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If This Was An Official Nintendo Commercial, Maybe People Would Know What The Hell A Wii U Is
A lot of people don’t seem to realize what the Wii U is. Is this cryptic Nintendo commercial just another Wii? I don’t get it, some people said. Even Michelle Obama didn’t make the distinction But maybe this commercial would help clear up that this is a new console. Or, hell, maybe it’d make things…
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Watch This Guy Shoot $20,000 Worth of Real-Life Far Cry 3 Weaponry
FPS Russia is one of my favorite YouTubers, because I get to live vicariously through him shooting weapons that I doubt I could get my hands on. Yesterday the esteemed shooter uploaded a video to show off some of Far Cry 3‘s weapons, which Kirk is a big fan of Watch FPS Russia shoot Far…
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Behold The Terror of Far Cry 3‘s Goat Island
The uprising has begun, and you’re trapped on an island with the rebel goats. YouTuber Robbaz used Far Cry 3‘s editor to create a fictional universe where goats are your primary enemy. It’s a silly video, but it’s fun to watch the goats fly into the air because of explosions. I would play the hell…
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Portal On A TI Calculator, AKA Thing #52 I Wish I Had When I Was In High School
Yes, this is real. Yes, you can download it. No, I’m not excited that you use a TI calculator every day and no, I can’t just be happy for you. In my day we did actual math in math class. I want cool things, too! Hmph. Portal on a TI calculator! (new video) [YouTube via…
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How To Access Skyrim‘s New ‘Dragonborn’ Content That Releases Today
New Skyrim DLC releases today. We’ll have impressions up for you in just a short while, but in the meantime you might want to know how to actually access the content yourself. Game Front is here to the rescue, explaining everything you need to know in the video above.
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Someone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.
From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.
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The Real Problem With BioShock Infinite‘s Box Art: Poor Trigger Finger Discipline
This weekend there was a big hoopla over BioShock Infinite‘s newly revealed box art. Fans complained that it was too standard and boring, and didn’t even feature Elizabeth, the focal point of the game. Where’s the beautiful sky city? Previous BioShock titles always had the iconic Big Daddy on the covers, what about Songbird? What…
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Mario’s Suburban Adventure As A Beaded Sprite Must Have Taken FOREVER To Film
Look at this video. Look at it. Look at how much time must have gone into painstakingly creating every one of Mario’s movements. You could say YouTuber lefvandebilder (made up of Marcus and Hannes Knutsson) has some skill with crafting beaded characters and putting them into stop motion videos. But this must have taken ages…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Up top, the first and last issues ever of Nintendo Power, which, sadly, will not be publishing any more issues. At least they went out on a classy note. Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we…
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Can We Be Childish For A Second? Because The Bromance In Hitman: Absolution Is Hilarious.
Hitman: Absolution is, for the most part, a serious game. It’s a great game. But there’s definitely some lowbrow humor at work. Kirk’s not the biggest fan of the back-to-back, incessant appearance of nasty jokes. But, and maybe it’s because I haven’t actually played the game yet, I find it hilarious in Achievement Hunter’s video…
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The Impressive, Beautiful, Somber Super Move Of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale‘s Big Daddy
About a week ago we all got the opportunity to get our hands on Sony’s brawler, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale I mentioned in my review that BioShock‘s Big Daddy was one of the highlights, if for nothing else than his third-level special move. It’s gorgeous, and one of the most uniquely done action moves that…
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Your Ideal PC Gaming Hardware
Here at Kotaku, not everyone is a fully-fledged PC gamer. But some of us would like to be. Like a certain Tina who has a certain birthday coming up this Friday. Who also has a certain older brother who spoils her. See where I’m going with this? So he and I will be doing our…
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Planetside 2‘s Art Director and Creative Director Are Answering Your Questions Live [Interview Closed]
Planetside 2 launched just last week. Have you guys picked up the large-scale first-person shooter yet? What do you think so far? Or maybe you haven’t picked it up yet. Or, if you’re like our own Luke Plunkett, maybe you’ve had trouble getting into the game. Maybe you have a few questions for the MMOFPS’s…
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My New Favorite Internet Cat Has A Stronger Heart Than Most
This is Anakin. He was born without a pelvis or either of his back legs, but you’d never guess just by looking at how much energy and enthusiasm he has. And also by how he can move around practically uninhibited. Look at him climb! With only two limbs! Could you do that? I certainly couldn’t.…
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Check Out This Badass Scoped Crossbow You Get In Battlefield 3‘s Expansion That Releases Today
Battlefield 3: Aftermath releases today. If you’re a premium member… playing on Playstation 3. Xbox 360 and PC premium members get the DLC on December 4, followed by a December 11 on PS3 and December 18 on Xbox 360 and PC for the standard release. But what’s in it? The video up top will show…
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At Least 77,000 People Want To See GTA V Release On The PC
You know it’s more than that, but at the time of this writing there are 77, 361 official signatures proclaiming each person’s desire to see Rockstar’s next Grand Theft Auto title release on PC. And why shouldn’t it? After all, as the petition to Rockstar to get GTA V on PC offers, the PC modding…
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Watch Link Travel Through A Bunch Of Apple Products In This Pretty Short Film
The Legend of Zelda is a digital journey, but this particular journey transcends the digital. And it transcends the console, too. The paper effects you see off the computer (iPhone, iPad, etc) screens were rendered on Final Cut after the video was taken, but everything else is simply a matter of syncing up the individual…
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Pokéball Cosplayer Gives Birth To Pikachu And It’s Only Slightly Creepy
This is how Pikachus are born. Don’t let the pokéballs deceive you. The cosplay idea is cute. In theory. And I don’t want to be mean, but it does sort of creep me out. And I love kids! If anyone knows who is in the picture or where it’s originally from, drop a mention in…
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The Best Things In Video Games Are Broken
I finally saw Wreck-It Ralph over the Thanksgiving break. It was heartwarming, delightful, charming. It nudged at some big-name titles in ways that made me giggle and nod in recognition. It covered the bases of a handful of video game tropes. It made jokes in the form of clever puns and cute character behavior. But…
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