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Watch The Million Dollar Smite Final Between Two Unlikely Competitors
The Grand Finals of the Smite World Championships kicks off at 2:30 PM Eastern time today, as a U.S. team expected to be knocked out by its sister squad and a European open invitational underdog that made it to the competition by the skin of their teeth battle for a $1.3 million grand prize. Hi-Rez…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Taking The Minecraft Vegetarian Challenge
Minecraft is a lot of different things to a lot of different people; a place to build a word processor, recreate Westeros or trap incredible monsters. For many players it’s simply about survival, which means making sure you have shelter at night, forging armor and weapons with which you can fend off attackers, and somehow…
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UncategorizedPublishers Wanted To Change Life Is Strange‘s Protagonists Into Men
Dontnod Entertainment and Square Enix’s Life Is Strange looks really interesting, but it was almost a very different game, according to a developer diary video posted this week. Apparently Dontnod shopped the game around to a number of different publishers before going with Square Enix, and it turns out most of them wanted to change…
By Mike Rougeau - Culture
Awesome Games Done Quick‘s latest speedrunning-for-charity marathon has concluded with over $1.1 million raised (and donations still being accepted) for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. You can check out the highlights, browse through every run or simply watch that marriage proposal over and over.
By Mike Rougeau - Uncategorized
A Major Game of Thrones Question May Have Been Answered At The Library
A popular fan theory on the identity of one of George R.R. Martin’s most mysterious A Song of Ice and Fire characters may have just been debunked—and by a simple trip to the library. Spoilers for the series, including possibly for unpublished material here! Redditor _honeybird this week documented a trip to Texas A&M University’s…
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UncategorizedTen Times One Player Beat Two in Professional Smash Bros.
I’ve been spending a lot of time with the new Super Smash Bros. games on Wii U and 3DS lately, but actually playing doesn’t get me nearly as hyped as this compilation of pros succeeding against the odds. EvenMatchupGaming‘s first Super Smash Bros. “2v1 comebacks” video features ten clips of players whose partners have died…
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UncategorizedLet’s Survive Together With The Walking Dead‘s Season 5(b) Trailer
The first half of The Walking Dead‘s fifth season introduced some fascinating new villains, killed a whole bunch of characters and in general got darker than ever. Now the show is poised to return on Feb. 8, and the latest trailer reveals the group will be focused on “surviving together.” Which apparently means killing things—lots…
By Mike Rougeau - Uncategorized
How Destiny Players Fixed One Of The Game’s Biggest Problems
As much as I love it, Destiny is riddled with flaws, many of which Bungie doesn’t seem all that interested in addressing. Most of them—like how you still lose ammo when you die—are things players can’t do anything about. But the game’s lack of matchmaking for its most challenging missions—one of its most glaring problems,…
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Nintendo Will No Longer Sell Consoles or Games in Brazil
Nintendo is pulling out of Brazil. The company announced yesterday that it will no longer distribute products there due to the country’s high tariffs on electronics, despite its “many passionate fans” that live there. Nintendo officially blames “challenges in the local business environment,” including “high import duties…and our decision not to have a local manufacturing…
By Mike Rougeau - Uncategorized
Spartan Crabwalks in Halo 5 Beta Glitch
Players have discovered plenty of interesting issues in the ongoing Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, but this is probably the funniest. “Not sure if anyone has shared this before, but this is what happens when you crouch in midair and sprint upon landing at the beginning of a breakout game,” wrote Redditor coked_up_tourist. Other users…
By Mike Rougeau - Uncategorized
How I Realized My Dragon Age: Inquisition Character is Gay
Some hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition, long after I’d made it out of the Hinterlands, I realized something that really surprised me. My character had taken on a life of his own, and it turns out he’s gay. Character creation in role-playing games like Inquisition seems to get more detailed all the time—just look at…
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CultureCharity Speedrunner Has Mastered One of My Favorite Games Ever
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was the first role-playing game I ever played, and it took me years to beat it when I was a kid. Then this guy did it in under three hours. This week’s Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 charity speedrunning marathon has featured some really cool runs, including…
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CulturePlaying Vanquish One-Handed Has Never Looked So Easy
One of the most impressive things I’ve seen yet during Awesome Games Done Quick 2015, the speedrunning marathon for charity, is disabled gamer “halfcoordinated” demolishing Platinum Games’ Vanquish with only one hand. He prefaced his run by explaining that one-handed is his normal way of playing. He suffers from Hemiparesis, which causes weakness on the…
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UncategorizedSons of Anarchy Game Looks Like Sons of Anarchy in First Trailer
In other words, you ride a chopper, light a smoke, hold a gun to someone’s head and get beat in the face with a pipe. All in first person! This is the first trailer for Orpheus Interactive’s Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect, in which you play a new prospect trying to earn your spot in…
By Mike Rougeau - Uncategorized
1/5/2015: What Link Needed All Along
Who needs a sword when you can have knowledge. Picures in Boxes knows what’s up. Feel free to peruse some of our best stuff from the week over on Kotaku Selects, where I round it all up for you. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…
By Tina Amini
