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Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In One Minute
Here’s an insanely skilled Diablo III player Dat Modz proving that it’s possible to get to max level in no time. Sixty-five seconds to be exact. That’s bloody impressive. And how is this possible? Dat Modz is on the game’s very rare (not THAT rare since patch 2.2, but still rare) Cow Level, and its…
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Pixel artist Junkboy reimagined John Carpenter’s classic movie They Live as a cool beat ‘em up game from the early 90s. It’s got all the characteristics of side-scrolling arcade games, complete with breakable windows and smashable cars. And here’s another cool tribute from the same artist: Planet of the Apes as a DOS point-and-click adventure…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bling Side Of The Force
Last week a Tokyo jeweler covered a Darth Vader helmet in gold, leading to at least two obvious questions—why just the helmet, and why only Vader? Surely the entire extended Star Wars cast is deserving a shiny metal makeover. Ginza Tanaka may have had good intentions, but he fell way short of his completely assumed…
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Now It’s Naoto’s Turn To Dance. Dance. Dance.
Every time I post a GIF from Persona 4: Dancing All Night, the comments are always the same: where’s Naoto Shirogane? Here’s Naoto Shirogane. No longer a backup dancer, Persona 4’s young detective shows off some killer moves on the dance floor, as well as a penchant for cosplay that goes beyond masking her gender…
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Sounds Like Silent Hills Really Is Cancelled
Following yesterday’s news that Konami would be pulling Silent Hills teaser P.T from the PlayStation Store next week, director Guillermo del Toro told the audience at a San Francisco Film Society event that his collaboration with Hideo Kojima is no longer a going concern. The news came by way of a tweet from photojournalist Matt…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Game And Apple Watch: The Winners!
Last week we asked our image manipulating community to show us what sorts of games they’d like to see on the minty-fresh Apple Watch. As it turns out, most of them are insane. Oops. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. Just an observation, really. They probably think I’m insane as well, since I…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Who’s Gonna Splatoon With Me? • Why Doesn’t This Video Game Exist: SPACESHIP RACING • Qwilfish – Wedding Delay Autopost Edition Just in Case • Sunday Quick-Draw: Bunnies! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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GTA V PC Mod Lets Players Explore Snowy North Yankton
Not satisfied with the short trips taken to Grand Theft Auto V’s version of North Dakota during story mode, PC modders have created a way to make every day a North Yankton day. There’s a nice little chunk of frozen North nestled in Grand Theft Auto V’s files, as evidenced by a since patched glitch…
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Gabe Newell Optimistic Paid Mods Will Be A Win For Everybody
Addressing the ongoing furorsurrounding the monetization of mods on Steam, Valve boss Gabe Newell took to Reddit earlier today to defend his company’s controversial new initiative. Following a day of travel and another dealing with medical issues, Newell spent a couple of hours today on a laptop in a coffee shop tohost a Reddit AMA.…
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A Tale Of Two Megatrons
Once upon a time there were two Decepticon leaders. One was officially Megatron, or as close to Megatron as Hasbro could get these days. The other was Apollyon, the third-party creation from X-Transbots. The $44.99 Hasbro Combiner Wars Megatron tried very hard to be the best Megatron he could be. He had a very Megatron-like…
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What Mario’s Nightmares Sound Like
Nothing gets a Staturday night party going like every sound effect in the original Super Mario Bros. all at once. Looped. For 12 hours. I’ve been listening to YouTuber crysknife007’s “composition” for about 20 minutes now, and I can feel my brain scrambling about in my head trying to catch every last drop of it.…
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The First Five Billable Minutes Of Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
While this is only the first five minutes of the newly-released Car Mechanic Simulator 2015, we’re going to have to charge you for a whole hour. When one of our family vehicles breaks down I can often be found standing in front of it with the hood open. This is not because I know anything…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Let’s share: Our Desktops! • Kotaku Gold vs NeoGAF Gold: The Comparison We Had To Make • First Time Classics: The End Of Evangelion -Complete • Shinmai Maou no Testament: Exile’s Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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The Elder Scrolls Online Runs Pretty Well On Consoles
After a year and change as a PC exclusive, The Elder Scrolls Online is coming to consoles on June 9. Here’s some footage from the console beta showing us what exactly that looks like. Jane Douglas of Outside Xboxtakes her Khajiit sorcerer on a little tour of massively multiplayer Xbox One Tamriel, which looks perfectly…
By Mike Fahey
