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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Tutorial Teaches You To Very Carefully Take Down Evil Watermelons With Blade Mode
Much has been made of the fancy blade mode in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s all about Raiden and his slicey-dicey sword. But how does it actually work? A few minutes of gameplay tutorial are now making the rounds, via IGN, showing the cyborg ninja himself in action. The watermelon-slicing is a little Fruit Ninja,…
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With the Triforce on Her Flank, Epona’s Friendship Really is Magic
This pretty much had to happen. If this irresistible crossover doesn’t become the best-selling t-shirt in TeeFury history then everything I believe in and hold dear is a lie. Artist Julia “JellySnail” Whittle combines the magic of The Legend of Zelda with the magic of friendship to give birth to My Little Epona, a golden…
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Smite‘s Latest Playable Hindu Deity is Decidedly Unsexy
Despite mild controversy surrounding the upcoming free-to-play online battle arena game’s depiction of Hindu gods, Smite isn’t quite done yet. The latest deity to join the online god battle is Bakasura, and he’s pretty damn creepy. Bakasura is an Asura, one of a group of power-hungry deities that are often used to represent moral and…
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Apple Store Rips Down Torchlight Ripoff
The mall cops in the iTunes App Store today finally ejected Armed Heroes Online, a Chinese-published MMO, sold only in iTunes’ Canadian store, which evidently stole most, if not all, of its audiovisual assets from the PC dungeon-crawling hit Torchlight. The takedown came about a week after demands from Torchlight‘s lawyers. That doesn’t mean Armed…
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From Tetris to Metroid: The ‘Hip’ Tanaka Mixtape
Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka’s music is infectious. It gets in your blood. Metroid, Tetris, Kid Icarus: if you own a Gameboy, or a Nintendo you’ve had one of his songs stuck in your head. Possibly for a week. This week on the Kotaku Mixtape, we take a look at one of the great composers of all…
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Too Bad You Can’t Actually Travel Across The Room With These Portals
Sure, it’s fairly cheap and easy to make yourself a Portal-themed mirror with some paint and a quick trip to IKEA. But what really makes a portal fun isn’t just its blue or orange halo but rather, that trippy infinity effect. For that, you need two mirrors. And some LEDs. Or if you’re not particularly…
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Scottish Team’s Bankruptcy Means FIFA 13 Faces a Financial Decision, Too
It’s a simple truth: A club that is relegated out of a league appearing in EA Sports’ FIFA runs the risk of getting relegated out of the video game, too. For the more popular sides, this usually isn’t much of a threat, and in any event many of the biggest leagues run two divisions deep,…
By Owen Good
