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If You Love America, You’ll Never Stop Playing This Stupid Game
Ah, the glorious Stars and Stripes, stroking that flagpole vigorously in time with your amorous applause. This is Americlap, the spirit of patriotism is one intentionally stupid game. Americlap is a free game that utilizes your microphone to capture your clapping, which keeps the American flag from falling to the ground. “It’s short and stupid…
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It’s A Virtual Game Boy For The Oculus Rift
One of the key problesm with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is that it completely obscures the wearer’s vision, making it impossible to play Game Boy while wearing it — until developer Shane O’Brien came up with this clever fix. Using a recently released Game Boy emulator for the Unity Engine, Shane crafted a…
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Toy Story As A Horror Movie? Makes Sense To Me.
There is nothing quite as deadly as a jealous children’s toy. That’s the idea behind Bobby Burns‘ Toy Story horror movie trailer, a concept that has me eyeing my collection warily. How much of a Dick can Woody be? Even toned down from the original drafts of Pixar’s masterpiece, the floppy cowboy (not a sex…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Somewhere A Place For Kinect
Now that Microsoft has realized that more people might be willing to purchase an Xbox One if it didn’t come with $100 worth of do-not-want, what’s the company going to do with the all of the unwanted Kinect cameras? Perhaps our army of image manipulators has some suggestions. I’ve been amusing myself imagining factory workers…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Mining Rights
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 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Under The Sea: The Winners!
Last week I set Kotaku’s Photoshop-savvy readers loose on editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo’s vacation pics, welcoming him back with countless images of his heavily-modified face. He should be overjoyed with the results. Another ‘shop contest, another amazing batch of entries, and while there was just something about uscg_pa’s Totilo/Mario swap than made me happy, each one…
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Hackers Attack Operation Supply Drop Charity Drive
Operation Supply Drop’s third annual 8-Bit Salute 24 hour charity game marathon went live this morning at 9 a.m. Eastern time. By 10 a.m. hackers had disabled the military gaming charity’s website via DDoS attack. Operation Supply Drop, previously featured onKotaku, is a charity organization dedicated to providing American military personnel with video games. The…
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Exactly What I Look For In An RPG Collector’s Edition
Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin is a love letter to the early days of computer role-playing games, so it makes sense that the game’s extremely limited edition (under 1,500 copies) is a love letter to the fans of classics RPGs. First off, the Collector’s Edition comes with two copies of the Kickstarter success, each playable…
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Honest Star Fox 64 Trailer Goes Straight For The Furry Jokes
Sometimes an anthropomorphic animal is just an anthropomorphic animal, Honest Game Trailers. Now if Fox McCloud too off his head at the end of Star Fox 64 to reveal a human wearing a suit, then that would be a furry. Even then the gross generalizations are a bit much. Not all furries are sexual deviants.…
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Further Proof That Every Game Is Better With Monster Collecting
The highly successful Puzzle & Dragons added monster collecting and evolving to match three puzzles and made a fortune. Quiz RPG did it with random trivia questions. Now Sega adds creature collecting to those stupid coin dozer games, and I can’t stop playing. Dammit, Dragon Coins. Had I known what sort of game this was…
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The Saturday Morning Stream: The Last Tinker: City Of Colors (Done!)
Wandering off the beaten path this week, The Last Tinker: City of Colors is an indie game that channels the good-old-days of platforming, when games like Banjo Kazooie were still something that happened regularly. Developed by Munich-based Mimimi Studios, The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a game that caught my eye with a single…
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Reviews
Maingear’s Ultimate 4K Gaming PC Shows Ultra HD How It’s Done
The average PC gamer won’t be able to afford to put together a 4K Ultra HD capable system for at least another couple of years. For the non-average PC gamer looking to spend upwards of $10,000 on a complete Ultra HD system, there’s the Maingear Rush Vesuvius Edition — a showcase for AMD’s water-cooled Radeon…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: SMT: Nocturne The TAY Review • Uri’s Soda Reviews – Reed’s Spiced Apple Brew All Natural Sparkling Spiced Apple Cider • Silver Spoon is Worth Your Time • Saying Goodbye to my Tiniest Companions in the Game of Life TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…
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Cartoon Network Wants You To Test The Adventure Time MOBA
This Thursday, Cartoon Network is hosting an open beta test for its upcoming browser-based MOBA, Adventure Time Battle Party. Since this is the first time I’d heard of the game, I thought they might need some help spreading the word. Everybody wants to make a MOBA, so why shouldn’t Adventure Time get one? Players form…
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Add Up All The Sins Of X-Men: First Class, Then Subtract One
With the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past just around the corner, Cinema Sins checks off all the problems with the first appearance of lil’ Xavier and Magneto, wisely not forgetting to include the best bit. If the new movie fails to address the early encounter between the good, the bad and the questionably…
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The Official Transformers: Age of Extinction Mobile Game Is Coming
From DeNA, the folks behind the Transformers: Legends mobile card game, comes Transformers: Age of Extinction, a combat runner based on the fourth film in a series I’m getting tired of complaining about. In development for iOS and Android, Age of Extinctions casts players in the role of the heroic Autobots as they run (or…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Super Casual Games and Virtual Money • Koda’s Top 10 Spring 2014 Anime Endings • How Sega planned to Crush Nintendo: Lou Rawls • Hip Hop Gamer Reviews Real RetroN 5 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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Toddler-horror game Among the Sleep is coming to the PlayStation 4 — with virtual reality support. As if playing a small child exploring a dark house in search of his missing mother isn’t scary enough, developer Krillbite says the game will be among the first to take advantage of Sony’s Project Morpheus VR technology. Nope,…
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WildStar Finally Gets Around To Talking About Raiding
With less than a month left before the June 3 official launch of WildStar, Carbine Studios gives prospective players a look at the high-end raid content topping off the eagerly anticipated science fiction MMORPG. For those of you unfamiliar with massively multiplayer online role-playing game terms, a raid is an adventure meant for large groups…
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