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Movie Tie-In Games Sure Are Getting Fancy
Would you believe this lovely hand-drawn collectible card-based role-playing game is based on the upcoming prequel/sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman? We don’t get movie tie-in games on PC and console much these days. It’s normally something cheap and derivative for mobile phones and tablets, little more than digital advertisements pasted over popular existing…
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Last Minute Ratchet & Clank Patch Stops Streamers From Spoiling The Movie
Today’s new Ratchet & Clank game is a re-imagining of the first game in the series, but it’s also a tie-in with an animated movie that doesn’t hit theaters until April 29. Sony disabled sharing late game movie cinematics just in the nick of time. Sony deployed patch 1.02 to Ratchet & Clank at around…
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Unchained χ Is A Pleasant Little Slice Of Kingdom Hearts
It may be a free-to-play mobile port of a browser-based game, but Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ crams a lot of what series fans love into a tiny space. Prounounced Kingdom Hearts Unchained Chi (Key), the newly-released in North America Android and iOS originated as a Japanese browser game in 2013. Richard Eisenbeis called it “More…
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Two New Classes Coming To Black Desert Online Next Week
And now the moment I’ve all been waiting for, Korean blade warriors Musa and Maehwa arrive in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Black Desert Online later this month, demonstrating two slightly different ways to mix short bows and swords. The Musa and Maehwa are essentially male and female versions of the same class, similar…
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LEGO Is The Perfect Medium For Telling A Nerd Love Story
LEGO animator Brotherhood Workshop is getting married this week, so he created this charming little LEGO animation to commemorate his wonderfully nerdy relationship with the future Mrs. Workshop. “Best stupid decision ever.” Awwww. How sweet! Though now that I think about it, Mr. Workshop makes these sorts of videos professionally, so it’s sort of like…
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Culture
Late Night McDonald’s Visit Turns Into Touching Tale Of Love, Loss And Redemption
Twitter user Josh Raby went to his local McDonald’s drive thru at 1 AM to get himself a milkshake. What he received was a dramatic tale of love, loss and redemption that began with “Holy shit hello, you are at McDonald’s.” While we at Snacktaku are on top of all things taste and texture related…
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Conan O’Brien Visits A Korean Gaming Café
During his recent trip to Korea Conan O’Brien stopped by a PC bang, a place where teens and young adults gather to play bizarro Counter-Strike and really old StarCraft Originally published 4/10/16 I couldn’t decide which moment was weirder—Conan somehow getting a headshot or the moment the blue bear with the axe shows up, so…
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Reviews
AVADirect Avant P870DM-G Laptop Review: What A Difference A Desktop GPU Makes
Gaming on a laptop normally requires a sacrifice of graphics power for form factor. AVADirect’s Avant P870DM-G gaming laptop houses a Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 desktop GPU, and it makes a hell of a difference. While the Avant is on the thicker and heavier side of the gaming laptop spectrum, weighing more than 10 pounds…
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Ratchet & Clank Strikes A Perfect Balance Between Old And New
In the middle of my second play through of Ratchet & Clank I realized the re-imagined version had begun to infect my memories of the original, and I was okay with that. The realization actually began on my second trip to Planet Veldin, where the Lombax with dreams of high adventure first encounters the reject…
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Culture
The Week In Games: Praise The Sun
Am I using that right? I was fully prepared to go full-out Ratchet & Clank for this week’s The Week in Games header, but hopping into that game to grab a screenshot would have led to me playing for several hours and not doing this post at all. I think I made the sensible choice.…
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Anti-Trump Rallies Are Much More Entertaining In Second Life
Within hours of posting a video of my visit to the Second Life Trump Mansion, the forces of chaos organized a rally. Warning: The video above contains mild nudity, harsh nudity, exposed teeth, one of those meme dogs, suggestive violence, dissuaded violence, strong language and quiche. “HADET: Making Heresy Great Again” read the signs posted…
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ReviewsThe Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver Headset Is Almost Too Metal
Having reviewed the first two headsets in Kingston’s HyperX Cloud line, the feature that resonates with me most about the new Cloud Revolver is the steel suspension frame. Maybe reverberates is a better word. The original HyperX Cloud gaming headset from Kingston was a great pair of headphones with a so-so microphone. The Cloud II…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: It’s A Cave Filled With Bats
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 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 4. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ditto: The Winners!
I know it feels like we’re piling up on Trump a little today, but in a Photoshop contest about a Pokemon that can copy anything, lharm explained so much with a single image it had to win. As many readers pointed out, the Ditto that’s been delighting and creeping out Pokemon fans and appearing on…
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Marcus Fenix Deserves All The Statues He Gets In Gears Of War 4
A teaser for the Gears of War 4 reveal happening during tomorrow night’s Fear The Walking Dead features the second statue of Gears hero Marcus Fenix since the marketing team’s gears started turning earlier this week. News of Gears of War 4‘s October 11 release date gave us a look at our first statue of…
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And Then I Got Banned From Donald Trump’s Second Life Mansion
Following news that the recreation of Donald Trump’s Florida mansion in virtual playground Second Life was owned by an anime schoolgirl, I decided to take a tour. It was lovely, until I was forcibly ejected by security. Just when I thought I’d gotten Second Life out of my system, Trump drags me right back in.…
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New Punch-Out!! Tell Comes To Light 29 Years Later
Proving once more that scrappy hero of Punch-Out!! is actually a dirty cheater, Redditor midwesternhousewives shares the story of the bearded crowdmember whose nod tells Little Mac exactly when to knock out Piston Honda and Bald Bull the second time around. A lifelong NES Punch-Out!! fan, midwesternhousewives was inspired to scour the crowd to tells…
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Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 Isn’t Worth All The Drama
Gamers have spent the past several months arguing over whether Dead or Alive’s third bikini-clad vacation simulator deserves a Western release. That’s a lot of time and energy wasted on the worst game in the series. I have some impressions of the game to share, but first, a bit of history: The Dead or Alive…
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