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CultureOdds and EndsIt Ain’t An Elder Scrolls Game Until I Kill A Mudcrab
For me, it’s not Halloween season until the trees start to turn orange and yellow. It’s not a Mission Impossible movie until that theme song plays. And it ain’t an Elder Scrolls game until I kill a Mudcrab. Yes, I know that means that technically the older games, like Daggerfall, aren’t Elder Scrolls games if…
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CultureOdds and EndsThere’s A Toad In Super Mario Sunshine That Is Trapped Alone Beneath The Map, Forever
There are a lot of fun characters and enemies in Super Mario Sunshine, which was recently re-released on Switch alongside Mario 64 and Galaxy via the Mario 3D All-Stars collection. But one character, a single yellow Toad, is trapped forever under the map, alone and forgotten. Boundary Break, the popular YouTube channel that uses camera…
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CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’s Gate 3 Players Called Out For Their Basic-Ass Character Creations
Mere minutes after I posted my take on Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creator, Larian Studios (coincidentally) announced the release of a third hotfix for its long-awaited CRPG, which contained this intriguing morsel: “Before the fixes, let’s share something you’ve created yourselves (this is your own fault) through your choices in character creation. We took the…
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CultureOdds and EndsNicolas Cage Does His Best Travis Touchdown Impression
Croatian newspaper DuList recently snapped some photos of actor Nicolas Cage filming his upcoming movie, the aptly named The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in the village of Cavtat. As many folks have pointed out on Twitter, the pink leather jacket makes him the spitting image of Travis Touchdown, the otaku protagonist of the No…
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CultureOdds and EndsMaybe Rhythm Games Can Help Teach Fighting Game Skills
Fighting games are hard, but what if they taught players how to perform combos with concepts from a more approachable genre? A new video imagines what it might be like to learn important techniques by way of a rhythm game-style tutorial. The proof of concept, which is actually the product of clever video editing rather…
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CultureOdds and EndsXbox Deletes Tweet Dunking On PS5 For Having A Removable Stand
The UK Twitter account for Xbox fired some shots at PS5 yesterday in one of the silliest ways possible because it’s 2020 and these are the console wars we deserve. It all began after Sony released a tear-down video of the PS5 highlighting all of the next-gen console’s internal components. The first step in that…
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CultureOdds and EndsStreets Of Rage 4 Elevator Skip Turns Into Dance Party
Sometimes, you just gotta dance. And what better time to work on your moves than when skipping a huge section of Streets of Rage 4? In a recent clip, speedrunner Greenalink demonstrates a new bug that allows Streets of Rage 4 players to bypass an auto-scrolling elevator section. While there’s still a bit of downtime,…
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CultureOdds and EndsI Can’t Wait For Yakuza: Like A Dragon‘s Goofy Minigames
With singing, racing karts, playing arcade machines, practicing batting, and vocational tests to perform, it’s amazing down-and-out Yakuza scrapper Ichiban Kasuga gets anything else done in Yakuza: Like A Dragon. The game’s latest trailer demonstrates all the ways I’ll be driven to distraction come November 10. Give me fun side activities over actual game progression…
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CultureOdds and EndsA Few Alt-Reality Takes On Smash‘s Latest Character Reveal
Last week, Nintendo revealed that Steve Minecraft of Minecraft fame will be the next character added to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster. As is often the case, some folks were excited, some weren’t. More importantly, eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed a particularly memeable moment in the reveal trailer, wherein Steve crashes through a cave wall…
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CultureOdds and EndsLate-Game Super Mario Bros. 35 Is A True Gauntlet Of Death
Depending on who you’re playing against, Super Mario Bros. 35 doesn’t always feel as adrenaline-fueled as certain other battle royales. But this look at some skilled survivalists shows just how intense its late game can get. Whenever you kill an enemy in Super Mario Bros. 35 the game send it to the screen of one…
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CultureOdds and EndsHere Are Some Great Video Game Victory Fanfares For No Reason At All
With the world in crisis, just straight-up, feel-good moments are few and far between. So some of us here at Kotaku, for no other reason at all, much less one dominating the current news cycle, have grabbed a bunch of our favorite fanfares from a bunch of our favorite video games to help you close…
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CultureOdds and EndsWhy Everyone’s Horny For Hades
Hades is perhaps one of 2020’s games of the year. It’s an excellent roguelite, with an amazing story and addictive gameplay. But there’s another big reason why Hades is seeing such a massively positive response: Everyone is so friggin’ hot! Take main character Prince Zagreus, for example. I knew I was in trouble the moment…
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CultureOdds and EndsPlease, For The Love Of God, Let Masahiro Sakurai Rest
So…Steve in Smash Bros. Ultimate, huh? Great. I have no dog in this Smash Bros. fight—while I don’t hate that Steve was announced, I was personally hoping for Overwatch hero Tracer, especially after this cryptic tweet from the Overwatch League a few days ago. Whatever your thoughts are on Steve, what I truly hope is…
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CultureOdds and EndsWhat Your Favorite Hades Weapon Says About You
In Hades, each Infernal Arm you use to escape from Hell has its own unique abilities. The different weapons—combined with the various perks and god-given boons you can choose and the artifacts you can equip—ensure no two escape attempts are quite the same. Like the gods, I do not play favorites when it comes to…
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CultureOdds and EndsThat’s Not Right…
Flight Simulator pilots discovered a trippy glitch over the weekend that causes the earth to open up and warp space-time like a black hole. The glitch is located in Brazil, around the coordinates 6°02’19.9″S 36°27’17.1″W. Things look normal at first as players pull off the rugged, country airstrip, but immediately ahead is a vortex of…
By Ethan Gach
