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How The Subscription-Free Elder Scrolls Online Will Work
On March 17 the PC version of The Elder Scrolls Onlineditches subscription fees and gains the subtitle “Tamriel Unlimited.” What are we getting for free, and what does the change mean for existing players? In a live session streamed via Twitch earlier today, Pete Hines of Bethesda, game director Matt Firor and creative director Paul…
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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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The Four Horsies Of The ‘Pocalpyse: The End Is Neigh
Hot on the hooves of last year’s successful Little Maddie Cthulhu Pony campaign, Bigshot Toyworks prepare to unleash the most adorable instruments of destruction ever. Meet the Four Horsies of the ‘Pocalypse. The adorably squid-headed Little Maddie (as seen on io9) was just the opening act to Bigshot Toys’ tongue-in-cheek My Little Pony parody, the…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell: The TAY Review • Worst Anime Jobs: Mecha Pilot • Rockmandash Reviews: Anime Backlog Review Gauntlet #1 • Fabulous Fyst’s Trainime Winter Season Impressions Part 3 • A Whole New World: Stand-out Game Settings TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…
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Max Payne Can’t Hold Back His One-Liners In This GTA V Parody
Some well-placed witty puns might have helped Max Payne 3‘s cutscenes too, because it definitely sounds funny mixed with the dark story-telling of Max Payne. Here’s 8-Bit Bastard’s clip, starring a completely down and out Max / Michael hybrid in GTA V, loaded with the worst first-class jokes. To contact the author of this post,…
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3D Artist is Really Into Half-Life
Evidence number one: a highly detailed (and awesome) Unreal Development Kit recreation of Dr. Kleiner’s Lab from Half-Life 2 Level designer/environment artist Charlie Pharis started by painting over a screenshot of the original HL2 location to create a concept: Then, after several weeks of work, he came up with the finished map: Exploring Pharis’ website…
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Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds with the Rest of the World
Annoyed with your crappy internet provider, bad connection and slow download speeds? Well, as Steam’s stats show, you are not alone. Spotted by r/steam and r/games, the Steam Global Traffic Map’s newly-implemented feature lets you look at a list of average download rates for each country, grouped by service providers. So you could, for example,…
By András Neltz
