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EsportsKorea Just Found A New Game To Dominate: Dota 2
Time to pack it in, Western Dota 2 teams: Korea just won a premier title by sweeping the reigning International champions, Evil Geniuses, in a lopsided final to conclude the Dota Pit League playoffs. It’s hard to believe that it was only last summer that we all enjoyed the heartwarming success of MVP Phoenix, the…
By Rob Zacny - Culture
The Week In Games: Further Fallout
Just when I thought I was completely done with Fallout 4, along comerobot battles to drag me right back in. Lots of cool smaller games coming out this week, perfect for filling the gaps between whatever sort of mechanical hijinks we’ll be getting into in the Automatron DLC for Fallout 4. Monday, March 21 Hyperdimension…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bring Back The Beard
I promised myself I would never give our readers my picture to play around with, but the reaction to my recent beard loss was too much to ignore. The facial hair is gone but you can rebuild it. Make it strong. Faster. You have the technology. I’ve been a beard man for several decades, having…
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EsportsWomen’s Counter-Strike Is Ready For A Breakthrough
While the explosive growth in popularity for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has mostly made the Fnatics and the Na’Vis of the world into esports stars, the women’s competitive scene has often been an overlooked cornerstone of the game. That’s finally starting to change as some of esports’ biggest sponsors and organizations have started to give them…
By Rob Zacny - Uncategorized
Xbox Survey Wonders If You’d Trade In Your Digital Games For Store Credit
Refunds notwithstanding, digital video game purchases are normally a one-way street, but what if they weren’t? A question from a recent Xbox survey asks gamers if they’d part with their digital acquisitions for 10 percent store credit. The image belowpopped up on Reddit yesterday, and the hypothetical it presents is interesting. Trading in a $60…
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UncategorizedThe Canceled Superman Game That Killed A Beloved Game Studio
In 2008, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron developer Factor 5 teamed with up-and-coming publisher Brash Entertainment to create an ambitious open-world game based on DC Comics’ Man of Steel. By May of 2009 Factor 5 was no more. Thanks, Superman. In the latest video from the folks atDidYouKnowGaming, Unseen64 video game historian Liam Robertson explores development…
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UncategorizedHappy 10th Birthday To My Favorite Elder Scrolls Game
“These are the closing days of the third era, and the final hours of my life.” So spoke Sir Patrick Stewart as King Uriel Septim VII in the opening moments of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, foretelling the end of his adventure and the beginning of a million others. That powerful opening monologue, with its…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
Sunday Comics: Another Planet Doomed
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 March 18. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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UncategorizedDarth Vader In Fallout 4 Is More Powerful Than You Could Possibly Imagine
Apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi, who famously uttered the phrase in the first Star Wars film, but becoming a translucent blue bit of heroic motivation has nothing on what Vader does to the rebel forces in this modded Fallout battle. Not content to simply recreate everyone’s favorite little podracer in Fallout 4, YouTube’s Cosmic Contrarian staged…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pokken In The UFC: The Winners!
And so a last-minute idea results in one of the best Kotaku ‘Shop Contests ever, with so many excellent entries there was no way I could pick one for the top. So I picked three. Is it a cop-out? Yes, yes it is. But it’s really the fault of our Photoshop-savvy readers, so blame them.…
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