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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: “Draw Me Like One Of Your Orlesian Qunari”
This week’s image and contest name comes by way of Mr. Chris Person, a man who interrupts aperfectly good Dragon Age: Inquisition sex scene with a riff on Titanic To be fair, taken out of context the still from theIron Bull romantic interlude from Dragon Age: Inquisition does indeed look as if the one character…
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Sunday Comics: Terror Time
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 November 18. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Assassin’s Creed Elsewhere: The Winners!
What time period could be more exciting than the French Revolution for Assassin’s Creed? Judging by the number of entries we received for last week’s ‘shop contest, just about all of them. First, the winning time and place — New York City, 1932. That’s when the famous “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photo was taken, depicting…
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The LEGO Detective’s Office Has A Story To Tell
Situated on the second floor of a duplex on top of the local pool joint, the LEGO Detective Office would be perfect if not for the heinous crime going on under the blocky gumshoe’s very nose. Due out in January for $159.99, the LEGO Detective Office is a prime example of the thought and planning…
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Smash Bros. GameCube Adapters Sold Out, Online Prices Go Nuts
“Not a single store in Georgia has any,” a local GameStop employee told me over the phone as I called about looking for the GameCube controller released with Super Smash Bros. Wii U. That’s explains why the cheapest one on Amazon is $89.99, and why eBay prices are going through the roof. Wii U gamepad…
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How GameStop’s ‘Karissa The Destroyer’ Smash Bros. Stunt Went Down
At a GameStop event in California earlier this month, a 10-year-old girl trashed pro-level opponents at a special Super Smash Bros. Wii U demo. Quickly proven fake, GameStop finally comes clean on how “Karissa the Destroyer” cleaned up. Smash fans were more than a little ticked off when 10-year-old Karissa’s seemingly legendary Super Smash Bros.…
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Two Hours Of Warlords Of Draenor Spawn Camping In Under Six Minutes
Having hit level 100in World of Warcraft’s Warlords of Draenor expansion pack earlier this week, I spent early Thursday morning camping a rare spawn for four hours. I accidentally captured most of it on video. Don’t worry, I sped it up. Camping a rare spawn. There’s something I’ve never done in World of Warcraft before.…
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This Is Why Players Love EVE Online
One of my biggest gaming regrets is that I’ve never taken the time to really dig deep into EVE Online. This latest trailer, featuring the voices of actual players, is a monument to what everyone else is missing. It’s exactly what I want when I start playing EVE Online, but what I can never seem…
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World Of Warcraft Gains 2.6 Million Subscribers In One Month
Enticed by the sweet siren call of the Warlords of Draenor expansion, World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have jumped from October’s 7.4 million to more than 10 million, all of them apparently on my home server of Moon Guard. Blizzard announced the massively multiplayer jump today, along with the news that 3.3 million copies of…
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ReviewsLEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham: The Kotaku Review
Poor Hal Jordan. He can’t carry a movie, he can’t be trusted withhis own LEGO playset, and when Traveller’s Tales creates a LEGO video game that is very much an epic Green Lantern yarn, he has to take a back seat to Bruce Wayne, the tedious title character of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham It’s…
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Rocket Raccoon And Groot Are One In Marvel Puzzle Quest
How close are the Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Rocket Raccoon and Groot? So close that they count as one character in their big Marvel Puzzle Quest debut. With D3Publisher so up on adding Marvel characters to their popular puzzle RPG they’ve already got the new female Thor in the mix, I’m surprised it’s taken this…
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Snacktaku PSA: Pizza Hut’s Crazy New Menu Launches Today
The spiraling shape will make you go insane, but everyone wants to eat that crazy thing. Today Pizza Hut launches their brave new menu, packed with new ingredients, strange crust variants and maddening spirals of special sauce. I don’t even know where to start. Pizza Hut is normally one of the last delivery joints on…
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Warlords Of Draenor MMO Log Supplemental: Ding Level 100
At around 4 AM Eastern this morning, less than a week after the release of World of Warcraft‘s fifth expansion pack, my little Draenei boy became a level 100 Shaman. That was awfully fast. Not in the grand scheme of things mind you, what with some players skyrocketing from level 90 to Warlords of Draenor‘s…
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While Everyone Else Is Shooting And Stabbing, I’m Singing And Dancing
Grand Theft Auto V, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4 — they’re all very nice, but have you considered not killing people with virtual Japanese pop idols? Along with all of those other games that hit stores today comes Sega’s Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd, the latest in a growing line of rhythm games…
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Jet Set Radio‘s Anti-Establishment Hero Looks Perfect In Polystone
Straight off the streets of Tokyo-to, the latest statue in First 4 Figures’ Sega All-Stars line cannot be Beat, and yet it is. There were two characters I was really hoping would make an appearance in First 4 Figures’ Sega All-Stars line. The first was Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, and the second was Beat…
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Nvidia’s Shield Gets Its Own Little Slice Of Cloud Gaming
Nvidia’s GRID game streaming service goes live across Shield portables and tablets today, with 20 games available for free remote play. When conditions are perfect, it’s one of the best remote gaming services I’ve tried. Free for Shield owners through June 30, 2015, the GRID gaming service launches today alongside the Shield Tablet rollout of…
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iPhone 6 Showcase MOBA Vainglory Now Available In The States
Super Evil Megacorp’s lovely MOBA, Vainglory, was the only game on stage at Apple’s iPhone 6 presser earlier this year, and now it’s available as a free download from iTunes. It’s so great. I’ve been playing with the game for a few weeks, thanks to iTunes accounts in other countries, and it’s been a blast.…
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Free Update Transforms Goat Simulator Into Goat MMO Simulator
In honor of the people who purchased a bajillion copies of a game that simulates goats poorly, this Thursday developer Coffee Stain Studios is releasing Goat Simulator update 1.2, AKA Goat MMO Simulator. Really. With am all-new fantasy setting, six playable classes (including no class and Microwave), a nonexistent story and a handful of quests,…
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WoW Subreddit Taken Down To Protest Login Problems [Update]
One fun thing to do while waiting for expansion-pack related technical issues and sever queues to resolve is read up on r/WoW, unless the top mod sets the subreddit private until he can log on to the game, which is exactly what happened last night. Update: moderator has quit following alleged doxxing and harassment. As…
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The Week In Games: The Last Big Release Tuesday Of 2014
This is it, folks. While we’ve still got a couple substantial titles coming out through the end of the year, this is the last week we’ll be pulling money from our wallets so fast they catch on fire. Enjoy the lengthy unordered list, folks. We shan’t soon see its like again. Tuesday, November 18 LittleBigPlanet…
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