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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…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
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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Your 2016 Smite World Champions Are Not These Guys
These five gentlemen, collectively known as team Enemy, clawed their way into the 2016 Smite World Championship grand finals only to lose three straight games to Europe’s Epsilon, letting all of North America down. As punishment, they only get $230,000. I blame myself. Enemy (spelled all cleverly on their fancy shirts) were my favorite to…
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Watch The Grand Finals Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Right Here
It’s Europe’s Epsilon versus North America’s evil Enemy in a best of five fight to the finish, with the winner getting more money than the loser. Let’s watch people play Smite in front of a live audience! The whirlwind four-day eventall comes down to this. Will Enemy beat Epsilon by a whole lot, or will…
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2016 Is A Crucial Year For Star Wars: The Old Republic
With Knights of the Fallen Empire, the latest expansion for SWTOR, Bioware tried something different, and right now I’m not talking about all the gameplay changesI applauded back when it first hit in October. The game is in a better place than it was. Now it has to keep improving. Though KOTFE did technically release…
By Phil Owen - Uncategorized
Witcher 3 Dev Says There’s No Enhanced Edition Coming [UPDATE]
Update: PR for CD Projekt RED says “There’s no Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that we are aware of, this is some kind of error that we will look into.” So. Original post: It’s probably too soon to know what this means, but a pair of European store websites have posted listings…
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