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UncategorizedI Have Too Many Damn Birds On My Animal Crossing Island
Across the web, I’ve seen many cool and interesting villagers visiting and living on various Animal Crossing: New Horizon islands. Toads! Bears! Squids! Alligators! And many more. But I don’t get any of them. Instead, my island is mostly birds and I’m starting to get annoyed about it. Look, I don’t hate the birds on…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: The Predator
A new game starring The Predator is coming out next week. The poor guy has had a rough gaming career. Remember Concrete Jungle? It wasn’t great. But some of the AVP games were fun! So in honor of The Predator returning to video games, let’s create some images tarring the hunter himself. Your challenge this…
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CultureHow’s It Going?: HL:VR But The AI Is Self-Aware Edition
It’s Sunday! The week is over, but don’t worry about it. For only 6 PLAYCOINS you can comment in Kotaku’s daily open thread. “Half-Life VR but the AI is self-aware” is a long and weird name for one of the best things on Youtube right now. The name isn’t really accurate at all, beyond the…
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CultureSunday Comics: Humans Happened
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 16. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 13. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Easter Sunday 2020, Winners
Easter has come and gone. You might have totally missed it considering most of us are stuck in our homes, unable to see or invite over family and friends. But I still ran a contest using Easter as the theme because… I don’t know. Tradition? Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who shows…
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CultureWell, This Is Awkward…
This week on Snapshots a lion taking a bath, a cool looking car, a creepy dude in a chair, a disturbing bonfire party, a happy baby, an ax-wielding killer in Animal Crossing and way too many Stormtroopers. “Boys, I’m lost. Can you kind folks help a Jedi out?” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at…
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UncategorizedValve Intros, Ranked
Valve is a video game company that mostly runs Steam but sometimes releases video games. In fact, just a few weeks ago they released a new Half-Life game. And before each of their games start, you will see a short video with their name and some creepy or weird image featuring a valve or many…
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CulturePokemonCrustle Is Only Confident When It’s Thicc
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Crustle! Crustle Details Type: Bug/Rock Average Height: 4′ 07″ Average Weight: 440.9 lbs First Added In Generation V Confidence…
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CultureHow’s It Going?: Cookies Edition
The weekend is here. Welcome to another Saturday and another open thread. Let’s chat about cookies. Most folks like cookies, even if we don’t all enjoy the same ones. I am very lucky to be stuck at home with my girlfriend. I can’t imagine staying home every day without her around. Not only does she…
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CultureNintendo Switch Shortage Can Partially Be Blamed On Resellers Using Bots
The current shortage of Nintendo Switch consoles is frustrating many and it seems resellers and bots are partly to blame for the current situation. Over the last month or so it has become extremely hard to find and buy a Nintendo Switch. Part of the reason it has become so tricky to snag a Switch…
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CultureMorning CheckpointDog Or Helicopter?
Hello! This week we check out the new Spongebob game, learn what NPCs do in Fallout 76 when you drop a nuke on them, find out who Selena Gomez is suing for $10 million, get rid of annoying villagers in Animal Crossing and watch a dog fly away. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week…
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CultureRiot Offering Up To $100,000 For Finding Vulnerabilities In Valorant’s Anti-Cheat System
Riot has posted one of the biggest—if not the biggest—bounties in gaming, offering people up to $100,000 if they can find a security flaw in the company’s controversial Vanguard anti-cheat system. The bounty, announced today, is being hosted on HackerOne, where users can earn some scratch from tech companies for pinpointing flaws in their security.…
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Lifehacker What to Watch This Weekend | The A.V. Club The best movies on Amazon Prime | Jalopnik This Is What An Almost Completely Paused Air Travel Industry Looks Like | The Root Virginia Bishop Dies After Holding Service Amid Coronavirus Warnings. Now, Four of His Family Members Are Infected Too | Gizmodo 10 Perfect…
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CultureThis Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox Is Too Much
Happy Friday: this special edition Xbox One X comes with glow-in-the-dark graffiti that says “No Future.” It’s probably right. I wasn’t down with this Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X when it leaked on the Canadian Walmart website yesterday. Instead of something bright and neon-fueled, it looked to me like the sort of colorful scrap metal…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryAerith Is My Favorite Party Member In Final Fantasy VII Remake
As a complete newcomer to the world of Final Fantasy VII, I’m meeting (and, in some cases, falling head over heels for) its cast members for the first time in the updated and reimagined Remake. I’ve grown to appreciate every character Cloud has met during his journey, but one stands head and shoulders above the…
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CultureBlizzard Extends World of Warcraft’s Double XP Event After Fan Outcry
With players in the game forums and Reddit clamoring for an extension, World of Warcraft’s double experience point event, originally scheduled to end on Monday, will now last right up until the pre-patch for the game’s Shadowlands expansion. The Winds of Wisdom buff grants all World of Warcraft characters 100 percent bonus experience for killing…
By Mike Fahey
