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Teens Agree: The Internet Was Pretty Stupid In The ’90s
To be fair to the teens in The Fine Bros. latest video, the internet was pretty stupid in the ’90s — slow, stunted and subject to one of the worst instructional videos ever made. I am speaking of the infamous “The Kids’ Guide to the Internet”, a horrid video from 1997 meant to inform children…
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Life-Size LEGO Titanfall Sniper Rifle Is Even Better With A Burn Card
Without enhancements, Nick Jensen’s life-sized LEGO recreation of Titanfall‘s Kraber AP sniper rifle is pretty damn impressive. Amp it with a Burn Card and it’s downright explosive. Nick, AKA Nick Brick, has a real knack for building weapons out of LEGO. Having already dominated close-range firearms with the LEGO Titanfall shotgun, the Kraber AP gives…
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At Least One Good Toy Came From Transformers: Age Of Extinction
Between the Michael Bey-bot designs and Hasbro’s heavy focus on simply transformations, the Age of Extinction toy line hasn’t done much for me. But there is one toy I could not pass up. It’s not what Evasion Mode Optimus Prime is, but what he becomes. By day he’s a mind-mannered leader of the Autobots, determined…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2014 Decorating Committee
What’s this? Former PlayStation spokesman Kevin Butler has no business lording over the LA Convention Center in this day and age. What should occupy the ad space of honor during next week’s E3 2014? Smells like a ‘Shop Contest to me. I’ve not been to an E3 since my children were born back in 2011,…
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Super-Articulated Titanfall Pilot Action Figure
After teasing with unpainted photos of the pilot and matching Titan, threezero revealed photographs of the fully painted 6″ Titanfall pilot: Via threezero You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let’s Mario Kart Everywhere: The Winners!
We know where Mario Kart 8 is right now — on the television set of nearly everyone with a Wii U — but last week the game was all over the place, thanks to the magic of our weekly ‘Shop Contest. Too bad we had to hide the real winner. That’s right, this week there’s…
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A Gaming Headset With Bass You Can Really Feel
There’s having sound reach your ears, and then there’s having sound touch your ears. Outfitted with haptic technology, the Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4D Stereo Gaming Headset licks the inside of your ear canal with bass. It’s more pleasant than it sounds. WHAT IS IT It’s a USB powered headset for your computer outfitted with ViviTouch…
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If Anything Will Sell Me On The Oculus Rift, It’s Virtual Totoro
Fresh from recreating the boiler room scene from Spirited Away for the Oculus Rift, game designer Nick Pittom tackles an even more magical scene from director Hayao Miyazaki’s classic work — the bus stop sequence from My Neighbor Totoro. This is what I’d buy an Oculus Rift for. Having spent most of my life as…
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The Honest Game Trailer For Candy Crush Saga Is Justly Brutal
Smosh Games gives everyone’s second-favorite bathroom game the Honest Trailers treatment, brutalizing Kings’ innocent candy-swapping game, which never did nothing to no one. Or maybe it’s a well-deserved thrashing. After all, what kind of sick bastard of a video game makes a person angry about receiving chocolate?
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Inane Internet Quiz Asks “What Kind Of Video Game Is Your Life?”
It’s about time, stupidly inaccurate Facebook-shared personality quizzes. While I do not care which Supernatural character I should date and am only mildly curious as to which My Little Pony I am , I very much want to know what kind of video game my life is. Let’s find out! Brand publisher WD Ventito crafted…
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There’s Something Special About Atlanta Cosplay
Atlanta cosplayers are just the best, and they proved it at last weekend’s MomoCon. Man Tifa? Done. Kingdom Hearts Batman? No problem. Solid Snake sneaking behind Mega Man? How many would you like? I might be a little bit biased, having lived in Atlanta for the past 30 years, but I prefer to think of…
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The Saturday Morning Stream: WildStar Is Go [Complete!]
The head start for Carbine Studio’s new science fiction MMO WildStar kicked off early this morning, giving birth to thousands of weird little animal people with giant eyes. We’re going to follow one of them into the wilds of the legendary Planet Nexus. The little mouse critter is my new character, Rande, an Aurin Spellslinger…
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Mecha Superman And More Infinite Crisis Wallpapers
The makers of the free to play Infinite Crisis have created an impressive number of creative character designs that put the New 52 to shame. Enjoy these wallpapers featuring Gaslight Catwoman, Samurai Batman, Mecha Wonder Woman and more: There are dozens more character wallpapers in various resolutions at the Infinite Crisis official site You are…
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Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 26
Is E3 seriously only a week away? Kill me now. Or just go catch up on our best stuff from this week over at Kotaku Selects. Bonus is that this week includes lots of pieces from me after a week of silence earlier this month. You can guess that I spent that week of silence…
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Watch Tim Schafer Play Grim Fandango
This is the latest in a series of videos featuring Tim Schafer playing classic games he designed—90 minutes of Tim playing Grim Fandango and providing commentary on the making of the game. Nod knowingly (grimly?) as he says, “We’re about to experience the most perfect and most infallible control scheme ever invented in a video…
By John Struan
