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How To Survive Driving Into The Ocean In GTA V (And Other Fun Facts)
Speaking of the little details that make GTA V so great, here’s a video that answers questions I didn’t even know I had. Like, does a helmet actually do anything to protect your head? Can a car run out of gas? Can a car that’s run out of gas still explode? If a tree falls…
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Excellent Battlefield 4 Beta Elevator Shoots Players Into the Sky
Battlefield 4 is currently in beta. So is the elevator that shoots players into the sky. Some gamers have been having a lot of fun with it, including this guy who uses it to leap above a sniper and surprise-kill him from behind. That’s the video above, by Stun_gravy. Here’s a fun discovery one, via…
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Unintentionally Awesome Moments In GTA Online
You really are a bastard, Ohcrapnick (I think that’s your name. That’s the what the guy called you at 0:28 of this video, anyway). But you’re one hell of a driver, straddling the highway barrier in Grand Theft Auto Online, I’ll give you that. Ohcrapnick’s daredevil antics, death by cash register, and a couple of…
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Amazing LEGO Ninja Fight Will Make You Wish You Were A Kid Again
What goes on inside the head of a child playing with a couple of LEGO ninja? Stop-motion animator supreme Counter656 gives us a thrilling peek. Adult toy collectors (like myself) spend hundreds of dollars trying to recapture the magic that toys held for us as children. Counter656 spends dozens of hours recreating it so we…
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Don’t Buy This Grand Theft Auto App on Android
Friendly reminder, the “iFruit” companion app to Grand Theft Auto V is available, as of now, for Apple iOS devices only—and it is free. That hasn’t stopped some guy from selling one under the same name for $2.79 for Android phones and tablets. What’s more, users allege the name of the app was changed, from…
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GTA V Narrated By Morgan Freeman Sounds Like A Bedtime Story
The calm, magical voice of Morgan Freeman—impersonated by Jason Stephens—makes us forget that GTA V is full of murder and turns Franklin’s vacation in Los Santos into a peaceful tale. Probably wouldn’t work with Trevor. Franklin’s Sh!tty Vacation With Morgan Freeman (GTA 5) [Machinima, YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
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The Best Part Of The League Of Legends Championship Was The Anime
I spent a substantial chunk of Friday night at Atlanta’s Battle & Brew game bar, watching the League of Legends 2013 World Championship while my friend tried to explain what was going on. The only thing that stuck with me was this awesome animation of the game’s top players, created by the animation studio behind…
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A pretty appropriate take on the stages of a Soldier character in Team Fortress 2 Starting off with a Tour of Duty ticket, it only takes three steps to reach the level where you’d probably have to sell your soul for further progress. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
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Smacking Monsters With A Shovel Is Best Done In 8-Bit
Back when we last looked at it, Shovel Knight was still in its infancy—a wee Kickstarter project looking to gain some traction. Well, that was several months and $311,502 ago. As you can see in the above, recently released trailer, the 8-bit platformer is looking (and sounding) as good as ever. I especially love the…
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A Veteran Game Designer And His Old-School First-Person RPG
Guido Henkel has been in the gaming industry for over thirty years, where he worked on classic titles such as Planescape Torment and Fallout 2. Now, he wants to make a comeback with a new old-school RPG, titled Deathfire: Ruins of Nevermore Deathfire promises to be a turn- and party-based fantasy first-person RPG that takes…
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Classic Call of Duty Makes Quite An Emotional Fan Film
If you need some gloom to start (or end) your day, look no further. Director Jared Pelletier returns with Call of Duty: Finest Hour, a fan short which takes place during World War II and gives us a taste of the drama that might have went on on a battlefield. Not child-screaming-obscenities-at-you-over-VoIP drama, mind you,…
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Xbox One’s Top Marketer Brags to Advertisers About Kinect’s Abilities [Update]
Microsoft’s top marketer tossed a juicy hunk of red meat to his kind of people yesterday. While Xbox One isn’t selling the stuff Kinect collects from your living room to marketers right out of the box, the capacity is there, and it could be the kind of game-changer that makes ad buyers swoon. Let’s remember…
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‘Redbox Robber’ Looted Kiosks for Two Years Before Being Caught
Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He’s in the Empire Business PHOENIX—It took a combined…
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The devil’s in even more details from Grand Theft Auto V: Last week, YouTube’s GermanScientistTV provided his first look at little things like rumble strips and flip flops in GTA V. But have you also noticed details like your mobile phone screen saying “Connected” once the call is answered?
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Meat Puppets
Government shutdown? Too political. Pokémon tombstone? Too sad, and even I am not that tasteless. Time to go to the Dayshot archive for this week’s exploitable. In this case, a big Mega Man made of tasty ground beef. That’s the work of Epic Grinds, whom we featured on Friday morning, along with a bunch of…
By Owen Good
