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Sunday Comics: Misunderstood Friends
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 September 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Other Side: The Winners!
What’s on the other side of the most embarrassing gaming experience of 2014? I taskedour community of image manipulation experts with finding out. The results may shock you. Or at least BioShock you. What does it take to make grown men stick their head into a giant painting of breasts at the biggest game industry…
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MMO Tie-In Defiance Gets A Third Season
What I was certain would wind up a failed attempt at an ongoing television show/MMO transmedia project after season one, SyFy’s Defiance is returning next year for season three. I guess I’ve got some catching up to do. I wanted to like the first season of Defiance — I really did. I watched each and…
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It’s Dangerous To Go Alone. Eat This.
The menu at Fountain City Coffee in Columbus, Georgia is the beginning of an epic breakfast adventure. Brought to light by Kumanoki on Reddit, this listing of purchasable breakfast goods begs the question — should we sacrifice readability and potentially alienate non-game-savvy customers for the sake of a The Legend of Zelda reference? The answer…
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The Game Of Thrones Opening Is Much Better With A Man Eating Soup
We’ve seen the iconic opening credits of Game of Thrones remade countless times over the past several years, but none have been as awe-inspiring as this, the “Man Eating Soup” version. Spoilers: It’s tomato. My heartfelt thanks goes out to YouTuber Lexaviane Clickhole (viaNeatorama) for creating this completely random opening credits remix, as it’s been…
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I Can’t Get Enough Of This Sexy Sci-Fi Spy Thriller
As the credits rolled for Revolution 60, Giant Spacekat’s science fiction spy adventure for iOS, I felt the familiar pang of loss I feel whenever a great game ends. I’ve been on a real bite-sized iOS game kick lately, favoring short, spastic games that deliver a quick hit — Candy Crush-style puzzlers, CSR Racing-style action…
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Comparison: The Wii U Gets The “Definitive Version” Bayonetta
After the famously fudged-up PlayStation 3 port of Platinum Games sexy action game, fans were rightly cautious when Nintendo announced the original Bayonetta would come bundled with its Wii U exclusive sequel. Digital Foundry puts those worries to rest. Putting all three versions of Bayonetta through the wringer, Digital Foundry found that while some of…
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Saturday Morning Stream: The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter [Stream Done]
According to developer The Astronauts, horror adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is game to be played at night, alone, with the lights out. So I’m playing it in the morning with a group of Twitch friends in my brightly-lit office. It’s not that I’m frightened or anything. It’s just that I don’t want to…
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The Bronze Statue Raccoon-Obsessed Sly Cooper Fans Deserve
He may not be the most popular video game mascot, but his fans love Sly Cooper with the force of a thousand lesser fans, more than enough to warrant a $210 12-inch statue with a gleaming bronze finish. I was impressed enough with the$200 normal edition of Gaming Heads’ Sly Cooper statue, the fourth piece…
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Somewhere Amidst The Explosions Is A New Advanced Warfare Game Mode
We’ve seen the single-player and multiplayer modes of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Now it’s time for a little cooperative survival. Well, eventually time. First we dance. The first minute and a half of this “Power Changes Everything” trailer is dedicated to showing us some incredibly cool visuals from the story mode and online multiplayer.…
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Batman’s Vampire Son And The Joker’s Severed Head Join Infinite Crisis
The makers of Infinite Crisis continue to expand the twisted alternate reality DC Comics playground today with a brand-new tutorial mode and two of the strangest additions to its hero roster yet — Nightmare Robin and Atomic Joker. You’ve no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this game’s single-player tutorial mode. For ages it’s…
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World Of Warcraft System Requirements Have Changed A Lot In Ten Years
We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of the 2004 release of World of Warcraft, and Blizzard has just released the system requirements for November’s Warlords of Draenor expansion pack. Let’s compare! In the table below I compare the minimum system requirements for the original release of World of Warcraft to the minimum’s posted last…
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The New Gauntlet Lets Me Exercise My Inner Demon
In the original arcade classic Gauntlet it was “Elf shot the food.” In the new version launched on Steam today, it’s “Elf dodges through enemies, leaving us to fend for ourselves while he scoops up all of the gold.” I can live with that. I know there have been other games carrying on the grand…
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GameStop Now Accepting Old Toys For Store Credit. Great. [Update]
Remember back in 2012 when GameStop started allowing customers to trade in original Skylanders figures for store credit, and the customer service folk were completely miserable? Now GameStop is accepting Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures. Update: I traded some, check out what I got for them below. The original Skylanders trade-in plan did not last…
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Facebook Status Wars As Street Fighter, Only More Brutal
A never-ending battle to promote yourself, now with multiplayer. Director Dennis Liuputs my constant unease with the social network in terms I can relate to. I’ve been guilty in the past of basking in new baby likes. I may have even milked the fact that they were twins, but since then I’ve maintained relative radio…
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Spider-Man Video Games Need More Mysterio
Sure he wears a purple cape and a fishbowl on his head, but Mysterio’s special effects-based powers make for a really trippy introduction to Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes‘s Spider-Man playset. Mysterio’s made his way into plenty of Spider-Man video games — he was the main villain in the Questprobe Spidey game, after being passed…
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ReviewsDisney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes: The Kotaku Review
When I was 12 years old my favorite toys were a ragtag band of Marvel Secret Wars action figures. They weren’t much to look at, paint scratched and accessories misplaced. Of the thirteen figures released in North America, I’d only managed to collect six — Captain America (no shield), Wolverine (one claw), Baron “I Don’t…
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The Best Gaming iPhone Yet
“Isn’t every new iPhone the best gaming iPhone yet?” Sure, but the all-new, all-larger iPhone 6 is better than that. If you’d asked my as recently as Friday afternoon what I thought of the iPhone 6 as a gaming device, I would have probably responded with something along the lines of “Screw T-Mobile in it’s…
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The Creepiest Super Mario Easter Egg
The third and final installment of Did You Know Gaming‘s Super Mario Easter Egg Hunt takes us from Super Mario 64 straight through to Super Mario Galaxy 2, where we come across mysterious creatures that still give me nightmares. Why does a lovely discussion about Yoshi cameos in the original Super Mario 64 and the…
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The Week In Games: Ode To An Unborn Star
Every once in a while I like to pretend that every other gamer in the world is excited about the niche Japanese role-playing game I’m ridiculously excited about. It’s Ar Nosurge week you guys! Yes, in the special world in my head we’ve all been waiting deliriously for a PlayStation 3 role-playing game instead of…
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