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The Best Way To Play New Steam Hit Icey Is To Ignore The Instructions
Chinese indie Icey may look like a simple side-scrolling hack-and-slash game, but that’s only if you do what the narrator and directional arrows tell you. Ignore them, and things get weird. Currently selling for under $10 on Steam and enjoying a spot on the global bestsellers list, Icey is part standard action game, part metagame.…
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Unicorns Of Love Show Why Competitive Gaming Needs Mascots
Unicorns of Love are a European League of Legends team. They also just defeated North American’s Team Solo Mid in the semifinals at the Intel Extreme Masters XI season tournament going on right now in Oakland, California. As a result, the team known for its quirks and unpredictability will go on to the finals to…
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The Latest Chapter In Jimmy Fallon’s Ongoing Love Affair With Mario Kart
This weekend, the Tonight Show posted a video on YouTube in which host Jimmy Fallon challenged some of NASCAR’s best drivers to a game of Mario Kart. Ahead of today’s final Sprint Cup race of the season, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano went head-to-head to see who would face the Fallon…
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Video game composer Saki Kaskas passed away earlier this week at the age of 44. Kaskas’ work appeared in games including the Need for Speed series, Sim City 4, and Mass Effect 2. The news was made public by friend and collaborator, Rom Di Prisco in a Facebook post. “His guitar work, synth work, audio…
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One-Man Wrecking Crew Wins Titanfall 2 Match Without Help From Team
We’ve all been there: you’re sitting there with your friends in an online match against some random person getting completely demolished no matter what you do. It’s painful. Every fiber of your being is raging. You’re not just losing. You’re not just getting humiliated. You’re getting completely shutdown no matter what you do or how…
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Nintendo registered a trademark for “Wave Race” in Europe on November 17. That’s according to a document filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The request is class 9, meaning it’s related to computer software. The series has been dormant since Wave Race: Blue Storm was released in 2001.
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Kotaku Shop Contest: Mask-uerading, Winners!
Week two after the Photoshop contest was resurrected from an Internet black hole, everyone has contributed some of their best (and worst) ideas in an effort to rediscover the contest’s former glory. I asked for you to share some alternate masks for Corvo and Emily on their campaign for blood thirsty revenge. We got some…
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Modder Destroys Zombies With Water Gun In The Last Of Us
Most people have fond memories of the water gun fight from The Last of Us: Left Behind. A nice break from the grim, apocalyptic weight of the rest of the game, that section of the DLC lets Ellie and her newfound friend, Riley, get to pretend for a just a few moments that they’re just…
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Find Adam Jensen In This Where’s Waldo Of Sci-Fi Characters
A number of different artists showed off their work at the Hero Complex Galaxy gallery in Los Angeles last night for its Sci-Scapes event. Among them were Laurie Greasley and Josan Gonzalez, whose collaboration featured below drew inspiration from almost every corner of sci-fi pop culture you could imagine. The piece, a combination of several…
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Dishonored 2 Master Makes Chaos Run Worth The High Body Count
You might remember StealthGamerBR from his murderous tributes to the first Dishonored. The Brazilian YouTuber is well known for videos showing off his ability to manipulate time and space to delivery maximum carnage throughout the streets of Dunwall. Now he’s returned with his first video of Dishonored 2. Rather tha rampaging through the sun bathed…
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The Last Guardian gets a new cinematic trailer and creative director Fumito Ueda shares some final thoughts on the game before its release next month. He considers Virtua Fighter a big influence on The Last Guardian, and says his hope is that the player “feels the existence of Trico,” by the end of the game.
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The PlayStation 4 Finally Gets Fallout 4 Mods, Many Of Which Even Work
Fallout 4 update 1.8 went live yesterday, bringing with it the long-awaited ability for PlayStation 4 players to use mods. Nearly 200 game tweaks are now live for the PS4, and many of them actually work. It’s a process, really. As with any brand-new functionality, there are bound to be some snags. For example, Neeher’s…
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Gifts For Lego Lovers Who Have All The Lego
The Lego lovers in your life probably aren’t wanting for little plastic bricks. While adding to the pile is a quick and easy method for marking them off your gift list, why not show off your own creativity by thinking outside of the blocks? Here is a selection of Lego gifts selected to inspire builders…
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In Fandom, Sombra Is Overwatch‘s New Gay Explosion
After a long, tedious ARG, Sombra is finally in the wild. For some, the biggest question about Sombra is how she’ll change up Overwatch’s competitive play. For others, it’s “who is she gonna kiss?” After Sombra was officially announced at Blizzcon, many shippers eagerly hooked her up with D.va, the 19 year-old professional gamer. The…
By Gita Jackson
