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UncategorizedThe Video Game That Changed How I Saw David Bowie
I was familiar with the work of David Bowie from a young age, but I didn’t fall in love with the man and his work until 1999. That was when I played Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a video game that changed the way I felt about David Bowie entirely. David Bowie succumbed to cancer on…
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CultureThe Ugliest Thing Snacktaku Has Ever Eaten
Earlier this week I encountered a food creation so hideous that I set up my camera in the noisy press room at the 2016 Smite World Championship and recorded a Snacktaku video so I could get it over with. Originally published 1/9/16 The main source of sustenance at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, which…
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UncategorizedSmite Devs’ First Mobile Game Is A Quick Bit Of Fun
The idea behind Jetpack Fighter, the first mobile game from the makers of Smite, might be a hard to grasp. See, you’re this fighter, and you’ve got a jetpack. Still following? Launched last week on iOS and coming as soon as humanly possible to Android, Jetpack Fighter is a game in which a variety of…
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Monday Comics: That’s A Lot Of Blood
Welcome to Kotaku’s Monday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics one day later than usual. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Guest comic published January 8, with gorgeous work by Pseudonym from Cassiopeia Quinn. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie…
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Fan 3D Prints Fallout‘s Robotic Buttler
Codsworth, the robo-buttler of Fallout 4’s main character’s family in all his glory. Photographer Mark Mosinski built and printed tiny version of this personal Mister Handy and it looks fantastic. It’s one step away from being able to hover around and do its silly monologues like in the game. To contact the author of this…
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UncategorizedThe WarCraft Movie Trailer Is Much Better With WarCraft II Sound Effects
The upcoming WarCraft movie’s trailer, spiced up with 20-year-old sound effects by Robert Mermet. What could go wrong? Well, ditching the “epic trailer music” and adding classic .wav lines such as “Zug-Zug” or “Ready to serve” instead won’t make the clip less epic. It’s just… different… To contact the author of this post, write to:…
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Top 5 Lines From The X-Files Video Game Episode
Like many of you, I’ve been making my way through The X-Files over the last several months in anticipation of the new six-episode revival later this month. And this week I came upon an episode in season 7 written by acclaimed author William Gibson, “First Person Shooter,” about a VR video game. It might be…
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