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UncategorizedKate Upton Is Shilling A Terrible Game
During last night’s Super Bowl, millions watched as Kate Upton stepped out of a bathtub, donned battle armor and escaped a crumbling stronghold on horseback. The game she’s advertising is nowhere near as exciting. The game is Game of War: Fire Age from Machine Zone, and thereported $40 million advertising campaign featuring the world famous…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ariados, Crobat, Chinchou, Lanturn • Final Fantasy Road Trip: FFIV • Pre-Cult: Assassin’s Creed 4 • The first game I beat this year • An Introduction to Weiβ Schwarz • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen TAY Classic—TAY Open…
By András Neltz - Uncategorized
Old School RuneScape Rebuilt In Minecraft
This must be one of the flattest Minecraft worlds out there, but that’s how you remake a classic browser game. As Chajben’s one-man project shows, the 2007 version of RuneScape—the free MMO we probably all encountered before one way or another—and is relatively small, making it possible to rebuild it block by block and make…
By Gergo Vas - Uncategorized
“I wanted to do a realistic re-imagining of the Ice King,” writes DeviantArt’s chasestone, “while staying true enough to the character that you can still imagine him with Tom Kenny’s voice.” Well, he succeeded. He should do the rest of the Adventure Time cast, too. Head over here for more of his work. Dayshot is…
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UncategorizedPixelly Simpsons Tribute is Awesome, Even if You Don’t Watch The Show
Featuring excellent pixel art and some self-deprecating humor from the very talented Paul Robertson Co-created with fellow artist Ivan Dixon and featuring Jeremy Dower’s chiptune remix of the Simpsons theme tune, Robertson’s video (via Polygon) is a one-minute-forty-second love letter packed with references to the show and gaming alike. The animation itself is really cool…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: ‘Shop Kotaku
Look at us. We’re just asking for it. Last week the largest gathering of Kotaku staff ever assembled in New York City to, among other things, pose for this picture. Standing from left to right we have Nathan, Evan, Patricia, Keza, Luke, Brian Posehn, Gergo, Chris, Kirk and Yannick. Seated from left to right are…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
The Week In Games: GameBob ThronePants
What I am trying to say here is I really wanted to use a screenshot from the second episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones series here, but all I could find was SpongeBob HeroPants. We do what we can. We’ve got a relatively quiet seven days ahead of us, Game of Thrones aside, with a…
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UncategorizedCan A Doom Marine Really Carry Nine Weapons? Mythbusters Finds Out.
Doom‘s space marine protagonists are some hearty fellows, carrying some 80 pounds of weapons, medkits and ammo boxes effortlessly while taking on demons from hell. In last night’s inaugural Mythbusters video game episode, Adam and Jamie build a real-life Doom level to see if it can be done. The first video game-centered episode in the…
By Mike Fahey
