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Marvel Puzzle Quest Coming To Consoles Without The Free-To-Play Nonsense
Marvel Puzzle Quest for mobile and PC was an exciting concept marred by free-to-play mechanics. Coming later this year, the console version of Marvel Puzzle Quest adds multiplayer and ditches free-to-play. Players will pay $14.99 for Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign when it hits Xboxes 360 and One and PlayStations 3 and 4 later this…
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Rock Band 4 Is Pretty Great So Far. My Singing, Not So Much.
Warning: Rock Band 4 may cause a person to sing Scandal’s “The Warrior” with an external mic active, upload the resulting video to the internet and post it on Kotaku along with their initial impressions of the game. I’m so sorry. With a couple more features left I’d like to test out, my Rock Band…
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There’s A Reason Why Everybody Hates Hunters In World of Warcraft
Even after a bunch of nerfs, the Hunter class in WoW is pretty strong right now. They dominated everything since Warlords of Draenor’s release. So it’s not a surprise that they’ve became an easy scapegoat lately. Shooting arrows from max range while everyone’s running around during a raid encounter might not be that stressful indeed.…
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LEGO Fan Pays Tribute To The Elder Scrolls Online Battles
LEGO runes never looked this good. Xenomurphy did quite an amazing job recreating an intense battle from The Elder Scrolls Online It’s one of the portals, called Dolmens, that connects Tamriel with the realm of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal. This one’s a 11,000-piece MOC that took six months to complete, and everything, especially the…
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The GameCube’s shape is perfect for a unique dual paint job like this. It’s Hyrule and its parallel universe from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by artist Zoki 64 Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Coat For Max
My boss wasdissatisfied with the (nearly) top-tier jacket upgrade Max Max receives in his eponymous game outing. We’ve got this, Totilo. Now let’s see what the problem is here. Jesus Christmas that’s horrible. He looks like generic bad guy number 13. He should look like a rock star, or a male model, or a mailman.…
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I’d Say I’m Ready For Halloween
My wife let me buy this mask for $15 at Target. She made a horrible mistake. “The first time you scare me awake wearing that I’m burning it,” she told me as I wandered silently through the retail outlet, turning my head slowly to track the people we passed. “Oh don’t worry,” I whispered in…
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Shooty Skies Is A Game About Shooting In The Sky, And It Is Great
Shooty Skies takes the addictive formula that made road-crossing mobile game Crossy Road a smash hit and applies it to the scrolling shooter. In honor of this I’ve taken the same headline from our first Crossy Road articleand applied it to this one. Crossy Road creators Matt Hall and Andy Sum have teamed with entertainment…
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The First Five Minutes Of Disgaea 5: Alliance Of Vengeance
There’s not a lot of gameplay in the first five minutes of the sixth installment of Nippon Ichi’s tactical role-playing game series. That’s what the remaining hundreds of hours are for. Marking the series’ debut on North American PlayStation 4 this week, Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance promises to be another ridiculous, demon-powered orgy of…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Ugliest PlayStation 4: Winners!
Yep, that’s about the ugliest PlayStation 4 console I can imagine. For those of you just joining us, last week I tasked our lovely community with coming up with a PlayStation 4 that was uglier than the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops III limited edition system. Evan Narcisse called it “ugly as sin.” We…
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Stephen Colbert Suitably Awed By No Man’s Sky
As demonstrated by his Pewdiepie interview earlier this week, Stephen Colbert’s new stint as the host of The Late Show gives him a chance to touch on topics his old gig couldn’t, like video games we wish we could just play already, dammit. Hello Games’ Sean Murray took to the couch on Friday night to…
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Conker’s Bad Fur Day Was Once A Very Different Game
One of the filthiest games released on a Nintendo console was originally going to be just another kiddified 3D platformer. Check out some never-before-seen footage of the game that would become Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Long before Conker became an alcoholic shit-battler, Rare’s squirrel hero was something much more kid-friendly. After a debut as a…
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The Keyboard Is Your Mightiest Weapon In Epistory
The only thing more powerful than the written word is the muse that stirs those words in the mind of the writer. That’s the player’s role in Flying Cactus’ Epistory. Released earlier this week on Steam Early Access, Epistory is essentially the tale of an author and her muse—a young girl riding on a three-tailed…
By Mike Fahey
