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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let’s Mario Kart Everywhere
One of the most highly anticipated Wii U titles ever, Mario Kart 8 is going to be all over the place once Nintendo releases it on May 30. I bet the Photoshop-savvy readers of Kotaku can beat them to the punch. The only Mario Kart I’ve ever loved goes wide this Friday, giving the Wii…
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The Vanishing Modem And Other Surprising Game Boy Advance Trivia
Now that we’ve learned 13 things you might not have known about the original Game Boy, Did You Know Gaming takes us into the next generation of Nintendo handhelds, the Game Boy Advance. Did you know it was supposed to have a modem? Or at least some sort of cell phone connectivity, which was a…
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Sunday Comics: The Worst Thing You Can Do
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 May 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Somewhere A Place For Kinect: The Winners!
Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to help Microsoft come up for a use for all of the Xbox One Kinects they aren’t going to sell once the system is available without it. Ladies and gentlemen, we have several winners. First and foremost among the winners, both in terms of comment stars and making…
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For A More Comic-Accurate X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Play The Game
While movie-goers flock to theaters to see a re-imagined version of one of the X-Men’s greatest stories, iOS gamers can now play through the original comic book storyline in Glitchsoft’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat — this is a $2.99 game with no in-app…
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The Minecraft Halo Mash-Up Pack Visits Familiar Places
The upcoming Halo Mash-Up pack for Minecraft isn’t just about 40 character skins, a texture pack and music from Microsoft’s popular first-person shooter series. It’s also got an entire pre-made world, packed with iconic Halo haunts. Recognize this place? Why, it’s Blood Gulch, perhaps the best-known Halo multiplayer map of them all, thanks to it…
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The X-Men: Days Of Future Past Spoiler Post
Have you seen X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to talk about it without worrying about spoiling who dies at the end for everyone else? This is your spoiler-police free safe haven. Just in case the headline and intro weren’t clear: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS EVERYWHERE. I cannot stress this enough. Well, I suppose I…
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The Next Game From The Maker Of Papers, Please Is A 1-Bit Mystery
After winning many awards his 2013 indie masterpiece Papers, Please, Lucas Pope takes old school to the next level in Return of the Obra Dinn, a first-person 3D adventure rendered in the 1-bit style of ancient Mac games. Pope announced the new project this morning on The Independent Gaming Source forums. My next project will…
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CultureYou Can’t Get These 37 McDonald’s Items In The States
If Snacktaku ever secures a substantial travel budget, the first trip I’m going to take will be based off Buzzfeed’s video of 37 exotic menu items McDonald’s only sells in other countries. Just look at that Chicken Mega Mac up there. Is that a grilled chicken-ish patty? No, it’s four grilled chicken-ish patties, special sauce,…
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Five Years Of Tokyo Game Show’s Digital Poster Ladies
Back in 2010, the organizers of the annual Tokyo Game Show tapped illustrator Ippei Gyoubu to design the show’s main visual. Yesterday Gyoubu and TGS revealed this year’s poster and theme: the transformation of fun. Explains the butterfly motif. According to the official announcement, Gyoubu’s 2014 effort is based off of the idea of emergence.…
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The Saturday Morning Stream will return next weekend. Fahey is currently battling strep throat and doesn’t want to risk infecting you all through Twitch. This also means he won’t be making the Games Journalism panel at Momocon in Atlanta today. As an apology, he offers this tiny GIF he found of a doggy on Reddit.
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ReviewsWolfenstein: The New Order: The Kotaku Review
Trapped in a vegetative state for 14 years, Wolfenstein hero B.J. Blazkowicz awakens to a 1960 dominated by Nazis and a life no-longer solely defined by the killing of them. Not that killing Nazis isn’t an important aspect of Wolfenstein: The New Order, the third entry in reboot of the classic first-person shooter series that…
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There Is Beauty Inside Every Box Of Lucky Charms
Creating a submission for the hypnotically pleasing Things Organized NeatlyTumblr, General Mills’ Hello, Cereal Lovers put an entire box of Lucky Charms cereal in order. It’s breathtaking. As a certified lover of breakfast cereals, I’ve often considered performing similar projects on General Mills’ 50-year-old sweetened oat and marshmallow masterpiece. The problem is I generally get…
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Jean Grey Is The Best Thing Wrong With The Wolverine
The only film in the X-Men saga I didn’t see in theaters might not have been had I known about the heavy reliance of Jean Grey hallucinations. Let’s see what else The Wolverine messed up, courtesy of Cinema Sins. This 11 minute critique is the most of The Wolverine I’ve managed to watch without falling…
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The Epic Rap Battle Between Superman And Goku Is Too Close To Call
The Epic Rap Battles generally present me with a simple choice — Mozart Vs. Skrillex, Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso —but when the Man of Steel goes up against Dragon Ball‘s Kakarrot, I just don’t know. Goku’s rapping skills are clearly more advanced than Superman’s, and he does go Super Saiyan all over the underwearing…
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Oh Yeah, The Second Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Has Everything
If Bradley Cooper’s take on Guardians of the Galaxy‘s psychopathic raccoon doesn’t sell you on Marvel’s next big comic book movie, then wait until you hear Vin Diesel utter his first “I am Groot.” Whether or not this tale of Marvel’s team of intergalactic “heroes” captures the imagination of the general public is moot at…
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Super Monkey Ball Gets In On Some Of That Hot Peggle Action
Everybody loves Popcap’s Peggle. Everybody loves monkeys. Sega does the math and gets Super Monkey Ball Bounce, or as I’m going to call it — Seggle. Coming this summer to iOS and Android, Seggle takes its inspiration from the classic arcade game of pachinko, and not Peggle at all. See? Bananas. Peggle doesn’t have bananas.…
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Make Shadow Of Mordor‘s Combat Even More Brutal With Runes
The most savage Lord of the Rings game adds an additional layer of violence with its Rune System, a method of upgrading weapons and generating retailer-specific preorder bonuses. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor‘s vaguely heroic Talion comes equipped with a bow, a longsword and a dagger. That’s a fine arsenal for fantasy combat, but where are…
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The Week In Games: Beauty And The Reich
On one hand we have the old-school first-person shooting of Wolfenstein: The New Order. On the other, the small studio finesse and beauty of Supergiant Games’ sci-fi action role-playing game, Transistor. Which are you planning to play? It’s a tough call here. With limited time and overwhelming desire branching off in so many directions, I’ll…
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