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  The Agony Of Playing The Same Game For Five Years

  If you’ve never played Football Manager, everything you’re about to read will sound absolutely crazy. If you have, well, it’ll just make sense. physicalpixels has shared the tale of his 30 seasons in football management over (mostly) a single save game, played out over five actual years (2010-2015). It’s at once both a showcase of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015
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  A Hockey Celebration Gets A Little Weird

  On today’s episode of Highlight Reel we have bad archers, good snipes, cheeky NPCs, glitchy celebrations and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Sleeping Dogs – Wei doesn’t know…

  By Chris Person Published June 1, 2015
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  If You Tie A Splatoon Match, Bullshit Happens

  Ever wonder what happens if two teams cover the field with the same amount of paint in Turf Wars? Is there sudden death? A tie-breaker? I wish. In this footage by TheeIncubusHD, we see two teams that play through a match peacefully. Instead of painting the ground with ink, they instead elect to do a…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2015
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  Order Of Battle: Pacific: The Kotaku Review

  Panzer Corps is one of the best—and most underrated—strategy games available on the PC. Thing is, it’s a bit old-fashioned. Order of Battle: Pacific is what you get when a studio takes the same basic premise and makes it a little bit more 2015. OoB:P is a turn-based strategy game, played on a map made…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015
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  Thirty Hours In, The Witcher 3 Keeps Surprising Me

  If you play a game long enough, you start to be able to predict it. Thirty hours in, The Witcher 3’s still got me stumped. OK, not entirely stumped. I know that I’ll likely be using my Witcher senses to follow some sort of trail to a place, brew some potions, slather myself in sensuous…

  By Nathan Grayson Published June 1, 2015
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  New Comic Book Puts Love Stories Back Into the Spotlight

  Love gets a raw deal in modern comic books. Sure, leading characters in superhero, crime and other comics genres have romances and entanglements and whatever else, but those are always subplots in service of another larger story element. In the real world, the quest for sex, commitment and affection is something everyone can relate to.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 1, 2015
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  The Monday Stream Plays Moonrise, The Closest Thing To Pokémon on Steam [Done!]

  Here’s what I know about Moonrise. It’s bright. It lets you collect and battle monters. And people keep comparing it to Pokémon—except on PC. Being Kotaku’s resident Pokémon expert, I thought I’d go ahead and give the game a whirl, see what its like. I invite you to join me in my adventure, where I…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2015
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  Destiny’s Prison Of Elders Should Let Us Take Breaks

  Destiny’s new cooperative challenge mode is called “The Prison of Elders.” It’s a fitting name: Thanks to the way checkpoints work, it really can leave you feeling imprisoned. The Prison is a new game mode introduced in the newest Destiny expansion, House of Wolves. The gist: You make a team of three and make your…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 1, 2015
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  Bad, Steampunk Shooter. Bad!

  This bullet point comes from newly released steampunk FPS Avenging Angel. The game looks alright, but oh god the pun hurts. It hurrrrrrrts. Here’s a trailer of Avenging Angel: It looks, um, functional enough. Might be worth checking out! But the pun. I just… I feel like I need to roll up a newspaper and…

  By Nathan Grayson Published June 1, 2015
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  The Dark Side Of Nintendo’s Miiverse

  Miiverse, Nintendo’s social network, is a pretty kid friendly place…most of the time. The Miiverse is a social network that you can post to from a Nintendo Wii U or 3Ds. It’s designed like any other social network—users can post little notes, game tips, or drawings that will be seen by players around the world,…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2015
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  My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

  I skipped last week—and please don’t mention how late it is this week—but I’ve got my five favorite Kotaku stories of the past week all lined up for praise. Shall we? Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous Video Game Tester | I’m a fan of the Friday Kotaku Asks interview series that Jason has been curating. Mr./Ms.…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2015
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  The Last Five Minutes Of Hatred, As Far As I’m Concerned

  Do I really have to do this? Fine. Let’s get it over with. Mind the foul language and overall lack of enthusiasm. Purposefully controversial game Hatred is live on Steam today. In it players take on the role of a psychotic ‘90s metal front man consumed by the teen angst that caused him to buy…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2015
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  Tanya Pops Into Mortal Kombat X Tomorrow

  Kombat Pass owners can start making their way through the competition as the evil Edenian when the Tanya Bundle goes live tomorrow. Tanya’s been through a lot since her debut in Mortal Kombat 4 as a yellow and mask-less female ninja, and judging by the official gameplay trailer she’ll be going through a lot more.…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2015
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  Splatoon Players Are Obsessed With Spongebob Squarepants

  Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs? As those of you playing Splatoon know, every time you boot up the game, you are spawned in a plaza called Inkopolis. It resembles real-life Shibuya Crossing a little bit: Here, players have access to Splatoon’s many shops and modes. What makes Inkopolis cool is that it’s populated…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2015
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  The First Five Joyous Minutes Of LEGO’s Minecraft

  How much delight can one pack into five minutes? Watch and learn. Outed last week as LEGO video games often are—via a physical instruction booklet—fans could only hope that the brief description of LEGO Worlds on paper (Explore. Discover. Create.) meant what they thought it meant—LEGO Minecraft. It is exactly that. It is better than…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2015
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  Splatoon Doesn’t Assume You Want To Be A Boy

  When you boot up Splatoon for the first time, this is what you see. Girl? Boy? The game doesn’t pick one for you, which is different than how most games approach this decision. Most video games, even ones that allow players to swap genders and customize your character, choose male/boy/guy as the default. When you…

  By Patrick Klepek Published June 1, 2015
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  XCOM 2 Coming Out In November For Computers, Not Consoles

  IGN has the first details on XCOM 2, the secretive project 2K Games has been teasing for a little while now. It’s coming to PC, Mac, and Linux in November. Nothing for consoles, at least not yet. Here’s the first trailer: The premise has been flipped around in the sequel, too. In XCOM 2, the…

  By Patrick Klepek Published June 1, 2015
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  LEGO Just Launched Their Own Minecraft

  The best way to describe Minecraft is as “digital LEGO,” so I guess it was inevitable that LEGO would make their own version too. Meet LEGO Worlds, which is on Steam Early Access—a platform for selling early and unfinished games—starting today. The devs are promising procedurally-generated worlds, complex terraforming tools, and whatever else you might…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 1, 2015
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  Killer Instinct‘s Shadows AI Even Learns Your Dick Moves

  Last week Killer Instinct added Shadows Mode, which analyzes a player’s fighting style and creates an A.I. clone that does everything they do—including celebrating a win with a good teabagging. In TGF1Gaming’s video below (via Polygon), we see a fierce battle between a Jago player in white and his game-crafted shadow in blue and red.…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2015
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  Surprise! Here’s A Bunch Of Nintendo News

  Sometimes, Nintendo just randomly throws up a “Nintendo Direct Micro” and announces a bunch of new 3DS games for North America, including Bravely Second, Dr. Mario, and Chibi-Robo. Because Nintendo likes surprises. In the 17-minute video, hosted by Bill Trinen and published out of nowhere this morning, Nintendo announced Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash (for 3DS this…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 1, 2015