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Here’s Why We Need A New DuckTales Cartoon
TheFineBrosrecently presented late ’80s cartoon masterpiece DuckTales to a group of unsullied youngsters. Their reactions justify every half-hour I spent in front of the television with Scrooge McDuck and company. These aren’t slow children, either. They completely get that diving into a vat of gold coins would totally kill you, even if one suggests molten…
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The Week In Games: Yeah, Right.
Enemy Front, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Blood of the Werewolf and AiRace Xeno. These are the games brave or stupid enough to think the week of E3 2014 is a good time to draw attention to themselves. Even the “Coming Soon” area of Steam, normally packed with potential indie gems, has largely avoided…
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12-Inch Nathan Drake Figure Is… Argh! Spider!
The moment I opened Sideshow Collectibles’ Sixth Scale Nathan Drake figure from Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is the moment it stopped being a Nathan Drake figure. No, this is a creepy six-legged spider figure with a Nathan Drake accessory. WHAT IS IT? The figure is supposed to be the version of Nathan Drake made famous…
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Minecraft Creator Debuts His Latest Creation, Cliffhorse
Technically his first commercial game since Minecraft took the world by storm, Markus “Notch” Persson’s Cliffhorse puts players in control of a horse near some cliffs. Well, hills mostly, but Hillhorse sounds silly. In fact the whole thing is a bit silly, just a bit of fluff tossed together in the Unity engine and announced…
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I Will Buy Any Starship Lance Henriksen Wants To Sell Me
The commercial for Star Citizen’s MISC Freelancer may be fake, but the desire to buy is quite real, thanks to the reassuringly gravelly narration of Aliens actor Lance Henriksen. If I had a spare $125 to $180 to pledge towards a virtual ship, the Freelancer is the one I’d pledge it to. It’s dependable and…
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The TAYtaku Non-‘Shop Contest: Picture Pages
We’re skipping the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest this week due to E3 craziness. In its place, here’s a brilliant idea from our TAY reader community’s JpSr388, the Sunday Quick Draw. Just a paper, some pencils and a dream. Join in, and we’ll feature the winners in the regular ‘Shop Contest results spot next Saturday!
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Honest Game Trailers Vs. Mortal Kombat. Ready, Fight!
While I’d rather watch a documentary that followed the fabled fighting franchise from birth, through its awkward teenage years into adulthood, Smosh‘s Honest Game Trailer for Mortal Kombat will do in a pinch. With a new Mortal Kombat recently announced for 2015, now’s the perfect time to look back on a series that started strong,…
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Sunday Comics: Equal Opportunity Upskirts
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 June 5. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Congratulations to Awkward Zombie‘s Katie Tiedrich for graduating college! Regular comics will return next week. Read more of Awkward…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2014 Decorating Committee: the Winners!
Last week I challenged the master image manipulators of our readership to design the E3 2014 signage they’d like to see. I guarantee what they’ve come up with is better than the real thing. Here’s what’s going on on the outside of the LA Convention Center right now, via Attack of the Fanboy: How boring.…
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The Original Bird Dating Sim Is Getting An English Remake
Hatoful Boyfriend is a Japanese dating sim that replaces the usual array of sexy anime characters with pictures of birds. Devolver Digital and Mediatonichave teamed up to official bring this wonderfully creepy thing to the Western world. Hatoful Boyfriend — literally ‘Pigeon-ful Boyfriend’ (thanks, AnimeNewsNetwork) — took the internet by storm in late 2011, capturing…
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You Might Not Approve Of My Latest Mobile Game Obsession
Or maybe you will. After all, it’s got a cute witch mascot, and lovely Bust-a-Move style bubble-popping gameplay — it’s even relatively free. What’s not to like about King’s latest — oh, there it is. King’s reputation took a bit of a hit earlier this year, to put it mildly. Attempting to trademark the terms…
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The Transformers Slow Jam Is More Than Meets The Ears
Scott Bradlee and company have been slowly transforming my childhood cartoon memories into R&B slow jams for months. Speaking of slow Transformers… I actually heard this one last week, when Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams album hit iTunes, but it’s so much better seeing it performed live. Part of me wishes they’d gone with the…
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This Year’s E3 Exclusive Skylander Isn’t A Skylander At All
For the past couple of years, Activision has been luring the press to their E3 booth to play the latest Skylanders game with the promise of an exclusive toy variant. For Skylanders: Trap Team they’re getting a special trap pre-loaded with an exclusive villain instead. Skylanders: Trap Team mixes up the toys-meet-games formula by allowing…
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Sony’s Virtual Reality Headset Gets Jimmy Fallon Flailing
During last night’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the host and special guest Channing Tatum got a chance to play with Sony’s virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus. Sony’s answer to the Oculus Rift likely has a large role to play in the company’s E3 2014 showing next week, so I’m expecting plenty…
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Now There’s A Timed Preorder Exclusive Skylanders Toy
This is Gearshift, one of the new Skylanders: Trap Team toys. She’s not due out until 2015, but if fans preorder her at participating retail outlets, they can have her when the game arrives on October 5. It’s an all-new kind of preorder DLC! Since each Skylanders toy unlocks a character in the game itself,…
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Tired of reading separate reviews for Far Cry, Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed? Ubisoft Game: The Review has you covered. Games.On.Net’s Tim Colwill has written the only review of an open-world Ubisoft action adventure game we’ll ever need. Here’s an excerpt: Ubisoft Game is the story of Main Character, a gruff or sassy white man…
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Realistic Mario Is A Remorseless Killer
“You didn’t just jump on a Koopa. You jumped on Gary. Gary Rivers.” R.I.P, Gary Rivers. May your passing serve as a reminder of what a cold-blooded murderer Pete Holmes’ Realistic Mario is. After getting his brother killed and getting ripped apart by a dinosaur, it’s no wonder Mario doesn’t pay attention to what or…
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Ubisoft Prepares To Unleash The Absolute Pinnacle Of Tetris
In June of 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris, one of the most popular video games of all time. Three decades later, Ubisoft announces Tetris Ultimate — the final game in the series, unless I am applying an irresponsibly erroneous definition to the word “ultimate”. Coming to current generation consoles this summer and PC later in…
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