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  Magician Does All His Tricks Using An iPad

  Simon Pierro, a German magician, was on The Ellen Show last night. He’s famous for doing all his magic tricks on an iPad using certain apps and merging reality with virtual reality. He’s a tech wizard! If you watch the top gif a few times you might recognize how he does that particular trick. Same…

  By Gergo Vas Published February 19, 2015
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  The Order: 1886: The Kotaku Review

  Do you like movies? Do you like video games? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions, you should probably skip The Order: 1886 The PlayStation 4’s newest action game is a dull and lumbering thing. It’s a brief, drab adventure starring a group of characters who all seem to dislike their lives and…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published February 19, 2015
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  Japan’s Most Traditional Internet Cafe

  There are loads of internet cafes in Japan. But it seems there’s only one that looks like a traditional Japanese inn. Welcome to Nagomi Style Cafe Located in Tokyo’s geek mecca Akihabara, this internet cafe is designed after a Kyoto inn. The Japanese word “nagomi” (和み) mean to soothe or calm. That’s exactly what this…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 19, 2015
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  Poll: How Japanese Gamers Feel About the PS4

  The PlayStation 4 was released in Japan nearly one year ago. So are Japanese buyers of the console happy with their purchase? Over 1,000 PS4 owners answered a customer satisfaction survey in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Many were happy. Some were not. Here’s what was asked, what was answered, and a bit of what was…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published February 19, 2015
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  In Final Fantasy XV, Cooking is Important

  Camping is a big part of Final Fantasy XV. And what is camping, without some campfire cooking? As previously explained by director Hajime Tabata, is part of the core gameplay of FFXV, and plays a vital role in adventuring the vast open world. To recap, camping in FFXV converts exp gained through battles into levels.…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published February 19, 2015
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  Thanks, Obama for the Anime Photoshops

  You might know him as the President of the United States. Or maybe you know him as something else: The Commander in Chief…of Anime. For a while now, it’s been a running gag online that President Obama is really into anime. Like really. Even in 2009, there were those online wondering whether or not the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 19, 2015
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  How to Beat up Pokémon in Japanese Arcades

  The new Pokémon fighting game, Pokkén Tournament is hitting arcades in Japan this summer, and a new trailer is out to offer new details, including a breakdown of the controls. In the newly released trailer, some of the previously announced playable characters were shown as well as some new details were on how the game…

  By Toshi Nakamura Published February 19, 2015
• Kotaku East

  Why Final Fantasy XV Has Fantastic Hair

  As a rule, Final Fantasy games have amazing hair. But the ‘dos in Final Fantasy XV look especially good. Thank fancy tech, professional hair stylists, and wigs for that. During the last console generation, a glut of characters had buzz cuts or sported coifs that looked like they were drenched in hairspray. Those bad hair…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 19, 2015
• Culture

  Because This Site Needs More Battleships

  I don’t know what it is about battleship paintings, but I love ’em. They make me think of sitting under one in a wood-panelled room, in front of a fireplace, sipping on expensive booze and puffing on a big ol’ pipe. These images are by Dmitry Vishnevsky, a freelance artist who works in the video…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  New Medieval Combat Game Looks Like A, Well, Blast

  In case this trailer doesn’t show you within five seconds, here it is from the developers themselves: “We were primarily inspired by Rust & Chivalry in the development of this game”. But that’s OK! Because if you’re going to rip two games off and make something new out of the stolen parts, you can do…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  Doors, The Ultimate Counter-Strike Enemy

  And now, repeat after me the hallowed words of our people: “Aaaaagghhh nonononoooo! …God damn it.” Here’s the full video of a situation I’m sure at least a few of us have encountered, courtesy of Sergey Menshykov: You’re reading Steamed, Kotaku’s page dedicated to all things in and around Valve’s stupidly popular PC gaming service.…

  By Nathan Grayson Published February 18, 2015
• CultureCosplay

  Murderous Nintendo Cosplay

  Nice to see 2013’s best Smash Bros. jokes finally have the cosplay they deserve. Cosplay by Moderately Okay Cosplay, photo by Mig Photography World

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  The Best Cosplay From Katsucon 2015

  Katsucon, a big anime con held every year in Maryland, went down over the weekend, and as one of the first big shows for the year it’s only right we take a look a good look at it here on Cosplay. Photographer Mike Kowalek was there to take some shots, and he was kind enough…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  Overpowered Bot Puts Top Smash Bros. Player In His Place

  If you’ve paid any sort of attention to the competitive Super Smash Bros scene over the years, you’ve probably heard of Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman. He’s won countless championships in every iteration of Smash and advanced the scene with discoveries about game physics and technique. Recently, he lost to a CPU. It all came of an…

  By Nathan Grayson Published February 18, 2015
• CultureTotal Recall

  The NES Was Once So Rare You Could Only Get It In Two Cities

  It’s easy to forget now, given its enormous success, that the NES was once seen as a risky proposition. Coming on the heels of the great video game crash of 1983, into a market unsure if games were a fad that had already died out, the system didn’t just magically appear in stores across North…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  Civilization Players Are Sending The Entire World To War [Update]

  Get some popcorn ready, because the entire planet is about to throw down. UPDATE: The game has begun! There’s a stream here, but service has been patchy at best. The Civilization fanatics at /r/Civ have hatched a wonderful plan: they’re going to setup then run an enormous planetary showdown, which is going to take place…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2015
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  What Books Are You Reading These Days?

  Here at Kotaku, we don’t just play video games all day and night. Sometimes, we read. Sometimes we even read books! Wild, I know. I’ve read a few good books lately, and wanted to check in to see what you all have been reading. For my part, I recently finished Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, which…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published February 18, 2015
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  Pokémon With Microtransactions Is Just As Bad As It Sounds

  Nintendo released a new Pokémon spin-off on the 3DS eShop today called Pokémon Shuffle. You can download it right now if you want to, because it’s free. But just because it’s free doesn’t make the game worth your time I’ve been playing the game on and off today, and here’s what I experienced. When you…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published February 18, 2015
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  Welcome…To Besiege’s Jurassic Park 

  On today’s Highlight Reel we have poorly-constructed dinosaurs in Besiege, Battlefield carpooling gone awry, asexually reproducing trucks in Far Cry 4 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 below. Carpooling –…

  By Chris Person Published February 18, 2015
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  Team Fortress 2 Player Sounds Like T-Pain

  Not new-school, amazingly talented R&B-singing T-Pain either. No, I’m talking the T-Pain of yore—egregious amounts of auto-tune and all. This Team Fortress 2 player keeps the gag going, completely straight-faced, through an entire match, and it’s glorious. TwilightWolfVidjaGames stumbled across the mysteriously musical player in a random TF2 match, and he knew he had to…

  By Nathan Grayson Published February 18, 2015