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The First Five Minutes Of The Worst Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game
Let’s celebrate San Diego Comic-Con with a property that embodies all aspects of media—comic books, television, movies, video games, toys—and how that can be a really bad thing. Some people love Konami’s 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES, played here via original Ultra Games cartridge in Hyperkin’s Retron 5. The didn’t mind the…
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Sunday Comics: What New Metroid Game?
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 11. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 6. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Leaked Deadpool Comic-Con Footage Is Brutal, Funny And Perfect
In other words, it’s everything fans wanted in a Deadpool movie, with a side of “big chrome cock-gobbler.” The footage/trailer/whatever captured on cam during the 20th Century Fox Marvel Comics Panel at Comic-Con (via Polygon) is exactly as our io9 friends described it, only with more squinting and less filling in the blanks with our…
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LEGO Avengers Introduces… Iron Stan
There’s more to the LEGO Avengers video game than the two blockbuster movies. During a Comic-Con panel earlier today Stan “The Man” Lee took to the stage to introduce his two cameo characters as well as a few surprise guests. That’s right, famous creator Stan Lee doesn’t just get a homage to Iron Man’s old…
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One Of These Warcraft Movies Posters Looks Better Than The Other
On the left side we have the lead from the excellent Vikings TV series in a wig looking stoic. On the right…well I suppose that’s an orc, if orcs looked like humans with horrid prosthetic faces. Lothar, portrayed here by the talented and frightening Travis Fimmel, looks like a human ruler with a massive weight…
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Check Out The New Batman V. Superman Trailer, Starring Wonder Woman
So she’s only on screen for a few seconds of the over three and a half minute long Comic-Con trailer for next year’s Batman V. Superman. They are the best seconds. It’s an impressive trailer, both visually and lengthwise. Lex Luthor’s wig gets a lot of play, and we get to see more of why…
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The Happiest Word Game Ever, With Bears
The problem with trying to tell people about Spry Fox’s Alphabear is stopping playing long enough to do so—at least in any form besides random tweets. Normally I am not a big fan of mobile games that encourage users to post Twitter or Facebook updates, but every now and then there are exceptions. That’s one…
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Batman: Arkham Knight PC DLC Delayed Until The Game Is Fixed
Batman: Arkham Knight players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One get their first taste of post-release downloadable content this week with Batgirl: A Matter of Family. Those still playing the PC version will not, and for good reason. After all, it would be silly to release downloadable content for a version of the gamethat isn’t…
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Transformers First All-Female Combiner Team Is All The Fans’ Fault
Here’s our first look at the toy version ofVictorion, the first all-female Transformers combiner. Fans voted on her name, gender, modes…color scheme. Maybe this fan voting thing isn’t so great after all. Now before we criticize, let’s get a good look at this close-knit group of female robots. Victorion is six separate entities that form…
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The First Five-ish Minutes of DC Comics Legends
DC Comics Legends allows players to form a team of the bravest heroes and boldest villains DC has to offer and then politely take turns battling enemies to the death. Sounds like fun to me! Normally the First Five Minutes would involve showing you the first 300 seconds of a game from the moment I…
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Am I crazy, or does Activision’s The Peanuts Movie tie-in game look pretty good? Snoopy’s Grand Adventure, due out this fall on Xbox One, 360, PS4, Wii U and 3DS, sees Charlie Brown’s pup platforming through the worlds of his imagination and taking flight against the Red Baron. It’s even got Woodstock co-op!
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All The Disney Infinity 3.0 You Can Buy Come August 30
Today Disney announced an August 30 release date for the Star Wars-themed Infinity 3.0 starter pack, but anyone who has invested in one of the annual toys-meet-games titles knows that the starter pack is just the beginning. Were it only the $64.99 price tag for the starter, which includes the “Twilight of the Republic Play…
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Everyone With Live Gold Can Now Play Smite On Xbox One
Hi-Rez Studios god-powered third-person action MOBA launches into open beta today on Xbox One, meaning everyone with Xbox Live Gold can play for free and no one ever has to ask me for a beta key ever again. Huzzah! With its third-person camera and focus on active aiming rather than cthe click targeting of standard…
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The Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Song That Gets Me Every Time
It never fails. I teleport back to the Foundation area of the expansion’s new city of Ishgard, it’s nighttime, it’s snowing, and the most achingly bittersweet music plays. Though featuring similar musical themes, the music for entrance The Holy See of Ishgard is powerful and bold, appropriately representing a towering city that’s withstood countless attacks…
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Where Star Wars Meets Diablo
Here’s our first look at the gameplay of Star Wars: Uprising, the upcoming Diablo-inspired mobile game from Kabam withgreat concept art and not a damn trading card in sight. Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, Uprising gives players the opportunity to create any sort of Star Wars character…
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SuperChargers Dark Editions Complicate Skylander And Amiibo Collecting
Dark Edition Skylanders starter packs and their exclusive toy variants have always vexed collectors, but the upcoming SuperChargers Dark Editions add a deeper level of frustration in the form of two different Nintendo sets, each with their own exclusive Skylander/Amiibo toys. The standard Skylanders SuperChargers Dark Edition for PlayStations and Xboxes come with four toys…
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The Toys I’d Wait In Line For At Comic Con 2015
The San Diego Comic-Con 2015 dealers room opens its doors on Wednesday evening, launching an extended weekend filled with standing in line to get limited edition stuff. Here’s what’s worth waiting for. For the second year in a row I’ll be missing San Diego Comic-Con, which is a sadness for the geek in me but…
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The Longest Five Minute Boat Ride To Hell Ever
The opening moments of Skobbejak Games’ first-person horror game Vapour are alot like being seated next to a chatty person on an airplane, only with more flames and dead bodies. If the developers were trying to convey the notion of hell, they nailed it. Protagonist Charles the Psychotic Warlock spends the opening four minutes or…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everybody’s Robin: The Winners!
Last week’s ‘Shop Contesttasked our readers with assembling a task force of Batman sidekicks to rival that of the recently-launched We Are Robin comic book. Turns out only one additional character was needed. This week’s accolades go to reader OPT1CS, who found a character worthy of the red, yellow and “R” rather quickly. Pretty perfect,…
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The Werewolf-Fighting Executive Is So Crazy It Works
My latest iPad purchase seemed pretty dubious—$2.99 based on a couple of strange screenshots and an app icon featuring a business shirt covered in bloody pawprints. As it turns out, my investment in The Executive was smart money. The tale of a business executive who must defend his business and eventually entire city from a…
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