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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of October 14
Happy weekend, Kotaku! Did you know we debuted a new feature this week? It’s called Last-Gen Heroes (and Zeroes) where, as we approach a new generation, the whole team looks back at the winners and losers of the last generation in gaming. We (and lots of you readers!) have already contributed a ton of good…
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A Game Where You’re A Rotating Limo Shouldn’t Make Sense But It Does
Is this real life? Of course not, because this is exactly the kind of scenario that could only work in a video game. And isn’t it wonderful. Your name is Georgio Manos and you’re a chauffeur driving around in a revolving limousine. Which actually makes perfect sense, because the 1977 town of Roundabout is full…
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Bad Lip Reading Turns Game of Thrones Into Hilarious Nonsense
Please tell me you guys are aware of Bad Lip Reading? It’s a YouTube channel that dubs over conversations in movies and shows all with the intention of mistranslating what the characters are saying. And it’s almost always to hilariously nonsensical results. It’s been five months—five long months—since we’ve seen this silly humor on YouTube,…
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Mario Games Are Better When They Change
Do you know Mario? Do you really know Mario? The long and storied history of the plumber (ahem, not janitor) has been a crazy ride through all sorts of changes, new settings and new features. And it’s those changes that make up the core of the games he stars in. It’s also the reason why…
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The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of October 7
New York Comic Con is in session this weekend, Beyond: Two Souls released and we’re still trying to find our footing in GTA Online. Plus other stuff you can read about over on Kotaku Selects And above? Is Nick Furry. The pic from MigraineSky is a little old, but in the spirit of Halloween and…
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A Horror Game From 2001 Still Has The Best Ending In Gaming History
It’s not enough to have multiple endings in a video game to make it feel like a satisfying conclusion to the hours you’d just spent making your way there. There’s a real art to constructing an ending, and throwing three options you can click your way to with one button doesn’t suffice. Of course, you…
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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: EtchedChamp talks about what it feels like to revisit your Animal Crossing town after being away for so long, Marsh Naylor answers the question of whether you should get a 2DS or not, and Zarnyx talks about a love for Cowboy Bebop and its soundtrack
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Saints Row IV‘s Next DLC Stars An Evil Dominatrix
See that scantily clad dominatrix? She’s your new villain this month in Saints Row IV. You’ll be fighting her and her army of sex-workers. Seriously. Check her out: Remember the expansion we were going to get for Saints Row: The Third? It was called Enter The Dominatrix. Volition is still calling it by that same…
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XCOM Has Changed. See For Yourself.
Strategy games have a tendency to straddle an area between slow, decisive moves and the chaos of action happening seemingly out of your hands and all around you. Some strategy games are slower-paced than others. As tense as things can get in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, it’s more or less leaned towards the ease of turn-based…
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Saints Row Does Relationships Better Than Most Video Games
If you find yourself discussing the merits of relationships represented in video games, you’ll probably find a lot of people bringing up BioWare games as examples to follow. The Saints Row series doesn’t seem like a serious suggestion considering, well, how unserious those games are. And yet if you look beyond the dick jokes and…
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How To Survive Driving Into The Ocean In GTA V (And Other Fun Facts)
Speaking of the little details that make GTA V so great, here’s a video that answers questions I didn’t even know I had. Like, does a helmet actually do anything to protect your head? Can a car run out of gas? Can a car that’s run out of gas still explode? If a tree falls…
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Excellent Battlefield 4 Beta Elevator Shoots Players Into the Sky
Battlefield 4 is currently in beta. So is the elevator that shoots players into the sky. Some gamers have been having a lot of fun with it, including this guy who uses it to leap above a sniper and surprise-kill him from behind. That’s the video above, by Stun_gravy. Here’s a fun discovery one, via…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 30th
It’s been a bumpy, weird week what with Tom Clancy’s passing and all the craziness going on in the rest of the real world. The virtual world has been kind of shaky, too, considering GTA Online‘s struggles. Also I sprained my ankle, so there’s that. While all of that is going on, feel free to…
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Proof That Trevor Is The Best GTA V Character
Hands down. No competition. Nothing comes close to that crazy, gross gross gross dude. Mild spoilers for fun Trevor moments (nothing for the plot) in the video above. If you rather have your experience completely fresh, feel free to skip this one. The folks at Machinima put together a montage of Trevor’s transition moments—those moments…
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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: StygianKnight explains why he’s holding off on getting the PS4, EtchedChamp discusses different ways video games handle death and violence, Leigh Harrison wonders about all the little things you can do in GTA V alongside all the very violent things you can do.
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