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UncategorizedWatch a Guy Build Bender in Minecraft
In 24 hours, no less—although the video clocks in at just 4 minutes. Thank goodness for timelapse. Made by Planet Minecraft member propank, this 250-block-high Minecraft recreation of Futurama’s Bender took 50635 blocks and 24 real-world hours to build. propank shows off the entire process in a timelapse video: The world download can be found…
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Kotaku EastCall of Duty Online is a Big Surprise
Forget everything you saw and experienced in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, forget Jack Mitchell and harken back to the days of Soap, Ghost and Price. Remember those good ol’ days with them boys? Well, you can relive that whole experience again and then some in the China-only Call of Duty: Online That’s right, CoDOL…
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EsportsThe 2014 Hearthstone Championship Trophy Is An Egg
Hearthstone is a game of ups and downs, where anything can happen at the drop of a card. That sentiment is even more true at competition level. This past weekend, China’s Blizzard operator, NetEase, held the quarterfinals to their new Gold League e-sports event, and the HearthStone competition was fierce. Announced and launched last year,…
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Dota 2 Event Prompts Legal Spat Between Streaming Sites
The video gaming live-streaming business is huge right now. Amazon purchased Twitch.TV for $970 million last year. Well, in the land where everything has a Chinese version, China, the Chinese equivalents of Twitch are in a legal war over the Dota 2 Asia Championships. Sina news reports that two of China’s newest and fastest growing…
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UncategorizedThe Four-Decade History of Open World Games
Those Assassin’s Creeds and Far Crys and Grand Theft Autos had to come from somewhere In his video, YouTuber XboxAhoy takes a look at how games like the original Zelda, 1984’s Elite, or the legendary Ultima series contributed to open world and sandbox games as we know them today. There’s bits about some truly obscure…
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UncategorizedMan Opens Extremely Rare Counter-Strike: Go Weapon, Goes Insane
The lovely gaming couple responsible for TecAssault were enjoying a quiet evening opening weapon cases in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Then they opened one of the rarest items possible, and the husband completely loses his shit. While CS:GO weapon cases are earned through normal play, the keys to unlock them must be purchased, so every time…
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The Week In Games: Let The 2015 Games Begin
Two of them are remasters and one’s an incredibly quirky downloadable role-playing game, but there are definitely games coming out this week. Will the trend continue? We’re slowly making our way out of the year change drought, that quiet period of time where the only titles released (for consoles at least) are things like Pure…
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UncategorizedPrank Transforms Living Room Into Gigantic Ball Pit
I am not generally a fan of being pranked, but I fully endorse anyone who wants to fill my home with colorful plastic balls while I’m out running errands. YouTuberRoman Atwood has pulled some pretty horrible pranks on his poor wife in the past, including my personal least favorite, pretending he accidentally threw their toddler…
By Mike Fahey
