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Sunday Comics: Just Give Me The Cupcake
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 December 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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PSN Seems To Be Coming Back Online
After days of problems connecting to the PlayStation Network and corresponding services on the PlayStation 4, two of Kotaku‘s systems have booted up and connected immediately. Are things looking up? Update: Sony says service has been restored. Up until a few minutes ago my PlayStation 4 would not connect to PSN. I could not access…
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Bungie Extends Destiny‘s Weekend Vendor In The Face Of Network Issues
Destiny players worried the ongoing PlayStation Network problems would rob them of a chance to visit the game’s weekend-only Strange Coin vendor should worry no more — Bungie’s gooing to let him keep his shop open until Monday. Xûr,as previously documented, shows up in Destiny‘s Tower Friday through Saturday to give players a chance to…
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The Xbox Live Status page currently indicates some users having issues logging into Xbox Live on the Xbox One. A problem involving being unable to launch certain games has recently been resolved. No word on whether these current issues are related to the ones whichbrought the servers down on Christmas Day. Everything seems to be…
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We Interrupt This Program For The Best News Bloopers Of 2014
Remember late last year when Spider-Mandropped that Good Morning America correspondent on her head? How about the time the news anchor wondered who this 4chan guy was? Here’s 15 minutes of the year’s best news bloopers to help ease us laughing into the new year. Each month the folks at NewsBeFunny compile the best tongue-slips,…
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PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage [Update]
Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3. Update: Sony points to disruptive traffic as the cause of its network issue. While a tweet posted early this morning gave PlayStation Network users…
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Massive Smash Bros. Fan Album Adds 27 New “Final Smash” Tracks
Earlier this year I told you about Harmony of Heroes, a massive free fan musical celebration of the Smash Bros. franchise spanning some 101 original tracks. Apparently that wasn’t enough music, so the team has released a 27-track expansion pack, Final Smash. Originally planned as a 12 song add-on tribute featuring songs inspired by Super…
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Man Buys PlayStation 4 From Walmart, Says He Got Two Bags Of Rocks
A Denver man who purchased a PlayStation 4 bundle from a Stapleton, Colorado Walmart was reportedly surprised to discover two taped sacks of rocks instead of the game console. We run across one of these almost every holiday season it seems, but sacks of rocks in PlayStation 4 boxes are normally the purview of Craigstlist,…
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The Official Awesome Holiday Gift Sharing Post
The only thing more fun than receiving holiday gifts is… I’m going to go with giving them here, for the sake of not sounding like a monster. But a close second is telling everybody about the presents you secured during the winter festivities. I’ll go first! Honestly this year was more about my kids than…
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All I Want For Christmas Is This Digimon Game For North America
Earlier this fall Bandai Namco released Digimon All-Star Rumble in North America. That’s not the game long-time fans wanted. We wanted Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, the sleek and stylish role-playing game coming to the Japanese Vita in March. It was an honest mistake, really. Unless you’re a pretty hardcore fan of the monster collecting series,…
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Bungie’s Destiny Holiday Card Is A Jerk
Yeah right, Cryptarch. Not falling for that one again. Bungie means well of course, but I see that bastard standing there with his feigned sincere smile holding that promise of a purple item and all I can think is “Where were youthree months ago, when the rest of my pals were running Vault of Glass…
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Not Even Cinema Sins Can Resist The Power Of Groot
In the midst of tearing apart Guardians of the Galaxy for its regular “Everything Wrong With” series, Cinema Sins discovers why none of the movies’ obvious issues really mattered. He is Groot. I’ve watched the movie a dozen times since it came out on Blu-ray, and while it’s mainly become a pleasant way to put…
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game Goes Primal In February
The more I study the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the more I realize I might never catch up. Hot on the heels of the recent Phantom Forces expansion comes Primal Clash, a new set featuring Pokémon that have undergone Primal Reversion, including Primal Kyogre-EX and Primal Groudon-EX. Now that I’ve almost finished building my own…
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How Westwood Made The Lion King, One Of Gaming’s Finest Platformers
In the first episode of Double Fine’s new “Devs Play” series, Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle explores the challenges of turning one of Disney’s most beloved animated films into a 16-bit platformer. I’ve learned so much. I’m a huge fan of The Lion King for the Sega Genesis. I still remember buying a Genesis bundle…
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King of the endless runners Temple Run has entered the age of virtual reality. Imangi Studios has officially released Temple Run VR, a new chapter in the running from creepy monkeys saga, for play on the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition. Since I don’t have a means to strap a phone to my face, I…
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It’s The Fan-Made Animated Shovel Knight Holiday Special
Sometimes you love a game so much you’ve just gotta create a short animated holiday special based on it, and so we have Wind-up Dog Animation‘s short but sweet Shovel Knight Animated Holiday Special. I love that we live in a time when folks with a little spare time on their hands and some love…
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Reviews
Nendoroid Pokémon Trainer Red: The Kotaku Review
I’ve somehow managed to avoid purchasing one of Japan’s Good Smile Company’s big-headed Nendoroid figures, despite my penchant for all things ridiculously cute. Then the North American Pokémon Center shop started selling the once Japan exclusive Red figure. Now I am doomed. I’ve long admired the Nendoroid line, but I knew damn well what would…
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Building A One-Of-A-Kind BioShock Aquarium
Why there isn’t an official line of Rapture-inspired fish tanks already is beyond me. Until 2K gets their act together, Super Fan Builds’ custom BioShock aquarium shall have to do. No Gods or Kings… only Fish. Super Fan Builds is a YouTube on Break’s Awe me channel that specializes in making fanboy and fangirl dreams…
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One Lousy Chrono Trigger Song Coming To Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
This weekend Square Enix announced downloadable songs from non-Final Fantasy games coming to the latest iteration of FF‘s rhythm game. That’s four songs from Bravely Default, three from the SaGa series and one each from Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. That’s not right. I love the music in Bravely Default and the SaGa series,…
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All Of This Weekend’s Big Final Fantasy XIV and XV News
Between Tokyo’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival and the Jump Festa 2015 in Chiba, Japan, fans of the latest two numbered FF games were up to their eyeballs in new info this weekend, from a new playable race in FFXIV to the first female Cid in FFXV. Here’s a quick refresher to bring you up…
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