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  Delve Into The Hidden Horrors Of The Universe… With Kittens

  “Because there exists no method known to man, more terribly suited to expose the cosmic meaningless of existence than pairing the words of H.P. Lovecraft with seemingly delightful and charming pictures of adorable kittens” — H.P. Lovecat. Until this weekend I had never been known to have a favorite Tumblr — indeed I had only…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 1, 2015
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  Sunday Comics: With Divine Porpoise

  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 January 30. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 1, 2015
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  Stud-Free LEGO Enterprise Is Much Larger Than It Seems

  It’s one thing to build a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek with LEGO bricks. It’s another to build it so that none of those signature LEGO studs show. It took builder extrodinaire Chris Melby eight months and around 18,000 pieces to make this five foot-long masterpiece a reality. It takes a lot…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2015
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  That’s Certainly A Metal Gear Rising Looking Number Two [Update]

  Appearing incredibly briefly in a Sony flavor reel shown during the Taipei Game Show, this is definitely the sort of two one might expect to find following the words “Metal Gear Rising.” While Metal Gear’s big boss Hideo Kojima didn’t mention a follow-up to the over-the-top crazy that was Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance during his…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2015
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  Dying Light Benchmarked: Graphics And CPU Performance

  Most known for developing the Call of Juarez and Dead Island franchises, Techland is back this week to launch a new open world survival horror title for the PC (including Linux and SteamOS), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dying Light takes place in an expansive urban environment where players navigate using freerunning ‘parkour’ mechanics while…

  By Steven Walton Published January 31, 2015
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  Watch The Biggest Smash Bros. Tournament of The Year Live, Right Here

  Apex 2015—the biggest Smash tournament ever—almost didn’t happen. But thanks to the community’s rallying, the tournament was able to quickly find a new venue for the competition. Which means that we can start enjoying some great top-level play! The Main Stream Secondary Stream If you’d like to watch the newbie stream, you can catch that…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published January 31, 2015
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  This Week In The Business: Free-To-Start

  QUOTE | “As we look to the future, we believe a very big part of our player base will expect a free-to-start experience.” – EA CEO Andrew Wilson, talking about how EA is considering ways to let people try games for free with a variety of business models Elsewhere in the business of video games…

  By Steve Peterson Published January 31, 2015
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  1/26/2015: Say Hello To All Of Team Kotaku

  Well, almost every full-time employee, anyway. Our friend András couldn’t make it from Budapest to join, but this is basically your whole Kotaku team saying hello from our New York headquarters. Sadly the team all flew back to their respective cities and continents, but we had a good week hanging out with each other IRL.…

  By Tina Amini Published January 31, 2015
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  Portal 2 Mod Looks Slick Enough To Be A Valve Game

  Portal Stories: Mel, an upcomingmod for Portal 2, is starting to less like a mod in this new trailer, and more like a straight-up official Valve entry in the series. OK, so we can’t speak for Mel’s sense of humour, but everything else about it looks shockingly professional, from the detail (and unique design) in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2015
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  Pikachu Keeps Loners Company at Pokémon Cafe

  For some folks, eating alone is awful. But not at the Tokyo Pokémon Cafe, where Pikachu will watch you eat. As noted on Naver, people visiting the cafe solo get to sit across from a plush toy Pikachu. [Photo: snivylover] [Photo: future39_miku] [Photo: alpacapaca] [Photo: tetsukire] [Photo: aimia492] The Pokémon Cafe isn’t the first to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 30, 2015
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  Game Where You Build Stupid Shit But It Actually Works

  Besiege is a devilishly simple, physics-based building game. You can create machines of destruction with ease. For a game in Alpha, it’s surprising how polished Besiege feels. I was creating absurd death machines within a few of minutes. Sure, some of them weren’t exactly structurally sound, often resulting in a horrid crumpled mess, but the…

  By Leo Wichtowski Published January 30, 2015
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  That Time A Video Game Changed The Way I Walked

  It’s strange to remember just how easily influenced I was. Embarrassing to admit just how obsessively I was able to actually love one. single. video game. But to be fair, I was only ten years old at the time. I played a lot of games at that age. Mostly on my Amiga 500. Games like…

  Mark Serrels Published January 30, 2015
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  Mean Girls Video Game Alert

  It’s been a while since we lastgot a Mean Girls game, so let’s get another Mean Girls game. Sadly, there is not a Lindsay Lohan to be found, but what can be found is a faithful recreation of the film’s story and themes, with high school hostility replaced by….wait, a tower defence game? What is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2015
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  It’s Good That Fantastic Four Doesn’t Look Like Marvel’s Other Movies

  Marvel Comics’ first modern superhero success has been made into some very bad movies. The one coming up this summer has the chance to be much better, mostly by looking nothing like the comics it came from. There’s been a lot of discussion about the teaser for director Josh Trank’s filmic reboot of the Fantastic…

  By Evan Narcisse Published January 30, 2015
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  Meet Twitch’s Newest Star: A Piano Player

  For most of this week, I was pretty sick. There was an upside, though: it gave me the opportunity to stumble across one of Kyle Landry’s piano marathons on Twitch. That night, he became one of the most viewed anythings on Twitch, nearly beating Counter-Strike, Hearthstone, and Dying Light At first, it was just idle…

  By Nathan Grayson Published January 30, 2015
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  How To Deliver A Gas Tanker Like A Winner

  In Highlight Reel today we have a load of Dying Light clips, some explosive gas tankers in GTA V, parachute skateboarding action in H1z1 and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links…

  By Chris Person Published January 30, 2015
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  AMD Taunts Nvidia Over Latest Graphics Card Controversy

  Of the few remaining Video Game Brand Battles, the AMD vs. Nvidia fight might be my favorite. The two graphics companies often take small swipes at each other, and usually with less restraint than console or game manufacturers. The latest shot comes from AMD, in an update they posted to Facebook (via NeoGAF): 970 minutes…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published January 30, 2015
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  By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2015
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  League Of Legends Characters & Art So Good They Should Be In The Game

  These League of Legends characters and environments weren’t made by Riot Games, they were made by fans. But Riot thinks they’re good enough for public acclaim, and so do I. Riot and art site Polycount held a competition recently where users could submit their own designs for LoL stuff, and the winners – chosen by…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2015
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  Everything You Know About Nacho Cheese Is Wrong

  Here’s a simple question. Do you know what nacho cheese is? As it turns out, whatever it is that you use to define “nacho cheese” is probably wrong. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a mind-blowing article about the nature of nacho cheese. Get this: nobody, not even the people who make nacho-flavored things, or people who make…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published January 30, 2015