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“Lydia NO!” Brings Skyrim‘s Most Beloved Glitch to Life
It’s bad enough when one of Skyrim‘s giants sends your character flying high into the air, doomed to a fate as the centerpiece for a fresh new crater. When it happens to Skyrim’s most famous AI companion — actually that’s quite all right. Adobe After Effects master and creator of the messiest Falcon Punch ever,…
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Only the Ruthless and Brutal Will Survive The Last of Us
Joel’s gun clicks pathetically as his finger desperately squeezes the trigger. Another survivor — the one with the still-loaded gun — grins, takes aim, and gets his head bashed in with a brick wielded by a 14-year-old girl. In describing the recent gameplay demo of The Last of Us in on the PlayStation Blog, Naughty…
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The Infinite Sadness That Comes When the Game Updates End
Recently the developers of the procedural PC playground game Terraria announced that updates for the game would be ending. It was a crushing blow to commenter Jezuz. Share his desolation in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I’m… I’m not sure why, but after finding out (quite late, at that), that the developer of Terraria was…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
With only a few days left before the Reaper invasion, it’s a good time to gather with your friends, loved ones and total strangers to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snake56 does amazing things to the brand-spanking-new March TAYpic. I’m almost convinced this was the artist’s original intent. You too…
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War is Not a Video Game to President Barack Obama
Defending his preference for peace in an in-depth interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, President Obama updates the tried-and-true ‘war is not a game’. Eventually we’ll have a president that’s played a first-person shooter. It’s pretty much inevitable. Perhaps one day a president will sit down with a reporter and talk about how much the…
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DC Universe Online‘s Battle for Earth Begins March 13
Brainiac is going down, but he’s not going down without a fight. Players looking to help serve the metal menace his final comeuppance should hit up DC Universe Online on the PlayStation 3 or PC March 13, when The Battle for Earth expansion goes live. With new earth-based powers and epic battles to fight, The…
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While the Kirk’s Away the Mikes Will Play
It takes a special kinda man to kick off a new month of Kotaku‘s daily Open Thread posts. Unfortunately that man could not be with us today. Here’s a bunch of My Little Pony links. Oh you know I would never share my top secret pony links with you folks. Instead, here’s some quality pony-free…
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There Exists an ATM That Dispenses Cupcakes 24 Hours a Day
All I Ever Wanted | In sunny Beverly Hills, California they have built mankind’s greatest achievement — 24-Hour Sprinkles (Image by Sprinkles via Neatorama.) Assassin’s Creed III‘s Official Box Art Verifies Revolutionary War Setting Looks like that rumored image we ran last night of the protagonist from Assassin’s Creed III checks out-Ubisoft has posted the…
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Stan Lee as a Playable Character in The Amazing Spider-Man, Can You True-Believe It?
The interwebs are abuzz with the news that comic book legend Stan Lee will upgrade from his usual cameo role to playable character in Activision’s Spider-Man movie tie-in. Seriously? I will give the good folks at addict of fiction this: Stan Lee does indeed say he is going to be a playable character in Beenox’s…
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When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song
To many role-playing fans Grandia III was a slightly-above average role-playing game with an excellent battle system, a clichéd plot, and inconsistent pacing. To me Grandia III is three minutes long, sung by a Japanese pop/rock singer, and absolutely amazing. It’s amazing how much a single short and simple piece of music can color one’s…
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Why Can’t Every Game Let you Skip Long-Winded Cutscenes with Violence?
Asura’s Wrath is a game brimming with excellent ideas, most of them involving punching, and while complaints that it’s more cutscene than gameplay are valid, it also features what could be the greatest scene-skipping mechanic in gaming history. Video games (and popular fiction in general) are filled with villains all-too-eager to have a little chat…
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It Wouldn’t Be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Without These High-Tech Toys
This isn’t modern warfare, kids. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings a whole new level of technology to the battlefield, giving players access to the sort of convoluted electronic goodies that would make your average Call of Duty soldier look like your grandmother trying to program a VCR. Hell, I’ve just dated myself by mentioning the…
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SSX Carves the Slippery Slope of Mount Game Reviewer
Just like the fine sport of extreme snowboarding itself, SSX‘s review scores start off pretty high and then suddenly drop. Okay, so technically they start off low and then abruptly rise, but that doesn’t work as a snowboarding metaphor. Either way, the SSX series has triumphantly returned, making its big debut on current generation consoles…
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The Original Prince of Persia Gets a Gorgeous HD iOS Makeover
Speaking of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, a beautiful high-definition remaster of his original masterpiece is now available for the iPhone and iPad, complete with new modes and animated cut scenes. Who’s up for a field trip to Persia?
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Think You’ve Got Problems? What About the Pokémon Trainers?
World hunger? War? Global warming? Nonsense! Too long have the beleaguered Pokémon trainers of the world suffered quietly under their own first world problems. With one video, Kotaku reader csanders984 has become the voice of millions. Trust a member of the Kotaku community to have his finger on the pulse of the problems facing the…
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The Case of the Foul-Smelling PS Vita Case
Those pretty plastic peripherals can be painfully pungent, as commenter Hongo found out after his recent purchase of a place to keep his PS Vita. It’s Stink Up on Kotaku! Never before have I bought an item that stunk. Ok, a few of them, but I’m talking about literally smelling of some foul odor. Enter…
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Can Metroid and Crush 3D Make Up for a Week Without WiiWare?
Is it me, or is the Nintendo Download shrinking? This week we’ve got a beloved classic and the demo of an upcoming puzzle platformer for the 3DS, a spot the difference game for DSiWare, and that’s pretty much it. I might cradle my Wii and cry. At least it’s a pretty great week for 3DS…
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A Delightfully Convoluted Overview of Minecraft 1.2’s Finer Points
Who needs a bullet list of features when you can go on a glorious Rube Goldberg-esque journey through the wonders of Minecraft 1.2? Generikb the Minecraft Hermit painstakingly crafted this incredible Minecraft machine to demonstrate how cats scare Creepers, zombies break down doors, and the sky (which is the limit) is now a little less…
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BioShock Infinite Plunges Out of the Sky October 16
The wait for Ken Levine’s game now has a definitive conclusion, as Irrational Games and 2K announce an October 16 release date for BioShock Infinite in North America, with an international release October 19. Apparently it takes three days for a flying city full of maniacs to cross the Atlantic.
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Rest in Peace, EverQuest Online Adventures. We Hardly Knew Ye Were Still Operational
After nine years of operating in a quiet corner away from prying mainstream gaming eyes, the PlayStation 2-based EverQuest Online Adventures will cease to be come March 29, along with Cosmic Rift, Infantry and Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga. Let us read up on these games on Wikipedia and then have a moment of silence…
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