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CultureAre You Crazy?
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Nov. 2. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Halloween Never Ends, Winners!
It’s November 7, but who cares about that, I still want to celebrate Halloween! One more day of scary shenanigans! Thankfully, I planned ahead and asked you all to help me celebrate Halloween for just a bit longer. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who created my nightmare. I get rid of the…
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CultureThe Long Rumored Mass Effect Remastered Trilogy Releases Next Spring
Today, as part of N7 Day, BioWare officially announced Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which collects the original three Mass Effect games into one remastered collection, featuring improved visuals, textures, and all previously released single-player DLC and content. It comes out next year on PC and consoles. BioWare isn’t calling the Legendary Edtion a full remake,…
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CultureMorning CheckpointWell, There’s Your Problem…
This week we deal with Ball Guy again, see who voted, check out some trailers for next-gen games, read a fantastic Spider-Man review, find out what games are getting delayed, and try to remove a cat from our computer. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week A great review that you should read even if…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Kick Up Some Mud In Dirt 5
If you’ve been itching to slide around corners in fast cars, then this is a good week for you, as Dirt 5 drops on November 6 for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Well, this is it folks, the last week before the next generation consoles start appearing on these weekly posts. This generation of current consoles…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Halloween Never Ends!
Yes, I know that Halloween was yesterday, but 2020 has been such a shitty year I feel like I’m allowed to extend Halloween into November. Your challenge this week: Let’s celebrate Halloween in November. You could, I guess, make some jokes about it being November and we are still celebrating Halloween. Or you could just…
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CultureMorning MusicHalf-Life’s Music Was Just As Brilliant As The Rest Of It
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we grab a crowbar and go hunting headcrabs in the PC shooter classic, Half-Life. Half-Life (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is a game that has already had so many things written and said about it…
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CultureSunday Comics: Tom Holland!
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Oct. 29. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CulturePokemonSpectrier Kicks So Hard That It Knocks Souls Out Of Bodies
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Spectrier! Type: Ghost Average Height: 6′ 07” Average Weight: 98.1 lbs First Added In Generation VIII Out there, in…
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CultureMorning CheckpointBad Cat!
This week we see just how accurate London in Watch Dogs Legion actually is, find out which big games are getting delayed, listen to some terrible Halloween sex sounds, explore a strange house in VR and meet a bad cat. A very bad cat. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week As always, Nathan does…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition, Winners!
Last week, Microsoft announced an option to recast Marcus Fenix in Gears 5 as former-wrestler Dave Bautista. Taking a celebrity and dropping them into a video game is sort of OUR thing, so it felt right to ask you all to do just that with Bautista. Our winning image this week comes from Villings who…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Bloody Hell, Let’s Hack The Planet
It’s time to hack the world, or at least London, in Watch Dogs Legion. The latest Ubisoft open-world game is out later this week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. I was a fan of the original Watch Dogs and an even BIGGER fan of Watch Dogs 2. I love how colorful, wacky, and open…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition
Microsoft basically just did what we do: Take a person and add them to a video game they weren’t originally in. Well, we can do it better Microsoft! Your challenge this week: Add Bautista to other video games. Yes, if you didn’t see the news, Bautista will be added to the Gears 5 singleplayer campaign,…
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CultureThe Latest Patch For The Last of Us Remastered Reduced Loading Times By Over 70% On PS4
The new consoles are only a few weeks away and both the PS5 and Xbox Series X will have much faster loading times. But you don’t need a new console to experience incredible loading speeds after an update for The Last of Us Remastered on PS4. Now the game only takes 14 seconds to load from a…
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CultureMorning MusicPlants vs. Zombies’ Viral Single Was So Weird People Thought It Was A Joke
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today the zombies are coming—and bringing some funky, cute tunes with them—in the original Plants vs. Zombies. 2009’s Plants vs. Zombies (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is an all-time classic tower defense and a game that…
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CultureSunday Comics: Two Things…
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Oct. 22. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Batman In A Robe, Winners!
Last week, some photos from the new Batman movie, filming as we speak, spread around online. One in particular caught my eye. It was Batman in a nice, comfy, black robe. So why not take this casual Batman on an adventure via a Photoshop Contest? He needs a vacation too! Our winning image this week…
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CultureThat’s Not A Sword, This Is A Sword
This week on Snapshots we check out get a bit creepy, find a lonely pumpkin, go hunting, do some hovering, enjoy the fall weather, play around with lightsabers and show off a big, big sword. How big is too big when it comes to swords? 10 feet? 14 feet? 20 feet? Kotaku Snapshots is a…
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