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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Oh, man. It’s all of Grand Theft Auto fame, in one room with a PlayStation 3 playing friggin’ Grand Theft Auto V. I guess it’s only fair that they get first dibs. Can you imagine all the shit talking that must be going on in that room? Luke posted it earlier this week, but I…
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Nominate Your Favorite Comment Here
What’s up Kotaku people? I’m typing to you from the PAST because as of Thursday night I will be in Austin vacationing it up. In the meantime, please do drop in your favorite comments down below. If your favorite comment has already been nominated, vote it up! We will choose the best, most popular one…
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Admit It. You’d Freak Out If A Zombie Approached You In Real Life, Too.
We all know zombies aren’t real, right? But, come on. If one approached you, looking pretty realistic, you’d undoubtedly either run off crying or swing at them with the nearest item-turned-weapon. Zombie pranks are nothing new, but I love this one. I find it both remarkable and hilarious that some people seem totally convinced, in…
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Hey, Natural Selection 2 Players: Visit The Bar In This Fancy New Map
It’s dark, it’s light, it’s green, it’s red. It’s full of aliens that want to eat you (or marines that need to be eaten). And there’s a bar where you can go to wash away your woes of losses in liquid happiness. Meet the reveal of the new Docking map. You can play it as…
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Creepy Dude Stalks and Terrorizes DayZ Players. Hilarity Ensues.
Arma II mod, DayZ, has spawned a ton of abnormally fun rounds, with players partaking in all sorts of activities outside avoiding and killing zombies. But this one guy who stalks and terrorizes two players might be my favorite so far. He runs around in circles, chases them, and mumbles some really non-sensical, funny-yet-disturbing words…
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Super Modern Mario Bros. Is Both Delightful and Terrifying
Watching this video, I can’t help but teeter back and forth between desperately wanting to play it and desperately wanting to shun it. On the one hand, the concept is ridiculously cool. The eerie lack of music lets you hone in on the ultra-realistic sound effects. Gone are the cute and familiar Mario jump sounds,…
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This Is How Nintendo Prefers You To See Their Games
Nintendo likes to prioritize their screenshots by what they consider to be the best images to use when discussing their games. Last year we looked at what Nintendo’s favorite and least favorite screenshots post-E3 were, according to the notes in their batch of press kits. It seemed like angle-choice, depth of background action and color…
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ReviewsLollipop Chainsaw: The Kotaku Review
You could pick Suda51’s work—like Killer7 or the more recent No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned—out of a line-up. The art style is cartoonish, as are the characters. Memorable protagonists like the vulgar-mouthed tough guy Garcia “Fucking” Hotspur or the lascivious Travis Touchdown turned juvenile humor into compelling, tongue-in-cheek delight. And the combat…
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Gauge Your Endurance Under the Pressure of Dancey Music and Psychedelic Visuals
The music starts slow and rhythmic as you tap delicately on your iPad. Your eyes are glued to either end of the bar on screen, ensuring that your taps never linger long enough to push the bar’s limit. You occasionally glance at an appearing second gauge whose new color grows as you maintain a balance…
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Max Payne Knows How To Chill Out
In the midst of all the shoot-outs, drinking, and pill-popping, Max Payne is just another guy, you know? He wants to lounge on a pool chair and kick his feet up on the table. Except he does it in slow, bullet-time motion. Max Payne 3: Dramatic Chilling Simulator [YouTube via Reddit]
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Smash Bros. Was The Real Fight Club Before Fight Club
Ok, fine. So the novel by Chuck Palahniuk came out several years before Super Smash Bros. was released in Japan. But the video game came out almost a full year before the movie did, so…Science! Regardless, it’s a comparison that I’m surprised wasn’t drawn up in video form earlier. The little bits of parallel detail…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
If I find anything Adventure Time related, you can rest assured that I will post it. Or buy it. Or at the very least light up in response to seeing it. I even have Adventure Time earrings. One is Jake and one is Finn So this week’s best image is an ode to The Avengers,…
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Natural Selection 2 Is a Genius Mash of Counter Strike and Starcraft
Have you ever played a real-time strategy game and wondered what life was like for the pawns you send out to battle? What if those soldiers weren’t brain-dead fighters, but could actually carry out smart decisions on their own, without you telling them to do so? Natural Selection 2 breathes life into an otherwise lonelier…
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