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  ​Up Close With The New, Improved Oculus Rift

  Over the last couple of weeks, Oculus has started sending out the new version of their much-vaunted Rift virtual reality headset. If you’re curious what the next step in home VR immersion looks like, well, good news. It’s here, and it’s pretty cool. The new headset, called the DevKit 2 or DK2 for short, is…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published August 7, 2014
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  Mass Effect Visionary Leaves BioWare

  Casey Hudson, project director on games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the whole friggin’ Mass Effect series, has left BioWare. Most recently he was heading up a new series for the role-playing powerhouse. Damn. Hudson explained his decision in a farewell post on BioWare’s blog: “After what already feels like a…

  By Nathan Grayson Published August 7, 2014
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  Very Clever, Xbox One Marketing

  This Xbox One-focused comic from Microsoft is both fitting for the summer and certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense than previous ads That’s definitely how I’d interpret her command, too, random gamer child. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

  By Tina Amini Published August 7, 2014
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  ​Ask Dr. Nerdlove: What If I Don’t Want To ‘Get Back Out There’?

  Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’s secretly responsible for ending The Time War. This week we have a very different kind of question from a reader: how does he make it clear that he doesn’t want to date? Meanwhile, after two failed relationships, another reader wants to know:…

  Harris O'Malley Published August 7, 2014
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  ​”Snake? SNAAAKE?!”

  A few-years-old cartoon about other Metal Gear Solid characters leaving messages in Solid Snake’s voicemail, done for PSM Magazine by Empowered artistAdam Warren [via Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr]

  By Evan Narcisse Published August 7, 2014
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  Twitch Already Planning Big Changes To Controversial New Rules

  Yesterday video game streaming service Twitch announced new systems that had its legion of streamers steaming. The elimination of an easy “save forever” function on videos came first, but people really got riled when Twitch trotted out a YouTube-style audio monitoring tool. Kinda good news: both are in for big changes. Responding to an avalanche…

  By Nathan Grayson Published August 7, 2014
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  Titanfall Makes No Sense

  Just a guess here: nobody plays Titanfall to experience realism. I mean, it’s a game where you hop into giant mechs to shoot people. Still, it’s kind of funny to break down the many ways in which the game doesn’t make any sense. Cracked lists at least six reasons why Titanfall’s logic is faulty in…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published August 7, 2014
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  YouTuber: Twitch Streamers Should Have Seen Music Crackdown Coming

  Gamers have been up in arms ever since Twitch began to enforce harsher restrictions against users playing copyrighted music in their videos. Hovering around the edges of this chorus of unpleasantly surprised voices, meanwhile, are all the YouTube broadcasters who are still reeling from the crackdown they all experienced back in December 2013. Popular video…

  By Yannick LeJacq Published August 7, 2014
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  Worlds Collide

  Hey, that’s a pretty cool ex-pro wrestler and a YouTuber that I like. I never expected to see them hanging out together. DDP, who has been promoting his yoga routine and trying to make people’s lives better, visited Boogie for good reasons. The full interview below explains what was up. Very cool.

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2014
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  Battlefield 4 For PC Is Free Until August 14

  Starting today, PC gamers will be able to play Battlefield 4 for a week free of charge—provided you have an internet connection and an Origin account. EA just announced a new trial period for its popular online multiplayer-friendly shooter as the latest installment in its newly-minted Origin Game Time program. EA said that the offer…

  By Yannick LeJacq Published August 7, 2014
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  The Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect

  In 2002, someone on GameFaqs discovered something curious: there was a coin in Super Mario 64 on a course called Tiny-Huge Island. Not just any coin, though. This coin was different from all the other 191 coins on the level, because unlike the other coins, you couldn’t actually collect it. The coin on Tiny-Huge island…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published August 7, 2014
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  When You Should Consider Preordering Games

  There’s a time and place for everything, including taking the divisive, frequently anti-consumer culture of gaming preorders and making it work in your favor. Back in 2013, Kirk Hamilton wrote a great post about Bioshock Infinite’s manipulative preorder scheme . A few weeks later I came on board and rebooted Kotaku Deals (then called Moneysaver),…

  By Shane Roberts Published August 7, 2014
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  A Brief History Of The Ninja Turtles

  With the release of the Michael Bay-produced Ninja Turtles movie (which appears to be getting a critical stomping), now is as good a time as any to take a trip down memory lane to see where this all began. The people at Vulture put together a brief video refresher of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…

  By Chris Person Published August 7, 2014
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  Zombie Shooter Epidemic Spreads To Counter-Strike

  The series may be an apocalypse or two late to the party, but massively popular multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike is getting a zombie-centric spin-off. Huh. Well, I guess it worked for Call of Duty OK, so something to note here: series creator Valve—aka godking emperor sun lord incarnate of PC gaming—isn’t the main developer on this…

  By Nathan Grayson Published August 7, 2014
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  I’ve Been Working As A Game Tester For Over A Decade. Any Questions?

  Editor’s note: A game tester who has worked in Quality Assurance for the likes of Sony, Sega, LucasArts, Eidos and Zynga is ready to answer any questions you have for him—right in the comments below. Fire away. He’ll be responding to the best questions for the next hour. His username’s F50!!. In addition to reading…

  Kotaku Staff Published August 7, 2014
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  Deals: Sleeping Dogs Definitive, Fox Searchlight Collection, 2DS

  Sleeping Dogs, a great example of what open world games can and should be, is getting the definitive treatment. This upgrade packs in all the DLC (and to be clear, there was a ton of content in the base game already), and a preorder nets you a free upgrade to limited edition artbook packaging. [Sleeping…

  By Shane Roberts Published August 7, 2014
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  Fallout, Destiny, Half-Life, And More In Lego

  The Fallout vertibird and a squad of power armored-troops made out of Lego by Justin Stebbins. He has also made convincing Lego minifigs based on Watch Dogs, Destiny, Metal Gear, Baldur’s Gate, and more: Via TBB You are now looking atScreenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published August 7, 2014
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  Jaw-Dropping Fighter Jet Stunts In Grand Theft Auto 5

  Over four minutes of impressive dogfighting and stunt-flying in GTA V Online: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published August 7, 2014
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  A Real Fish Appears To Be Playing Pokémon Right Now

  When millions of people typed commands into the internet to play old Pokémon games one at a time, it exploded a whole new way of socializing around games into being and became the weirdest, most popular interactive drama of early 2014. Now a fish is playing Pokémon. And he’s doing pretty well! Y’know, for a…

  By Evan Narcisse Published August 7, 2014
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  Fallout-Themed PC Case Mod

  Impressive Fallout 3-themed case mod: This forum thread shows how it was made. Via R/Gaming and PC Gamer You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published August 7, 2014