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1/5/2015: What Link Needed All Along
Who needs a sword when you can have knowledge. Picures in Boxes knows what’s up. Feel free to peruse some of our best stuff from the week over on Kotaku Selects, where I round it all up for you. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…
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Destiny Players’ Best Guesses As To What A Mysterious Red Box Is
If you’re a Destiny player you may have run across one of these red boxes and never thought anything of it. But some creative players have taken notice and they sure do have some funny theories about what this seemingly random red box is. This isn’t the same as the Red Box farming area—one of…
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New Theory About Destiny‘s Universe: Time Is A Circle
Just playing Destiny as the shooting-grind it can often amount to won’t tip you off to some of its cooler details. You might never guess the connections to the Dark Souls series or the impacts of some of its other lore. But TerraMantis is back with more things about Bungie’s latest game that you might…
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12/29/2014: Remembering Fallen Comrades In Games
There have been some genuinely rough moments of loss in video games, especially if XCOM: Enemy Unknown taught us anything. Pain Train Comic commemorates that hardship in their New Years comic above. If you’re not too sad or still making a list of resolutions, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects, where I’ve rounded up our…
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‘Flinch’ Is Going Away For Halo 5, Developers Say
“Flinch,” or the penalty of your aiming reticle getting moved up when shot, has long been a controversial feature in the Halo games. But that flinch animation that players have been noticing in Halo 5‘s beta will soon be removed, according to 343’s Josh Holmes. The flinch feature appeared most notoriously in Halo 4, which…
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12/22/2014: No N64 Christmas Gift For You
Uh maybe you should have thought about leaving milk and cookies out if you wanted Santa to leave your gifts out. Pain Train Comic knows what’s up. I bet you Pain Train Comic got their N64 this year. If you’re just waking up from holiday laziness, feel free to peruse our stuff from this week…
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Old Folks Try QWOP, Are Also Utterly Confused
You can see the gears turning as they figure out that moves have to be coordinated in a rhythmic fashion to get your QWOPer to qwoperate (had to), but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating for them. This isn’t the first time YouTube channel React has had elders try out video game phenomenon for…
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If Nintendo Ran The Hunger Games
It’s the Annual Smash Games and Wii Fit Trainer and Mega Man have been chosen as tributes. Machinima have put together their parody of The Hunger Games films in the vision of Nintendo and Smash Bros. It plays out pretty much how you’d expect. Merry Christmas! To contact the author of this post, write to…
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Destiny Glitch Tells An Unexpected Story
It’s not too often that a glitch plays out as more than just a funny moment or even an exploitable trick. But this Destiny glitch is…exceptional. Player leftyfl1p shares the video above that tells the story of Billy, the adventurous Thrall that wanted to lead his fireteam to a chest filled with potential armor and…
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Hitman Is The Official Worst Host Of A Christmas Party
You probably don’t want to attend a Hitman-hosted Christmas party. Unless you like tons of murder and awkward physics, of course. Then I guess you do. Playful YouTuber Robbaz celebrates Christmas once again by playing through video games for us, this year wandering through a Christmas party in Hitman: Blood Money. The mission—You Better Watch…
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Halo 5‘s Aiming Has Changed, And Not Everyone Likes It
If you’re a longtime Halo fan, you know that a good amount of the weapons in your arsenal would only fire from the hip. That is, compared to most popular first-person shooters, they had no scope system. But in Halo 5, developers 343 are implementing something they call smart-link—which is essentially an aiming-down-the-sights scoping feature—and…
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12/15/2014: And That’s How Kirby Became A Christmas Tree
Alex‘s Christmas gift to everyone is this adorable transformation Kirby undergoes for the holidays. Well, gift to everyone but that tree—just look at how horrified it looks the whole time. While you’re undoubtedly gathering with friends and family, be sure to look back over our best stuff from this week at Kotaku Selects. And then…
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How To ‘Ground Pound’ And Other New Moves In Halo 5‘s Multiplayer Beta
Now that the Halo 5 multiplayer is officially in session, you might want to pull off one of those new movement abilities you may have heard of. You can see them all in action in HaloFollower’s video above—with details explaining things like how your shield won’t recharge if you’re sprinting. But what about their basic…
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New Minecraft Game Coming from Makers of The Walking Dead Game
Minecraft is getting a story, and it’ll be told through the lens of a narrative-driven game by Telltale. Minecraft: Story Mode won’t lay down the groundwork for any official lore, Mojang has said, but it will include characters and themes from the Minecraft universe. Here’s the announcement from Telltale: Minecraft: Story Mode will be an…
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A Duel Between Two Destiny Snipers
This battle between snipers goes through many stages, all of them hilarious. At first, I’m expecting MoneyLoo to land a crazy shot off a camping sniper through the tiniest crack between stacks of crates. Then it’s a silly back and forth while the two snipers strafe between hiding behind cover and trying to kill each…
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Kotaku‘s 2014 Gift Guide To Awesomely Bad Games
Not everyone deserves that high-end graphics card you saved up for a special holiday gift. Some people get coal for Christmas—or, if you’re an adult, an excellent prank gift—and there are certainly video game equivalents to choose from. Halo: The Master Chief Collection Merry Christmas! Here, have this game that only as of recently half…
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12/8/2014: Terrifying New Advances In Lego Technology
Lego for…lego people?? Are real humans even allowed to buy this stuff? Only Pain Train knows for certain. While you let the concept of little lego pieces swimming through your blood stream settle in, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects, where I round up our best stuff of the week. To contact the author of…
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Halo 3 Animation Mod Is The Stupidest/Best Thing To Happen To Chief
Master Chief riding in a Warthog? Usually pretty awesome. A Scarab-skinned Chief riding in a Warthog? Possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen today. YouTuber and Halo gamer Lord Zedd, known for modding and tinkering around with the Halo games, has done a number on Master Chief in Halo 3 in the video above. It…
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The Halo Collection Is Getting Better, But Still Not Fixed After A Month
There are tons of updates in development studio 343’s latest patch for the buggy multiplayer modes in the Xbox One’s month-old Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Just how effective those are, however, is a bit hit or miss, according to my and some other players’ experiences. Here’s the full list of fixes, according to 343:…
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11/17/2014: Happy Pokémon Omega Ruby And Alpha Sapphire Weekend
While I am off to Florida soon to celebrate my birthday, I hope you are all spending quality time with your respective Pokémon. Marinko is celebrating the games’ release with this fabulous art. And, as always, head over to Kotaku Selects to catch up on our best stuff from this week. I’ll see you all…
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