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An Xbox Marketplace listing for Alien: Isolation lines up with our reports from back in October of the game in development by Creative Assembly, starring Ellen Ripley’s daughter. Here’s the full description from the Xbox listing: Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread…
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Why Gabe Newell Isn’t Worried About The Xbox One
Sitting at Valve’s CES conference in Las Vegas today, one inquisitive audience member couldn’t help but ask…is Valve worried about keeping up with Microsoft’s momentum, having just announced 3 million units already sold? Here’s how it went down, transcription courtesy of Kirk: Question from the audience at a Valve CES presentation: Microsoft just announced 3…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of December 30th
Welp, folks, no more 2013. But you can browse a few 2013 (and some 2014) articles over at Kotaku Selects This image by Lily’s Factory, and found by Assorted Goodness, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Have a good weekend, everyone! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find…
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What Happens When Real-Life Sports Glitch Out On You
It might not be as wacky as the virtual world of sports glitches, but it’s certainly just as facepalm and chuckle-worthy. Presented above are the ten worst plays/moves/mess ups as gathered and commented over by ESPN. via Tastefully Offensive To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…
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Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Characters We Might See In The New Smash Bros. – by GiantBoyDetective | A Satirical Note To Games Critics – by March Naylor | Fate/Stay Night: Review Of A Visual Novel – by Rockmandash Don’t forget that you can always go join the…
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We know what video game stars should be working towards in 2014, but what about video game companies? Yesterday we posted some jokey promises protagonists should make for 2014, and in response Kotaku reader Arden posted a list of proposed promises video game companies should be making. They’re pretty great. Go give it a read…
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Rap Song Nails The Crappy Situation With YouTube
We’ve discussed YouTube’s Content ID issues at length here on Kotaku but no one puts it in any catchier way than YouTuber and rapper Dan Bull. His rhymes have always been clever, but they sound a lot more passionate when it’s got something to do with real life situations like these. I’ll let the song…
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Tips & Guides
How To Balance Video Games With Real Life
Growing up sucks. Jungle gyms are replaced by cubicles and healthy almonds replace gobs of Gushers. Or something like that. One of the worst things about growing up is that you never seem to have any time left over for yourself. For anything. Including video games, which are sometimes the first thing to go when…
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The Call of Duty: Ghosts That Could Have Been
The most recent Call of Duty release was pretty much a bust, but what if it looked a bit more like this? Would you play it then? Can you imagine the reaction it would have gotten? I believe most of it would be somewhere between stunned, mouths agape and a frantic running/yelling combination in the…
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Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: duchessofnuts defends Ubisoft, Ueziel looks back atthe year in gaming having played 103 games, Stormborn features tadpole Poliwrath in the Pokémon One a Day feature. Don’t forget that you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic and…
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The Promises Video Game Stars Should Make For 2014
2014?! Thank god. I was really getting tired of 2013. Hopefully 2014 will be rays of sunshine and progress and happiness to make up for the sludge that was 2013. Some prominent video game characters are with me on this. Let’s check in. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider Buy new outfits cause this one is getting…
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How To Get Drunk On Video Games Tonight
Aiming for a night in for New Year’s Eve? Especially if you live in a big city and want to avoid obnoxious crowds, I imagine you might be. So here are a few drinking game suggestions that involve a console and a couch and some friends. Oh and your alcohol of choice. Fun night: secured.…
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The Best Gifts You Got For The Holidays This Year
Every year there are bound to be some Christmas-spirit-raising gifts and a few well-intentioned duds. So we’d like to know…what’d you get? Best and worst gifts? Did you send someone one of our gift guides as a helpful nudge? Or maybe you bought someone something so perfect you just have to share? Here’s your venue…
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I Can’t Stop Staring At This T-Rex Staring At Me
Master of the optical illusion, brusspup, has recently uploaded a new video featuring a dinosaur of the tiny-armed variety. Staring at you. Wherever you go. That’s a pretty neat (creepy?) trick, no? Watch as one itty bitty T-Rex watches you like a lost puppy, and then 8 itty bitty ones, and then one big guy.…
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The Best Videos We Made In 2013
Twenty thirteen has been an interesting year for Kotaku. In between our usual efforts of reporting on news, reviewing games and generally trying to provide you with entertaining features, essays, images and everything else we could put onto a screen, we’ve also set out to have more of a video presence on the site. We…
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The Card Game That Brings Out The Best In Every Nerd
Who would win in a fight: Spider-Man or Batman? Ninja or pirate? Drunk Godzilla or Adventure Time’s Jake coupled with a million Twitter followers? Wait, what? In the video above, you can watch some of the Kotaku team make our cases in arguments that sound pretty much just like that last Godzilla versus Jake scenario.…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of December 16
It’s holiday time! Is everyone vacationing yet? Back home with the parents? I’m currently in freezing Upstate, New York, hanging out with my family and two rowdy dogs. If you need to catch up on Kotaku (or an excuse to zone out for a while amidst family business) browse our best content over at Kotaku…
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The 5 Worst Moments In The New Walking Dead, With Spoilers
It’s only the first episode of the new season to Telltale’s horrifically wonderful The Walking Dead episodic series and I’m already all torn up. I gave you my non-spoilery impressions of the episode already. Now let’s have a thorough, completely spoilery discussion of the events that transpired in the recent All That Remains episode. ***…
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Tina’s Top 10 Games of 2013
What a year it’s been, this, the Year of Luigi. As our list of Game of the Year nominations may have shown you, there were a lot of great games this year. And a lot of great games that can easily compete for the title of Official Best Game Of 2013. And while only one…
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