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UncategorizedLike Any Good Army Training Film, This One for Sniper Elite Features Grotesque Damage to the Testicles
The series “13 Ways to Die” just took up the subject of Sniper Elite v2 and, though we’ve seen exploding testicles and other grisly slow-motion demises already, they weren’t presented in the form of a propaganda film from dubya-dubya-eye-eye, with a jaunty ragtime accompaniment. It’s a cracking good morale booster for our boys over there.…
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UncategorizedWhen a Briton Announces the NBA, the Result is Comedy Genius
When I run my mouth about international soccer, I sound like a complete and total imbecile. When a Brit does the same thing about basketball, it is 100 percent comedy gold. Riffing on the American tendency to force catch phrases into sports commentary, CPU vs. CPU comes up with a bathtub full of lines that…
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UncategorizedNHL‘s Gameplay Upgrades Sound Rather Similar to FIFA‘s
Going on about five years now, EA Sports’ FIFA and NHL series have been reliably acclaimed, strong-selling titles, a remarkable run for a video game genre and publisher so henpecked by hardcore gamer criticism. Both games have smart, motivated, multinational communities that greatly value evangelizing for their sport in North America and appreciate what these…
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Now This Is Some Serious Borderlands 2 Loot
No, it’s not the result of a customizable weapon. It’s just 2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey‘s dachshund, Pancake. Isn’t Pancake just adorable? The real Borderlands 2 collector’s edition won’t come with a dachshund to sit pretty in your loot chest, but it does come with a bunch of other goodies. Pancake is famous [dahanese via…
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You’ll Be Happy to Note That None of Our Gaming Apps This Week Were Diablo III
Oh give us a break, it was the first time any of us got to cover the launch of a Diablo game. And hey, we did manage to spotlight five mobile games that have almost completely nothing in common with Blizzard’s game. Almost. I mean sure, Tower of Fortune is a dark role-playing game of…
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Racist Comment Leads DOTA 2 Commentator To Apologize To Community
Toby “Tobi Wan” Dawson is a professional commentator for esports site JoinDOTA. He covers DOTA and now DOTA 2 matches and tournaments, and is considered to be quite entertaining. Unfortunately, the commentary he was caught making while playing in a live-streamed public match over the weekend is not so much entertaining as it is inexplicably…
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Nominate Comment Of The Week Here (Plus A New Policy!)
Hello Kotaku. Happy Friday. Do you have good weekend plans? I was going to go to a concert, but now I have to cancel to play Dragon’s Dogma all weekend for review. Because of you. I blame you. Last week, Stephen asked you all to weigh in on what we’re doing over here at Kotaku.…
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UncategorizedThe World Revolves Around Video Games In Freddie W’s New Web Series
The first episode of Freddie W’s new Internet series, Video Game High School, is out. Episode 1 introduces us to the concept of the prestigious academy that is Video Game High School. I wish I lived in a world where video game skills were as highly regarded as they are in this show. Then again,…
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UncategorizedMy Compliments to Those Who Made This Could Hurt So Good
I’ve become so jaded by mobile gaming’s endless pleading for my attention that I recently removed every game from my iPhone except for three that I deeply admire. Today, I’m glad to add a fourth to that group: This Could Hurt by Orange Agenda. A shrewdly designed single-control platform challenge, This Could Hurt layers on…
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UncategorizedNine Compelling Diablo III Features That Didn’t Make the Final Game
As I play through Diablo III, I can’t help but think back to all of the amazing features I witnessed over the course of three years of BlizzCon that didn’t make the cut. YouTube user AlluvianGarald compiles several of these into one disappointment-inducing video. The biggies are obvious. There’s the arena combat, which was shelved…
By Mike Fahey
