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Competitive Virtual Farming Is Getting Its Own Esports League
After making the Farming Simulator games for over a decade now, the Swiss game studio Giants Software announced today it’s decided to make the series into a full blown esport by committing 250,000€, or approximately $284,803 in prize money to the establishment of a Farming Simulator League wherein teams of three will compete to see…
By Ethan Gach - CultureKotaku Game Diary
There Are So Many PC Games To Play, I Can’t Choose One To Start
I measured out a space in my incredibly small apartment and bought a desk. After rearranging my room, I finally have a space to actually hook up and use my PC. Now what do I do? I live in New York, where people will live in any space they can get, no matter how tiny.…
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UncategorizedUpcoming No Man’s Sky Fan Film Stars A Five-Year-Old and A Pro Wrestler
People make incredible things in No Man’s Sky: civilizations, bases, and even the face of developer Sean Murray. One fan has now made a fan film set in the universe of the game, with a little help from his daughter, Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller, and Austin Creed, which is the stage name of professional wrestler…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Q&A
When a major agency debuts a new girl group and said group’s first music video is a love letter to video games, that makes my job a little easier. Cherry Bullet is the new girl group from FNC Entertainment, and as far as girl group names go, we’ve seen worse (remember these poor ladies?). It…
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Dragon Ball Super: Broly Makes Broly The Hero And Goku More Selfish Than Ever
Dragon Ball Super: Broly, released in theaters last week, perfects the modern Dragon Ball formula in almost every way. I couldn’t take my eyes off it at any point during its 101-minute run time, even though everything that flashed on screen during that time was incredibly dumb and nothing I hadn’t seen before. Who will…
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- Culture
How Peanuts Used Lucy and Schroeder To Explore Dysfunctional Relationships
Lucy’s relationship to Schroeder was unfulfilling. She craved emotional validation from the one character who was least equipped to provide it. It was both humorous and sad—a contradictory message that Charles Schulz’s Peanuts conveyed so well. This piece originally appeared 5/2/18. Lucy debuted as a toddler in 1952. Schulz declined to reprint these early strips…
By Kevin Wong - Uncategorized
A Game About Dating That Instagram-Famous Egg
In early January, an anonymous Instagram user posted a picture of an egg, trying to get other people to like it in order to beat Kylie Jenner’s world record of 18 million likes. They succeeded. And now you can date the egg in a video game. World Record Egg is a short dating simulator on…
By Gita Jackson
