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CultureSunday Comics: This Way, Toys!
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 March 5. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Pokemon Of The Year, Winners!
Last week I asked you, yes YOU, to create some images featuring the Pokemon of year. That Pokemon, after all the votes were counted by Google, somehow ending up being Greninja. Our winning image this week comes from Done With Kinja who has created a very different kind of Pokemon fighting game. I feel like…
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CultureStepping On A LEGO Brick
This week on Snapshots, Geralt in the shadows, a creepy giant worm, swimming lions, lonely train tracks in Days Gone, some curious robots and one big and angry demon. I didn’t know there were giant space worms in No Man’s Sky. I feel like every few months I see something wild that got added to…
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CultureThe Man Behind Pets.Com Bought The ‘Nintendo Play Station’ Console For $360,000
Yesterday, that weird prototype Nintendo Play Station console was sold at auction for $360,000. Today, thanks to Forbes, we now know who bought it, why they bought and what they plan to do with it. Greg McLemore is the founder of Pets.com, a website from back in the early 90s. Amazon bought up half of…
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CultureI Love The New Monster Energy Ultra Flavors
Back in late February, two new Monster Energy Ultra flavors were released into the wild. They started popping up in gas stations, Walmarts, and other stores across the United States. Finally, they have appeared in my home state of Kansas. And I’m so happy they have arrived. While I review a lot of sodas and…
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UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: I Love Power-Ups, Winners!
Last week I asked you Mario makers to create courses that featured power-ups. You could add a lot of ‘em to a level or create a level that centered around using one power-up in an interesting way. A nice bit of variety this week. I got big courses, smaller courses, a music course, and even…
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Culture2K Games Is The Latest Publisher To Remove Its Games From Nvidia’s Streaming Service
Last month, Nvidia’s game streaming service, GeForce Now, came out of beta officially. And since then numerous publishers have pulled their games from the service. Activision Blizzard, Bethesdaand Hinterland Gameshave already pulled titles from the service. Now Nivida confirms 2K Games is also out. The news came yesterday via a short post on Nvidia’s official forums.…
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CulturePokemonCharjabug Can Power A House If It Eats Enough Food
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 Charjabug! Charjabug Details Type: Bug/Electric Average Height: 1′ 08″ Average Weight: 23.1 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Okay,…
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CultureMorning CheckpointBuilding A Wall The Old-Fashioned Way
Hello! This week we watch someone accidentally shoot a gun while streaming, sell a console for $360k, step on some ants, check out a new trailer for that cool PS4 samurai game and build a rock wall using gravity. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I can offer a counterbid of $100 and some…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Original Creators Of Burnout Are Making A New Open-World Racer
Dangerous Driving 2 is the fourth arcade racing game that veteran developer Alex Ward has worked on in as many years. He and just over half of Three Fields Entertainment’s seven-person staff flew out from the UK to show it off at PAX East ahead of its holiday 2020 release on Xbox One, PS4, PC,…
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CultureAnimators Reimagine LucasArts Classic Full Throttle In Modern 3D
Full Throttle was one of many amazing adventure games developed by LucasArts throughout the 1990s. It got a remastered release in 2017, but an independent studio recently took things a step further with an incredible reimagining of what the game might look like if it was developed today. The short video, an unofficial project from…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Unlock Saitama In The One Punch Man Game
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, a fighting game ostensibly about One Punch Man and pals, came out last week for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You can play as all manner of fan favorites from the One Punch Man extended universe, including Silverfang, Metal Bat, Tank Top Tiger, and, of course, Mumen…
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UncategorizedThe Emerald City Comic Con taking place next week in Seattle, Washington has been postponed until the summer, the event’s organizers announced today. This news comes just five days after the company behind the convention, Reedpop, had previously said the event would take place as scheduled
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ReviewsMultiplatformThe Division 2: Warlords Of New York: The Kotaku Review
When The Division 2 launched last March, the cover-based shooter set in a wrecked Washington, DC was received positively by fans and critics. Then things soured. Players who expected a game that would expand over time were disappointed by a lack of new content as well as balance changes that nerfed popular character builds. Months…
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‘Nintendo Play Station’ Sells At Auction For $360,000
A prototype of a never-produced video game machine colloquially known as the “Nintendo Play Station” has sold at auction for $360,000, setting a new record for the most expensive item of video game memorabilia ever publicly sold. Pop-culture auction house Heritage Auctions offered the device, the product of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony,…
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OpinionImpressionsThere’s Not A Lot Of One-Punch Man In The One-Punch Man Game’s Story Mode, Thank Goodness
One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows is not a video game about uber-powerful anime sensation One-Punch Man. It’s the story of a player-created character operating in One-Punch Man’s orbit. The single-player story mode battles last much longer that way. In One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows’ three-on-three competitive fighting mode, Saitama (AKA One-Punch Man) takes…
By Mike Fahey
