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Dead Or Alive Community Leaders Soft Ban Sexy Costumes At Tournaments
Acknowledging that the Dead or Alive fighting franchise has a sexy image problem, community leaders at the series’ go-to forum have added an over-sexualized costume soft-ban to their tournament rules. Reactions from the community-at-large have been overwhelmingly negative. With the biggest competitive tournament push in franchise history accompanying the release of Dead or Alive 5:…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Commander In Chief Of Anime: Winners!
Does President Obama really love anime? It really doesn’t matter. What does matter is it’s so much fun imagining he does thatlast week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest produced some of the most wonderful work of the year thus far. Fresh from telling funny anecdotes about the children he teaches on Facebook, GiantBoyDetective brings home the imagined…
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Light Trivia Fails To Sap The Scary From Five Night At Freddy’s
Having had nightmares about animatronic animals for most of my life, I’m fine learning about Five Nights At Freddy’s through second-hand sources. Between Patricia’s excellent explainer and Did You Know Gaming‘s latest video, I’m all set. Did you know animatronic animals are terrifying? Robots I can handle, but the moment you start dressing them up…
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Sunday Comics: The Epitome Of Sin
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 February 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 23 Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Maybe We’d Be Better Off Playing Ikea’s Fake Video Games
While browsing his local Ikea for functional furniture at reasonable prices, Redditor voodoocodesnapped a shot of some of the company’s upcoming lineup of fake placeholder video games. I would pay $100 for Grand-ma’s Auto. Ikea is famous for its meatballs. Also it tends to make fake video game consoles, video games, computers, books and more…
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There’s Nothing Sweet Or Gentle About The Firefly Diary
Aw, look at the cute little Japanese puzzle platformer with the adorable little waif and her firefly friend. Right. This adorable little puzzle platformer has been a massive source of frustration since I started playing. Isn’t she adorable? Sure, I’ll give htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (a hip way to write Hotaru no Nikki, Japanese for…
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Taco Bell Has Created Deep-Fried, Cream-Filled Cap’n Crunch Balls
Drunk with power following the success of itsamazingly not horrible breakfast menu, Taco Bell has created giant Crunch Berries filled with warm milky cream. They want you to put them in your mouth. Thefantastical Foodbeast(via my pal Owen) was invited to Taco Bell’s mysterious test kitchen to give these colorful creations a try, snapping some…
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One Part League Of Legends, One Part StarCraft. Wait, What?
From Namco Bandai’s official announcement, “Set in the distant, space-faring future Supernova takes an innovative approach to the multiplayer online battle arena genre by adding real-time strategy elements.” That’s kind of like innovating a peanut butter sandwich by adding jelly. The MOBA genre is an offshoot of the real-time strategy genre, so when Namdai Banco…
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Hooray For Motion Sickness! The Saturday Stream Plays ScreamRide (Done)
The spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon arrives on Xboxes this Tuesday, giving players the ability to design, test-drive and destroy insane amusement park rides. I just want to see if the game’s blazing speed will make Twitch pee itself. From Frontier Developments, the studio that ported the first RollerCoaster Tycoon to the original Xbox, ScreamRide…
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Sparring With Smite‘s Latest God Of War
This morning Hi-Rez Studios added another deity to MOBA Smite‘s ever-growing stable. God of war Bellona might not be the most recognizable name in the Roman pantheon, but that’s okay—she prefers to let kicking everybody’s ass speak for her. I’ve not been a big fan of Smite’s warrior-type gods—I’m more of an assassin-fan, hitting hard…
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The First Time Street Fighter‘s Charlie Has Seen Action In A Long Time
Teased late last year during the Capcom Cup Finals, Charlie Nash is the third fighter to take the the ramen-strewn stage in Street Fighter V. He’s looking pretty good for a dead guy. I mean yeah, a large portion of his face is missing, but that’s the sort of thing that happens when you bite…
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One Robot, Five Disguises
Most Transformers, third-party or otherwise, have two modes. A select few score three. But when they’re really good, they get six. Mastermind Creations‘ Terminus Hexatron Continuum is really good. As I began my exploration of third-party Transformers—transforming robots created by third-party designers as homages to classic characters—there was one name that kept coming up—Hexatron, Mastermind’s…
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A Guided Tour Of Final Fantasy XIV‘s Gold Saucer
The Manderville Gold Saucer is now live in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and it’s every bit as joyful as I imagined. Join me as I participate in mini-game gambling, Chocobo races, the Triple Triad card game and some impromptu beatboxing. Join me as I transport myself via semi-feline avatar to the happiest place…
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Here Comes Final Fantasy XIV‘s Most Entertaining Update Yet
Final Fantasy XIV‘s servers go down tonight at midnight Eastern time. When they come back one of the MMO’s most anticipated features comes with them. Are you ready for the Chocobo races, Triple Triad and mini-games of the Manderville Gold Saucer? Leveling a character and experiencing the story of the game is nice and all,…
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ReviewsAn Endless Runner Without All The Crap
Years of iteration and mainstream popularity have taken their toll on the endless runner genre, rendering it tired and worn despite its young age. Endless snowboarder Alto’s Adventure defies that notion, stripping away layers of gaudy mobile paint to rediscover the genre’s elegant core. The average endless runner can be a great deal of fun,…
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Can’t Beat Your Brother At Counter-Strike? Hire A Pro.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive streamer Kyente would have had a field day destroying his brother live on his birthday stream, had said brother not tapped CS:GO pro Mitch “DUM0RE” Green to play in his stead. What follows is a gleeful lesson in humility. Not only does DUM0RE completely trash Kyente in his brother Trel’s name during…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Commander In Chief Of Anime
Earlier this week our own Brian Ashcraft celebrated the President-Obama-loves-anime meme. Now we elevate it. Surely you saw this coming. You might not have imagined I would splash a slightly modified version of justaskkeikaku’s animated GIF, but the signs were all there. See? Even codexcdm got it. He’s probably got twenty images of Obama mixed…
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The Week In Games: Our Home Is Our World, Our Life
There are plenty of neat new games coming out this week, and while none of those is the Homeworld Remastered Collection for PC, I am sure they are nice. Or something. Whatever. Spaceships. Lasers. Space itself. Trails of light. Conflict. Strategy. Imagined space bunnies. Homeworld had it all, and as long as nothing goes horribly…
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Every Toaster Is Just A Game Console Waiting To Happen
As I pondered the recent and lovely modding work of Finnish artist Jarno Kotavuopio, I pondered the perfection of toaster as video game console. Such a simple and elegant device, with a classic aesthetic that outshines any true console. Plus it makes toast, which is delicious. Jarno’s orange and silver NEStoaster, one of two works…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: They’ll Never Find Waldo: Winners!
Last week I tasked our Photoshop army tohide famous crowd-member Waldo someplace no one would ever find him—especially not science. As you can see, uscg_pa’s winning entry depicts a place we will never, ever find Waldo. Well played. This was a pretty easy one, all things considered, so I leaned heavily on creativity when choosing…
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