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P.T.‘s Unfriendly Ghost Pops Up In Metal Gear Solid V
When it comes to cross-game cameos, Hideo Kojima does not waste time. Fresh from scaring the pants off of players in the playable teaser for Silent Hills, Lisa is prepped to terrorize enemies in The Phantom Pain. She’s just as scary in this video captured from the Tokyo Game Show 2014 stream as she was…
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Disney Infinity 2.0‘s Intro Reminds Us It’s Not All Marvel
Tuesday’s North American release of Disney Infinity 2.0 is all about Marvel Comics’ finest, but the intro movie is totally Disney. A showcase for upcoming classic Disney characters like Aladdin, Donald Duck, Tinkerbell and Brave‘s Merida was not what I was expecting when I first booted up the PlayStation 4 version of Infinity 2.0, but…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Other Side
We’ve seen plenty of pictures of the hugely embarrassing head-in-breast gameplay station for OneeChanbara Z2: Chaos at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, but where do those holes really lead? Only our image manipulation experts know for sure. We’ve got two holes with two faces leading — somewhere. Is it another dimension? A white room filled…
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Sunday Comics: Let’s Do It Anyway
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 20. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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No Kotaku ‘Shop Contest winners post this week. Last week’s contest involveda news story about a man dressed in Pokemon garb wandering onto the White House lawn. Now that information has come to light regarding the mental state of the individual in question, I no longer feel the contest’s subject matter appropriate. We’ll be back…
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Hackers Claim Credit For Downed Destiny, Call Of Duty Servers
Hacker group Lizard Squad claims it’s behind attacks that laid low servers for both Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts today, leaving players unable to connect and play. Having taken credit for a massive DDOS attack that took down the PlayStation Network last month as well as a bomb threat that caused Sony Online Entertainment…
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Oculus CEO On Microsoft’s Minecraft Acquisition: “How Ironic”
When Oculus was purchased by Facebook for $2 billion earlier this year, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson famously cut ties with the VR company. Now that Notch has sold his company to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe has a little something to say. The comment came during the keynote of Oculus Connect…
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Saturday Morning Stream: Disney Infinity Marvel Super Heroes (All Done)
What better time to stream a game about playing with toys than a Saturday morning? Be sure to ask your parents if it’s okay to come play. Warning — stream will autoplay. My Disney Infinity Marvel Super Heroes review drops on Monday, the day before the U.S. release, so I figured I’d use the Saturday…
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Snake’s New Best Friend Is A Wolf Named DD
Snake has a new best friend in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. And thus was Call of Duty Dog completely forgotten. Because a scantily-clad sniper is hardly man’s best friend, Snake has another A.I. companion to aid him in next year’s epic adventure. Snake finds DD — short for Diamond Dog — in…
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I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Seen Such A Glossy Mega Man
During E3 2014, video game collectible makers First 4 Figures announced they’d be making a line of statues featuring everyone’s favorite killer robot boy. Now the first Megaman statue has been revealed, and it sure is shiny. They call the piece Running Mega Man (Megaman), and it certainly is that. It’s got a very Astro…
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Old School Family Games Were Wonderfully Violent
A ticking time bomb, a kid-friendly version of Russian roulette and a game about smashing a naked man’s body apart with a hammer — and they say video games are too violent? The most recent episode of YouTube series TheyActuallyMadeThat takes a look at how families passed the time at night before cellphones, computers and…
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Boldly Build Bases In Star Trek: Alien Domain
Coming soon to a web browser near you, Star Trek: Alien Domain is a multiplayer strategy game that gives fans of the beloved science fiction franchise a chance to stop all of that boldly going and put down some roots. Developed by SambaGames in partnership with CBS Interactive, Alien Domain doesn’t immediately strike me as…
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Disney Infinity‘s Marvel Toys Are Looking A Bit Rough
My favorite aspect of the first Disney Infinity was the toys. Carefully sculpted and painted, each one was a tiny work of art. This week I received the first batch of figures for Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes, and the quality isn’t quite up to snuff. Take Captain America, above. His paint job is…
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CultureCoca-Cola Resurrects Surge, The Greatest Citrus Soda Ever Made
Back in 1996 the Coca-Cola company delivered unto the extreme masses a slice of citrus-flavored Norwegian heaven, only to rip the cans cruelly from our lips six years later. Today the company announces the return of Surge. It’s ReSurgence Day. Essentially a port of Norway’s Urge, a soft drink that remains popular to this day,…
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A Game That’s Everything I Wanted Virtual Reality To Be In The ’80s
It’s nice to see companies investing tons of money on extravagant virtual reality hardware, but all I really need is a pair of wire-frame hands and a vector track to wave them on. Fotonica gives me just that. Born from a browser-based game from way back in the days when no one knew what the…
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ReviewsCan Unlimited Spider-Men Triumph Over Free-To-Play Evil?
On the one hand, Spider-Man Unlimited is a free-to-play mobile game from Gameloft. On the other, it’s a game with fourteen different versions of Spider-Man to collect at launch. “Free-to-play mobile game from Gameloft” versus “fourteen different versions of Spider-Man.” I am so conflicted. Released last week for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, Spider-Man Unlimited…
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The Week In Games: Small And Creepy
It’s a week of tiny gems and quirky Japanese imports, a relaxing respite before the season of “massive games you have to own or you’ll feel physically ill” kicks into high gear. Or maybe that’s just me. That’s not to say this week’s games are skippable. They’ll just hurt a little less when you don’t…
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