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Kotaku East

Kiyomizu-dera. Kyoto, Japan. By NeubDetat. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2016

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Track: Colorless Aquarium | Artist: tricot | Album: A N D Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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Turns Out Robots Don’t Need Arms

Thomas Istepanyan is a freelance artist from Paris, France. You can see more of Thomas’ work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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Valve Bans Match-Fixing Counter-Strike Players For Life

Nearly a year after a notorious scandal, Valve has clarified their stance on the punishment for match-fixing (that is, conspiring to lose on purpose, typically for the purposes of illicit moneymaking) in pro Counter-Strike: a permanent ban from competition. Not “indefinite.” Permanent. With teams like iBuyPower—whose members were found to have participated in a major…

By Nathan Grayson Published January 5, 2016

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Shinra Technologies, the cloud gaming company headed by Yoichi Wada (and only announced just over a year ago), has been shut down by Square Enix

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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BoxBoy, the cute little 3DS game that made our “Best of 2015” list, is getting a sequel. Here’s the first trailer.

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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Monstrous $30,000 Rig Can Be Seven PCs At Once

Those of you who struggle to play one game on your PC, you might want to look away. Using donated gear that’s worth around $30,000, LinusTechTipsput together a PC comprised of 256GB RAM (8x 32GB), 7x AMD R9 Nano graphics cards and 8x 1TB SSDs. The trick here being that all of that was plugged…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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New Katamari Damacy Game Is Hot Garbage

You may have heard there’s a new Katamari Damacy game on both iOS and Android. There is! It’s called Tap My Katamari. It is awful. I played it yesterday so you don’t have to. Things start pretty well! Some nice new Katamari splash art, some funky music to accompany it. After a lengthy loading screen,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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Player Creates Crowd-Sourced Trash Talk Generator For Steam Games

For many players, friendly (or unfriendly) trash talk is as much a part of competitive games as, well, gaming. Truly clever quipping, however, ain’t easy, so one Steam user decided to crowdsource an automated trash talk generator. This being the Internet, things of course went horribly wrong—at least, at first. Davis Ford’s Shittalk Generator allows…

By Nathan Grayson Published January 5, 2016

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Bless This Sweet Little Star Wars Kickstarter [Update]

Devin Tripp, from Grapevine, Texas, says he is 20 years old. His is not the first name that springs to mind when you’re thinking of development of a new Star Wars “open world RPG”. Nevertheless, Tripp—who is “not a very good programmer” and “an even worse artist”—has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Star Wars Open…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2016

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I Started These 138 Video Games In 2015, ‘Finished’ 24

For the 10th year in a row (!), I’ve tallied the games I played in the past 12 months and have counted the ones I’ve “finished.” It’s clear that it’s time for some changes. I started this practice in late 2006, a year in which I played 102 games including the likes of The Legend…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2016

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Undertale Has One Of The Greatest Final Boss Fights In RPG History

For a few hours, Undertale is a solid, charming game. Then you get to the ending—the real ending—and suddenly you get why everyone’s so obsessed. In fact, I’d argue that Undertale’s true final boss—which you can only see by completing the game as a pacifist—is on par with the best finales in RPG history, rivaling…

By Jason Schreier Published January 5, 2016

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One-Handed Transformers: Devastation Speedrun Lights Our Darkest 45 Minutes

Here we see speedrunner Halfcoordinated taking out the Autobots’ most feared enemy with one punch during his Awesome Games Done Quick run of Transformers: Devastation on its highest difficulty level. That’d be an impressive feat even if he were playing with both hands. But Halfcoordinated is not playing with both hands. He’s playing with one…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2016

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SOMA Mod Stops Monsters From Attacking, Improves The Game

SOMA is a contemplative horror game dripping with psychological, oftentimes existential dread. It’s also about running from scary monsters. Surprisingly, however, stripping out that second part actually makes the game more enjoyable and, in some ways, scarier. The Dreamer’s rather derisively named Wuss Mode: Monsters Won’t Attack mod is actually really cool. They describe it…

By Nathan Grayson Published January 5, 2016

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Deathclaws Are No Longer Fallout 4’s Scariest Enemy

The wasteland has terrifying secrets, the likes of which you’ve never seen before. A darkness has awakened. Witness it before it swallows the Commonwealth whole: This hilarious horror was brought to us via Pastaspace, and you can download the mod here.

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 5, 2016

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New ‘Smart Gaming Mouse’ Has A Tiny Screen On It For Some Reason

What’s the main thing you look at while PC gaming? Besides the monitor. And the keyboard. And the random things on your desk. And the window near your desk. And the ceiling. That’s right—your mouse. That’s why SteelSeries put a small OLED screen on theirs, I guess. To be fair, SteelSeries’ new Rival 700 gaming…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2016

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FIFA Celebration Gets A Little Out Of Hand

Today on Highlight Reel we have wrestling confusion, Just Cause 3 explosions, dog warping, good goals and much more! Watch the video above, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Just Cause 3 – Heads up –…

By Chris Person Published January 5, 2016

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Just Cause 3 Becomes Pure Chaos Even If You Do Absolutely Nothing

Sandbox games offer players fully functioning worlds in which characters go about their daily business until somebody starts lobbing rockets or blowing up bridges. But what happens if you just leave NPCs be? In Just Cause 3, things still find a way to go topsy turvy—fast ThingsWePlay decided to just stand still in Just Cause…

By Nathan Grayson Published January 5, 2016

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My Mario Maker Rivalry Is Over, And Evil Won (For Now)

Sometimes, good guys lose. That’s what happened on Sunday; I was unable to beat the latest stage from Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert: The Armageddan. I was close—a few times, very close—but in the end, despite my facial hair on the line, I lost. There are Mario Maker levels, and there are Ryckert’s Mario Maker levels.…

By Patrick Klepek Published January 5, 2016

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Pony Island Is One Seriously Twisted Game

Pony Island is not about ponies. It’s about escaping a demonic arcade game developed by the devil to capture the souls of the living. It just features strong pony themes. I downloaded Daniel Mullins’ bizarre adventure on Steam last night at around 2 AM, intending to spend a couple of minutes getting a feel for…

By Mike Fahey Published January 5, 2016