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Retro LEGO Desktop Really Takes Me Back
LEGO retro-tech master Chris McVeigh uses muted brick colors to travel back in time to the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, when the computers were beige and the floppy disks plentiful. Those were the days. The days when I was so happy just to have a computer that I didn’t bother covering my desk with toys…
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CultureToy Time Builds A Giant Man Out Of Marvel Legends Action Figures
Aw look, he’s made a little kitty cat friend. Originally published 5/5/16. I’ve since seen the movie, and thank goodness. Captain America: Civil War comes to U.S. theaters today, and while we here at Toy Time have yet to see the movie in action, we’ve played through it over and over again atop our desks,…
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It’s Free Comic Book Day, So Go Get Some Free Comic Books
It’s Free Comic Book Day, the day when people who aren’t working on Saturday can visit their local comic shops for all sorts of deals, specials and of course, free comic books. Check out the official FCBD page to find a comic retailer near you.
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Nvidia’s Latest ‘Most Advanced Graphics Card’ Is Faster And Cheaper Than The Last One
Last year Nvidia introduced the top-of-the-line GeForce GTX Titan X, a $1,000 beast of a graphics card that blew just about everything else out of the water. Well forget that old thing. The newly-announced GTX 1080 is nearly twice as powerful for several hundred dollars less. Nvidia hosted a special event on Twitch last night…
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Just Like That, Battleborn‘s Prologue Is Now Replayable
YesterdayI complained about not being able to replay the animated intro and prologue mission in Battleborn. Now I can, thanks to a game update so stealthy I didn’t even have to reboot. 2K senior communications manager Scott Pytlik dropped us a line to let us know the opening bits of Battleborn, previously inaccessible after completion,…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO Game Shows Us What Happened Before The Movie
Episode VII left fans with many unanswered questions. How did Lor San Tekka get part of Luke’s map? What were Han and Chewie doing alone on a ship full of deadly Rathtar? The answers to these and other burning questions arrive next month in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like previous games in the…
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The Flash‘s Best Character Has A Leeroy Jenkins Moment
Super-genius, gamer and lover of all things geeky, Cisco “Vibe” Ramon is our best friend in the Arrowverse. He’s the kind of guy I’d love to hang with, as long as he doesn’t go full Leeroy like he did last night on a regular basis. For reasons best left in spoiler territory, last night’s episode…
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LEGO Avengers‘ Black Panther DLC Really Milks The Whole Cat Thing
The Black Panther downloadable content for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers dropped today. It features several panther idols and a panther-headed monorail, along with several less interesting things. Available today for $2.99 or free with the $9.99 season pass, the Classic Black Panther Pack for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is worth it just to run around LEGO landscapes…
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A Pizza Box Made Out Of Pizza, For When You Want Pizza In Your Pizza
Tired of watching customers waste cardboard and obviously bored out of his mind, Sean Berthiume of Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn created a pizza container out of another pizza. Because pizza. For just $40 people in the New York City area tired of being surrounded by stacks and stacks of pizza boxes can instead surround themselves…
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The Best Bit Of Battleborn So Far Can Only Be Played Once [Update]
Battleborn’s prologue mission begins with a gorgeous animated sequence, followed by an excellent single-player story mission. Then it goes away. Update: Now it doesn’t! I’m currently working my way up the Battleborn ladder, completing story missions, unlocking characters and gathering gear for my eventual plunge into competitive multiplayer. I’ve played through several co-op missions on…
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Game Store. Game Store Never Changes.
Sure, the items for sale in post-apocalyptic Game Store GameRaveTV built in Fallout 4 are a little different, but the vibe is exactly the same. The doors open to clearance toys, just as they do in most real-world Game Store locations these days. Toys-to-life games on the right, along with some random board game stuff.…
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People Dressing Up And Killing Produce With Swords Is The Legacy Of Fruit Ninja
I was never a big Fruit Ninja fan, but I love what the game has done to promote real-life fruit ninjaneering. Filmmaker Scott Winn’s follow-up to his 2012 viral hit adds an additional ninja and a flaming sword. Now some might say one extra ninja and a sword coated with flaming oil isn’t much of…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Civil Skirmish
Sure we’re dealing with some super-powered being sand Spider-Man isn’t in the art to represent Team Tony, but this is hardly a war. If they want a war, we’ll give them a war. Captain America: Civil War arrives in my brain this Thursday night, taking the massive Marvel Comics event I didn’t like and whittling…
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Hidden Object Games Are Mindless Fluff, And That’s Why I Love Them
It’s looks a bit like BioShock concept art, but it is most definitely not. This is a screenshot from Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden, one of the finest examples of hidden object games, the trash novels of casual games. I love them so. Many casual game genres can trace their roots back to titles that…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Big Bad Battleborn
For some reason every time I hear the name Battleborn the theme song to Big Bad Beetleborgs gets stuck in my head. I expect there’ll be a lot of that this week. Misery loves company. I’m looking forward to playing some Beetleborgs when it launches in North America tomorrow at midnight. Sunday, May 1 Michael…
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CultureToy Time Plays With Captain America: Civil War LEGO Sets
Team Steve and Team Tony don’t face off on the big screen until May 6, but the battle has already begun on my desk, courtesy of LEGO’s trio of Captain America: Civil War sets. Expect really big things. Originally published 3/14/16. More Civil War Toy Time coming later this week! Before you watch the video…
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Happy Mythical Darkrai Day, Pokémon Fans
It’s May 1, which means the mythical 20th anniversary Pokémon celebration says goodbye to Jirachiand helloto Darkrai. But to get a level 100 version of the dark creature you’re going to have to head to a dark place: GameStop. After few months of Toys’R’Us exclusive plushies and figures and mythical Pokémon easily accessible over the…
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Please Stop Doing This, Massively Multiplayer RPGs
You know what I love about massively multiplayer online role-playing games? Losing myself in the fiction of a fantasy world. You know what completely ruins that feeling? The MMORPG equivalent of licensed Happy Meal toys. I’ve been playing MMORPG games for about 18 years. I’ve always found them to be a pleasant alternative to whatever…
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Sunday Comics: Nice
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 April 28. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Early Footage From Assassin’s Creed Creator’s 1666: Amsterdam
In 2010 Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désiletsleft Ubisoftto form his own studio within THQ to work on a game called 1666: Amsterdam. Here’s our first look at how that game was shaping up before being sold back to Ubisoft and left in limbo for three years. According to the description of the YouTube video below…
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