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The Street Fighter V Beta Is Back Online If You’re Incredibly Lucky
Back online briefly last night after launch problems brought it down, Capcom’s beta test for Street Fighter V is up and running for those lucky enough to get online past an assortment of numbered errors. Capcom continues to struggle to handle the massive numbers of pre-order customers (and those with codes) who were guaranteed a…
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You’ve Lost Me, Adventure Time Puzzle Quest
And so an eight year love affair with the original puzzle role-playing game franchise ends with a game that should have been the best thing ever but just isn’t. There’s no going back to the heady days of 2007, when Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords combined match three puzzles and role-playing elements in a…
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Nintendo’s Shutting Down Wii U TVii Next Month
After nearly three years of letting Wii U owners in North America and Japan awkwardly interact with cable and streaming video services via their game pads, Nintendo TVii is officially going off the air on August 11. Everyone try to stay calm. One of the Wii U console’s most promising pre-launch features, Nintendo TVii promised…
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Honest Trailers Is Exceedingly Kind To The Super Mario Bros. Movie
I would have just wept openly for four minutes. I worked for a local movie theater when the Super Mario Bros. movie cam out, so not only did I get to see it once for free, I caught snippets of it on and off for three weeks straight. It’s the only film I can recall…
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The First Five Minutes Of The Latest Bikini Zombie Bloodbath
The latest installment of the Onechanbara series arrives in North America today, giving U.S. PlayStation 4 owners all the blood-splattered monster-slaying bikini action they can handle. Granted they might not be able to handle much. In the First Five video I keep referring to Onechanbara Z2 Chaos as fanservice, but the series takes its fanservice…
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A Good Reason To Celebrate The Virtual Boy’s 20th Anniversary
Nintendo’s first foray into 3D gaming was released in Japan on July 21, 1995. On this, the Virtual Boy’s 20th birthday, let’s take a moment to appreciate all the joy it has brought gamers over the years. No really, I’m serious. One of Nintendo’s biggest missteps, the red-and-black 3D gaming machine that is the Virtual…
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From Assassin’s Creed Kittens To Brave Bunny Wizards
The creator of the adorably amazing Assassin’s Creedwith Kittens short graduates from flying felines to lightning bolt-blasting bunnies, in this live-action trailer for some game. That’s the problem with getting Mr. TVCow to create a piece of promotional video for your… I think it’s a mobile MMO? Unless that mobile MMO is about rabbits traipsing…
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I Hate Everyone Who Plays SongPop 2
The second iteration of FreshPlanet’s ridiculously popular multiplayer music trivia game was released last week, and since then I’ve been pitted against what I imagine as a never-ending stream of complete and utter bastards. The first iteration of SongPop briefly captured the music lover in me back in 2012, trapping me in a world where…
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The First Five Minutes Of The New Game From The Pokemon People
Every now and then Game Freak likes to come out of its Nintendo-centric shell and prove it’s capable of create games that aren’t about turn-based critter battles. Tembo the Badass Elephant is proof positive. A fast-paced action platformer with tight controls, killer style and gloriously satisfying destruction, Tembo is about as far from playing with…
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Tremor Rocks Mortal Kombat X On July 21
Having appeared in two previous Mortal Kombat games in non or barely playable form, the artist formerly known as The Tan Ninja makes his fully playable debut this week in Mortal Kombat X. There’s a slim chance you remember Tremor from his appearance as an enemy in the Jax-powered action game Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.…
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The Week In Game: Zombie Bikini Madness
Do you like zombies? Bikinis? Fountains of blood? Have you completely no shame? Then have I got the game for you. That’s right, this week sees the release of Onechanbara Z2: Chaos for North American PlayStation 4, finally bringing the game that inspired the most embarrassing gameplay experience of 2014 to the States. If you…
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Don’t Celebrate A Tournament Win Until You’ve Actually Won
After losing the first round during a best-of-three semi-finals match against one of the best Guilty Gear Xrd Sign players in the world, Woshige pulled off a massive comeback to take the second. Then he turned to the crowd to celebrate. Never turn your back on the competition, especially if the competition is Ogawa, often…
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Jamie Lee Curtis And Family Went To EVO In Street Fighter Disguises
Attending the annual fighting tournament as part of a graduation trip for son Thomas, actress Jamie Lee Curtis donned the claws and mask of Street Fighter’s Vega to remain incognito in the crowd. While the flesh-colored top isn’t quite good enough to allow 56 year old Curtis to pass as a slim and sexy Spanish…
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Epic Killer Instinct Comeback Is One Of The Best EVO Moments So Far
Kan-Ra is so dead right now. With a sliver of health against Sabrewulf with a full bar of backup, how can he possibly win this match? Watch. Not even Sleep NS, Kan-Ra’s player, can believe he survived the vicious onslaught of UA | My God’s Sabrewulf, but even that miracle should only have delayed the…
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Kotaku Shop Contest: A New Ken: Winners!
Capcom gave Ken Masters a makeover for Street Fighter V, so last week I asked our image manipulation savvy readers to see if they could do it better. I believe the results speak for themselves. There were two entries that particularly stood out this week. The first was TulsaMtnBiker’s amazingly subtle application of bacon to…
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Crash Bandicoot Could Have Had These Sweet Animated Cutscenes
Back before Sony gots its grubby little mitts on Crash Bandicoot, Universal Interactive Studio toyed with the idea of opening and closing the game with hand-drawn animation. This hand-drawn animation, to be precise. Uploaded by original game producer David Siller (via NeoGAF), this pair of scenes from Universal Animation would have served as the opening…
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Sunday Comics: It’s Not Easy
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 18. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 13. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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