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UncategorizedTrippy Fan Game Transforms Donkey Kong Country Into Vaporwave
This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions? DonkeyKong.exe resulted from a very small game jam taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group, Indie Games Gothenburg, decide to work…
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UncategorizedArk: Survival Evolved Gets Sharks With Frickin’ Laser Beams After Latest Patch
Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly. The patch also introduces new creatures, including giant bees, something called a Liopleurodon Magicus, and “hell pigs,” as well as a cloning chamber and of course the mysterious Tek cave dungeon…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Brazilians Prove Unstoppable At Australian Counter-Strike Tournament
The hierarchy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets a shakeup at the IEM XII Championship in Sydney, Australia as the European powerhouses make room for the resurgence of South America’s SK Gaming. Even Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač, bought earlier this year for $500,000, couldn’t save FaZe Clan. The shadow hanging over the IEM Sydney grand finals was…
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Sunday Comics: Mario And Friends
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 May 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 1. Read more…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Announcers Rib Pro Madden Player For Chewing On Bottle Caps
This is Anthony “Misery” Pulli, a young pro Madden player from Pennsylvania who spent today fighting for a shot at the 2017 Championship. He also spent all of game two gnawing on a chunk of plastic, mesmerizing sportscasters in the process. Misery had a good first game against number two ranked Trueboy, but fell flat…
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CultureSlime-san Is A Lo-Fi Platformer That Wants To Sweep You Off Your Feet
Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in. Filled with micro levels similar to Super Meat boy, the fourth project from the New York studio Fabraz takes the labyrinths of classic games like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country and condenses them down into a single screen…
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UncategorizedThere’s Finally Another Dancing Skeleton Theme On The PS4
The Playstation Store has tons of themes for you to choose from and one of the newest includes a reggae skeleton shaking his bones and dreads to some chill Jamaican beats. The theme comes from Mass Creation, but it’s not the outfit’s first time. They released one last December that featured not one but THREE…
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Overwatch Team Wastes Four Ultimates Trying To Take Down Roadhog
Pro tip: don’t engage your ultimate unless you’re sure you’ll actually get to use it. It seems like the best Rodhog players are always playing for the other team, and I’m sure that’s how the Soldier 76, Genji, and McCree felt when they and their fellow Roadhog got absolutely destroyed in Massev’s recent Play of…
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The Weekend In Esports: Rocket League Finals, IEM Sydney, And More
Are you ready for some rocket ball? The Intel Extreme Masters takes Counter-Strike to Australia and two mid-tier League of Legends teams battle it out for a ticket to the Mid-Season Invitational in Brazil, but not to be outdone Psyonix’s Rocket League will see it’s second annual spring championship crown victors for both America and…
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Player Spends A Decade Polishing Epic Theme Park In Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
The game came out in 2002, but up until yesterday, I-am-Prime was still working on fine-tuning an isometric amusement park that was years in the making. As Prime mentioned in a Reddit post, the park contains 34 roller coasters, 255 attractions and shops, and nearly 8000 guests. To-date, the park’s monorail has been ridden by…
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UncategorizedHacker Makes the ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ Fully Operational
An original prototype of Sony’s PlayStation, dating back to the company’s short-lived partnership with Nintendo, has now been completely restored to life by popular console modder Ben Heckendorn. Created in the early 1990s, this machine is little more than a Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a CD-ROM drive. It would have represented Sony’s entry into…
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UncategorizedRapidly Deflating Pikachu Rushed To Safety By Small Horde Of Suited Men
Tragedy struck in mid-dance number during the Pokemon World Festivalin Incheon, South Korea earlier this week, as the lead Pikachu sprung a leak during “You Can’t Stop The Beat.” Fortunately an elite squad of suited men was standing by. The incident occurs at the 1:00 mark in the video below, posted by YouTube user Green…
By Mike Fahey
