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Which Assassin’s Creed Origins Glitch Is More Nightmare-Inducing?
Which would you rather avoid in the latest Assassin’s Creed game, animals twisted into human shapes, or humans with no faces? It’s a tough call. The glitch that makes animals spawn in seemingly humanoid poses that their textures cannot handle,as demonstrated by Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips on Twitter, definitely has an evil air about it. I’m…
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Eve Developer CCP Stops Making VR Games, Drops Two Studios
In 2013, Eve Online developer CCP Games introduced Eve: Valkyrie, one of the current crop of virtual reality hardware’s flagship titles. Today the company announced it is halting VR development, closing, selling and streamlining studios, letting go of “around 100″ employees in the process. CCP’s restructuring, prompted by “reduced investments in virtual reality and an…
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Lego Brings Back One Of Its Biggest Sets Ever
Up until the release of this year’s Ultimate Collector’s Edition Millennium Falcon, Lego’s 2008 rendition of India’s famous mausoleum was the biggest Lego set in production. Lego’s bringing the $370, 5,923 piece set back next month for its 10th anniversary. Standing 16 inches tall and 20 inches wide and deep, the Lego Taj Mahal is…
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The French On Ys VIII‘s Vita Box Is Literal Nonsense
Earlier this month NIS America pledged to re-localize Japanese RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana after fans complained about the game’s shoddy translation. They’re also fixing the French on the Vita cover art, which currently begins, “I am sorry I have to leave you, but I must buy a hat.” With most of my games…
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Lego Worlds‘ Monster Pack Is Creepy And Kooky
Just in time for everything to be getting all spooky, Lego Worlds releases its new Monster DLC pack, featuring the creepiest people, places and things made from colorful plastic brick. Let’s take a spin around Monster World. The Monster pack contains a whole lot of spooky new stuff, from magnificient haunted houses to the most…
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Hellboy Beats The You-Know-What Out Of His Opponents In Injustice 2
The inclusion of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy as a guest character in the second wave of Injustice 2 DLC fighters was one of this year’s nicest surprises. What’s no surprise is how much ass the stone-fisted hellspawn is going to kick when he arrives on November 14. Check out our boy in action. It’s fitting that…
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Four Years, Three Xbox Ones
Xbone, Xbones, Xbonex. Three iterations of the same console, each with slightly different specs, released within a four-year window. The Xbox One X has arrived in Kotaku’s Southeastern office, and while we can’t talk about how it performs yet, we can at least show you how it stacks up to the Xbox Ones that came…
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X-Bows Ergonomic Keyboard Review: Strange Shape, Great Typing
Last month Iintroduced readers to the X-Bows, a weird-looking mechanical keyboard featuring a unique cross-radial layout designed to keep the wrists straight and typing strain to a minimum. Now that I’ve gotten my hands on it, weird feels pretty good. The X-Bows story sounds like something you’d hear in a late night/early morning infomercial. Dr.…
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Look At These Little Hanzo And Genji Action Figures
Now that Tracer, Mei andMercy have been transformed into adorable action figures by Good Smile Company, it’s the guys’ turn. Brothers-at-odds Hanzo and Genji Shimada join the big-headed battle next year. Look at Hanzo’s little beard! Seriously, the beard is the best. While the Hanzo Nendoroid figure’s expressions capture the seriousness of the former leader…
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Final Fantasy Dimensions II arrives on iOS and Android on November 1. The sequel to 2012’s all-new old-school Final Fantasy game, which we liked for the most part, this one is the standalone version of a game that was originally released in Japan in 2015 and then updated and rebranded in 2016.
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How To Play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp On iOS Right Now
So you want to play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, but it’s only available in soft-launch in Australia. Here’s a quick, easy and only slightly shady way to create an iTunes account in another country, straight from your iPhone or iPad. First, go into your phone or tablet’s settings and sign out of your normal iTunes account.…
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Apparently People Really Want Fruit Ninja Tabletop Games
One wouldn’t imagine the frantic slicing action of Halfbrick Studios’ breakout mobile hit Fruit Ninja would translate well in the tabletop gaming space. Well surprise: In just under four hours, Lucky Duck Gameshas successfully raised $10,500 to create not one but three different physical Fruit Ninja games. Decidedly less messy and dangerous than just buying…
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Battleborn Updates Are Over, So It Can Die In Peace
Thefinal update for Gearbox’s failed hero shooter Battleborn arrived last week, tweaking game mechanics slightly, fixing a few bugs and adding some new skins and taunts before closing the door on continued development. It did not have a good run. Asannounced in September, the fall update for Battleborn is its last dose of new content.…
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Opus Magnum Is A Delightfully Esoteric PC Game
Behold the marvelous science of alchemy, in which a modest molecule of lead, through careful programming of the transmutation engine, can be transformed into shimmering gold. All this and more is possible in Opus Magnum, a most elegant mechanical puzzle game from the maker of SpaceChem. From the production-line chemistry of SpaceChem to the electronics…
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Lego Dimensions Is Officially Over
After two years spent bringing together characters from 30 different cartoon, television and movie properties in one massive virtual playground, Lego Dimensions is officially done. While TT Games will continue to provide server and customer support for the expansive Lego toys-to-life game, no further expansion sets will be produced for Lego Dimensions. Official word was…
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