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CultureAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Will Finally Let You Skip Kill Animations
Ahead of its first major expansion, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will receive a title update tomorrow introducing a raft of changes to the game, including the ability to (finally!) turn kill animations off. Valhalla’s title update 1.2.1—which clocks in at 5.5 GB on PlayStation 5 and 16 GB on Xbox Series X—will add a toggle that…
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CultureI Need This Vehicle-Building Destruction Game Right Now
Launching into early access on Steam later this year, Instruments of Destruction is a physics-based vehicle-building destruction sandbox from the lead tech designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla. It’s advanced knocking things down from a guy who really knows knocking things down. We’ve been following the work of Radiangames’ founder Luke Schneider for ages here at…
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CultureThe Noid Is Back To [Checks Notes] Fight Crash Bandicoot and Self-Driving Cars
The Noid, Domino’s annoying pizza-destroying mascot from the ‘80s, is coming back to stop self-driving pizza delivery cars, and also to fight Crash Bandicoot. That’s not a sentence you expected to read, and I didn’t expect to write it, but here we are. Welcome to whatever version of reality this is. Announced today, Domino’s is…
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CultureLeaked Documents Show EA Really Wants You To Buy FIFA Loot Boxes
EA purposefully drove players toward gambling-like microtransactions in FIFA 21, according to an insider who leaked internal documents to the CBC. “Video game company wants to make money” isn’t exactly a bombshell, but in light of EA’s long-held stance on loot boxes and microtransactions, the 54-page document might raise an eyebrow. FIFA 21 features microtransactions…
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CultureHere’s May 2021’s Xbox Live Games With Gold
April is almost over, which doesn’t seem right. I’m 99% sure yesterday was the start of April. How is it May already? Makes no sense. Well with a new month comes new free games for Xbox Live Gold members. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription.…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Pokémon Paparazzi
New Pokemon Snap is out later this week on the Nintendo Switch. So grab your camera and get ready to snap some photos of Pokémon while singing Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi. I’ll be busy playing Returnal on PS5, but I will get around to New Pokemon Snap eventually. However, will it still be new by the…
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CultureOdds and EndsThe Low Poly Dog From Modern Warfare Is Perfect
It turns out, digital dogs don’t need a lot of polygons to be good boys. Thanks to the Low Poly Animals Twitter account for sharing this low level of detail model from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. I love this dog. I want to protect this dog. Nobody insult this cute, low poly pup. We’ve…
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CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village’s Demo Contains A Small Nod To The Merchant From Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Village has some confusing demo nonsense, with limited times and different windows of availability. But if you do get a chance to play the demo you’ll hear a nice little reference to the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 aka the best character in that game. In Resident Evil Village’s “Castle Demo,” you encounter…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Lego Luigi
After a few early leaks, Nintendo and Lego officially confirmed that Lego Luigi is coming to joining his Lego brother in block jumping adventures. Sounds like a fun Photoshop contest to me! Your challenge this week: Share Lego Luigi with the world! Sure, Lego Luigi doesn’t come out until August, but we can have fun…
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CultureOdds and EndsSomeone Created An Evil Minecraft Mod That Camouflages Creepers
Most mods I download or see add helpful features or neat new elements, like a cool weapon or better sound effects. However, not all mods are helpful or fun. Some mods are downright evil, like this new Minecraft mod that uses different textures to hide Creepers based on what biome they are in. This evil,…
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CultureSunday Comics: Gotta Go Fast
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published April 22. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: More Donald Ducks, Winners!
After a weekend away, Kotaku’s wonderful(?) ‘Shop Contest returns. Last time I was around these parts I asked you all to create images featuring Donald Duck. Before I announce the winner, let me just check my email real quick. Just a moment. Hmmm… oh no. Alright, well none of you won anything. In fact, quite…
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CultureJust Another Day At The Office
This week on Snapshots, some extra photos from the past two weeks. I had last weekend off. To make up for the lack of screenshots last Saturday here are some extra cool ones today from games like Control and Horizon: Zero Dawn! Office Worker: “Working hard, or hardly working?” Masked ghoul: *screams for 10 mins*…
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