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The Week In Games: Now Sony’s Just Showing Off
Here I am, trying to blip the Week in Games because nothing’s coming out this week except for a couple of Wii U eShop games, and Sony rolls up and drops six titles on Tuesday. Typical. They’re all downloadable titles, mind you, and several are just ports from one platform to the other. The point…
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Humanoid Raccoons, Supermutant Invasions And Other Cut Fallout Content
I would have loved the original Fallout so much more had the planned mutant raccoon faction made it into the game. VG Facts’ “Leftovers” series looks at the S’lanter faction, extra maps, the planned Supermutant invasion and other bits left out of the post-apocalyptic classic. Fallout spent three years in development as a game based…
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The PlayStation Vita Makes A Lovely Little VR Headset
Ukrainian developerBeatshapershas access to Sony’s Project Morpheus PlayStation 4 VR headset and various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, but those weren’t enough to sate their virtual reality madness, so they strapped a PlayStation Vita to their heads. Speaking to the lovely folks over at Push Square, Beatshapers founder Alexey Menshikov explains how the PlayStation Vita…
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FFXIV Community Holds Massive Vigil For A Dying Player
As a Final Fantasy XIV player reportedly lay dying in the hospital, friends and strangers within the game gathered to pay their respects as he passed. According to a real-life friend of Codex Vahlda, a level 50 bard on Final Fantasy XIV‘s Gilgamesh server, the 29-year-old player behind the character had been brain dead in…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box?
This is not an expression one wants to see on Christmas morning. What could possibly upset this vaguely Chris Evans-ish model so? That’s up to this week’s ‘Shop contest participants. We’re keeping it simple one last time in 2014. We’ve got a picture of a man who seems very upset with the open holiday gift…
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Sunday Comics: The Goat Hurler
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 16 as the first of a five-part comic. Hit the link for parts 2-5! Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Ultimate Holiday Gaming Sweater: Winners!
In the spirit of this festive holiday season, last week I asked our ‘shop-savvy readers to design the most wonderful ugly video game holiday sweater of them all. I’d wear every one of these, all at once, with this Bad Dudes one on top. Thanks to the magic of putting extra text in the winner…
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The Majora’s Mask Version Of The “12 Days Of Xmas” Ends As Expected
Those of you familiar with The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask will immediately see the problem with Really Freakin’ Clever‘s “Twelve Days At Snowhead.” At least they saved a lot of money on gifts, and those that did purchase them will never have to worry about paying their credit card bills. Look on the bright…
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Fahey’s Top Ten Games Of 2014
According to the Bureau of Completely Made-Up Statistics, nearly a bajillion games were released in 2014. Of those bajillion, only ten were good enough to make it onto this list. In order for me to ascertain the contents of this comprehensive list, I had to take that erroneous bajillion and trim away the games I…
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John Malkovich, Rose McGowan And Bill Paxton Star In Call Of Duty DLC
Sorry Jon Bernthal of The Walking Dead, your name didn’t fit in the headline, but you’ll surely be there beside Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom, Chet and Paige Matthews battling a new breed of undead in Advanced Warfare‘s Exo-Zombies downloadable content. How does Activision keep getting these big stars to do dirty work in what are…
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EsportsHow A First-Year eSports Championship Got A $2 Million Prize Pool
Early next month the top eight Smite teams in the world will converge on Atlanta to battle it out over a massive $2 million prize pool. How did a first-year MOBA get a pot so big? The same way DOTA 2 did it — crowdfunding. As Valve used the DOTA 2 Compendium to raise this…
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Let’s Play Skylanders: Trap Team‘s New Light And Dark Levels (Done!)
Tomorrow Skylanders: Trap Team introduces two completely new elements to Activision’s wildly successful toy-meets-game series. We’re going to play with them today, and you can watch. We got our hands on the Light and Dark starter packsa little early, so I figured we could hook up a webcam and do all sorts of fancy streaming…
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Forza Horizon 2’s Storm Island Weather Isn’t As Bad As It Looks
Look at those trees bending, buffeted by wind as the rain comes pouring down on Forza Horizon 2’s new Storm Island expansion. It could be worse. The weather is often bad on Storm Island, hence the name, but the extreme weather touted in the expansion’s press materials isn’t really all that extreme, especially when compared…
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CultureThe Year In Snacktaku
The year 2014 is nearly behind us, soon to be nothing more than a series of memories of the things we’ve eaten, places we’ve eaten and people we’ve watched eat. Join us as Snacktaku looks back at the year inside the world’s stomachs. Snacktaku Reviews Our bread and butter, only better than that. Bread and…
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Until We Get A New Bloody Roar, Ultra Street Fighter IV Animal Costumes
It’s been over 11 years since we last saw Hudson Soft’s bestial battler series in action, and chances of a Bloody Roar revival are incredibly slim. Thank goodness Capcom is here to provide us our anthropomorphic fighter fix with a whopping nine packs of “Wild Costumes” for Ultra Street Fighter IV. Sure, no one’s transforming…
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Changed PS4 Settings Are Not A Good Reason To Call The Police
A resident of Alexandria, Minnesota contacted the police earlier this month to report that someone entered his house and changed the settings on his PlayStation 4. Of course they did. Reader Matt sent us this clipping from hislocal Echo Press newspaper indicating the report, which was placed on December 6. I imagine he did so…
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Skylanders: Trap Team Introduces Two New Elements: Light And Dark
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? The dark side… and the light… of Skylanders. Having teased players since the game’s October release, Activision finally reveals the two new elements being added to the Skylanders universe starting December 21. Since October 2 players have been banging their heads against the unknown element gates…
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Transformers Universe Is Closing, Six Months After Open Beta Launch
Jagex’s multiplayer arena combat game Transformers Universe launched in open beta on July 4 of this year. On January 31 it’s shutting down for good. That was fast. “Today Jagex and Hasbro can confirm that Transformers Universe will close. This decision comes at an important time for both companies as they both realign their plans…
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Mad Catz Is Making Tractor Controls For Farming Simulator
While it’s often the butt of jokes, Giants Software’s Farming Simulator series is serious business — so serious that peripheral maker Mad Catz is creating custom Saitek-branded farm equipment controls for the franchise’s most dedicated players. You can’t control a tractor with a racing wheel. You can, but the experience isn’t going to be anywhere…
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New Pixels Movie Posters Are Works Of Arcade Art
Sony’s big screen adaptation of Patrick Jean’s outstanding games-versus-real-life animated short scored a trio of new posters today, evoking far greater majesty than a movie starring Adam Sandler has any right to. Sandler, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage form the trio of old-school arcade champions that are the world’s only hope against invading aliens that…
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