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Smite‘s New Thor Skin Pilots A Giant Mech
With the introduction of the Japanese pantheon to the god-based MOBA coming early next year, Smite wanted to do something special to make the incoming deities fell welcome. Ragnarok Force X Thor should do the trick. Shown off today during the Smite Super Regionals in Atlanta, in which the top European and American teams battle…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming: Winners!
The announcement ofFinal Fantasy VII’s Cloud for Super Smash Bros.got us thinking about which other games he could be in, which led to a Photoshop contest, which led to hilarity. Our image manipulating readers sure make judging contests like this difficult, especially when the people entering know my penchant for animated Persona dancing GIFs. In…
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The Xbox 360 Is Ten Years Old Today
A decade ago today thousands of people stood outside electronics retailers in the bitter cold, waiting for their chance to sell an Xbox 360 on eBay. I blame those killer faceplates. I remember the Xbox 360 launch like it was yesterday, because in the grand scheme of things it was. I wasn’t going to get…
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When A New Game Could Cost $10 Less Than Its Console
Not just a Super Nintendo system, but a system bundled with Killer Instinct, as seen in this ancient Electronics Boutique ad from back in 1996 posted by Redditorsketchbreaker. Of course we were in the tail end of the Super Nintendo’s run by the time Donkey Kong Country 3 arrived in November of 1996. After a…
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Animated Short Illustrates Several Strange Things About Heroes Of The Storm
Why can’t Johanna be killed? How can Illidan be blinded? Why can’t Raynor and Kerrigan just be happy? All of these questions and more arise from Carbot’s latest Heroes of the Storm short. Each of the heroes in Heroes of the Storm have been torn from their worlds and brought to the Nexus to do…
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Happy 25th Birthday, Super Famicom And Friends
On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console to play them on. It was a very good day. Releasing a new video game console with only two games to play is unheard of these days (instead we get two GOOD games and a bunch of…
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Let’s See Which Sort Of Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon Says I Am
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon was released yesterday, and as with all entries in the dungeon crawling series it kicks off with a personality test to determine which Pokemon best suits the player. Let’s see who I am! The game opens on the title screen, which features the logo floating over whatever your 3DS camera is…
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