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The Week In Games: Beauty And The Reich
On one hand we have the old-school first-person shooting of Wolfenstein: The New Order. On the other, the small studio finesse and beauty of Supergiant Games’ sci-fi action role-playing game, Transistor. Which are you planning to play? It’s a tough call here. With limited time and overwhelming desire branching off in so many directions, I’ll…
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UncategorizedIf You Love America, You’ll Never Stop Playing This Stupid Game
Ah, the glorious Stars and Stripes, stroking that flagpole vigorously in time with your amorous applause. This is Americlap, the spirit of patriotism is one intentionally stupid game. Americlap is a free game that utilizes your microphone to capture your clapping, which keeps the American flag from falling to the ground. “It’s short and stupid…
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UncategorizedIt’s A Virtual Game Boy For The Oculus Rift
One of the key problesm with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is that it completely obscures the wearer’s vision, making it impossible to play Game Boy while wearing it — until developer Shane O’Brien came up with this clever fix. Using a recently released Game Boy emulator for the Unity Engine, Shane crafted a…
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UncategorizedToy Story As A Horror Movie? Makes Sense To Me.
There is nothing quite as deadly as a jealous children’s toy. That’s the idea behind Bobby Burns‘ Toy Story horror movie trailer, a concept that has me eyeing my collection warily. How much of a Dick can Woody be? Even toned down from the original drafts of Pixar’s masterpiece, the floppy cowboy (not a sex…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Somewhere A Place For Kinect
Now that Microsoft has realized that more people might be willing to purchase an Xbox One if it didn’t come with $100 worth of do-not-want, what’s the company going to do with the all of the unwanted Kinect cameras? Perhaps our army of image manipulators has some suggestions. I’ve been amusing myself imagining factory workers…
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Sunday Comics: Mining Rights
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 May 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Under The Sea: The Winners!
Last week I set Kotaku’s Photoshop-savvy readers loose on editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo’s vacation pics, welcoming him back with countless images of his heavily-modified face. He should be overjoyed with the results. Another ‘shop contest, another amazing batch of entries, and while there was just something about uscg_pa’s Totilo/Mario swap than made me happy, each one…
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UncategorizedHackers Attack Operation Supply Drop Charity Drive
Operation Supply Drop’s third annual 8-Bit Salute 24 hour charity game marathon went live this morning at 9 a.m. Eastern time. By 10 a.m. hackers had disabled the military gaming charity’s website via DDoS attack. Operation Supply Drop, previously featured onKotaku, is a charity organization dedicated to providing American military personnel with video games. The…
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Exactly What I Look For In An RPG Collector’s Edition
Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin is a love letter to the early days of computer role-playing games, so it makes sense that the game’s extremely limited edition (under 1,500 copies) is a love letter to the fans of classics RPGs. First off, the Collector’s Edition comes with two copies of the Kickstarter success, each playable…
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UncategorizedHonest Star Fox 64 Trailer Goes Straight For The Furry Jokes
Sometimes an anthropomorphic animal is just an anthropomorphic animal, Honest Game Trailers. Now if Fox McCloud too off his head at the end of Star Fox 64 to reveal a human wearing a suit, then that would be a furry. Even then the gross generalizations are a bit much. Not all furries are sexual deviants.…
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UncategorizedFurther Proof That Every Game Is Better With Monster Collecting
The highly successful Puzzle & Dragons added monster collecting and evolving to match three puzzles and made a fortune. Quiz RPG did it with random trivia questions. Now Sega adds creature collecting to those stupid coin dozer games, and I can’t stop playing. Dammit, Dragon Coins. Had I known what sort of game this was…
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The Saturday Morning Stream: The Last Tinker: City Of Colors (Done!)
Wandering off the beaten path this week, The Last Tinker: City of Colors is an indie game that channels the good-old-days of platforming, when games like Banjo Kazooie were still something that happened regularly. Developed by Munich-based Mimimi Studios, The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a game that caught my eye with a single…
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Graduation Cap For A Gamer
Graduation cap decorated to reflect real life RPG skills. The comments are funny: CharlesIndigo: they nerfed it not too long ago, it doesn’t add credibility anymore. KHDTX13: The mission payouts aren’t even worth it. vertigo1083: And it will all mean shit in the next expansion. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…
By John Struan