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Culture
Latest Sci-Fi Art From Simon Stålenhag Captures The Strangeness Of The Road Ahead
More artwork from Simon Stålenhag nails that feeling of driving through familiar landscapes dotted with industrial oddities. We’ve featured Simon’s art here before, a couple times in fact, because it’s just so damn good. The latest book collecting his work, called Things from the Flood, came out last November, and followed up on his which…
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CultureThe Good, Bad And Ugly Things Snacktaku Ate In 2016
2016 was a year of dazzling heights and dismal lows in the realm of snackology. A year of fast food crossovers, foul cookie combinations, depression day doughnuts and election night tequila. Also we ate a thing that looked a lot like nightmare poop. This piece was originally published on December 22, 2016. Here at Snacktaku…
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Culture
What Are Your 2017 New Year’s Resolutions?
At some point I resolved to stop making New Year’s resolutions because I was so bad at following through on them. But for that very reason, I returned the next year and every year since inspired to recommit myself to any number of goals I’d probably never achieve. And even though I try to make…
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Culture
The Week In Games: Welcome To 2017
2016 came and went and now here we are: the first day of a new year, feeling rejuvenated and refreshed, ready to jump into all of 2017’s biggest and most interesting releases which will be coming…eventually. While the first week of the new year isn’t completely devoid of games, the pickings are sparse. And also demonic.…
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CultureTotal Recall
The Man Who Worked On The Original Game Boy Explains Why Nintendo Created The DS
Satoru Okada, who was General Manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering before he retired in 2012, said in a recent interview with Retro Gamer Magazine that no one on the handheld team liked the idea of the DS when it was first proposed. If some folks had gotten their way, Nintendo would have produced a…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Go On, Drink It
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 30. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 19. Read more…
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CultureMafia 3 NPCs Realize They’re Supposed To Fall Now
Today on Highlight Reel we have forced falls, takeoffs, landings, flips, horse kills, gritty reboots of the popular film The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links…
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CultureCosplay
Tracer And Emily Cosplay Celebrates Romantic Overwatch Christmas
It’s been scarcely a week since we learned Tracer was gay and in love with with Emily. Within days there was already some quick Overwatch cosplay thrown together to celebrate their canonical relationship, and now Fenix Fatalist (Tracer) has taken things to the next level with Lei Radna (as Emily) Photos by Alexander Bootsman. Cosplay…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Hey Big Boo!
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 24. Read more…
By Ethan Gach
