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Adventure Mode Is My New Favorite Way To Play Diablo III
Farewell, Diablo III story mode. You had a nice long run, but now that I’ve completed Reaper of Souls‘ fifth chapter, there’s no reason for me to replay you ever again. It’s adventure time! At first glance the Reaper of Souls expansion for Diablo III felt really light on content. The largely uninspired Act V…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Digital: A Love Story – An Appraisal of The Messiah • The Pilot’s Love Song: The Ani-TAY Review • Gamer Logic: Why walk when I can… • Loving and Hating the Same Story: The Objective and Subjective • Pupa: The Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide…
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How To Find Pokémon On Google Maps
Today as part of an April Fool’s prank, Google updated Google Maps for iOS and Android to include Pokémon. Let’s try to find all of them! There are at least 150 Pokémon currently floating around on Google Maps. All you have to do is zoom in, tap on them and select “catch”. Here are just…
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Street Fighter‘s Ken Cut From The Tournament For Obvious Reasons
With Ryu making the roster despite serious translation issues, there’s absolutely no use for Ken in Pete Holmes’ Street Fighter tournament. Dhalsim‘s out. Vega is out. Chun-Li has been creeped on and asked to put on pants. So far this is looking like a very Ryu-centric tournament Pete Holmes is putting together. I’m having a…
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New cyberpunk miniature game Aetherium
A look at the concept art and miniatures from new Kickstarter game Aetherium: Enter the Aetherium – a world between worlds, a place capable of containing the human mind, a place of infinite possibility, a place that is no place at all. Atherium is a miniatures board game by Anvil Eight Games for 2 or…
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This spectacular, Kirby-branded Game Boy Color would have been treasured by any self-respecting gamer of the nineties. The artist behind the custom handheld is French illustrator Oskunk—you can find more photos of his projects over at his blog Custom Game Boy Color “KIRBY” [Oskunk’s Blog, via Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every…
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Longest Journey Creator’s Next Game is “Gone Home Meets Amnesia“
More specifically, it is a survival horror-adventure game. Inspired by fairy tales and legends. It is called Draugen—a name taken from a certain undead creaturefrom Norse mythology. It was first presented by developer Red Thread Games last October, and it takes place in a small Norwegian fishing village in 1923. There’s also… actually, let me…
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Imagining Mara Jade And Teenage Leia in Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars Rebels poster, part of a series of illustrations imagining classic, Clone Wars and Expanded Universe characters in the upcoming Rebels cartoon: These and more, including Thrawn, Echo, and Maul, are on display in Englelha5t’s gallery.
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Today In The Elder Scrolls Online: Snack Time Of The Damned
I watched this guy eat bread for ten minutes. Then I tried to jump on his head, and was thrown into nothingness. Some helpful people suggested I try the /reloadui command. This did not work. Another suggested /stuck, which killed me, reducing the durability of my items, and then respawned me back into nothingness. Several…
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Screenshots from Pikmin vs. Bugs, Angry Kirby, and more iOS Nintendo games I wish were real
Pikmin vs. Bugs by Dave Armstrong. One of several fictional iOS Nintendo games I wish I could buy: Flappy Starfox and Mario Run by Andrew Clark Angry Kirby by Nuri Amanatullah Flappy Kid Icarus by Brendan Derrig Flappy Arwing by Under the Giant Penny Flappy Bullet Bill by Austen Lavery Super Mario by Strange Labs…
By John Struan
