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The Week In Games: Do An Aileron Roll!
I was going to say that this was a rather quiet week in terms of big-name games, but then I got to Friday, and got excited in aeronautically accurate fashion. It’s not every decade you get a new Star Fox game. I would have added “let alone two” to that last bit, but you’re not…
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UncategorizedThe Band Game Crash Saved Us From A Guitar Hero MMO
After the release of some 20 games and spin-offs between 2005 and 2010 made everybody completely sick of games with “Hero” at the end, Activisionkilled the series in 2011. Game historianLiam Robertson gives us a look at the massively multiplayer online Hero World that died with it. According to Roberton’s Unseen 64 video (via Gamasutra),…
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UncategorizedWatch A Three-Hour Supercut Of Every Mortal Kombat Fatality Ever
Youtube’s Deathmule squeezes just a little under three hours of brutal murder from Mortal Kombat’s 24 year history, from 1992’s arcade debut to the latest update to Mortal Kombat X. Does that include Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero? Yes it does. What about the relatively tame fatalities from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe? They’re in there…
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CultureKubros Pop Culture Construction Figures Are Fun Until The Parts Run Out
A construction toy take on the vinyl pop culture figure craze, Mega Bloks new Kubros sets are great, unless your kit is missing bricks. I got my first look at Mega Bloks’ Kubros during the Mattel party at Toy Fair 2016, and I couldn’t wait to get my oversized paws on them. Like the popular…
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UncategorizedCollecting All The Stories: The Path Of Destinies Endings Is An Obsession
I’ve played through Stories: The Path of Destinies a dozen times over the past few days, and I won’t stop until I’ve explored every narrative branch of this choose your own action-adventure. The power of choice compels me. Evan covered the basics in his review of Spearhead Games’ colorful action role-playing game. My plan was…
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Sunday Comics: By The Balls Of Jor-El
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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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UncategorizedThe Perfect Way To Play Original PlayStation Games
You can keep your crisp clear emulators or your PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. The best way to enjoy original PlayStation classics is with the tiny PSone and Sony’s plucky little LCD attachment. I was cleaning one of my cable drawers the other day, pulling out the massive tangle of wires and sighing sadly before stuffing…
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UncategorizedIt Took 20 Pounds Of LEGO To Make Doom‘s BFG 9000
The gloriously-namedZaziNombies YouTube channel creates LEGO versions of video game weapons, among other things. Somehow they’ve gone five years without building Doom’s famous BFG 9000. Maybe it just took them a while to gather the 5,000+ bricks. With the multiplayer beta for the latest Doom in full swing, ZaziNombies (almost as fun to type as…
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UncategorizedNew Official Transformers Album Gathers Music From The Strangest Places
On Thursday Hasbro and Sony released Transformers Roll Out, an album featuring transforming robot inspired tracks from ten very different artists, including Danish alt rock band Mew and Gavin Rossdale’s Bush. Let’s give it a listen! While it will never supplant the soundtrack to 1986’s Transformers: The Movie as the official album of fandom’s collective…
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UncategorizedSailor Moon And The Curse Of The Candy Crush Saga
Released this week for iOS and Android, Sailor Moon Drops is everything you every wanted in a Sailor Moon game, as long as everything you wanted was a Candy Crush Saga clone. Sailor Moon holds a special place in my heart, having been one of the things my wife and I bonded over when we…
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