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CultureKotaku Game DiaryWarframe Guilts Me Into Playing By Making My Dog Hate Me, And I Don’t Love It
You don’t really quit Warframe. When Hades, Baldur’s Gate 3, and a slew of other Extremely Me Games came out last month, I knew I’d be taking a hiatus from the cyber ninja space opera that’d taken over my life, but I also knew I’d be back. Last week, I returned after more than a…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 26, 2020 - Uncategorized
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CultureYoutuber Memorializes Destiny 2 Campaigns Before They’re Vaulted
Destiny 2 will be a completely different game once Bungie vaults a number of its planets next month, so one dedicated player took it upon himself to create a cinematic record of each of the game’s campaigns before that happens. The idea came to YouTuber Jabonte immediately after he heard director Luke Smith announce Bungie’s…
By Ethan Gach Published October 26, 2020 -
CulturePS5 Launch Game Destruction All-Stars Delayed To February
Destruction All-Stars, one of a handful of planned launch titles for the PlayStation 5, will no longer be available even close to day one. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, it’ll be available some time in February 2021. On the plus side, it’ll be available for two months at no additional cost to…
By Ari Notis Published October 26, 2020 -
CultureFacebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Streams Free-To-Play Mobile Games
Google’s got Stadia, Amazon’s got Luna, and now Facebook has its own cloud gaming service. But don’t expect to stream console and PC hits on Facebook Gaming’s cloud. At launch, it’s all about free-to-play, microtransaction-packed mobile games. Rolling out today in the U.S. in California, Texas, and the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, Facebook Gaming’s cloud…
By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Bloody Hell, Let’s Hack The Planet
It’s time to hack the world, or at least London, in Watch Dogs Legion. The latest Ubisoft open-world game is out later this week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. I was a fan of the original Watch Dogs and an even BIGGER fan of Watch Dogs 2. I love how colorful, wacky, and open…
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CultureMorning MusicU.N. Squadron Has Some Great Tunes, Which Is A Boring Headline But
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today set your wayback machine to the dawn of the SNES when Capcom delivered an early shoot ‘em up classic, U.N. Squadron U.N. Squadron (YouTube / longplay / VGMdb), which hit just a month after the…
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CultureTrack: Valium Skies | Artist: The Verve | Album: Forth
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CultureCosplayAerith’s Voice Actor, Cosplaying As Aerith
We’ve seen this before with Overwatch, but never with Final Fantasy! This is Briana White, host of Strange Rebel Gaming and also the voice of Aerith in the Final Fantasy VII remake, cosplaying as…Aerith from Final Fantasy VII Briana isn’t normally a cosplayer, so here, the dress and ribbon were made by Final Fantasy cosplay…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureFacebook Continues Its Bullshit With Oculus Accounts
In case you weren’t uneasy enough about having to create Facebook accounts just to use a virtual reality headset, you should know that in some circumstances deleting a linked Facebook account will then remove your access to any Oculus purchases you have made. As Upload VR report, for now, owners of older Oculus headsets—currently existing…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureCosplayTechno Viking x Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
My favourite type of cosplay video isn’t the one where fans are recreating scenes from the show/movie/game they’re cosplaying as. It’s cosplayers doing dumb shit like skating as Geralt, or recreating the famous “Technoviking” video, only starring the cast of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Here’s Maul(also star of that Geralt vid) and friends turning medieval England…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition
Microsoft basically just did what we do: Take a person and add them to a video game they weren’t originally in. Well, we can do it better Microsoft! Your challenge this week: Add Bautista to other video games. Yes, if you didn’t see the news, Bautista will be added to the Gears 5 singleplayer campaign,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureThe Latest Patch For The Last of Us Remastered Reduced Loading Times By Over 70% On PS4
The new consoles are only a few weeks away and both the PS5 and Xbox Series X will have much faster loading times. But you don’t need a new console to experience incredible loading speeds after an update for The Last of Us Remastered on PS4. Now the game only takes 14 seconds to load from a…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicPlants vs. Zombies’ Viral Single Was So Weird People Thought It Was A Joke
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today the zombies are coming—and bringing some funky, cute tunes with them—in the original Plants vs. Zombies. 2009’s Plants vs. Zombies (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is an all-time classic tower defense and a game that…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 25, 2020
