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CultureThis Interactive Timeline For Netflix’s Witcher Is Super Helpful
The Witcher TV show is atotally enjoyable fantasy romp that is nonetheless difficult to parse due to its multiple timelines. Fortunately, there’s now an interactive timeline of the show’s major events and characters’ births that breaks down the show’s world building into a series of easily digestible blips. Going into Netflix’s adaptation, which draws from…
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OpinionImpressionsWorld Of Warcraft‘s New Update Unleashes Eldritch Horrors On Azeroth
Twisted creatures from nightmare realms invade Azeroth in this week’s Visions of N’Zoth update for World of Warcraft. Am I talking about the minions of titular Old God N’Zoth, who seeks to engulf the world in his dreadful embrace, or the thousands of fox-eared Vulpera now trampling the planet in the name of the Horde?…
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ReviewsToysLook At This Little Corgi Burger
Look at this plush corgi cheeseburger. As both Kotaku’s resident toy and snack aficionado, I’ve been mesmerized by this glorious thing for days. Do I tag it “Toys”? “Snacktaku”? Both? Probably both. It’s a seven-inch plush double cheeseburger with a corgi face for the top bun, which is completely silly and I love it. It’s…
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CultureMobius Final Fantasy Ends Service On June 30
Mobius Final Fantasy, one of the prettiest and most unique mobile FF spin-offs, will soon be no more. Today Square Enix announced the game will be going down for good at the end of March in Japan, with the global version continuing until June 30. Mobius Final Fantasy is a free-to-play turn-based role-playing game for…
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CultureDestiny 2 Players Are Hard At Work Puzzling Over Mysterious Symbols
A new quest has been stealthily added to Destiny 2 today that has players trying to navigate a time maze using symbols gathered from around the solar system. Osiris, who’s become somewhat infamous for not telling you about his quests, got a new one as part of today’s weekly reset called Exploring The Corridors of…
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CultureThe Pokémon Cakes Episode Of Food Network Challenge Is A Glorious Mess
In last night’s episode of competitive cooking show Food Network Challenge, four professional bakers attempted to create cakes resembling popular pocket monsters. Some were much more successful than others. In the first round of the new episode, which is available online at the Food Network website, bakers were given two hours to create an edible…
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CultureTekken-Style Health Bars Make Watching Taekwondo So Much Better
Martial arts competitions can be a little confusing to the untrained eye. The scoring systems simply favor landed hits, no matter how slight or imperceptible. During a recent exhibition, the Korea Taekwondo Association demonstrated a brand new piece of technology designed to make the sport more spectator-friendly, essentially turning competition into a real-world fighting game.…
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CultureFinal Fantasy Tactics ‘Battleground’ Lets You Gamble Fake Money On Fake Matches
FFT Battleground is a Final Fantasy Tactics Twitch stream that lets you place bets on competing teams of randomized characters, all controlled by AI. The bets are based on fake money, which is good, because if they weren’t, there’s a non-zero chance I might have done some real damage to my bank account by now.…
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CultureBloodborne Modders Restore Cut Boss Version Of Fiery Mage
Bloodborne players have faced the Loran Cleric before, but not like this. A beast-like mage who can summon fire at will, the Loran Cleric is an enemy type only found in Bloodborne’s randomly generated Chalice Dungeons. However, modders recently found references to the creature lurking elsewhere in the game’s files, leading them to a more…
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UncategorizedSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate’s fifth DLC character will get announced this Thursday at 9:00a.m. during a livestream with Masahiro Sakurai. The game’s director will give a 35 minute presentation on the new fighter, the final one to be added as part of the current season pass.
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