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Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 26
Is E3 seriously only a week away? Kill me now. Or just go catch up on our best stuff from this week over at Kotaku Selects. Bonus is that this week includes lots of pieces from me after a week of silence earlier this month. You can guess that I spent that week of silence…
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Meet The Shadow of Mordor Enemy I Couldn’t Kill
No two players’ experience will be the same in the upcoming Lord of the Rings game, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. In a recent preview, I explained how that is and how the Nemesis system fits into that. If you missed it, you can use the Nemesis system to target various warchiefs and have their bodyguards…
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Bethesda’s Newest Game Is Like Team Fortress Without Guns
Today Bethesda announced the first new title to come from their fairly new studio: Battlecry in development by…Battlecry. Battlecry is a free-to-play, third-person, 32-player team action combat game for PC. It plays and reads a lot like Team Fortress, but without the gunpowder. During a presentation in Los Angeles two weeks ago, Bethesda’s Pete Hines…
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PS4 Developer On What It Means To Be Next-Gen
Back when new-gen was known as next-gen, gamers and critics alike pondered and daydreamed about the kinds of experiences we’d get with new hardware and promises of impressive power. And a lot of that anticipation has been squarely on the topic of shiny visuals. But there’s more to the look of a game than just…
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The Evil Within Made Me Want To Throw Up
At some point, something happened and I stopped liking roller coasters. This was news to me. I used to love them as a kid. I was the first one running back down and around to the back of the line to ride them again. Now my stomach lurches and my neck feels uncomfortable and I’m…
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A Developer’s Defense Of 30 Frames Per Second
At the start of this new generation of consoles the debate of framerate and resolution importance still wages on. The gold standard to live by is a solid 60 fps and 1080p. If those numbers aren’t on a bullet pointed press release somewhere, eyebrows and questions are raised. But what if hitting 30 fps is…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 19
Happy long weekend, everyone. Come join us online over at Kotaku Selects to catch up on this week’s best content, as curated by me. This realistic sketch of Mega Man is by geeshin, found by Xombiedirge. Enjoy! And in full! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter…
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Watch Evolve‘s New Playable Characters In Action
Yesterday I said that Evolve, one of my most anticipated titles this year, plays differently every time I get my hands on it. You can read all about why that is, but you can also just see it in action right here instead. Chris and I chat about our experiences in the video above, which…
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The New LOTR Game Made Me Fight Dirty
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a revenge story. Sauron has returned to Mordor and a mystery wraith with a grudge has resurrected you to kill him. But from everything I played in a recent demo, it seems like the orcs and other creatures of Mordor should want revenge against me. In the roughly one hour…
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Evolve Feels Different Every Time I Play It
I have played roughly six rounds of Evolve and it’s been a different experience every time. By now many of you get the basic premise: Evolve is a cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter. You play either as one of four humans on a team of hunters going up against a fifth player, the monster. Last week…
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My First 40 Turns With Civilization: Beyond Earth
We’ve probably all theorized about fictional situations and how we’d deal with them. The zombie apocalypse, any end-of-the-world narrative, or maybe even less far-reaching scenarios like exploring and colonizing new planets in space. Well, just last week I got to put my hypothetical space adventure decisions to the test in the next chapter ofCivilization I…
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Halo 5: Guardians Announced For 2015
Today Microsoft and 343 announced the next installment in the Halo universe. It’s called Halo 5: Guardians, it’s all about Master Chief’s journey in moving on from the events of Halo 4, and it’ll be out in the fall of 2015 on Xbox One. “Halo 5: Guardians is a bigger effort than Halo 4,” 343…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 5
I don’t know about you guys, but I sure am grateful that this week is over. So let’s celebrate by reading all our best content right here. And if you want a t-shirt of the above Atari dig commemoration by pacalin found on Gamefreaks, here you go To contact the author of this post, write…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 28
Good morning! It’s finally (maybe?) starting to get warmer here in NY. But instead of enjoying the weather why not stay inside and catch up on some of our best stuff this week? Yeah that sounds like a better idea. Oh, and, Wash Dogs, 2014 most anticipated. Thanks, The Meme Center To contact the author…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 21
I don’t know about you, but I would totally watch a Miyazaki Spider-Man spin-off thing featuring Totoro. But in lieu of that, there’s a T-shirt over at Neatorama. And there’s also Kotaku Selects, there for your weekend Kotaku catch-up reading. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter…
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Here’s the topdown view of one of the maps that’s coming soon to Titanfall as part of a DLC map pack called Expedition. This one’s called War Games, designed after the tutorial mission simulator from the game. Here are some more shots: You can read more about their design philosophy on this particular map over…
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Call of Duty Player Tricks Others Into Virtually Killing Themselves
One of the best ways to play Call of Duty, or really most first-person shooters, is to ditch the guns and the traditional deathmatch and whatever modes. If you’ve never played it, knife-only matches can be a lot of fun. They can also be the perfect set up for some hilarious trickery. Enter the always-entertaining…
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A Puzzle Game That Makes You Kill Yourself To Win
Life Goes On embraces death in a way that most games don’t. Sure, lots of platformers embrace death in the sense that they know that landing the perfect jump will first require a lot of trial and error, but few make you intentionally kill yourself to get across from point A to point B. Here’s…
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