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CultureHow To Spot Fake Classic Video Games
Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in with your own collection. The bootleggers who make them are churning them out, meaning that the market will only become more saturated with them as the years go by. If you’re going to collect…
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ReviewsToysLego Pays Homage To Its Heritage With A Wonderful Wooden Minifig
In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of The Lego Group, started making and selling wooden toys out of his shop in Billund, Denmark. The company continued making wooden toys until 1960, two years after the Lego brick as we know it today was born. Now The Lego Group celebrates old and new with a seven…
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UncategorizedMy Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread
For nearly 20 years, I’ve been sitting in the same piece of shit: a gray swivel chair that I got at Target as a teenager. It creaks if you look at it; it’s covered in enormous amounts of my hair. It does not do my body any favors. Very possibly it has been exacerbating my…
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UncategorizedTwitch Plays EVE Online
On February 12, 2014 an 18 year old Game Boy game took the internet by storm and ignited a miniature cultural phenomenon. Over the course of the next 16 days, an estimated 1.16 million people tuned in to the newly rebranded Twitch.tv and watch people from all across the world attempt to collaborate and successfully…
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OpinionImpressionsDisney Classic Games: Lion King And Aladdin Is A Lovely Little Retro Bundle
Announced in August and released this week for PlayStation 4, PC, Switch, and Xbox One, Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King bundles together several different versions of two of the best movie tie-in video games ever made with concept art, music, and videos to create an excellent package that’s sure to please fans.…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryDisco Elysium’s Voice Acting Is Good Enough Not To Skip
I recently picked up Disco Elysium, an introspective detective game that launched on PC a couple of weeks ago. Like many people who have sat down with the game, I’ve found it very engrossing. It’s so engrossing that I’m not barreling through the dialogue as fast as I can read it, which I usually do.…
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CultureYou Can Thank The Developer Of Everything For This Creepy Instagram Filter
David OReilly, developer of Mountain and Everything, is now making terrifying Instagram filters. OReilly creates work that one might call “weird,” as either a compliment or an insult. Mountain is a simulation game in an extremely literal sense. It simulates a mountain, which changes over time, as more and more stuff appears on it and…
By Gita Jackson
