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The Week In Games: Say Hello To My Little Friend
Step aside Pokémon, there’s a new kid in town, and he’s got a big ass sword. A creature collecting game set in the Final Fantasy multiverse? Sign. Me. Up. It’s been too long since the last Kingdom Hearts and I need another ridiculous spin-off derived from someone’s post-Final Fantasy VII LiveJournal fanfic like a dog…
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CultureTotal RecallA Brief Look At Nintendo’s Obsession With Putting Handheld Gaming On Your TV
By all accounts, the Nintendo Switch looks like the sort of portable-console hybrid that many were speculating about ever since initial rumors about the new hardware first started to circulate. It’s weird to think of Nintendo moving forward without releasing a new, strictly stationary console. For many of us, the first time we ever played…
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UncategorizedBattlefield 1 Players Are Encountering A Spectacular Airship Glitch
If you’ve been playing Battlefield 1 this weekend, you might have seen the game’s gorgeous zeppelins do something unexpected. A video uploaded earlier today to Imgur shows a Zeppelin from the latest Battlefield glitching after it’s hit by a plane and transforming into a glorious, flaming tornado of death. A YouTube user by the name…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Long Lost SNES Rayman Game Discovered After 24 Years
When Michel Ancel isn’t teasing fans with concept art for a Beyond Good & Evil sequel that was announced eight years ago, he’s apparently searching for a long lost build of Rayman for the SNES. His efforts seem to have paid off earlier today when he discovered an EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory) of the…
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EsportsBig Risks Don’t Pay Off In Last Night’s League Semifinals
It turns out Josh “Jatt” Leesman was right when he trolled the League of Legends World Championship audience with his prediction for the semifinal series between Samsung Galaxy and H2K Gaming. “H2 What?” the panel asked him. “H2…Korean teams in finals!” And the glibness of the joke was in many ways appropriate, as SSG went…
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UncategorizedDestiny Player Destroys Latest Raid Boss All By Himself
Early Saturday morning, a Destiny player and YouTuber by the name of ScaRdrow accomplished the nearly unimaginable: he soloed the final boss in Wrath of the Machine and lived to tell the tale. Ever since the game’s latest expansion, Rise of Iron, arrived last month, players in Bungie’s online first-person shooter have been banding together…
By Ethan Gach - Culture
Sunday Comics: You’re Fired
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 21. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Team Liquid Signs The First Pro Civilization VI Player
Stephen ‘MrGameTheory’ Takowsky will be Civilization VI’s first professional player. That’s according to an announcement Team Liquid made yesterday stating it has signed MrGameTheory to head up their new Civilization team and was embarking on “an initiative to launch Civilization VI into the world of competitive esports.” MrGameTheory, who previously competed in Clash Royale, had…
By Ethan Gach