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The Week In Games: Happy New Year?
Unless you own a PlayStation 3 or Vita, you can skip the next few weeks. Truth be told, there are plenty of lovely indie games coming out on Steam over the next couple of weeks, but if I tried to keep track of every upcoming Steam release I would go insane. And so I stick…
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Steam’s New FPS Counter Makes It Easier To Obsess Over Frame Rates
Before the latest Steam beta update, players concerned with how many frames being displayed per second would have to rely on game-native counters or third-party programs. No longer do we need such affectations to see tiny numbers in the top left corner of our screens. In order to use this handy new Steam feature, one…
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No One Does Push-Ups Like Gaston
Hoping to prove his manliness against Disney World’s most manly man, a park visitor challenged live-action Gaston to a push-up contest — and got wrecked. The actor that portrays Beauty and the Beast’s antagonist at Disney World once again proves he’s perfect for the role. Despite being taken down a peg or two by a…
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Sunday Comics: Scanning For Loot
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 January 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2014 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza: Winners!
Three-hundred and sixty-five days of Photoshopped pain, all at once, all for you. Tasked with combining up to five (or more) of 2014’s most popular ‘Shop Contest subjects into one majestic gestalt, the final image manipulation battle of last year yielded spectacular results. So spectacular that I slept on my decision rather than deliver it…
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Kung Lao Appears In Mortal Kombat X As An Old Man With A Hat
With Mortal Kombat X‘s story spanning some 25 years after the events of Mortal Kombat 9, it’s no wonder former Shaolin monk Kung Lao is looking a bit long in the tooth. It beats being dead. Not that he was dead at the end of the last game or anything. Well, not that being dead…
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A Custom Transformer Worthy Of Wielding The Matrix Of Leadership
Ever since Hot Rod metamorphosed into Rodimus Prime in the 1986 animated Transformers movie, fans have been envisioning what other prominent Autobots would look like wielding the Matrix of Leadership. Arise, Bumblebee Prime. Despite what the upcoming Robots in Disguise animated series might say, humble Volkswagon (or Corvette some freaking Chevrolet for you movie fans)…
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One Of My Favorite Mobile Games Is Now One Of My Favorite Steam Games
Since late 2013, Robert Topala’s Geometry Dash has been the first gaming app I load on any new iDevice I come across. Now the devilish rhythm platformer will be the first game I load on new gaming PCs as well. I can’t believe I’ve only mentioned the game on Kotaku once, back during the times…
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CultureTotal RecallSwooning Over A Beautifully Restored Sega Dreamcast Display
How could a gaming system with this powerful a retail presence possibly fail? Jason Brassard of Fenton, Missouri has a pretty amazing collection of old-school video games, but as the folks at the Sega Channel pan over his cavern of wonders, the eyes are inexorably drawn to his crown jewel — a lovingly restored retail…
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The Cupcakeceratops And Other Delicious Dinosaur Mash-Ups
Snacktaku is always on the lookout for new things to eat, but we also accept new ways to eat old things. Spanish artist Alejo Malia‘s mouthwateringJurassic Sweet series fits the bill quite nicely. Any couple hundred people want to split a Donutsaurus Rex? One of the most difficult questions posed to dinosaur-studying scientists (dinologists is…
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Not All Pokemon Are Happy About Evolving
You’d think a species of creatures whose primary focus is gladiatorial combat would be uniformly pleased about assuming a new, more capable form — even if that form involves an additional head or a piece of silverware. The fine folks at Dorklytake a look at some of Pokemon‘s more unfortunate transformations. Some transform pleasant creatures…
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Still Having Trouble Connecting To PSN? Try This.
While Sony says the PlayStation Network is up and running following the Christmas attack, some users are still having trouble connecting to services on their PS4. Here’s a network setting that’s gotten several of our readers up and running again. What they did was go into the “Network” option under “Settings” in the PS4 menu.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2014 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
It’s that time of year again, when we pick a selection of our most popular ‘Shop Contest subjects of the year and has our creative readers mash them up into a fine paste, all in the name of memories. What can we make with these five things? Before you answer that, some ground rules for…
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Assassin’s Creed Would Have Been One Odd Prince Of Persia Game
Taking us down a dark and secluded memory lane, the folks at Did You Know Gaming explore the secrets of the Assassin’s Creed series, which started life as the next installment of the Prince of Persia. I’d forgotten all about that. It’s a fact that’s easy to forget, really, now that we’ve had something like…
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Perhaps Sonic The Hedgehog Should Just Stick To Cartoons
When I posted my favorable first impressions of Cartoon Network’s Sonic Boom animated series last month, one reader jokingly commented “The Sonic Cycle is finally broken. All you had to do was strip out the gameplay entirely.” He might be on to something. The games launched alongside the Sonic Boom animated series were not received…
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An Amiibo Christmas Story, Or How The Redditor Saved Christmas
Jesse Salazar’s son wanted a Villager Amiibo figure from Nintendo for Christmas, but Jesse waited too long, and all the Villager Amiibo were gone. Then along came a helpful Redditor to save Christmas. As it happens, Jesse and his son are the co-stars of a “Let’s Play” series on YouTube called Familycom, so instead of…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box? The Winners!
A mysterious Christmas gift. A disappointed-looking man. These were the gifts I gave our image manipulating community last week. What they’ve given us is in return is pure holiday magic. As you can see from our new non-nonsense method of labeling the winner of the contest in the celebratory image, Yankton takes home the admiration…
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