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The Gritty Reboot Of Adventure Time Is Super Serious And Pretty Sad
I will not cry over aGritty Rebootof Adventure Time. I will not cry over a Gritty Reboot of Adventure Time. I will not… dammit. The Land of Ooo is dying, the magic that once populated it with magical creatures fading away. These are the last days of Jake and Finn, unless the last human can…
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Diablo III 2.1 Patch Brings Greater Rifts And Legendary Gems To PS4
Now that PlayStation 4 players have had time to enjoy the more “casual” content of Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition, it’s time to get down to some serious endgame business. Patch 2.1.0 is will be available on the console today. Legendary loot follows. While we’re still waiting on word for the patch for the Xbox…
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Nvidia Makes Gaming Notebooks Much More Powerful… Again
Nvidia’s 800m line of laptop graphics chips? They’re sotwo months ago. Today the company that’s been one-upping itself for years does it again with the Maxwell-based Geforce GTX 980m, promising 75 percent of the performance of its desktop counterpart. Three-fourths the power of a full-sized desktop GPU might not seem all that impressive from the…
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Digital Storm Bolt II: The Kotaku Review
The second generation of Digital Storm’s super-slim Bolt system has a clear advantage in the gaming PC’s leisurely march towards the living room: tiny little feet. I didn’t realize how important tiny little feet were to a slim gaming PC until I met the Bolt II. Honestly I didn’t immediately recognize the bits of black…
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I’m Developing A Serious Racing Wheel Problem
Late last night, during my fourth day of playing Forza Horizon 2 with Mad Catz’ Xbox One Pro Racing Wheel, I began to wonder if force feedback in my hands was enough. Why isn’t my chair shaking? Shouldn’t I feel the vibrations of the road beneath my feet? Oh no. It’s been ages since I’ve…
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Adam Carolla Taunts Children To Celebrate The New Skylanders
In celebration of the launch of Skylanders: Trap Team, Activision planted hidden cameras all over a Toys’R’Us and piped the voice of comedian and podcast master Adam Carolla through the game’s demo kiosk. Then the taunting begins. When a villain is trapped in one of the game’s crystal prisons and inserted into the plastic glowing…
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Disney Added 21 Games To Steam. Here’s What’s Worth Playing.
Last week’s release of the free-to-downloadDisney Infinity 2.0 was just the tip of the Disney PC gaming iceberg. Today Disney Interactive has released a whopping 21 titles on Steam, from traditional children’s fare to arcade racing action. What’s worth checking out? Pure — $17.99 One of my favorite off-road racers of the previous generation, I’d…
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Darth Revan Gets His Own Star Wars: The Old Republic Expansion
The hero/villain/it’s complicated who launched Star Wars’ distant past setting in 2003’s Knights of the Old Republic gets another shot at the spotlight in Shadow of Revan, a digital expansion for MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, launching in December. In retrospect, Star Wars: the Old Republic might have done a lot better at launch…
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Culture
Mountain Dew Game Fuel Once Again Heeds The Call Of Duty
It’s time for the annual running of the bladder, as Mountain Dew once again teams up with a major fall video game release to market alien flavors of its citrus-like carbonated beverage. Now with lemonade flavor! For the blissfully unaware, Game Fuel is the label Mountain Dew uses to market limited edition flavors to the…
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That Awesome Car Crashing Game Finally Gets A Real Name
We’ve been writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s single-player vehicular carnage simulator, Next Car Game, since January. No longer. From now on we’ll be writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s multiplayer vehicular carnage simulator, Wreckfest. Yeah, I buried the lead there a bit. What’s important about this news is that the $30 Steam Early Access game that’s provided lonely…
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Culture
The Week In Games: Surely You Heard That
Did you hear that? Oh god, tell me you didn’t hear that. That gurgling, chittering sound? Surely it was my imagination, as is the heavy scuttling in the air ducts overhead. Still, could you folkss go check for me? I’ll wait here. Folks? Anything there? All I can see is the light from that flashlight…
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CBS Commentator Urges Gamers To Go Play The Real World
“…here’s a fun fact: Did you know the real world is broadcasting in 3-D? All the time? I know, amazing!” Yep, this is going to be one of those. Reader Darius pointed us towards a video that ran today on CBS Sunday Morning, in which commentator and radio host Luke Burbankdiscusses the recent acquisition of…
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A Fan Album As Epic As Smash Bros. Itself
Were it possible, I’d replace every piece of music in my copy of Smash Bros. 3DS with one of the 101 tracks in Shinesparkers’ “Harmony of Heroes”, an amazing 101 track Super Smash Bros. fan arrangement album, now available for free download. Some 60 or so artists contributed to this massive undertaking, announced last year…
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Sonic Boom Animated Series Debuts November 8, Doesn’t Look Horrible
There’s no escaping it now. The next chapter of Sonic the Hedgehog history begins on November 8, when the Sonic Boom animated series premieres on Cartoon Network in North America. I think I could actually watch this. While my inner jury is still out on the games, Rise of Lyric (Wii U) and Shattered Crystal…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Fine, We’ll Do Final Fantasy XV
When folks started taking shots from the Tokyo Game Show trailer for Final Fantasy XV and pasting things behind them, I figured Chris Person’s post about it was enough. Now Square Enix has decided to help things along. Fine, let’s do this. Look, this meme has been done to death already over the past couple…
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ReviewsSkylanders: Trap Team: The Kotaku Review
It’s that time of year again. Time to set aside last year’s toys in favor of a shiny new batch of Skylanders: Trap Team figures. Seriously, set the older toys aside – you won’t be needing them for a while. In preparation for the arrival of the latest iteration of Activision’s hugely successful toys-meets-games franchise,…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: One Final Smash
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 October 4. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Refilling Destiny‘s Loot Cave: The Winners!
Last week I tasked the Guardians of Kotaku‘s image manipulation community with finding something else with which to fill Destiny’s sadly empty Loot Cave. Then everything went crazy. I normally pick the winner of each week’s contest and the featured entries by going through all of the entries and picking my favorites. This week’s contest…
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Tips & GuidesKeep Your Shadow Of Mordor Combo Going Forever
Speaking of impressiveShadow of Mordor feats, YouTuber Rabbit’s Respawn has come up with a combination of power-enhancing runes which allows players to run the map in one potentially never-ending combo. 413 hits is just the beginning. My first taste of Monolith’s hit Middle-earth adventureonly came this morning, so I’ve got a ways to go before…
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Tablet Is The Best Way To Play Skylanders: Trap Team
Normally when a big-name video game releases a version on tablet devices, it’s either a pared down version of the console experience or a completely different game altogether. Not only isSkylanders: Trap Team‘s tablet offering the exact same game as on consoles, its portability and convenience makes it the superior version. The console version of…
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