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NBA Live 14: The Kotaku Review
It’s hard to remember, but NBA Live was once a challenger to the formidable NBA 2K. If you care about aggregated ratings, NBA Live 10 and NBA 2K10 finished in a dead heat. Live had stolen away one of 2K’s top designers. It was fargin’ war. Then EA Sports burned down everything. We haven’t seen…
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UncategorizedYou Can Play PS4 Through Xbox One, But You Probably Wouldn’t Want To.
What happens when you plug a PlayStation 4’s HDMI cable into the back of an Xbox One? The same thing that happens to everything else. The fine folks at DigitalFoundry plugged their PlayStation 4 into the Xbox One’s HDMI input and — contrary to my fevered speculation — a singularity was not formed. Instead, they…
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ReviewsTearaway: The Kotaku Review
The first time my face popped up to animate the sun in Tearaway‘s papercraft world, I beamed, as a sun should. From ear to ear, I smiled, and I watched my smile grow in real time. And the little paper messenger girl named Atoi, who is fashioned out of an envelope, looked up at me…
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UncategorizedChanning Tatum Spoofs Van Damme’s Epic Split… With Food Carts
Do you need further proof that Jean-Claude Van Damme’s still got it? Well here’s Channing Tatum, who tried to copy the split-master’s iconic trick, but with food carts and on the set of 22 Jump Street. You probably saw that ending coming. Here’s the full clip, without any Volvo trucks involved: Jenko’s Epic Split [YouTube]…
By Gergo Vas - Uncategorized
The first (by a hair) official iOS 7 controller for iPhone and iPod Touch is now ready to buy. Power A’sMOGA Ace Poweris available today for $99 at Apple Stores online and off, as well as the MOGAanywhere website, which also contains a handy list of more than 160 iOS games with controller support.
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This glitch in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will get your character stuck in MMO emote hell, as you can see in the above GIF. To get similar results with a frozen upper torso, type “/sit,” then press the emote and the “w” buttons simultaneously. If you get lucky, you won’t fly away completely.…
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Uncategorized11 Minutes of Lightning Returns: FFXII For Your Viewing Pleasure
The fine folks over at Japanese news site 4Gamer.netmanaged to get their hands on the shortly-releasing Japanese version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. So, of course, they immediately went and captured some footage for the rest of us. So without any further ado, above’s eleven minutes of gameplay from the next Final Fantasy. 4Gamer…
By András Neltz -
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UncategorizedProbably The Weirdest Sandbox Game I’ve Ever Seen
It’s called UemeU (pronounced “You Me You”). It’s currently in development for PC. And, uh… I’m not entirely sure what it is. I mean, I see that you’re supposed to build stuff with it. The video shows the developers building a bare-bones version of Erebor from The Hobbit. But it’s not just building, there’s modelling…
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- Kotaku East
The Most Dramatic Dinner Plates Will Emphasize Your Meal
How to transform boring french fries and pancakes (the pancake below is actually not that boring) into the most dramatic part of your dining room? The obvious answer is to serve them on special manga plates that’ll make your meal part of the—heavily emotional—panels. Just make sure to place the appropriate food on them properly,…
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UncategorizedWhy on Earth Do Action Figures Need Trailers?
This is a great-looking Sonic diorama, make no mistake. It’s just… why is there a trailer? The inappropriately energetic rock music, the silly effects, the weird-as-hell vibration—ugh. The video does have “informative” in its title, and I’ll give it that, it is a rather informative video. But you can get all the same info from…
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