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Culture
Sunday Comics: Expanded Universe
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 July 29. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Pokémon Go Update Fixes Three-Step Glitch By Removing Steps Entirely [Update]
Pokémon Go’s infamous three-step glitch, which displays all nearby Pokémon at the maximum distance, has been troubling players for weeks. A game update currently rolling out to Android players removes the steps entirely. Problem solved! Update: Now available for iOS. Making the rounds on Reddit and Twitter, the 0.31.0 update offers various tweaks and fixes…
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Esports
Watch The Counter-Strike ELeague Championship Final Right Here
If you’re not sitting at home on a lovely Saturday afternoon watching TBS, at least you can watch the observer feed of ELeague Counter-Strike: Global Offensive championship showdown between Fnatic and Virtus.pro online. Welcome to the less-than-stellar side of esports on television, the television exclusive. Or perhaps its the best side. No muss, no fuss.…
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Pokémon‘s Official Magikarp Song Is A Tribute To Uselessness
In 2014 Slowpoke got a reggae song about how slow and tasty it is. Now The Pokémon Company has released “I Love Magikarp,” a song about how being almost completely useless doesn’t make you any less adored. Or at least that’s what the translation over at Kantopia says. it says. A young boy sings of…
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World Of Warcraft Expansions Revisited: It Burns When I Crusade
As World of Warcraft players prepare for the launch of the game’s sixth expansion, Legion, I’m working my way through the previous five, beginning with our first trip to Outland in The Burning Crusade. It was so good nine years ago. Rather than level up my shiny new Gnome Hunter instantly via the level 100…
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Real-Life Lego Minifig Cosplay Is Just No
Watch as the fine folks from Testedtake one of my favorite things in the whole world and transform it into endless nightmare. The real-life Lego minifig mask is the work of special effects artist Frank Ippolito, who’s apparently been wanting to do this for ages. He and Tested’s Norman Chan then took to San Diego…
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Riptide GP: Renegade Adds Personality To Futuristic Jet-Ski Racing
Since 2010’s Hydro Thunder Hurricane, developer Vector Unit’s been finding new ways to do what they do best: high-speed water-based racing. With Riptide GP: Renegade they’re taking a stab at adding depth and character. It’s about damn time. I say that because Vector Unit was founded in 2007 by Ralf Knoesel and Matt Small, two…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Being Detective Pikachu
We finally get our live-action Pokémon movie, and it’s Detective Pikachu. That’s fine, as long as they get some top-notch talent to play the pocket monster sleuth, and the makeup is good. Perhaps we can show them how it’s done. Originally posted 7/27/2016 — Three days or so left to present your casting choice for…
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The Marvel Ultimate Alliance PC Ports Are A Disaster
The re-release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance and PC debut of its sequel should be a happy occasion, but wonky controller mapping, horrible sound issues and other problems have folks calling it the worst PC port of the year. I was so happy about thesurprise(ish) announcement made over the weekend about the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance…
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No, Sega Doesn’t Have Its Own Mini-Genesis
Despite reports circulating to the contrary, the Nintendo/Sega console rivalry isn’t flaring back up in miniature form. Nintendo’s upcoming mini-NES is a brand new device. AtGames’ Sega-branded mini-Mega Drive is a shoddy emulation box that’s been around for years. We’ve gotten several tip emails asking us about “Sega’s new mini console,” so we felt it…
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It’s Hard To Make The Official Xbox One Custom Controllers Look Bad
Last month Microsoft announced fans would be able to apply their own style to the Xbox One’s new wireless controller, creating a custom design to have shipped to their door. Mine just arrived, and it’s even prettier in person. There are several options for picking up the new smaller Xbox One, but not as many…
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Shiren The Wanderer Is A Mystery Dungeon Game Without Pokémon Or Chocobos, That’s All
We’ve run through Pokémon Mystery Dungeons, Chocobo Mystery Dungeons and even Gundam Mystery Dungeons. Released today for the PlayStation Vita, Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is just like those, only without the licensed characters. Spike Chunsoft’s Mystery Dungeon has been sending players off to die in roguelike fashion…
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Exactly What Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Missing
The first two rounds of downloadable content for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens drop today, along with some apples from the slippery hands of that lovable scamp, Jar Jar Binks. About time we got some prequel action up in here, am I right? No, I am not right. Still, it’s nice to see some…
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We’re Weeks Away From A New Style Savvy You Guys
This is not sarcastic excitement. Every since I was assigned to review the original back in 2009, Nintendo’s fashion design series has been my jam, and Style Savvy: Fashion Forward looks to be the best of the bunch. It’s character creation that never ends. Character creation that keeps adding new elements with each new iteration…
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Gal*Gun: Double Peace Is Exactly What It Looks Like
Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a game about firing your “pheromone shot” at love-crazed anime schoolgirls until they collapse in ecstasy and disappear. Armed with that knowledge, nothing in this video should surprise you. The sequel to 2011 Japan-only Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title from developer Inti Creates, Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a game that…
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Why We Crouch
The crouch. One of humanity’s most basic movements. Humans have been crouching since they figured out that going to the bathroom standing up only worked half of the time, but in video games we sometimes need a little prompting. This post originally appeared 12/3/15. We’ve been crouching in video games for decades—pull the joystick down…
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The Makings Of A Brilliant Virtual Reality RTS
It’s funny how much more important defending your base is when you’re standing in the middle of it. Cosmic Trip for the HTC Vive uses virtual reality to deliver a intimate perspective on real-time strategy. Constructing buildings, harvesting resources, deploying units and defending territory are central elements of real-time strategy. Cosmic Trip has all of…
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Culture
The Week In Games: Heads Up
There are weeks during the summer where I struggle to choose a game to pin the weekly release post around. Headlander, everybody. Double Fine’s weird head game is one of the few games this week that isn’t a re-release or repackaging, so it gets to be at the head of the post. We Happy Few’s…
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