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CultureMorning CheckpointIs It The X Button Or The Cross Button?
Hello! This week we run around the dark woods, talk about K.K. Slider, destroy a perfectly good pool, run a TV network, fix a six-year-old typo and argue over what to call a button on a controller. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here…
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Tips & GuidesHow Gears 5’s Confusing Microtransactions Work
Unlike Gears of War 4, Gears 5 technically doesn’t have loot boxes. But don’t have a party just yet. It has a convoluted system for unlocking cosmetic rewards that can be used to outfit the characters in Gears 5’s many multiplayer modes. It’s not intuitive, partially involves microtransactions and will definitely test people’s patience. For…
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OpinionImpressionsFallout 76 Player Builds A Corn Maze To Welcome In Fall
Nothing says fall to me like a good fair. Something about fried foods and prized hogs just makes me want to roll in a pile of falling leaves and, best of all, wander in a corn maze. We’re not quite up to fall fair season in real life, but if you have Fallout 76, one…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryReturning To Final Fantasy VIII After 20 Years Is Letting Me Resolve Childhood Shame
I vividly remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out in February 1999. I coveted it for months but didn’t get it until October for my 11th birthday. It was my first Japanese role-playing game ever. I struggled desperately just to get through its opening moments of tutorials and text walls and Y2K CD-Rom-ass menus. I…
By Paul Tamayo - Culture
The Switch’s online service, Nintendo Switch Online, will no longer add several NES games to the service each month, nor will it give SNES games that treatment. “More NES games will be added in the future, but those releases will not adhere to a regular schedule,” a representative from Nintendo told Business Insider.
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OpinionImpressionsControl‘s Eerie Architecture Took Me Back To My College Days
I didn’t think that Control would have much in common with Allison Bechdel’s Fun Home, an autobiographical comic about her childhood in a funeral home and her later coming out as a lesbian. The comic strayed through my mind as I was walking around The Oldest House, though, and I now realize why: They both…
By Gita Jackson
