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Senior reporter at Kotaku, streaming Mario deaths at youtube.com/patrickklepek
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It’s been a few months since Dark Souls 3 came out, and speedrunners have greatly reduced their times due to a…
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Counter-Strike gambling sites may not be long for this world, as Valve has sent a letter demanding they change…
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In wholly unexpected but totally awesome news, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is hitting PS4, Xbox One, and PC this September. One of the new additions is an adventure mode that has you fighting huge bosses. Neat.
Actor Terry Crews has spent the last week showing the world the process of building his first gaming PC. It’s been…
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Just a few days after Twitch announced it would be cracking down on folks streaming Counter-Strike gambling sites,…
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As the summer rolls on, grab a brew and sit down for Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing…
Grow Up, a sequel the delightful Ubisoft platformer Grow Home from last year, arrives on August 16. This time around, the world is much, much bigger, as your cute lil’ robot tries to reach the moon.
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Though Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is coming later this year, people might be more excited about the remastering…
Twitch is following in Valve’s footsteps, and will shut down streamers using Counter-Strike gambling sites. Those…
Twitch is one of the most popular video services still using Flash, with most everyone else having transitioned to…
Earth Defense Force, the sci-fi action series known primarily for having big bugs and a terrible frame rate, is coming to the PC via Steam on July 18. The PC version is Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair and features an English dub for the first time. (And presumably a decent frame rate, too.)
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A third Ghostbusters movie arrives in theaters this week, after decades of trying to revive the comedy sci-fi…
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The final moments of Inside are tense and unexpected, but it’s only one way for it to end. Theories about the secret…
As part of Ubisoft’s 30th anniversary, the company is offering the original Splinter Cell for free via Uplay. This promotion kicked off last month with Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and runs through December.
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Killer Instinct’s legendarily cheesy “Killer Cuts” album is being remastered and sold on vinyl this Friday at the 1am8bit store. I’m not ashamed to admit that my friends and I regularly listened to this soundtrack unironically!
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Insomniac Games was previously known for big games like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance. These days, they’re…
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Sega Saturn disc drives are beginning to die off. Until now, it meant your machine might be useless. Thanks to…
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Quadrilateral Cowboy, a long-in-development hacking game from the brilliant designer behind Thirty Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone, hits on July 25. It’ll launch first on Windows, with Mac and Linux in September.
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When Pokémon Go was announced last September, the amazing trailer promised a game more ambitious than what launched…