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New Call of Duty DLC Has Snoop Dogg Announce Your Kills
Wait, what? A few things. Why does this exist and why didn’t this already exist? Regardless of the answers to these pressing questions, Call of Duty: Ghosts now officially has the best announcer in all of first-person shooters. The lines weren’t written by Snoop Dogg, but they may as well have been considering how naturally…
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I Think I Found My New Favorite Titanfall Move
Instead of calling in your Titan just as the match is ending to unload on the enemy dropship, what if you saved your Titan? Just for a bit longer? At the end of this episode of DefendTheHouse’s latest Mythbusters show they call in their Titan just as the dropship’s health is nearing its end. The…
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Kotaku UK Is Officially Live
If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK’s own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today. If you have any questions about what this means for you as a reader, the lovely Keza MacDonald—the UK site’s editor—has all the answers To…
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Titanfall‘s Next New Modes Will Be Free
During their PAX East panel today, Respawn announced that they’re working on new modes for Titanfall. These updates, in addition to other micro updates that they’ve already been working on, will be completely free to owners of the game. The first mode they’re working on is a two-on-two version of the already-existing Last Titan Standing…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 7
It’s officially PAX weekend! If you’re not out and about in Boston checking out games and hanging out with gamers, you can catch up on this week’s best content over at Kotaku Selects You know, I’d almost forgotten how funny Animal Crossing can be. Fortunately Moosh Koosh reminded me. To contact the author of this…
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Get A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Kotaku
The full force of Kotaku NYC (some of whom are too busy playing Threes on their respective devices in this picture here) will be headed to Boston this weekend for PAX East for fun game things, reporting things, and hanging out things. But we’ll also be hosting a panel on Friday morning. It’s called Kotaku’s…
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The Next Big Borderlands Game Will Let You Play As Claptrap
If you’ve ever just looked up at the sky while playing a Borderlands game you might’ve noticed the big H-shaped, Hyperion-owned moonbase suspended ominously in space above the planet Pandora. Well, in the next big Borderlands game, coming out this fall, you’ll be going to that moon. I spent part of my Friday last week…
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Watch All Of Today’s Smash Bros. Reveals, Right Here
If you missed it, all 39 minutes of today’s Nintendo Direct covering the next Smash Bros. game is right here for you to watch. Come for the character reveals—like Charizard!—and stay for the wacky fighting styles of The Villager and the Wii Fit goons. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or…
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Here’s What Will Get You Banned In Super Smash Bros.
During today’s Nintendo Direct covering all things Smash Bros, the director of the game—Masahiro Sakurai—outlined the kinds of player behavior that will get you banned (or at least temporarily so) from the game. Good news for multiplayer players, who are accustomed to experiencing at least some level of some of these annoyances. And if this…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 31
Is it really already April? Yes, yes it is. You can read up on all of Kotaku‘s best content from this week (and, really, all of 2014) over at Kotaku Selects, which is hand-curated by me. And if you’re going to PAX East next weekend be sure to come to the official Kotaku panel on…
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What’s Really Fun About Dark Souls II
It’s not just that it’s “difficult.” It’s not that it beats you down, over and over again, sometimes pushing you to the brink of frustration and frustration’s cousin: rage quitting. Dark Souls II is enjoyable because you can overcome that. Because you can be better—tougher, wiser—than the challenges it throws your way. Imagine that: tougher…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 24
It’s Saturday! That means cartoons, marathoning TV shows with your favorite person, and Dark Souls II. Wait that last one was me. Oh and also catching up on our best content over at Kotaku Selects And in bizparulz‘s world, that means Popeye and Mega Man are BFFs and they’ll be marathoning some show together today,…
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Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin Rags On The Need For Speed Movie
No, really. He hated it. Including the bits with Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul. Although, Jeff Garlin did admit on Conan O’Brien’s show that he only lasted for about 20 minutes before needing to leave the theater, mouth agape. So maybe it got marginally better thereafter? I don’t know. I didn’t see it. The only…
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Someone’s Pretending To Be Obama While Playing Titanfall
Probably the best thing about these videos from GameSocietyPimps is that everyone involved is such a good sport. Often these “character plays a multiplayer first-person shooter” pranks lean toward the cruder side, but this impression artist stays in fairly true character. Imagine Key & Peele’s Obama skit but a little less…angry. But in these rounds,…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 17
GDC week is over and we have no more Project Morpheus’ and Oculus Rifts to play with 🙁 But if you want to read about our impressions of both of these and catch up on other interesting articles from this week, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects The image above is by mnrART. This is…
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Cats Playing Fruit Ninja
It’s not just humans who like playing Fruit Ninja. Cats in particular seem to love the swipe-to-slash game. This compilation is brought to you, oddly enough, by Fabulous Mr. Pug. Next I think we need a competitive Fruit Ninja tournament to determine the very best Fruit Ninja cat player I wish my cat was into…
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Final Fantasy X Gave Me Control, After Spinal Surgery Took It Away
I owe a lot to Final Fantasy X. It was the first game to end up meaning a lot to me. It was the first game I poured over obsessively, thumbing through a thick guidebook to make sure I’d discovered all the celestial weapons for every character. The first game I would start right back…
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