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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Happiness
This week marks the fifth anniversary of one of my favorite contemporary K-Pop groups, Red Velvet. They arrived on the scene with Happiness in 2014. (Where does the time go?) Red Velvet’s debut wasn’t the smoothest. Happiness came when dissatisfaction with SM Entertainment’s management of their current artists was reaching a tipping point; this was…
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CultureE. Honda, Poison, and Final Fight‘s Lucia Are Coming To Street Fighter V
A video uploaded to the Street Fighter V Steam page revealed that E. Honda, Poison, and Lucia are the three new characters that will be added to the PlayStation 4 and PC game. The trailer, which seems to have gone live prematurely in advance of this weekend’s Evo tournament, was taken down from the Steam…
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CultureThe Original Diablo Is Now Playable In Your Browser
The sanctity of this place has been fouled! Released back in 1996, the original Diablo has never gotten as much attention as its successors. That’s one of the reasons a group of programmers took it upon themselves to reverse engineer the game’s source code to make it possible for others to port it to web…
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CultureElectronic Arts Says Its Customers Just Aren’t That Interested In Switch Versions
The Sims on Switch seems like a no-brainer. It’s a chill game about managing the daily life of virtual human beings where high-end graphics and framerate don’t really matter. In a recent earnings call, however, the head of Electronic Arts explained why the publisher sees things differently, and why it hasn’t brought The Sims—or much…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Biggest Elder Scrolls Game Has Been Remade In Unity
It’s easy to forget that Skyrim, with its massive popularity and numerous ports, wasn’t the first Elder Scrolls game. It’s only the latest in a long line of huge roleplaying adventures, some of which feature worlds many times its size. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, originally released in 1996, is one of Skyrim’s big brothers…
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CultureMonster Prom Team Says Papa Roach Stole Game Art For Tour Poster
This past week, the video game Monster Prom had its promotional art reused without permission by the band Papa Roach for a tour poster. In case you forgot who Papa Roach are, which is understandable, they had this hit song in the year 2000: Right now, developers of the game Monster Prom say that they…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Didn’t Think The Surge Was For Me Until I Saw It In A Netflix Show
I had no intention of ever playing The Surge. It looked boring, overly familiar, and mostly desolate, like a dozen other third-person action games by studios I’d never really heard of in which some dude, always some dude, is on a mission to wreck shit up because that’s what’s supposed to make for a cool…
By Ethan Gach
