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Watch The Final Day Of The Summer Games Done Quick Speedrun Marathon
The seven-day Summer Games Done Quick charity speedrun marathon comes to a close today, but not before runs of Diablo II, Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid and Super Mario RPG are finished. Several great games remain to be run in Summer Games Done Quick, which has so far raised nearly $800,000 forDoctors Without Borders. Can…
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Nvidia’s $250 Geforce GTX 1060 Brings Pascal Power To The Masses
Launching July 19 and priced for mass consumption, Nvidia’s Pascal-powered GTX 1060 promises power comparable to the company’s former flagship GTX 980 and twice the energy-efficiency in virtual reality. Now that Nvidia’s gotten the high-end GTX 1080 and mid-range GTX 1070 out of the way, it’s time for the mainstream event. The GTX 1060 is…
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15 Pokémon Go Captures Made While Sitting On My Ass
In case you were worried about having to walk to capture anything in Pokémon Go, my phone’s been sitting at my desk since I downloaded the game this afternoon, and I’ve done alright. As much as I enjoyed wandering the streets of my neighborhood in the Pokémon Go beta, normally my workday movements are a…
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Star Trek Online Throws Temporal Physics Out The Airlock
Sending players on a mission to save the future by killing the past, or saving the past in the future? Days of future past? It’s all very confusing, but that’s what happened when Star Trek Online released its Agents of Yesterday expansion seven years ago. Or today. Stupid time. Bringing elements of The Original Series…
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The First Ten Minutes Of Riders Of Icarus, The Mount Collecting MMO
You will not ride a majestic unicorn within the first ten minutes of Riders of Icarus, Nexon’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which launches into free open beta tomorrow. That’s for 20 minutes in. First comes the pegasus. One of my favorite things to do in MMORPG games now that I am pretty much…
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Is There A 3DS Charger In The House?
Eeveespiritt’s Summer Games Done Quick speedrun of New Super Mario Bros. 2 had almost reached the final boss, when everything went black. I was watching the run with my wife on Sunday evening, having convinced her the bi-annualweek-long charity speedrunning marathon was much better than not watching a new Game of Thrones episode. Eeveespiritt proved…
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CSR Racing 2 Does Its One Thing Better Than Before
When it debuted back in 2012, CSR Racing’s bite-sized bouts of drag racing were just the right amount of driving excitement for mobile gamers. CSR Racing 2 keeps the action brief, but gives players a little more control over a lot prettier cars. While games like Real Racing 3 and the Asphalt series aimed to…
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Keep Watching The Week-Long Summer Games Done Quick Charity Speedrun Marathon
It’s time again for the very best reason to stay inside with your eyes glued to a screen in the middle of summer. The best speedrunners in the world gather for Summer Games Done Quick, a nonstop seven-day speedrun marathon benefiting Doctors Without Borders Summer Games Done Quick and its January counterpart, Awesome Games Done…
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Single-Celled Organisms Playing Microscopic Pac-Man
If you’re going to study the behavior patterns of unicellular protozoans and predatory pseudocoelomates in a microscopic 3D environment, you might as well have a little fun with it. Researchers at the University College Southeast Norway led by Professor Erik Andrew Johannessen of the Institute of Micro and Nano System Technology, created the “Mikroskopisk Pacman”…
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All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release
From bathing suit to Punky Brewster cosplay in one cross-Atlantic trip. Some of the changes made to Japan’s Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem to make it North America’s Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE are quite odd. Having been busy not caring too much about worrying over things like fanservice, I’ve managed to avoid discussions of…
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The Final Moments Of PlanetSide
On May 20, 2003, Sony Online Entertainment launched PlanetSide, one of the earliest massively multiplayer first-person shooters. On July 1, 2016, Daybreak Games shut down PlanetSide for good. MMORPG.com’s Steven Messner was there to watch the sky come tumbling down. I never spent much time with the original PlanetSide. Though it arrived at a time…
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Skullgirls Goes Mobile With A Fighting RPG Spinoff
Indie fighter Skullgirls is bringing the battle to iOS and Android later this year, with a game that blends fighting game action with RPG mechanics to create something . . . well, just look at it. The new game, developed by Hidden Variable Studios using the PC and console fighting game’s assets and engine, sounds…
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The PocketCHIP Is An Excellent Intro To Absurdly Cheap Computing
If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of messing about with a $9 PC but had no idea what you’d do with it, Next Thing Co.’s PocketCHIP turns its tiny computer into a portable gaming machine, music editor and learning tool. It’s just full of ideas. I’ve been enamored with miniature computers for quite a…
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World’s Fastest Mario 3 Player Versus Stephen Colbert Eating A Hot Pocket
Super Mario Bros. 3 speedrunner Mitch Fowler can finish the game in just over three minutes. Is that faster than Stephen Colbert can cook and eat a Hot Pocket? Well no, though it’s still pretty impressive. Fowler appeared on last night’s episode of The Late Show to promote Summer Games Done Quick, the ridiculously entertaining…
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It’s A Good Weekend To Watch People Play Pokémon
The 2016 U.S. Pokémon National Championships are going down this weekend, bringing the best Trading Card Game, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and Pokken Tournament players to Columbus, Ohio to determine which of the country’s best players will be heading to San Francisco in August for the big show. The Pokémon Company has set up…
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The Things We Discovered While Playing Pokémon Go
Exploration has always been at the heart of the Pokémon series. A young person strikes out on a monster-collecting adventure, learning about the world around them along the way. My brief time with Pokémon Go felt like that, albeit on a slightly smaller scale. I may not be a young person anymore, but I still…
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J.J. Abrams Is a Playable Character In Lego The Force Awakens
Sharing screen time with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego J.J. Abrams adds troop command and blaster marksmanship to his already impressive resume. It used to be Lego games’ behind-the-scenes cameos were limited to cutscenes. Now we get to take the famed director, producer, screenwriter and composer on a…
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CultureSnacktaku Eats Burger King’s Mac N’ Cheetos
Last week Burger King announced it would be subjecting innocent Americans to deep-fried, Cheetos-crusted macaroni and cheese sticks. Snacktaku is pleased to report that Mac N’ Cheetos taste much better than they look. Before we begin I must apologize for the quality of the video atop this post. While keeping the windows rolled up and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: This Is A Job For Torbjorn
Just because Overwatch’s resident turret-banger is getting toned down on consoles doesn’t mean Torbjorn can’t still be a productive member of society. There are plenty of employment opportunities for dwarf with a robotic arm, like whatever you guys come up with this week. Originally published 6/26/2016—just three days left to get Torbjorn’s job applications in!…
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