk on the Horde side. We’re at the end of the second week of Legion, and I’m progressing…
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Witness World Of Warcraft: Legion‘s Amazing Steam Death Cave Before It’s Gone
The air is festive and steam-filled inside the cave of the northeastern coast of the Broken Isles, as the bodies of Horde and Alliance players alike form a pile around an orb that must be clicked to complete the Legion expansion’s recently-discoveredsecret world quest I’ve been working my way through the Kosumoth the Hungering quest,…
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The First Yo-Kai Watch Movie Gets Its Day In North American Theaters Next Month
The highest grossing Japanese movie of 2015 is coming to North American theaters next month for an entire day! Level-5 and Eleven Arts are bringing the English version of the time-tripping first Yo-Kai Watch movie to select U.S. theaters on October 15. With a new season of the cartoon airing on Disney XD, a second…
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Redout Could Be The New King Of Anti-Gravity Racing
Anti-gravity racing is a genre that doesn’t get love nearly as often as Wipeout and F-Zero fans would like. Developer 34BigThings smothers the genre with affection with Redout. Redout is a low-poly anti-gravity racer that recently launched on Steam to rave user reviews. It’s a tribute to the anti-gravity classics, combining elements of those games…
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NHL 17 Now Playable On EA Access, Feels A Lot Like NHL 16
Sometimes the annual installment of a sports game feels like a brand new experience, sometimes it feels like same thing, different year. NHL 17, available for play now on EA Access ahead of next week’s release, is definitely the latter. My kids really took to NHL 16 last year, so while I am not a…
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Garden Warfare 2 Has So Much Fun With Its Free Updates
The steady stream of free content for Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 continues today with the release of Trials of Gnomus. It’s got a heavy Gnome theme, a Cats Vs. Dinos game mode and a mysterious, well-dressed vendor named Rux the Deal Breaker. Fun! It continues to amaze me how much work Popcap puts…
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The Next Best Thing To Flying In World Of Warcraft: Legion
Players can’t initially fly in World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, but once they’ve reached level 110 and made a few friends they can at least call a flying cab. The Flight Master’s Whistle is an item players receive upon completing a relatively easy level 110 faction quest, Uniting the Isles. Once you’re friendly with all…
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Pokémon Go Will Be On Apple Watch By Year’s End
Since Pokémon Go launched earlier this year, smartwatch owners have been bemoaning the lack of a corresponding wrist app. Bemoan no more. During today’s Apple event, Pokémon Go support was announced for the Apple Watch. An Apple Watch owner myself, I’ve been keenly aware of the lack of Pokémon Go support, which seemed like such…
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Players Unravel One Of World Of Warcraft: Legion‘s Most Convoluted Secrets
This is several dozen players battling a new World of Warcraft world boss named Kosumoth the Hungering. Players stumbled upon the zone-spanning steps needed to spawn him while searching for another World of Warcraft secret entirely. Asrecounted by Redditor drfievel, while searching for the Reins of the Long-Forgotten Hippogryph, a mount that was first data-mined…
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