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Look At This $1,400 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Replica
South Korean toy company Blitzway has created the perfect accessory for its line of 12-inch premium original Ghostbusters figures. The sixth-scale Ecto-1 replica is over 40 inches long, more than big enough to fit all four figures and accessories. Also, it costs nearly $1,400 dollars. Now before we go on and on about how expensive…
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CultureMario Deserves Better Than Knock-Off Lucky Charms
The most exciting thing about new Super Mario Cereal is the box. That’s just sad. Announced last week and showing up in stores starting December 11, Super Mario Cereal is essentially a generic Lucky Charms knock-off. It’s got star-shaped oat bits and three types of vaguely Mario-ish marshmallows. It’s not bad, it’s just not anything…
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GTA Online’s Doomsday Heists Takes Players Inside Mount Chilliad (With Jetpacks)
Jet packs, flying cars, underwater cars and a trip inside the mysterious Mount Chilliad—all that and more look like they’ll be part of The Doomsday Heist, a surprise “epic new online adventure” Rockstar announced today for Grand Theft Auto Online. It’ll be out on December 12. GTA Online players have spent years trying to unravel the…
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ReviewsMultiplatformNine Parchments: The Kotaku Review
When an explosion at the Astral Academy scatters nine magical parchments to the four winds, a group of irresponsible students sets off on an adventure to retrieve the lost magic for their own mischievous use. At least it should be a group. Action RPG Nine Parchments can be played alone, but where’s the fun in…
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Time to start bringing your Switch to the grocery store. Snacktaku has confirmed that the Amiibo included on boxes of Super Mario Cereal can be scanned without opening the box, which means coins and hearts for Super Mario Odyssey will be available in the cereal aisle starting December 11.
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Razer Phone Review: The Right Way To Make A Gaming Phone
Previous attempts at creating a gaming-centric smartphone include phones with slide-out game controllers, a cross between a Sony PlayStation Portable and a phone and the Nokia N-Gage. For its first gaming phone, Razer went with a powerful black rectangle with a stunning display and outstanding speakers. Smart move. Rather than creating a frankensteinian hybrid of…
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Coming to Injustice 2 December 12, The Atom speaks to the tiny fighter inside all of us by becoming the tiny fighter inside his opponents. How’d he get through Bane’s face mask? Love finds a way. Check out the gameplay trailer on YouTube for more of The Atom’s size-shifting shenanigans.
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The New Five Nights At Freddy’s Game Is Not What It Seems
Released today on Steam for free by Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is an old-school arcade game in which a bear tosses pizzas at hungry children. Or at least that’s how it starts. Cawthon’sbeen teasing the new game on his website, and here it is. Using simple WASD controls,…
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Video Game Characters Who Should Go On Mute
While playing through a recently-released role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch, I got to thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of simply turning voice-over on or off, we could selectively mute individual characters? Who would you silence? Aside from Tidus. Some characters are just too damn annoying to speak. Sometimes it’s about bad voice…
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Latest Google Doodle Game Celebrates 50 Years Of Teaching Kids To Code
Way back in the 1960s, researchers at MIT created Logo, an early programming language designed to teach children the basics of instruction-based coding. In honor of 50 years of teaching kids to code, Google has transformed its logo into a fun little rabbit-based coding game. Designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia…
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Final Fantasy XIV Bards Are Making Beautiful Music
A couple of weeks back, Square Enix finally gave Final Fantasy XIV Bards the ability to play real music. Now YouTube is filling with great (and only occasionally terrible) Bard performances. Since Square Enix’s has users agree to not use the new Bard tools to recreate third-party music, most of the tunes showing up online…
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Final Fantasy XV’s Multiplayer Is Great Fun In Small Doses
To some, Final Fantasy XV’s multiplayer expansion pack is an entertaining (if mildly frustrating) way to experience Square Enix’s epic RPG with friends. For others, it’s a hell of a lot of work to find a decent dress shirt. I’m somewhere in between. Since the events that unfold in the Comrades expansion take place after…
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Fallout 4 Looks Better On Xbox One X But Runs Slightly Smoother On PS4 Pro
The Xbox One X update for Fallout 4 arrived this week, and while Microsoft’s machine delivers the best-looking un-modded version of the game on a console, Digital Foundry’s in-depth comparison found the PlayStation 4 Pro’s version ran a tiny bit smoother. That’s the difference full 4K makes. The Xbox One X is a more powerful…
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Colorful and quirky PS4 puzzle box game Gnog is now available on iOS. The game works well on touchscreen devices, using taps and swipes to open hatches, flip switches and generally poke about in order to solve a series of clever mechanical puzzles. Check out our PS4 impressions for more on Ko-op Mode’s charming little…
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We won’t be playing the Final Fantasy VII remake anytime soon, but Mobius Final Fantasy players can step into the boots of the long-awaited game’s hero starting tomorrow. Remake Cloud joins Lightning as the game’s second Ultimate Hero, with players who equip his card transforming into Mr. Poutyface himself.
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Fan Immortalized In Original .Hack//G.U. Missing From Remaster
In 2007, Christopher “Ichida” MacKinnon and two other Bandai forum moderators were featured as an arena team in the third volume of PlayStation 2 RPG series .hack//G.U. This month’s remaster of the series inexplicably removed MacKinnon and another moderator’s character name. As MacKinnon tells it in a lengthy post on his personal Kinja page, back…
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There’s An Amiibo On Every Box Of Super Mario Cereal
Nintendo’s back in the game cereal game. Rumored for days and now confirmed, Super Mario Cereal becomes part of this nutritious breakfast in December. Every box is an Amiibo, unlocking gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey. In stores in North America as soon as December 11, Kellogg’s Super Mario Cereal is a mixed…
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Jazz Jackrabbit and Jazz Jackrabbit 2, a pair of gamesnear and dear to my arm, are now available for purchase on GOG.com, optimized to play on these newfangled modern computers. The hare pair are joined by Epic Pinball: The Complete Collection, another game that helped me while away the mid-’90s.
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