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A Little LEGO Star Wars Goes A Long Way
Some people can easily justify dropping $200 for Red Five’s X-Wing or $140 for the Millennium Falcon. For the rest of us, LEGO Star Wars Microfighters and a healthy imagination shall have to suffice. I wasn’t impressed with the Microfighters iOS game, but I was definitely impressed when I saw LEGO Star Wars-branded sets that…
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The Week In Games: Enough Elder Scrolls For Everybody
Which is more exciting, the launch of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the world of The Elder Scrolls, or Goat Simulator? Your choice! It’s not a very crowded week for game releases, or maybe it is? Who can tell, when Tuesday falls on April 1. For all we know we’ll wake up…
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If Video Game Covers Were More Honest
Over at Complex Gaming they’re having some fun adding “honest” blurbs to popular game covers, asking “What if games told the truth before you dropped $60?” Honestly, I’d probably buy them for the blurbs alone. For example, I still have not finished The Last of Us — I know, I am a communist for this.…
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John Carmack Voices Support For Facebook’s Oculus Acquisition
Last year legendary game developer John Carmack left his position at id Software to pursue his passion for virtual reality as chief technology officer of Oculus VR. While Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus came as a surprise to Carmack, he believes the company has what it takes to make his vision of the “Big…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Turtle Power!
Oh no, Photoshop Crusaders! Michael Bay has found his way into our toy boxes again, and he’s gotten mutagenic ooze all over our beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now it’s our turn to play with his vision. Tonight we dine on turtle ‘shops! The designs for the upcoming live action movie aren’t horrible, but it’s…
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Sunday Comics: The Fruits Of Evil
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 March 28. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Vision Thing: The Winners!
Nothing captures the magic of the future quite like the past. Last week I tasked our image manipulation-savvy readers to capture the glory of large, bulky, vision-obstructing virtual reality headsets. They did not disappoint. Now I know why our previous ‘Shop Contest runner would cry himself to sleep every night. With so many amazing entries,…
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Captain America‘s Got Me Missing Crappy Movie Tie-In Console Games
The official video game tie-in for Captain America: The Winter Soldier came out this week for iOS and Android, and the $2.99 Gameloft joint has me waxing nostalgic for the days of paying $50 for licensed console games that were almost guaranteed crap. Movie-based console games have been on the decline since 2011, when the…
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Civilization V Meets True Detective? I Did Not See That Coming.
Some mash ups make complete sense. This is not one of them. That’s not to say I wouldn’t watch a television series in which Ashurbanipal and George Washington team up to solve a bizarre string of murders and disappearances in the backwoods of Louisiana (aka Louisiana). I would watch it as many times as it…
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You’ll Never Unsee This Gallery Of Grotesque PlayStation 2 Ads
Mangled bodies, pierced and tattooed newborns, panty sniffers and twisted mutations — this is how advertising agency TBWA sold the PlayStation 2 in France. Warning — NSFW images coming up. PlayStation marketing has always been pretty strange — David Lynch created a PlayStation 2 ad, after all — but the Paris branch of TBWA took…
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Alien: Isolation Hatches October 7
Have Sega and Creative Assembly finally got a hold on this deep space survival horror thing, or will no one hear you scream because you aren’t screaming? We’ll find out on October 7, when Alien: Isolation hits PlayStations, Xboxen and PC. Despite indications that this might be *the* Alien game, I do not have high…
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Titanfall, Attack On Titan, Same Difference.
Not everyone gets to ride inside the anime’s titans, and we can’t crunch people in half with the video game’s giant mechs, but in both cases we would if we could. Polariscalls this video a mash up, but it just feels like natural progression to me.
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The Saturday Morning Stream: Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls (Stream Over)
I haven’t played much Diablo III since I reviewed the initial release back in 2012. It was nice and solid and Diablo-esque, but it didn’t capture my attention the way earlier games in the series had. Does the Reaper of Souls expansion change that? Watch and find out. Or just read on a bit. The…
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ReviewsTaco Bell’s Waffle Taco: The Snacktaku Road Trip Review
Taco Bell’s breakfast menu is now showing up nationwide so we’re bumping up this Snacktaku review from August 2013 when the Waffle Taco and other items first debuted. Last week Taco Bell announced the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee as one of the test beds for its new flagship breakfast item, the Waffle Taco. Early Sunday…
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The social strategy of Game of Thrones: Ascent is now available for free on iPad. The mobile release comes just in time for the beginning of season four of the HBO series, and will update with fresh content after every TV episode airs. It’s available now on iTunes, with an Android version in the works.
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Rise Of The Dark Spark Is A Tale Of Three Optimus Primes
We knew Activision’s upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark combined two Transformers continuities. Now it’s three, as the original Optimus Prime arrives to show the other two how it’s done. Maybe that’s not a good thing. Having recently rewatched the entire original Transformers cartoon series, I’ve come to the realization that Optimus Prime was…
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$100 Wolfenstein Panzerhound Edition Comes With A Sweet Dog, No Game
That’s okay, I didn’t want the game anyway. Now gimme that tank dog! See, the Panzerhund Edition (Panzerhund is my favorite new word) is not a collectors edition of Wolfenstein: The New Order. It is a collection of game parephenila, which conveniently comes with an empty steel case where you can put your game once…
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An Army Of LEGO Simpsons Invades America In May
For those of you unable to drop $200 on the extravagant LEGO Simpsons house released earlier this year, The LEGO Group is rolling out its first ever licensed minifigure series in May, just in time for a special LEGO episode of The Simpsons. I came this close to spending the $200 on the house, but…
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