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The final Saturday Morning Stream of 2014 is now live — on Sunday night. I promised one last hurrah and here it is — watch me play Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the 1999 classic from Quantic Dream, back when their games had real controls. Instead of making a big deal about it, just hit up…
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Still Having Trouble Connecting To PSN? Try This.
While Sony says the PlayStation Network is up and running following the Christmas attack, some users are still having trouble connecting to services on their PS4. Here’s a network setting that’s gotten several of our readers up and running again. What they did was go into the “Network” option under “Settings” in the PS4 menu.…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2014 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
It’s that time of year again, when we pick a selection of our most popular ‘Shop Contest subjects of the year and has our creative readers mash them up into a fine paste, all in the name of memories. What can we make with these five things? Before you answer that, some ground rules for…
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UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Would Have Been One Odd Prince Of Persia Game
Taking us down a dark and secluded memory lane, the folks at Did You Know Gaming explore the secrets of the Assassin’s Creed series, which started life as the next installment of the Prince of Persia. I’d forgotten all about that. It’s a fact that’s easy to forget, really, now that we’ve had something like…
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UncategorizedPerhaps Sonic The Hedgehog Should Just Stick To Cartoons
When I posted my favorable first impressions of Cartoon Network’s Sonic Boom animated series last month, one reader jokingly commented “The Sonic Cycle is finally broken. All you had to do was strip out the gameplay entirely.” He might be on to something. The games launched alongside the Sonic Boom animated series were not received…
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UncategorizedAn Amiibo Christmas Story, Or How The Redditor Saved Christmas
Jesse Salazar’s son wanted a Villager Amiibo figure from Nintendo for Christmas, but Jesse waited too long, and all the Villager Amiibo were gone. Then along came a helpful Redditor to save Christmas. As it happens, Jesse and his son are the co-stars of a “Let’s Play” series on YouTube called Familycom, so instead of…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s In The Box? The Winners!
A mysterious Christmas gift. A disappointed-looking man. These were the gifts I gave our image manipulating community last week. What they’ve given us is in return is pure holiday magic. As you can see from our new non-nonsense method of labeling the winner of the contest in the celebratory image, Yankton takes home the admiration…
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Sunday Comics: Just Give Me The Cupcake
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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PSN Seems To Be Coming Back Online
After days of problems connecting to the PlayStation Network and corresponding services on the PlayStation 4, two of Kotaku‘s systems have booted up and connected immediately. Are things looking up? Update: Sony says service has been restored. Up until a few minutes ago my PlayStation 4 would not connect to PSN. I could not access…
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Bungie Extends Destiny‘s Weekend Vendor In The Face Of Network Issues
Destiny players worried the ongoing PlayStation Network problems would rob them of a chance to visit the game’s weekend-only Strange Coin vendor should worry no more — Bungie’s gooing to let him keep his shop open until Monday. Xûr,as previously documented, shows up in Destiny‘s Tower Friday through Saturday to give players a chance to…
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The Xbox Live Status page currently indicates some users having issues logging into Xbox Live on the Xbox One. A problem involving being unable to launch certain games has recently been resolved. No word on whether these current issues are related to the ones whichbrought the servers down on Christmas Day. Everything seems to be…
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UncategorizedWe Interrupt This Program For The Best News Bloopers Of 2014
Remember late last year when Spider-Mandropped that Good Morning America correspondent on her head? How about the time the news anchor wondered who this 4chan guy was? Here’s 15 minutes of the year’s best news bloopers to help ease us laughing into the new year. Each month the folks at NewsBeFunny compile the best tongue-slips,…
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PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage [Update]
Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3. Update: Sony points to disruptive traffic as the cause of its network issue. While a tweet posted early this morning gave PlayStation Network users…
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Massive Smash Bros. Fan Album Adds 27 New “Final Smash” Tracks
Earlier this year I told you about Harmony of Heroes, a massive free fan musical celebration of the Smash Bros. franchise spanning some 101 original tracks. Apparently that wasn’t enough music, so the team has released a 27-track expansion pack, Final Smash. Originally planned as a 12 song add-on tribute featuring songs inspired by Super…
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