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  Official Numenera Miniatures Available For Purchase

  It’s going to be a long wait until Torment: Numenera is released, but in the meantime, Reaper is selling a selection of eight Numenera miniatures: Murden Aeon Priest Lattimor Varjellen Nano Jack Glaive Steel You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published June 20, 2014
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  Even The NSA Likes Final Fantasy

  Spies are people just like the rest of us, and just like the rest of us, some of them probably like video games. Which games? Well, according to some new documents that have surfaced online, at least a few NSA employees appear to be Final Fantasy fans. Documents published earlier this week by German magazine…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 20, 2014
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  PlayStation Now Prices Are Currently Insane

  Sony has added prices to the beta for their PlayStation Now streaming service, and though these are experimental numbers—it’s a beta, after all—the current prices are insane What’s more, as of right now, PS Now beta testers actually have to pay to play games. If I want to test out the service, I have to…

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  Bungie Turns Peter Dinklage Destiny Meme Into A T-Shirt

  Welp. There’s no word on whether or not Bungie will re-record Peter Dinklage’s infamous voice acting in Destiny, but they have gone ahead and made the meme it spawned into a T-shirt. You can buy it here for 24.99.Profits go to charity, according to Bungie. Apparently it’s selling really well: Confused? You might want to…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 20, 2014
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  Final E3 Comic: Excitement Versus Hype

  E3 is all about presentation and it can be hard to see through some of the smoke and mirrors. But there’s genuine excitement around the games shown there, too. Elizabeth Simins is an artist & illustrator living in New York. She makes comics primarilyabout games, but also sometimes about other things. Follow her @elizsimins for…

  Elizabeth Simins Published June 20, 2014
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  The Legend of Korra Book Three Starts Next Week

  Happy Friday, Legend of Korra fans—the next season of the popular cartoon show will start next week. Nickelodeon announced the news today on IGN—and they’ve got an exclusive clip. The first two episodes will air on Friday, June 27, from 7-8pm. Episode descriptions: “A Breath of Fresh Air”: After the events of Harmonic Convergence, Avatar…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2014
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  Video Games Need More Hang Gliders

  Remember Frontiers? It’s basically The Elder Scrolls as created by two indies, and now it’s getting hang gliders on top of everything else. You can fly around its massive world and just drink in the sights. That got me thinking: hang gliders are really great. Why don’t more games have them? Hang gliders are a…

  By Nathan Grayson Published June 20, 2014
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  Where’d All the Titanfall Players Go? To Watch the World Cup.

  Titanfall is a great game, one that’s capable of captivating players for hours on end. But the World Cup only happens every four years. As this chart of simultaneous players in Europe during yesterday’s matches shows, sometimes red cards and free kicks take precedence over Burn Cards and unlocks.

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 20, 2014
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  Tomodachi Life: The Kotaku Review

  How do I describe Tomodachi Life? I’ll start with the name. “Tomodachi” (友達) is the Japanese word for “Friend,” so the title of Nintendo’s new 3DS sim game translates literally to “friend life.” That’s a bumbling phrase. But it helps illustrate why I’ve had such a hard time explaining the game’s appeal to friends and…

  By Yannick LeJacq Published June 20, 2014
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  Watch People Marathon Mario For Charity

  Hey look, it’s the annual Mario Marathon! Watch these guys and gals play Mario games for charity, because both Mario and charity are excellent things. The gist is this: the folks behind Mario Marathon play through as many Mario games as possible, progressing through the canon based on how much money they raise for Child’s…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2014
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  More RPGs Should Have Puzzles Like Lufia II‘s

  Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here The one thing I always remember about Lufia II is the bushes. See, there’s this one dungeon near the end of the game where you have to figure out how…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2014
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  The Next Seven Shooters I’m Excited About

  Just another bland, brown shooter, right? I’ve always been a fan of shooters—and it’s not like they’re unsung heroes by any means—but there’s this misconception out there that they’re all the same carbon copies of one another. The misconception reasons that all shooters are boring military shooters with the same characters and roughly the same…

  By Tina Amini Published June 20, 2014
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  Freddie Prinze Jr. Moves From Mass Effect To Dragon Age

  Welcome to Dragon Age, Lieutenant Vega. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr., best known as the guy who got to marry Buffy, is playing the Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition, which is out in October. More on Iron Bull in the video above.

  By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2014
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  Link Looks a Lot More Vicious in Hyrule Warriors. Seriously.

  In case you were wondering, when you put Legend of Zelda characters in a Dynasty Warriors-style set-up, everything gets a bit more ferocious. Maybe even uncomfortably so. Usually when you see Link fighting enemies in his many video game appearances, he comes across as determined and resolute. It never seems like he likes the violence.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 20, 2014
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  ‘Primal Reversion’ Is Pokémon’s New Type of Evolution

  Mega evolutions are so last year. Now Pokémon is set to introduce a new type of evolution in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, and it looks like they’re of the prehistoric variety. We first heard about the new type of transformation earlier this month but now Nintendo has officially released information on what they’re calling…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 20, 2014
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  What Nintendo’s Top Game Creators Think Of Minecraft

  I’ve been beating this drum for a while: it makes no sense to me that Minecraft is on every game-playing platform you can think of other than Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U. Finally, I was able to ask Nintendo’s top game designers about this. In Los Angeles last week, I was sitting across from Shigeru…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 20, 2014
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  Steam Summer Sale Day Two, $350 Playstation 4, and More

  Steam Summer Sale Day Two is upon us, bringing with it discounts on The Walking Dead: Season 2, Prison Architect, and more. We’ll be updating with our impressions, and we really want to hear yours. Get in there Our picks: Walking Dead Season Two, Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon, A Machine For Pigs, Pixel Piracy……

  By Shane Roberts Published June 20, 2014
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  Gamers Are Speedrunning For Charity Next Week

  Don’t miss Summer Games Done Quick, the speedrunning marathon for charity that starts this Sunday and runs throughout the week. We’ll be hosting the stream and monitoring for cool moments throughout the week, so stay tuned. The full schedule is really exciting, and part of me really wants to stay up all night watching them…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2014
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  ​Wait. There’s A Female Assassin In Sunset Overdrive?

  The makers of Sunset Overdive are proud that you’ll be able to make playable characters of different genders and ethnicities. So, of course, they decided to have some fun at the expense of Assassin’s Creed Now, you won’t hear the word Assassin or any mention of Ubisoft’s hit period-piece action series in the latest promo…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 20, 2014
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  Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Question For All Of You

  The man who made Mario and Zelda needs you to tell him something, Kotaku As I was concluding my interview with him at E3 last week, I asked if he had anything else he’d like Kotaku readers to know. Oh, he did. But he also wanted to know something that only you can answer. Here’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 20, 2014