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Super Nintendo Game Names Are Buried In The Switch Online NES App
Switch Online’s NES classics app now has titles and descriptions for 22 Super Nintendo games buried in its code, according to dataminers who have looked at the program. That’s a welcome glimmer of hope for anyone hoping to play Super Mario World on their Switch, but it doesn’t necessarily mean those games will show up…
By Chris Kohler - Uncategorized
Turning The DS Sideways For Giant Fights Was One Of Mario & Luigi‘s Most Creative Tricks
When Bowser dies at various points in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, the brothers have to revive him by shooting adrenaline into his heart. Doing so leads him to get back up and become giant Bowser for a special mode that requires players to hold the DS sideways like a book. Suddenly, the game’s…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Rocket League Now Has Cross-Play Across All Consoles
Psyonixannounced today that Rocket League has entered the PlayStation Cross-Play Beta program and is playable with people across PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and Steam, making it only the second game to do so after Fortnite By default, players on any of those platforms will randomly matchmake with one another for online play. The ability to…
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The Week In Games: Guacamole Potatoes
This week is all about trying to rival the Awesome Games Done Quick speedrunners with Guacamelee! 2 on Xbox One, and checking out the rootin’ tootin’ side-scroller shootin’ Gunman Clive when it comes out on Switch. A new year brings with it new games, and though January sadly won’t give us the new Animal Crossing,…
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The Dance Dance Revolution World Championship Looks Like Hard Work
The Dance Dance Revolution world championships are next weekend, hosted in Japan by KONAMI. This weekend, at the qualifiers, dancers from across the globe are burning through calories like it’s the end of Footloose I had a friend who was really good at Dance Dance Revolution. I couldn’t compete with her. My technique, polished through…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Fortnite YouTuber Dabs For 10 Hours, Makes $2000
Luke TheNotable streamed the entirety of Fortnite’s “Infinite Dab” animation, which runs for ten hours. For his efforts, he got $2000 from donations, 6000 new subscribers, a pair of broken headphones (from dabbing too hard), and a whole lot of dab-induced shoulder pain. Back in December, Fortnite’s notes for their 7.10 patch included this little…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Awesome Games Done Quick Ends with $2.3 Million Raised For Charity
On Friday, the charity speedrunning stream hit one million dollars for US charity Prevent Cancer Foundation. Late on Saturday night, it hit two million dollars, and the crowd went wild Donations hit the 2mil mark during a thrilling Super Mario Odyssey speedrun. As the run time ticked towards three hours, Twitch chat began a $5…
By Kate Gray - Culture
Sunday Comics: Fox Meat
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published January 10. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Real-Time Syrian Refugee Game Bury Me, My Love Is Now On Switch And You Should Play It
Over the last few years, there have been a few mobile games that use the cell phone interface itself as a way to play. There’s boy-flirt-extravaganza Mystic Messenger, which takes place within an instant messaging app. You could try to unlock a stranger’s phone in A Normal Lost Phone, and go through the emails, texts…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Luigi’s Mansion Speedrun Makes Me Excited For Luigi’s Mansion 3
I owned Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube when I was slightly smaller than I am now. My younger brother and I would try to get through its spooky, ghost-filled levels together, sharing tips and wasting our parents’ printer ink on 30-page guides off the internet. But really, Luigi’s Mansion owned me I’ve never been great with…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Heartbreaking Divinity: Original Sin 2 Speedrun Highlights How Luck Is A Speedrunner’s Nemesis
Awesome Games Done Quick is the speedrunning equivalent of the Olympics, only more frequent and featuring way more pizza. But what happens when a speedrunner has the equivalent of a loose shoelace? Semanari was due to complete a tricky Divinity: Original Sin 2 speedrun on Friday, January 11, with an estimated time of 19 minutes…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
10,000 Elite Dangerous Players Start An 18-Week Journey Across The Galaxy
Four years ago, in space-exploration game Elite Dangerous, an explorer by the name of Erimus set out on a journey he called “Distant Suns.” This trip took three months and over 130,000 light years to complete, and exists now as a 13-part travel log on YouTube. Tomorrow, January 13, Erimus will lead the expedition “Distant…
By Kate Gray - Uncategorized
Destiny 2‘s Impossible Puzzle Might Have Been Broken All Along
Destiny 2 players have finally completed the seventh and final Niobe Labs puzzle—you know, the one that was apparently so hard that Bungie had to give up hope of anyone solving it. This success is not the result of any last-minute Sherlockian breakthroughs, however, but because the puzzle itself was broken. Late on Friday, January…
By Kate Gray - Esports
Competitive Halo Goes Old School With The Halo 3 Classic Tournament
While the competitive Halo scene has been losing some steam in recent years, there’s no end of love and nostalgia for the earlier games in the series, especially Halo 3. This weekend a mix of pro teams and grass roots teams will duke it out in St. Louis in the first of many Halo 3…
By Ethan Gach
