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CultureSocial Distancing With Style
This week on Snapshots, trippy orbs, a creepy computer, a cool looking arrow, a sign left forgotten in the wasteland, a fast car, and social distancing in Animal Crossing. You might be alone right now, but you can still look cool. Also, if you can, step outside folks. Get some fresh air. Even sitting outside…
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CultureThe Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records
Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had…
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UncategorizedAnimal Crossing Players Are Playing High Stakes Musical Chairs
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are using, chairs, tree stumps, pipe flutes, in-game emotes, and text chat to set up games of musical chairs where the winner walks away with over 100k bells. As seen over on the Animal Crossing subreddit, user Tetratera has figured out a way to play musical chairs online. Using…
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CulturePokemonClaydol Is Over 20,000 Years Old And Was Brought To Life By Aliens
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 Claydol! Claydol Details Type: Ground/Psychic Average Height: 4′ 11″ Average Weight: 238.0 lbs First Added In Generation III There…
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CultureNetflix Is Making A Live-Action Dragon’s Lair Movie
Netflix is planning to create a live-action movie based on the 80s arcade game Dragon’s Lair and Ryan Reynolds is set to produce and star in the film. When it first was released back in the 1980s, Dragon’s Lairwas one of the best looking games ever made. Thanks to its amazing animation, colorful art, and…
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CultureHow’s It Going?: Movie Theater Edition
It’s another weekend at home for many. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I miss going to the theater and seeing a movie. I know some folks hate going to the theater to see a movie, but I love it. With phones in our pockets, a million movies and shows on our TVs and…
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CultureMorning CheckpointSomeone, Please Help Roald
Hello! This week we use Half-Life to teach math, watch the trailer for next big Animal Crossing update, shock ourselves while we play Smash, learn how Nintendo is helping healthcare workers fight the pandemic and trap poor Roald in a cage made of concrete walls. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week We have reached…
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OpinionImpressionsIron Danger Is A Fantasy Role-Playing Game With Superhot-Style Time Dilation
In Iron Danger you can rewind time whenever you need to in order to save your life and land the killing blow. It’s a cool idea and works well enough in practice, but that fun premise doesn’t stop the rest of Iron Danger from being an otherwise pretty middling isometric role-playing game experience. Out on…
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Tips & GuidesQuick Tricks That Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Too Chill To Tell You About
Face it: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an annoying game. There. I said it. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Yes, you’re the de facto overlord of a private island brimming with adorable talkative animals. On paper, it’s a dream come true. But, in reality, Nintendo’s life simulator is a maddening nightmare. Every minute spent with…
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OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Latest Expansion Gives The Series Its First Good Boss Fight
Guns, Love, and Tentacles, yesterday’s major update to Borderlands 3, revolves around a gay wedding on an alien planet. While that’s fantastic in its own right, the rest of the expansion is pretty great too, combining fresh aesthetics with a bevy of cool new guns and what is arguably the series’ only good boss fight…
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UncategorizedSuper Mario Bros. 3‘s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.…
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CultureEngineer Combines Smash Controller With A Taser Because Why Not
Recent advances in virtual reality have done wonders to make video games more immersive than ever. But certain persistent technical limitations still bedevil this developing technology, such as, say, its inability to shock the living hell out of players with agonizing bursts of electric current. It’s a problem. But one enterprising hacker sought to change…
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CultureSony And Microsoft Put Out Vague Statements About How Covid-19 Will Affect Their Games
In a press release on its website, Sony announced that it doesn’t expect the game and network services part of its business to be impacted during the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. At the same time, the company didn’t rule out that things could change in the future. Sony and Microsoft both put…
By Ethan Gach
