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Nvidia Debuts The GTX Titan Z, A $3,000 Video Card For Maniacs
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang kicked off the company’s GPU Technology Conference today as he often does, holding something incredibly powerful and expensive above his head. This time it’s the Geforce GTX Titan Z, more video card than you need or could afford. So I’m making a gross generalization of our readership’s financial situation. I’m willing…
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More Hatsune Miku Heading Stateside, Because Sega Loves Us
Last year Sega gambled on global love of Japan’s premiere virtual idol, releasing the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F rhythm game in North America and Europe. That gamble must have paid off, because Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd is coming to the west later this year. I am so happy. With improved gameplay, 40…
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Guild Wars 2 Is Changing The Way Players Dress For Adventure
When the April 2014 Feature Pack for Guild Wars 2 drops next month, players are getting an account-wide wardrobe filled with every weapon and armor skin they’ve unlocked in the game. Then the dress-up parties begin. What your character is wearing is an important part of the MMORPG experience. In some games you can tell…
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A Much Better Version Of Reaper Of Souls‘ Opening Cinematic
In honor of tonight’s launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the fine folks at Carbot Animation have delivered their own interpretation of the expansion’s dark, doom-filled opening cinematic. It’s so good. Okay, maybe the tone is a bit off. Let’s compare. Nope, pretty much the same.
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The Next McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Are Going To Kill Me
Today Activision announced a second round of eight Skylanders Happy Meal Toys will be launching March 27, but they will not be alone. The Skylanders: Swap Force characters will be the “boys” toy, and the “girls” option? It’s My Little Pony, dammit. “I think you’ve been triangulated,” said Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo when I showed…
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Everything Happens In The Latest X-Men: Days Of Future Past Trailer
I think we might have gathered a few too many X-Men, you guys. Not that I mind a whole lot of X-Men. It just makes for a very scattered theatrical trailer, where it feels like all of the things are happening at once. Maybe Bryan Singer is making them cut the X-Men: Days of Future…
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Imagine what MacGyver could do with a modern day smart phone. Fairplay Digital has announced it’s cobbling together an official mobile game based on classic action-adventure TV series. Fairplay will reveal the game in the coming weeks, after which it will explode as Richard Dean Anderson leaps away from it in slow motion.
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It Takes A Special Game To Make Me This Obsessive, Bravely Default
I’m fifty-two hours into my first play-through of Bravely Default: Where the Fairy Flies. All four of my characters are level 99, each has all 24 of the game’s jobs mastered. I’ve not maxed-out levels and jobs in a Final Fantasy game in… ever. Recently Jason Schreier wrote about a column by BuzzFeed’s Rachel Sanders…
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The Week In Games: Don’t Fear The Reaper
It’s a great week for fans of Japanese games and expansions for North American blockbuster hits. More Diablo III. More BioShock Infinite. Like, a hundred knights or something. That’s a lot of knights. TUESDAY, MARCH 25 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (PS3) The Witch and the Hundred Knight (PS3) Cut the Rope: Triple Threat (3DS) Dynasty Warriors…
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ReviewsThese Mixed-Up Little LEGO Creatures Are Just The Best
I had no idea what a Mixel was supposed to be when I first saw them on the shelf at Wal-Mart, but they fit my criteria for instant purchase: they were labeled “LEGO” and priced under $5.00. That’s a small price to pay for love. What are Mixels? For one, they’re the star of a…
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CultureThere’s So Much To Eat And Drink In Titanfall, You Guys
Hold up, everybody. Cease fire! Why are we shooting at each other, when we could be looting Titanfall‘s levels of booze, snacks, pizza, soda, and the odd Cup Noodles instead? Check out how much food Enjoy the Bits‘ Paul Yan has found in the game. Yan’ mission is to chronicle the appearance of food in…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Vision Thing
Virtual reality headsets abounded at last week’s Game Developer’s Conference. Between the new Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus we got some amazingly ‘Shoppable pictures of Kotaku editors wearing VR headsets. You know what to do. At least I hope you know what to do — most of you have been doing this much longer…
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When We Can Start Playing The Elder Scrolls Online
It’s almost time for the massive invasion of Tamriel by the combined forces of PC and Mac massively multiplayer online role-playing gamers. Zenimax has revealed the dates and times servers are opening up for the early access and official launch of The Elder Scrolls Online. The exact timing on server openings for the MMO extension…
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Sunday Comics: Another Word For Plot
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 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Pokemon World Cup: The Winners!
The torch has been passed — I am now officially the person to complain to if your Kotaku ‘Shop Contest entry doesn’t make the cut. Curogon’s winning entry describes exactly how I feel right now. Thirteen additional lucky finalists follow. Now you might be wondering what qualifies me to judge Photoshop art. You and me…
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WildStar Player Versus Player Battles Looks Like A Blast
Considering Carbine Studios was founded by 17 members of the World of Warcraft development team, I can forgive the re-use of the terms “Arenas” and “Battlegrounds”. It’s the combat that matters, and WildStar‘s isn’t very much like WoW at all. With the June launch just a couple of months away, we’re finally getting our first…
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The Best Cosplay Of The London Super Comic Con
Oh Sneaky Zebra, how I love the way you’ve changed boring cosplay shots into music videos filled with elaborate camera zooms. London fandom represents, in this first SZ video of 2014. I can’t flip through cosplay photo galleries these days without humming a tune and swooping my head back and forth, and it’s all these…
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EverQuest Loot In A Minute. Lore. I Meant Lore.
Having been in operation for 15 years now, Sony Online Entertainment’s MMORPG EverQuest has built a rich and detailed history for players to ignore while they scrabble for loot. Just like I don’t spend all day thinking about world history instead of doing my job, EverQuest players have more pressing concerns than worrying about which…
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