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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Rambles: My Personal Biases in Reviewing • Where’s My Transformers Game? • How Do You Deal with Video Game Overload? • There are good English anime song covers? Yes, yes there are. TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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The Most Complex Besiege Bomb Delivery System
The Besiege community never disappoints when it comes to building deliberately over-engineered siege engines to perform the simple task of eliminating a few knights. David Mcl‘s Rube Goldberg machine-like bomb delivery system is no exception—it’s one of the finest creations I’ve seen so far. You can follow the bomb’s path in the video below. But…
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Watch The First Kill Of One Of The Hardest Bosses In WoW History
Blackhand, the final boss of Blackrock Foundry, Warlords of Draenor‘s second raid, is a tough guy. The raid’s hardest Mythic difficulty has been open for 27 days, yet only a couple of guilds managed to kill its endboss. And now, the three guilds on top of the leaderboards finally released their kill videos. Blackrock Foundry’s…
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Here’s an oil painting of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series, based on this well-known piece of official concept art, done by artist Raman Singh. Look below for the HD pics, and check out Singh’s portfolio for more, albeit non-gaming-themed, paintings in this style (I particularly like his portraits). Dayshot is an image-based feature that…
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The Thrilling Sequel To Daylight Saving Time: The Movie
“He’s killing during the hour that doesn’t exist!” From the makers of Saving Daylight comes Saving Daylight: The Vanishing Hour Nacho Punch returns with the inevitable sequel to the fake movie trailer that gave us an extra hour, just in time to steal it back. I’m really loving these. I can’t wait for the third…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Agents Of Nvidia Shield
Since early 2013 Nvidia has announced three different Nvidia Shields, the latest being the Android console that debuted at GDC earlier this week. At this rate they’re going to need a lot of help coming up with new things to call Shield. That’s where you come in. I might not be all that impressed by…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Bricks Ahoy! The Best of Classic Pirate LEGO • [Final Fantasy] Distant Worlds III: Track Review • 8 1/2 [Movie Review] • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: Ancient Myths and Crazy People [Tomb Raider 2013] • “This Is Dream!”: Dreaming Up The Sequels We Need TAY Classic—TAY…
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Star Citizen Shoots Up Expensive Spaceships Real Good
While we’re still waiting to see how Star Citizen turns out as a whole, Chris Roberts and crew continue to prance out impressive bits of the ambitious crowd-funded space sim, like this lovely video of bits being blown off spaceships. It’s not just about flying spaceships about the universe, though I’d probably be just as…
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Now That’s A Disturbing Fighting Game Character
Do attractive female fighting game characters in skimpy outfits bother you? Then meet Killer Instinct‘s latest combatant, Hisako. You’ll like her. She’ll break your bones from the inside. Making her gameplay debut at PAX East this weekend, Hisako is one of the coolest fighting game character concepts I’ve seen in forever. Based on Japanese horror…
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The Saturday Stream Challenges Heroes Of The Storm [All Done!]
“Is challenged by” might have been a more appropriate turn of phrase to use in the headline, but I figured if I wrote it that way and believed hard enough it would come true. Anyway, let’s play Blizzard’s MOBA! Several members of Kotaku have been getting into the MOBA scene these days. As I type…
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Less Man, More Mega
Maybe the problem with the Mega Man franchise is that it needs more “mega” and less “man.” A trio of cosplayers prove that point in the second day of our PAX East cosplay spectacular. Our friend at Dave Yang Photography spent the second day of PAX East tripping over MOBA characters and catching snaps of…
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The Amiibo Rap Knows Your Frustration
This song is for anyone who has made a beeline for the video game section of their local retailer and cursed loudly at empty shelves. Musical comedy group Hot Chocolate Party apply their lyrical mastery to the Amiibo phenomenon, singing the praises of immobile plastic married to computer chips, at least until they try to…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Spring 2015 Anime Sequel Guide • Gaming Fantasy Dinner Party – Guest Number One • Hand of Fate: It’s All in the Cards • How LA Noire Changed the Meaning of ‘Story-Driven’ Gameplay • Parasyte Has Reached an All-New Level TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…
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Your FFXIV Characters Are Going To Look Amazing At Level 60
A new level cap brings hot new outfits, and while you won’t all be as sexy as the fisherman in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, you’ll at least look a damn sight better than you do now. Check out the level 60 costumes for fighters, craftsman and gatherers. During today’s Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward panel at…
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Final Fantasy XIV‘s First Expansion Arrives In June
Missing the original spring 2015 release window by a few weeks, the Heavensward expansion for Final Fantasy XIV arrives on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and now Mac on June 23. The release date was announced during the game’s panel at PAX East in Boston, along with the news that Mac port experts Transgaming would…
By Mike Fahey
