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Nothing Says Funeral Like a Quick Time Event
In the early moments of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s campaign mode, the player is given a choice — press or hold a button to pay their respects to a fallen comrade, or just sit there awkwardly watching the screen until they get bored and wander off. Not much of a choice, really. Circulating on…
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Zombies Return In Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC [Update]
Courtesy of an email today from GameStop, zombies will be returning in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s downloadable content packs. Update: Activision has clarified that the $50 seasons pass will not be required to play Sledgehammer’s version of zombie mode. Zombies may or may not make an appearance in the release version of Advanced Warfare,…
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People Aren’t Crazy About The Latest ‘Fix’ To Destiny‘s Toughest Boss
There’s a long-running joke amongst gamers and developers: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Usually it’s a self-aware joke—some bug or glitch disrupts the game either visually or even functionally, but it’s sometimes entertaining enough to keep in or consider a part of the experience. For once, I find myself telling that joke with…
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10 Things You Might Not Know About Destiny
I’ve played way too many hours of Destiny, and I still hadn’t pieced together a lot of the intricacies of both its story and gameplay. TerraMantis does a good job of highlighting some really fascinating lore and theories on the lore, as well as pointing to some easter eggs and functional secrets. Here’s a general…
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How Much Destiny Has Changed Over The Last Year
Since its first announcement or teaser trailer is released into the wild, a game is bound to make certain changes up to launch. But it can be quite revealing to see just what was left out and added into the game by comparing marketing materials to the final product. In this case, coreRoss goes through…
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We Streamed The Duck Dynasty Game, Because Why Not
Why is there a Duck Dynasty game on Steam right now? Good question. Let’s find out together. Update: Stream over, and the game was surprisingly not bad. I’ve always been fascinated by games that just suddenly appear with little or no fanfare. I’ve seen nothing but screenshots of this Activision-published title. In a moment I’m…
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How Many People Play Destiny Every Day?
This weekend Bungie dropped some interesting data that suggests that Destiny is more popular than its mixed reception would suggest. While we’re still waiting on official Destiny sales figures from Activision, it seems that on average 3.2 million people are playing every day. The average player has also logged in 20 times in the month…
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Adam Carolla Taunts Children To Celebrate The New Skylanders
In celebration of the launch of Skylanders: Trap Team, Activision planted hidden cameras all over a Toys’R’Us and piped the voice of comedian and podcast master Adam Carolla through the game’s demo kiosk. Then the taunting begins. When a villain is trapped in one of the game’s crystal prisons and inserted into the plastic glowing…
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ReviewsSkylanders: Trap Team: The Kotaku Review
It’s that time of year again. Time to set aside last year’s toys in favor of a shiny new batch of Skylanders: Trap Team figures. Seriously, set the older toys aside – you won’t be needing them for a while. In preparation for the arrival of the latest iteration of Activision’s hugely successful toys-meets-games franchise,…
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Tablet Is The Best Way To Play Skylanders: Trap Team
Normally when a big-name video game releases a version on tablet devices, it’s either a pared down version of the console experience or a completely different game altogether. Not only isSkylanders: Trap Team‘s tablet offering the exact same game as on consoles, its portability and convenience makes it the superior version. The console version of…
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What’s Different About Skylanders: Trap Team On 3DS
Skylanders: Trap Team launches on October 5 in North America, and while Vicarious Visions has somehow crammed the console experience onto tablets, the 3DS version is a completely different animal. How so? A Whole New Story The prison break story in the console version of Skylanders: Trap Team? Forget about it. The 3DS version instead…
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There’s Already A New Loot Cave In Destiny
I mean, were we expecting anything else? Bungie may have nerfed the famous Loot Cave™ and several others yesterday that players had discovered would grant them with fast enemy respawns and therefore a higher chance of scraping loot and engrams together, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t others yet to be discovered. Now, this one…
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You’ll Finally Talk To Players You’ve Been Matched With In Destiny
In the midst of the big news that the Loot Cave is no more are a few other nuggets of news of things Bungie has planned for Destiny. More notably, for instance, that they’ll be giving players an option to communicate with other guardians they’ve been matched with in strikes and in the Crucible. Here’s…
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Destiny‘s Bravest Dancer
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of the dancing in Destiny here at Kotaku. But this montage takes the alien cake. YouTube user calloftreyarch leaves no path un-danced. He dances in the Tower, with strangers and friends. He dances on the massive spider tank. He dances while getting killed. There is no dance calloftreyarch…
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CultureDestiny‘s Toughest Challenge Cleared In Just 37 Minutes
That’s a new record for The Vault of Glass, the first raid released for Bungie’s new Destiny shooter. A team of five hunters and one lonely warlock managed to clear the whole thing in just 37 minutes, topping the last record of 1 hour and 50 minutes, both vast differences from the 10-hour-long ordeal it…
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Player’s Secret Weapon In Destiny‘s Multiplayer Is…Sitting
Destiny‘s D-pad-mapped gestures are fun for expressing yourself to strangers in the Tower, or after a successful strike. But they’re a lot more useful when used in even more creative ways. Take Unspoken Ouch‘s tactic here, for instance. As you can see above, he uses the sitting gesture in a most devious way to confuse…
By Tina Amini
