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Sunday Comics: Fox Meat
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published January 10. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
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Real-Time Syrian Refugee Game Bury Me, My Love Is Now On Switch And You Should Play It
Over the last few years, there have been a few mobile games that use the cell phone interface itself as a way to play. There’s boy-flirt-extravaganza Mystic Messenger, which takes place within an instant messaging app. You could try to unlock a stranger’s phone in A Normal Lost Phone, and go through the emails, texts…
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Luigi’s Mansion Speedrun Makes Me Excited For Luigi’s Mansion 3
I owned Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube when I was slightly smaller than I am now. My younger brother and I would try to get through its spooky, ghost-filled levels together, sharing tips and wasting our parents’ printer ink on 30-page guides off the internet. But really, Luigi’s Mansion owned me I’ve never been great with…
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Heartbreaking Divinity: Original Sin 2 Speedrun Highlights How Luck Is A Speedrunner’s Nemesis
Awesome Games Done Quick is the speedrunning equivalent of the Olympics, only more frequent and featuring way more pizza. But what happens when a speedrunner has the equivalent of a loose shoelace? Semanari was due to complete a tricky Divinity: Original Sin 2 speedrun on Friday, January 11, with an estimated time of 19 minutes…
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10,000 Elite Dangerous Players Start An 18-Week Journey Across The Galaxy
Four years ago, in space-exploration game Elite Dangerous, an explorer by the name of Erimus set out on a journey he called “Distant Suns.” This trip took three months and over 130,000 light years to complete, and exists now as a 13-part travel log on YouTube. Tomorrow, January 13, Erimus will lead the expedition “Distant…
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Destiny 2‘s Impossible Puzzle Might Have Been Broken All Along
Destiny 2 players have finally completed the seventh and final Niobe Labs puzzle—you know, the one that was apparently so hard that Bungie had to give up hope of anyone solving it. This success is not the result of any last-minute Sherlockian breakthroughs, however, but because the puzzle itself was broken. Late on Friday, January…
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Sexy Medieval Men Are Waiting For You In Robin Morningwood
We’re all aware of the kind of tropes that porn scripts employ to get their actors from point A to point Fisting. Plumbers turn up to help out housewives with no cash; pizza delivery boys decide to take a different form of payment than monetary; your stepsister is weirdly into the idea of having sex…
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Ten-Dollar PS4 Gift Cards Have Beaten Out Twenty-Dollar Ones On Amazon
The titan has been toppled. Amazon’s 2018 list of best-selling video games (and video game accessories) has revealed that the $20 PS4 gift card—2017’s best-seller—is now in third place, behind the more affordable $10 gift card. But what could have caused such a fall from grace? I have a few theories. If you buy two…
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Sunday Comics: Beard Water
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 31. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published January 3. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
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There Was Nearly A Sequel To Space Jam About Skateboarding
Tony Hawk could have been the next Michael Jordan, but instead we live in the timeline where he’s just that guy who gets mistaken for Tony Hawk a lot He hasn’t done badly, it’s just that Michael Jordan actually met Bugs Bunny, and no amount of skateboarding awards can ever reach those lofty heights. But,…
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LGBTQ Video Game Exhibition Opens In Berlin
Berlin’s Schwules Museum has opened a brand new exhibition named “Rainbow Arcade” to celebrate the history of LGBTQ culture and stories in video gaming. The exhibition was co-curated by curator and PR for the museum, Jan Schnorrenberg; German game journalist Sarah Rudolph; and Dr Adrienne Shaw. Dr Shaw is a professor and author with a specialism…
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Here’s Where, When, And How To Watch Awesome Games Done Quick 2019
Can it really be that time again? Awesome Games Done Quick is upon us once more, showcasing the very best and very fastest of speedrunners in a week-long marathon of Personal Bests and ridiculous glitch manipulations. Update: All times displayed are UTC-5. Check the schedule to find out the times in your own timezone. AGDQ…
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Did You Know That The New York Times Makes Games?
Me neither. But according to a January 5 post on the NY Times website, they have a whole team of game designers on staff. The piece is written by Sam Von Ehren, one of the game designers that works at the company. Given that the demographic of NY Times readers is probably not particularly knowledgeable…
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Independent Games Festival 2019 Finalists Announced, Return Of The Obra Dinn Leads The Pack
The Independent Games Festival, known as the IGF, has announced its finalists for 2019’s awards show, which will be held at the Game Developers’ Conference on March 20. Sweeping the nominations this year is piratical murder-mystery-and-insurance-inspection adventure game, Return of the Obra Dinn, the newest game from Papers Please developer, Lucas Pope. With five nominations…
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There’s A Massive Tiny House Community In The Sims 4
Tiny houses are, perhaps, one of the greatest/worst legacies of late capitalism. Forced into increasingly minuscule apartments because of housing prices and baby-boomer landlords trying to maximize their income, millennials are getting into house ownership the only way they can: by purchasing (and, sometimes, building) property that crams as much house into a tiny space…
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You Should Play Do Not Feed The Monkeys
20th century sci-fi was so hopeful. By now, we should have flying cars, but instead we have Elon Musk. We should have robots that do all our chores, but instead we have a Russian guy pretending to be a robot. We should have stopped pollution, gone to Mars, reversed climate change. Instead, we have… none…
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Yakuza 0 Is Really Cheap On PC Right Now
If your New Year’s resolution was to continue building your unplayed pile of shame to unsustainable heights, then you’ll be delighted to know that the first Humble Monthly bundle of 2019 features two excellent games for $12: Yakuza 0 and Tom Clancy’s The Division. Play The Division if you like—although it’s only two more months…
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Warner Bros. Pulls LEGO Lord of the Rings Games From Steam, Doesn’t Say Why
Bad news for fans of LEGO, Lord of the Rings, and buying things: Warner Bros. has taken The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit away from us—possibly forever. The saga seemingly began when the two games were free on the Humble Store last month, sparking debate over whether new games were on the horizon—or…
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That Time I Created All The Greek Gods In The Sims And Made Them Have Sex
Ingenuity is a child’s greatest asset and most dangerous weapon. When you’re small, you aren’t aware of limits yet, because you haven’t bounced off them like a dog on a sliding door. The only limit you have is your imagination. NSFW Warning: This post contains brief, classy cartoon nudity of the sort you might see…
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Sexing My Way Through Ancient Greece In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
If there’s anything I learned studying Classics at university, it’s that our respected ancient ancestors were total horndogs. That’s why I’m so happy Assassin’s Creed Odyssey embraces historical bonkery to the extent that it does. People generally imagine historical figures the way they imagine their grandparents: shirts buttoned up right to the neck, using beds…
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