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  The Secret Douglas Adams RPG People Have Been Playing for 15 Years

  Douglas Adams dreamt up the Starship Titanic in 1982 as a half-page gag in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘trilogy in five parts.’ This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The luckless vessel served as a warning that ships powered by improbability drives run…

  Lewis Packwood Published January 27, 2015
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  If Zelda Had Final Fantasy Logos

  The Legend of Zelda has its own logos. They’re great! But what if Zelda logos looked like Final Fantasy ones? Well, I guess they’d look like this. Tumblr site Shattered-Earth did a series of Zelda-meets-Final Fantasy logos in Yoshitaka Amano‘s iconic artistic style. So, The Final Legend of Zelda? The Legend of Final Fantasy? Zeldantasy?…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2015
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  “No Video Game Day” Starting in Northern Japan

  This isn’t nationwide. But next month, Hokkaido Prefecture is rolling out “No Video Game Day.” There won’t be just one of these days, but two—and two every month. NHK reports that among students nationwide, test scores are down in Hokkaido. It sounds like the PTA and the Hokkaido Board of Education are pinning the blame…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2015
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  The Pokémon Arcade Fighter Has a Dumb Controller

  Geez. I know that Namco is trying to make Pokkén accessible to lots of players, but a control pad? For a fighting game you play in arcades? Really? Recently, Kotaku introduced this controller, along with several other new things revealed about the game. According to Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada, who heads up the Tekken team, the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2015
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  Former Pro Gamer Gives Unborn Child StarCraft Nickname

  One of esports’ most famous StarCraft gaming pros, BoxeR (aka Lim Yo Hwan), came up with a fitting name for his baby: the Terran infantry unit from the game. Lim’s wife, Kim Ga Yeon, is six weeks pregnant, and as she noted on herFacebook (via tipster Sang), her husband came up with what in South…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 27, 2015
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  Resisting the Urge to Buy Amiibo Has Taught Me a Lot About Myself

  My name is Keza MacDonald and I have a debilitating addiction to buying pointless plastic items. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Things got really bad when I moved to Japan in 2008 and discovered a whole new world of tiny things; robots, miniature food, and of course, video game merchandise. I have two…

  Keza MacDonald Published January 27, 2015
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  Chill Out To This League of Legends Video. Wait, What? 

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  By Yannick LeJacq Published January 27, 2015
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  Two Of Pro Counter-Strike‘s Best Matches Yet

  MLG X Games Aspen, the year’s first seriously big pro Counter-Strike event, took place over the weekend, and people were expecting big things. It did not disappoint. Not in the slightest. Day one actually saw many of the sport’s top teams—including Dream Hack Winter 2014 champs LDLC—lose in relatively inauspicious fashions, but apparently they were…

  By Nathan Grayson Published January 26, 2015
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  Competitive Hearthstone Had Serious DDoS Problems Over The Weekend

  One of the most accessible esports going, Hearthstone also proved itself one of the most open to denial of service attacks over the weekend, as three online tournaments were interrupted by attacks in two days. The Daily Dotnot only reportedon the attacks that caused problems with Hearthstats Challenger League, Kinguin Winter and ESL events Friday…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 26, 2015
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  The Seedy Side Of The Star Wars Universe

  Gustavo Mendonca is an artist who has recently worked on stuff like Halo 5. We sawhis (sadly) abandoned work on Star Wars 1313 back in 2013, but today we’ll be looking at his whole portfolio, including some newer Star Wars stuff (though it’s for other material, not 1313). You can see more of Gustavo’s art…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2015
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  Australia Makes Civ V History

  A year after we firstgot to play the mod that brought a playable Australia to Civ V, the team behind it has beefed it up to look just like one of the game’s “proper” civs. Normally, when a mod introduces a new leader to the game, the leader screen — which for official Civs is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2015
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  ‘We Want Refunds!’ – Why Pro Wrestling Fans Are So Angry Again [UPDATE]

  You’d think that the first weather-related cancellation of an episode of Monday Night Raw in the show’s 1000-plus episode history would be bad news for the WWE. But the many inches of snow aimed at Hartford, Connecticut, the location of tonight’snow-scuttled Raw taping, are a sprinkle of luck that will spare WWE the heat of…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 26, 2015
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  Blacksmiths Made Kill la Kill’s Scissor Blade Out of Actual Scissors

  Being able to 3D print anything you’d like is great and all, but it’s not exactly the most fun thing a modern blacksmith can do. So in an effort to be creative, the folks at AWE me decided that they wouldn’t just make Kill la Kill’s iconic blade. Instead, they hammered down a ton of…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published January 26, 2015
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  Soon You Will Be Able To Take Selfies In World Of Warcraft

  Maybe you love them. Maybe you loathe them. Maybe you’re taking one right now. Selfies are everywhere, because we are painfully vain creatures. And now, finally—after you begged, pleaded, groveled, and probably didn’t ask for it at all—they’re coming to World of Warcraft. People have begun discovering an item called the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera on WoW‘s…

  By Nathan Grayson Published January 26, 2015
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  Smash Bros. Players Rally In Defense Of Diddy Kong

  Diddy Kong has become the most divisive character in the new Super Smash Bros. ever since competitive players picked up on the primate’s formidable fighting strength. His reign as the fighter to beat sparked a newly heated debate this week when one pro Smasher blamed the game’s community for the whole Diddy upset. The argument…

  By Yannick LeJacq Published January 26, 2015
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  Skyrim Disguises Let You Walk Around Doing Whatever

  Here’s a cool thing: a new mod for Skyrim lets you wear armour and outfits as a full-blown disguise, allowing you to swap sides and trick NPCs across the game world. The mod is called Master of Disguise, and lets you “Suit up as a Dark Brotherhood assassin, a Madman of the Reach, or even…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2015
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  American Counter-Strike Scene Hit Hard By Pro Cheating Bans

  Recently, substantial evidence came to light that a number of pro players had been involved in a huge Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match-fixing/gambling scandal. Valve took their time investigating, but now they’ve finally decided to bring the hammer down. Hard. In the wake of a multi-team conspiracy that saw one of the best Counter-Strike teams in…

  By Nathan Grayson Published January 26, 2015
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  GTA V Dump Truck Catches A Cop

  Today on Highlight Reel we have ace helicopter flying, a killer Smash Bros. finish, water-walking cars and 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. Battlefield 4 – Karma’s a bitch Zippy…

  By Chris Person Published January 26, 2015
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  Smash Bros. Players Turned The Falcon Punch Into A Great Mini Game

  The rules of “Falcon Potato” are simple. You get two Mario players, and one Captain Falcon player. You turn up the launch rate, and you go timers-only. Once in the match, you slow down time, start a Falcon Punch, and try your best to cape the punch, back and forth, until someone gets hit. Creative…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published January 26, 2015
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  KFC’s Double Down Made More Horrible with a Hot Dog

  Oh, and cheese. Let’s not forget that! In the Philippines, KFC just released a new Double Down Dog, which trades a bun for chicken. The hot dog is then slathered in cheese and calories. [Photo: kfcphilippines] [Photo: kfcphilippines] Today, fifty Double Down Dogs were offered at select locations across the country. Here are pics of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 26, 2015