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CultureThe Week In Games: Giant Robots!
MechWarrior 5 headlines a week filled with smaller games and ports. I know a lot of folks are pumped for MechWarrior 5 and I hope it’s great! I never played any of the MechWarrior games, but I did play a lot of MechAssault on Xbox. I also remember watching people playing MechWarrior 4 on G4,…
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OpinionImpressionsKing Of Cards Adds A Fun Card Game To Everything That Already Makes Shovel Knight Great
Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the perfect reason to jump back into Yacht Club Games’ ever-expanding shovel-verse. The game’s terrific platforming and treasure hunting are back, but there’s also a great new mini-game now, and it’s all a blast to play. I wish every great indie game received the DLC treatment Shovel Knight has.…
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Culture2K Games Officially Announces It’s Working On A New Bioshock
Today 2K Games announced the formation of a new studio called Cloud Chamber to work on the next BioShock, a game that’s still a few years out from release according to the publisher. “A collective of storytellers eager to push the frontlines of interactive entertainment by making unique, entertaining and thoughtful experiences that engage the…
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UncategorizedRed Dead Online’s Trader And Collector Roles Need More Content
Back in September of this year, Rockstar added roles to Red Dead Online. These roles greatly improved the game, giving players something to work towards and also offered players new content and abilities to unlock while earning some in-game cash. But these roles haven’t received equal amounts of love and this has some community members,…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: $120k Banana With Some Duct Tape
People complain about modern art a lot. “Anyone could paint some dots on a canvas.” Usually, their complaints are unfair. But then someone sticks a banana to a wall and sells it for $120,000 and sort of proves a lot of the jokes and criticisms of modern art to be totally true. Wild stuff. Your…
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ReviewsETCInstalling A Video Card: The Kotaku Review
Long ago, when I was much younger and had more free time, I would pull apart old PCs and build new ones. It was fun. I didn’t know what I doing and over time I learned what RAM was and what a motherboard is. Then I stopped doing that, bought some consoles and only bought…
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CultureSunday Comics: You Don’t Believe In Santa Claus…Right?
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 Dec. 5. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Black Friday, Winners!
After a weekend away, I’m back and ready to judge the entries from last week’s guest contest. Last week, Peter asked you all to make some silly images featuring all those TVs that go on sale on Black Friday. Our winning image this week was created by BobTheRock, who wins nothing because he is banned…
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UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: New Stuff
Super Mario Maker 2 was updated a few days ago and there are now a bunch of new items that you can place in various levels across all the themes. You can even turn Mario into Link from the Zelda series! Fun stuff.Let’s see what you folks can make with these new bits and bobs.…
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CultureRyan Reynolds Is Basically A GTA Online NPC In The First Trailer For Free Guy
In games like GTA Online and Red Dead Online, you can find numerous unnamed NPCs who are just living their life as players kill them, steal from them and blow up their cars and homes. Free Guy, a new film coming out next year, askes the question: What would happen if one of those NPCs…
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