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ReviewsEvolve: The Kotaku Review
I’ve been playing a lot of Evolve over the last week and the questions I hear are all the same: Are you tired of this game yet? Is it really repetitive? The answer to each is, simply, no and yes, respectively. Some of you will hate this game. You’ll think its rote nature too boring…
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Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever
Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream’s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why? With a twisted story, ordinary characters in strange circumstances and advanced cinematic storytelling, playing Fahrenheit back in 2005…
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Tips & Guides
Tips For Playing Evolve
When you start playing Evolve, you’ll probably suck. Even as you get better, you’ll still run into players who also suck. It can be frustrating. So, let’s skip the learning through trial by (sometimes literal) fire, and get ahead of the curve. Tips For Playing A Hunter Play To Your Class If Battlefield is about…
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PSA: Don’t Use Your Evolve Account On Multiple Consoles
Some Evolve players’ progress is being wiped when they attempt to try to access their game’s data from a second console, myself included. It’s not clear why yet, but you should probably avoid playing between consoles if you value your time. It’s happened to me consistently now, as I switch back and forth between my…
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What Buying Evolve Gets You
If you’re planning on grabbing Evolve when it launches tomorrow, you’ll pretty much be getting a multiplayer experience similar in concept to Left 4 Dead where you can take on one of three monsters as one of 12 hunters (or vice versa). But it’s a bit more complicated than that. Single Versus Multiplayer Evolve is…
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Evolve Impressions: ‘Just One More Round’
Evolve can be simplified in many ways, and you’ve probably heard them all before. It’s a first-person shooter. It’s like Left 4 Dead, four players banding together, but you’re up against a Tank—played by a fifth player—each round. It’s one big boss battle, over and over. But the details that go into the new game,…
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It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode
The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…
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More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Sega Dreamcast
The latest from the video game trivia masters at Did You Know Gaming? tackles Sega’s ill-fated but fondly remembered Dreamcast—from inception to downfall. (Is it just me or is the rapid-fire pacing of this channel’s video releases starting to get a little crazy?) Anyway, the Dreamcast was not a bad system, but a perfect storm…
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Spartan Crabwalks in Halo 5 Beta Glitch
Players have discovered plenty of interesting issues in the ongoing Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, but this is probably the funniest. “Not sure if anyone has shared this before, but this is what happens when you crouch in midair and sprint upon landing at the beginning of a breakout game,” wrote Redditor coked_up_tourist. Other users…
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