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UncategorizedThis Week’s Final Fantasy XIV Patch Is Pretty Exciting
Final Fantasy XIV gets its biggest update since the Stormblood expansion tomorrow, with the launch of patch 4.1, “The Legend Returns.” Not only are players getting new player housing, NPC dungeons and a continuation of the main storyline, they’re also taking a trip to Final Fantasy XII’s Rabenastre, courtesy of guest creator Yasumi Matsuno. When…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
The Week In Games: Where Every Orc Knows Your Name
Who’s ready to make some friends? I grew to like Shadow of Mordor despite my best efforts. It turns out slicing and dicing orcs, no matter how brutal and repetitive, is a hell of a lot of fun. Still, Shadow of War and The Evil Within 2 leaves this week feeling pretty bleak. I guess…
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UncategorizedFight for Your Dreams, the new Prescription for Sleep album that turns battle music from Final Fantasy, Undertale, Mega Man, Transformers and more into sumptuous jazzy lullabies, is now available for purchase on iTunes, Bandcamp and Spotify. Do not operate heavy weaponry while listening.
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Overwatch Team Finishes First Season Back In North America Undefeated
Team Envyus managed to go the entire six weeks of Overwatch Contender’s first regular season undefeated, and proved it wasn’t a fluke during today’s Grand Finals at Blizzards new esports arena. First they swept FNRGFE in a best-of-five semifinals where the latter looked good but not good enough. Despite taking a point off the soon-to-be…
By Ethan Gach - Culture
Glitch Upends Grand Theft Auto V World Record Attempt
The Big Score is the sixth and final heist mission in GTA V. If they player selects the “subtle” approach, they’ll need to drive their car onto a tractor trailer at a certain point or the mission ends in failure. Unfortunately, there’s a rare glitch that can make doing so impossible. DarkViperAU plays a lot…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Gwent‘s Latest Update Takes Inspiration From Chess
The Mahakam Ale Festival went live in CD Projekt Red’s collectible card game just over a week ago. Intended to coincide with Oktoberfest, the holiday event brought with it not just some tweaks to old cards but also completely new game mode. In addition to the normal array of buffs and nerfs, the “Agile” updatereleased…
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UncategorizedAtchafalaya Arcade Turns Old Nintendo Hardware Into A Miniature Electronic Orchestra
Behold Atchafalaya Arcade. It’s an audio visual adventure that takes old technologies and scrambles them together in the present until something new and poetic arises out of the chaos. It’s the work of Tammy Duplantis who has been showing off the game at this weekend’s IndieCade Festival in LA. The game cartridge itself is the…
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Sunday Comics: All Sold Out
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 7. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 2. Read more…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
The Blade Runner point-and-click adventure game still looks stunning. Westwood Studios’ 1997 adaptation was groundbreaking at the time for having multiple endings and a story that changed with each new choice you made. But it also had some dazzling, painstakingly crafted backgrounds.
By Ethan Gach - Culture
Speedrunner Beats Every Cuphead Boss Using DDR Pads
Why fight demonic animations with a mouse and keyboard or game controller when you can just dance all those troubles away instead? Alright, so speedrunner PeekingBoo doesn’t exactly defeat Goopy Le Grande or Captain Brineybeard by dancing per se, but he does do it by stomping—patiently, methodically—until each is dead. You see PeekingBoo isn’t your…
By Ethan Gach
