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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ninja Tongue-Twister: The Winners!
Kotaku‘s Photo-Manipulation Brigade are the most magical of people. I give them an image of a creature with an enormous tongue, and not one of the entries in this week’s contest was as inappropriate as I feared things might get. Well, except the one. uscg_pa takes home this week’s top honors, with his unseasonably innocent…
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A Dad And His Kids Happily Play Video Games Together. They Have To.
This is an image of a happy family; a father and his two adorable children bonding over a video game. It’s a stock photo, of course. Their excitement is fake, their game controllers disconnected. It’s cheap theater, but I have to believe that somewhere in the country a genuine version of this scene is playing…
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Someone’s Compiling A List Of Every Video Game Ever Made
With help from a growing posse on 4chan, Pastebin user Data_Baser is attempting to compile a list of every video game ever released. Not just console games or PC games, but every mobile and browser-based game as well. The current count? 43,806. It’s a monumental task, made somewhat easier through the use of regular expression…
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Assassin’s Creed IV‘s Honest Game Trailer Strikes True
“After the huge letdown of AC III, prepare to redeem the franchise with the Pirates of the Caribbean game that Disney never made.” Smoosh Games‘ latest Honest Game Trailer takes on the Assassin’s Creed pirate spin-off that somehow wound up a numbered entry in the series.
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Which Is Cooler, Mickey With A Keyblade Or Mickey With A Lightsaber?
Raise all 29 toy-based characters to level one in Disney Infinity and you’ll score a glowing green Star Wars surprise. NerdFlip shows us how it’s done. There are two Disney properties players have been clamoring for since the debut of Disney Infinity — Star Wars and Marvel Comics. With the latter slated to be revealed…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 14
The weekend is here, a time to curse those damn, dirty apes for blowing it all up, but not before we catch up with this week’s best stories over at Kotaku Selects Artist AlbertoArnipaints a picture of a bleak future, where Donkey Kong has triumphed and the entire world is just sand and water levels.…
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Atari Rescued This Cool Minimalist Shooter From A Collapsing TimeGate
When Aliens: Colonial Marines co-developer TimeGate Studios shut down, my first concern was for the gorgeously blocky shooter the developer had announced just a month prior. Thankfully Atari thought Minimum was too pretty to die as well. According to a press release from Atari, the publisher had been in talks with TimeGate early on to…
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The Horde And Alliance Battle Over Bikes In Azeroth Choppers
With American Chopper having been off the air since 2012 and nothing pressing happening with the World of Warcraft team other than a major expansion pack, now’s the perfect time for Blizzard to tap world-famous motorized bicycle designer Paul Teutul, Jr. for a web-based reality show. It’s Azeroth Choppers, you guys. Two teams. Two choppers.…
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It’s FarmVille 2 Without All The Annoying Bits, And It’s Lovely
Somewhere behind the frustrating timers and social friend-bothering quests of FarmVille 2 there’s a lovely little farming and crafting simulator. Zynga brings out the best in the game with FarmVille 2: Country Escape for iOS and Android. Rather than porting FarmVille 2 over to mobile, bringing all of its baggage along, Zynga built FarmVille 2:…
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Mod Makes Mass Effect‘s Climactic Space Battle Playable In Homeworld
As a fan of space combat sims, my gut twisted as I watched the massive battle between the Reapers and everyone else play out via cut scene in Mass Effect 3. I wanted to control it. Phoenix Interactive’s Mass Effect Reborn mod for Homeworld 2 gives me that chance. Mass Effect Reborn, released in early…
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Infamous: Second Son Update Drops Tomorrow, With Surprise Photo Mode
Remember that nifty update for Infamous: Second Son we were promised at the beginning of the month? It arrives tomorrow, and it’s bringing a friend along to help document the occasion. Why doesn’t every game have a photo mode at this point? I mean, we’ve all seen the beautiful screenshots released for big-name titles taken…
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The Final Skylander Of The Season Arrives Next Week
Did you hear that? That’s the sounds of hundreds of thousands of parents and collectors breathing a sigh of relief, as they learn the final Skylanders: Swap Force character is being released next week. It’s quickly followed by a pained groan, as they discover Doom Stone’s debut is a 500-piece giveaway at the Toys’R’Us in…
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WildStar‘s Competitive Endgame Combines Design With Destruction
Sticking with the upcoming MMORPG’s theme of building-plus-battling, WildStar‘s high level 40-Vs.-40 PVP battles begin with players building massive fortresses in the sky. Then they drop them. It’s a build-your-own-battleground sort of thing. Two groups of 40 players trick out their floating bases, drop them onto the battlefield and then beat the tar out of…
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ReviewsDomino’s Fried Chicken Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review
Domino’s Pizza doesn’t call its strange new creation “Fried Chicken Crust Pizza”, but that’s pretty much what it is — breaded and fried chicken bites covered with sauce, cheese and toppings. They’re rather odd. With two children and the person that kept those two children inside her for nearly nine months to account for these…
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Everything Wrong With The Matrix? This Could Take A While.
The key to enjoying The Matrix is to turn off your brain and enjoy the ride. Turn on your brain, and you wind up with a 12 minute CinemaSins video. The key to watching CinemaSins videos is to realize that he’s not saying the movies he covers are bad — just flawed. The two aren’t…
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A Delightful Look At The Opening Of The First Legoland In 1968
The Legoland amusement part in Billund, Denmark is holy ground for fans of the colorful plastic bricks. Back in 1968, when the park first opened, it was an opportunity for charmingly British narrators to say things like “sprawling landscape land of make-believe.” “But for the children, everything they see here is real. After all, they’ve…
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The Plants Vs. Zombies War Goes West With More Free DLC
Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare just keeps getting better and better. Today EA drops the free Western-themed “Zomboss Down” game pack, adding two maps, eight new characters and tons of new customization items. They’re also raising the level cap for all characters from 20 to 30, which means ten more levels’ worth of challenges to…
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