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Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will be released in North America in spring 2015. Announced this weekend during a special event in japan, Last Round is the culmination of all the various incarnations of Dead or Alive 5 — all the fighters, costumes, etc. Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will be available on…
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ReviewsHospital Food: The Snacktaku Review
Last weekend I had the opportunity to stay at one of Atlanta’s premiere medical hot-spots, where I was sliced open to have my innards fiddled with. Afterwards I was presented with this magnificent feast. It was almost as pleasant. I’ve loved institutional food since I was a small boy standing in line for lunch at…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Next New 3DS
Nintendo recently announced a new model of their 3DS handheld, packed with more power and cool new features. Neat, but that was Friday and we’re bored now. What’s the next next 3DS going to look like? To the Photoshop mobile! I know we’ve been waiting for a second analog stick for a long time, but…
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Culture
The Week In Games: Danganronpa Style
There are many games coming out the week before Destiny, but if I didn’t prominently feature Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair for the Vita, Kirk and Jason would set me on fire. Not a big fan of being set on fire. The slow build towards fall release madness doesn’t really start until next week, though one…
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Disney Infinity 2.0 Gets Combat Support From Ninja Theory
Taking a break from making action adventure games featuring stunning characters with large, waatery eyes, Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory’s been helping polish combat systems for the Marvel-powered Disney Infinity 2.0. Revealed during the Giant Bomb panel at PAX Prime (via GameSpot) andconfirmed on Twitter by Disney Infinity executive producer John Vignocchi, Ninja Theory has…
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Dead or Alive 5 Coming To Playstation 4 and Xbox One Next Year
In a suprise announcement following the award ceremony at this weekend’s Japan Gamer’s Live event, Tecmo Koei producer Yosuke Hayashi announced Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, coming to Japanese PS4 and Xbox One consoles in spring of next year. No information on a Western release — in fact very little information at all, aside…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: No Time To Explain
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 August 31. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Now They’re Enhancing Icewind Dale
Now that Trent Oster and his team at Beamdog have finished enhancing Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II, they’re moving north up the Sword Coast for an enhanced edition of Icewind Dale, coming later this year to iOS, Android and PC. While Black Isle Studios only published BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate games, 2000’s Icewind Dale was…
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Wandering The Wyoming Wilderness, Waiting For It To Burn
It’s easy to get freaked out on a solo trip through barren wilderness, especially when your job is waiting for it to catch on fire. Here’s our first look at Firewatch in action. Set in the gorgeous Wyoming wilderness, Campo Santo’s Firewatch is a first-person adventure game where your only link to civilization is the…
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I Could Watch Civilization: Beyond Earth All Day Long
Debuting during the Firaxis Megapanel at PAX Prime this weekend, the “Master Control” gameplay trailer for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth teaches us about the Purity Affinity, Virtues, the Orbital Layer and how October 24 can’t come soon enough.
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A Titanfall Statue Without Those Pesky Titans
What wondrous timing! Just as a new, mech-free game mode is announced for Titanfall, we get a statue that’s 75 percent pilot, 25 percent debris and zero percent giant killer robot. While having a giant robot to boss around is all well and good, the more I played Titanfall the more I, like many others,…
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The Saturday Morning Stream Casts Lichdom: Battlemage [Stream Complete]
In this week’s very special episode of the Saturday Morning Stream, the mildly-medicated Michael Fahey triumphantly returns to get his first-person magic combat on with Lichdom: Battlemage. What is Lichdom: Battlemage? It’s sort of like an Elder Scrolls game, only without the weapons. It tells the story of a person who can suddenly shoot fire…
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The Game That’s Kept Me Sane Waiting For The New Doctor Who
Late last year when we were first introduced to Peter Capaldi as the next regeneration of the Doctor we were alsointroduced to Doctor Who: Legacy , a companion collecting puzzle game from Tiny Rebel Games. It’s come quite a long way since then. Like the popular Puzzle and Dragons, Doctor Who: Legacy is a game…
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CultureA Day In The Life Of A Pizza Making Tool
There is no nobler profession than preparing circular feasts at a chain pizza restaurant. The tools of that honorable trade are liken to the greatest legendary weapons — Mjölnir, Excalibur, pizza pan tongs. One brave kitchen warrior mounted a GoPro to his weapon of choice and recorded an entire day of pie liberation. Beware, watching…
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Can You Spot The Gaming PC In This Picture?
Hint: it’s the one with the USB ports. I’ve just received a review unit of Maingear’s miniscule Spark, a gaming PC that’s larger than an ambitious sandwich. Introduced at the beginning of the yearas a Steam Machine, tiny computers wait for no 2015 official release, so a version sporting Windows 8.1 is available for sale…
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They Always Make Disney Infinity‘s Toy Box Look So Good
Last year I was assaulted by trailer after trailer filled with the magical possibilities of Disney Infinity‘s Toy Box building mode, only to find the best my imagination could muster was an incredibly high plataeu to drive cars off of. My hopes aren’t quite as high the second time around. I used to love games…
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As Evil Plots Go, LEGO Batman 3‘s Isn’t Too Shabby
The evil Brainiac, seeking to upgrade from collecting cities to collecting whole worlds, harness the power of the Lantern Rings in order to shrink the Earth, forcing DC’s greatest superheroes to join forces with the Legion of Doom to stop him. That’s something I’d like to see. It seems my favorite DC Comics moments always…
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A Line Of Statues Based On Kirby Outfits? Oh No.
They’ve done Zelda, they’ve done Metroid and they’ve done Mario — what Nintendo properties are left for collectible maker First 4 Figures? How about a line of statues based on the many forms of the magnificent Kirby? This is going to get expensive. One has to imagine the sculptor of Sword Kirby, the first in…
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GoldenEye Is An Excellent Game, But The Movie Has Problems
One of the most beloved first-person shooters ever to grace a Nintendo console was born of a movie that was not James Bond’s finest outing. One would think the greatest secret agent in the world would take less time to kill Sean Bean, for one. CinemaSins finds many more problems than just the one, but…
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The Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Action Figures Are Coming
EA’s casual game turned online multiplayer shooter arrives on PlayStations today, making it the perfect day for Diamond Select Toys and Popcap to announce a line of Garden Warfare action figures, coming soon to a lawn near you. When I first saw the announcement this morning, I figured Diamond Select was just talking about Garden…
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