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Over 50,000 People Are Watching Pokemon Movies On Twitch Together Right Now, And It’s Wonderful
Forget watching people play games. Between Bob Ross and this weekend’s Pokemon marathon, Twitch is quickly becoming the premiere destination for communal event programming. Come watch!
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Look Away, Dark Souls Fans. Just Look Away.
GameStop and Bandai Namco would really like you to preorder Dark Souls III. They made a mobile game about it called Slashy Souls. Want to play it? I wouldn’t bother. Despite the gif above being pulled from Polygon’s direct feed video of Slashy Souls in action, I did bother to download the free GameStop published…
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UncategorizedDisgaea PC Isn’t So Bad Once You Work Through All The Broken Bits
One of my favorite PlayStation 2 games of all time arrived on PC last week, and the transition was far from painless. Still, nothing a few settings tweaks, opting out of Steam betas and possibly buying a game pad can’t fix. Beneath several bugs and bad style choices the game that launched Nippon Ichi’s successful…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
Sunday Comics: A Tawdry History
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 February 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cheer Up, Baby Batman: Winners!
Last week wetasked our Photoshop-savvy readers with cheering up an incredibly sad Damian Wayne. Most were not good at cheering up a baby superhero, but they failed in such entertaining ways it hardly mattered. The idea was that we’d place Bruce Wayne’s son, despondent over the fact that his father no longer remembers him, in…
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UncategorizedBeing A Bear Is Much More Complicated Than We Thought
Eat, sleep, kill the odd adventurer, repeat—that was my notion of what bear life was like before playing Bear Simulator. Now I know the truth: there’s also bunny killing and wearing ball caps. Two years ago developer John Farjayasked Kickstarter backers for $29,500 to make a first-person bear simulation game. He wound out with over…
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Fired Dota 2 Commentator On Why Valve Dropped Him
James “2GD” Harding, an esports personality who was fired from his role as host of the Dota 2 Shanghai Major and renounced by Gabe Newell, has posted his explanation of the events that led to his removal from the event. In a long, almost stream-of-consciousness essay, Harding goes into the extensive history of his interactions…
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That Time My Pikachu Was Kidnapped And Held For Ransom
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Pokemon Red and Blue in Japan, and fans are celebrating by sharing their fondest Pokememories. Mine involve a kidnapping, complete with Polaroid shots and a magazine cut-out ransom letter. It all went down at Dragon*Con 1999 in downtown Atlanta. I’d been working security for the convention…
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Firewatch Gets Co-op Play Via Printable Maps
Firewatch is a very lonely video game, but that doesn’t mean you have to play it alone. Developer Camp Santo has released printable versions of the game’s Two Forks Region Overview map so you can bring a navigator along for the ride. The two maps, one textured and one plain, were posted in response to…
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