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Valve Says They’ll Start Cracking Down On Gambling Sites That Use Steam
During last week’s big Counter-Strike gambling scandal (and really just in general, where gambling is concerned), Valve remained conspicuously silent. Now, though, they’ve said they’re gonna start telling gambling sites to cease operations entirely. In a statement on Steam, Valve business authority Erik Johnson wrote: “These sites have basically pieced together their operations in two-part…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 13, 2016 -
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Lego Adventure Time Does Things Differently
For the past couple of years, Lego and Adventure Time have been dreaming of a marriage between the two properties. Those dreams generally involved standard Lego minifigures. The official Lego Adventure Time are not standard Lego minifigures. It makes sense that the television show that changed the entire flavor of children’s animation offer a new…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2016 -
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Heck Yeah We’re Gonna Stab That Giant Weed
Kamil Murzyn is an artist at Platige Image, a creative studio that has worked on games like Prey, Watch Dogs 2 and the new Hitman You can see more of Kamil’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2016 -
CultureCosplayAnime Expo’s Cosplay Was Fantastic
Los Angeles’ Anime Expo is one of the biggest cons on the calendar, with this year’s show drawing over 100,000 guests. So, yes, there was some very good cosplay there. Photographer Mineralbluwas there taking shots, and below you’ll find some of his best, including a video that shows most of these in action. You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2016 -
CultureThe Best Speedruns From SGDQ 2016
Last week, a lot of people played through a lot of video games very, very quickly. Here are some of the best. I haven’t watched EVERY run from Summer Games Done Quick 2016, which ended late Saturday night after raising close to $1.3 million for Doctors Without Borders, but I’ve watched a lot, so I’ve…
By Jason Schreier Published July 12, 2016 -
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Dead Century Is A Very Good-Looking Video Game
A few years back, I wrote about a game called Dead Century, which looked very cool. The bad news: its Kickstarter failed. The good news: it got made anyway, and is now looking even better. Dead Century is an RPG/adventure game in the vein of Telltale’s various series, and it’s out now on iOS (with…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2016 -
CultureMorning Men is a story-driven RPG set in a desert world full of intrigue, lies, and junk. While it might look like a riff on Mad-Max-style post-apocalyptica, its developers cite movies like The Fifth Element as their primary influences. It’s currently on Steam Greenlight, but it already looks and sounds great.
By Nathan Grayson Published July 11, 2016 -
CultureFIFA Players Nail Goal Celebration
Today on Highlight Reel we have perfect flips, dabbing scientists, someone named Brad, bomb juggles, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Halo 5:…
By Chris Person Published July 11, 2016 -
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Rocket League Adding Crates, Skipping Steam Market Features To Avoid Gambling Issues
If you were a human with functional Internet access last week, you probably heard about the big Counter-Strike gambling scandal. Despite a secondary market’s potential to help bring in big bucks, Rocket League’s developers don’t want a slice of that increasingly tainted pie. In a post confirming that, yes, loot crates are coming to Soccer…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 11, 2016 -
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Valve Making Changes To Team Fortress 2‘s New Casual Mode After Widespread Criticism
Last week, Valve launched Team Fortress 2‘s big competitive mode update and, with it, a new casual mode that took the place of classic quick play. So far, people… don’t exactly love it. The new 12 vs 12 unranked matchmaking mode has players angrily spitting out their sandviches for quite a few reasons, most prominent…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 11, 2016 -
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Robot Samurai
Georgi Simeonov was one of the main artists responsible for the look of ADAM, that incredible short film that was put together recently on the Unity Engine In a blog post over on Unity’s site, Simeonov—who has worked on games like Brink and Batman: Arkham Origins—outlines the design work and processes that went into creating…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2016 -
CultureSpeedrunner Crushes Super Mario World Without Using A Single Power-Up
There were some remarkable speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2016, but this might be the most impressive: Rezephos blazing through Super Mario World without getting a single mushroom, fire flower, cape, star, or Yoshi. You can watch the astounding run here (starts at 7:50): Those shell jumping tricks are just out of this world.…
By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2016 -
CultureCosplayNobody Stop This Awesome Mask Cosplay
This is Simon Fontaine (The Mask) and Michele Paul (Tina) at the Montreal Comiccon, which went down in Canada over the weekend. We see a lot of guns and swords and rocket launchers in cosplay. What we don’t see is enough dancing, especially when it goes to the trouble of recreating the entire routine from…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2016
