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“Is E.T. really the worst game of all time? Probably not. But the story of the fall of the video game industry needed a face and that was E.T.” Howard Scott Warshaw, the designer behind 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, talks about the game, his career, and his life in an interview…
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EsportsClassic Rivals In A “Best Of The Rest” Battle In North American League of Legends
With Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming tied and Team SoloMid just one game behind them, this would be a dream season of League of Legends, if only it were still 2014. In 2016, it’s still pretty great, but it’s also bittersweet watching the big three of NA LCS playing their guts out for a (very)…
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EsportsWhy Fnatic Are The Best Counter-Strike Team
Fnatic are the greatest Counter-Strike team in the world right now. Just look at this crushing defeat they inflicted on Astralis in their final match today at the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational. Astralis were putting up an heroic fight against a heavily-favored Fnatic on the Inferno map. Astralis had tied the match after starting from a…
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The Week In Games: Enter The Beastmaster
Thog love kitty. Kitty Thog friend. Thog and kitty always together. Thog name kitty Phsteven. Good Phsteven. Games come. Thog fear games. Games scare Thog. Phsteven keep Thog safe. Thog want to play Agatha Christie. Tuesday, February 23 Far Cry Primal — PS4, Xbox One Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders — PS4, Xbox One, PC…
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UncategorizedOne Final Twilight Princess HD Comparison Vid Before Our Memories Get Muddled
With the high definition remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess less than two weeks away, Nintendo UK releases a final comparison between Gamecube and Wii U before the jaggy lines go all blurry in our heads. One good thing about Nintendo’s baby-stepping graphics hardware upgrades over the past few consoles is that HD…
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The Legend Of Zelda Was Born 30 Years Ago Today On An Ugly Little Floppy Disk
On February 21, 1986, Japan got its first taste of the magical land of Hyrule, though not on the famous gold cartridge Western gamers are familiar with. In early 1986, while gamers in the U.S. were getting acquainted with the Western version of Nintendo’s Family Computer (Famicom), the Japanese original got an upgrade in the…
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Sunday Comics: Snake Sex
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 19. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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EsportsTwo Top League Of Legends Players Duel With The Game On The Line
In a League of Legends match full of moments that were both ridiculous and amazing, Cloud9’s Hai and Team SoloMid’s Bjergsen may have taken the cake with this incredible nail-biter of a brawl. I’ll have lots more to say about this second-place match between TSM and Cloud9, which was the League of Legends equivalent of…
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LEGO Gaming PC Runs Much Cooler Than It Looks
Building a gaming PC out of standard hardware and LEGO bricks is pretty impressive. Integrating an all new method of air-based graphics card cooling that delivers water cooling performance, Mike Schropp’s LEGO Gaming PC is a mechanical marvel. Constructed of around 2,280 LEGO pieces, Schropp’s distinctive X-shaped gaming system consists of three different sections. In…
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Smite‘s God Battles Spill Over Onto The PlayStation 4
Now that last month’s Smite World Championship presented by Xbox One is good and done, it’s time for Hi-Rez Studios to bring its god-based third-person MOBA to not-so-greener game consoles. Closed beta for the PS4 version of Smite kicks off next month. While many higher level PC players turn up their noses at the console…
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UncategorizedPlaying Street Fighter IV And V At The Same Time With One Controller
The folks at Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry hooked up Street Fighter V and its predecessor to the same game controller and started playing. The sync is mesmerizing at first, but then it all starts to fall apart. As explained in the Eurogamer article, Digital Foundry’s “dual wielding” system of controller syncing only goes so far while…
By Mike Fahey