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UncategorizedTactical RPG Ikenfell has a new trailer and is set to release on Steam this summer. The game was Kickstarted two years ago and basically takes the setup for Harry Potter and turns it into an RPG with Paper Mario-esque combat. Perhaps best of all the Steven Universe people put together the music.
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UncategorizedLet’s Open Some Pokemon Ultra Prism Cards And See If There’s Anything Good
It’s new Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion day, and fans are tearing into thousands of Sun & Moon Ultra Prism booster packs, searching for powerful new additions to their decks. I’ve only got four boosters, but no deck, so I like my odds. I do most of my Pokemon TCG playing online, but I still…
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Collector Offers To Pay $100,000 For Original Contra Box Art
While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s probably because there are so few pieces to go around. There are thousands of copies of Battletoads In Battlemaniacs for the Super Nintendo, but only one original painting of its box artwork—and that’s owned by Dan, a…
By Chris Kohler - Uncategorized
‘Resistance’ DLC Brings Much-Needed Map Variety To COD: WWII
Call of Duty’s first DLC pack is here, and it brings some much-needed variety to the maps and a (slightly) more interesting Zombies experience. “The Resistance” arrived on January 30 for PlayStation 4, and should be available on Xbox One and PC one month from now. Resistance includes four multiplayer maps and one Zombies map…
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UncategorizedRecreating Oblivion In Skyrim Means Paying Close Attention To Trees
Skyblivion is a project by a volunteer team of modders to recreate the map for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside Skyrim. It’s been years in the making, dating back to 2012, and the team recently released an updated trailer to showcase their accomplishments so far. Their progress will give you a new appreciation for…
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One of The Biggest Harry Potter Fanfics Still Holds Up In 2018
If you don’t read fanfiction, it’s hard to really understand the purpose it serves. At its worst fanfiction is self indulgent, but at its best, fanfiction transforms the work it’s based on, and gives small moments in the canon more depth. A great example of how a derivative work can add to a piece of…
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Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Is Pretty Bad At Telling Players How To Play
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a highly technical online fighting game featuring 28 different characters. Each character has their own special moves and abilities, none of which are referenced in the game whatsoever. That’s not good. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a console port of a Japanese arcade game, so an amount of console unfriendliness…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Zelda Player Turns Map Progress Into Wall Art
Since its first DLC, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has given players the option to look back at all the places they’ve traveled by showing their path in green, known in the game as the “Hero’s Path.” While the feature has always been neat, it looks even more unique and intimate when…
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UncategorizedFootball, Reviewed
Maybe some impending social situation requires you to understand football. Or maybe you’re just interested in the sport because beer commercials have started to reference Game of Thrones. Well, Kotaku Dot Com’s Tim Rogers (that’s me) is here to help you out with this handy video. It’s a lot like my words-based review of football…
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