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CultureThe Week In Games: It’s A Bit Of A Ghost Town…
The last days of 2019 are here and the first days of 2020 are coming. And there aren’t new games coming out during the transition to a new year. Seriously, if you thought last week was a quiet week, look down below this paragraph and see how short the list is this week. I had…
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CultureMore People Are Playing The Witcher 3 On Steam Today Than Ever Before [UPDATE]
The Witcher 3 was a popular game back when it came out in 2015. But the recent release of the Netflix show has lead to a huge surge in popularity for the Polish RPG. And it just set a new active player count record on Steam today, with over 93k players. The news of this…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Baby Sonic
And so, we end the year with Sonic. But this time I’m not angry or sick looking at Sonic. Instead, this time, we have the wonderful and cute Baby Sonic. He might not be as cute as Baby Yoda, but give him time. But not too much time, because he’ll grow into actual Sonic and…
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CultureRemilia, The First Woman To Compete In The League Of Legends Championship Series, Dies At 24
Twitch Streamer and former professional League Of Legends player Maria “Remilia” Creveling died on Friday at the age of 24, according to a tweet from her close friend and esports journalist Richard Lewis. “It is with great sadness that I inform you that my best friend Maria Creveling passed away peacefully in her sleep yesterday,”…
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CultureSunday Comics: A Single Raw Egg?
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 Dec. 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Christmas 2019, Winners!
The holidays are over, the year is coming to a close, but like Christmas decorations on December 28, the holidays aren’t quite over yet. So let’s get a little festive one last time before we end the year and the decade. Our winning image this week comes from SuperSonicBryan, who creates a nice collage of…
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CultureWhat Did You Get For Christmas?
Christmas is over and a few days have passed since then. So most folks have, by now, finished all the other Christmas days that happen during this season. You know, stuff like going to multiple families homes across the week or visiting divorced parents separately. So, what did you all get? I don’t want a…
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CulturePokemonGirafarig Has A Second Head That Never Sleeps
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 Girafarig! Girafarig Details Type: Normal/Psychic Average Height: 4′ 11″ Average Weight: 91.5 lbs. First Added In Generation II Did…
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CultureMorning CheckpointWhat A Sad Way To Die
Hello! This week we say goodbye to 2019, figure out what the difference is between Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, guess the wrong Pokemon, figure out what video game characters had the worse fashion crimes of the last decade and discover a PS3 sitting in the rain. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Video…
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CultureBethesda Patches Fallout 76 Cheat After Hacker Uses It To Steal Players’ Items
Last weekend, someone managed to steal items from hundreds of players in Fallout 76 using a new hack. While Bethesda patched the worst parts of the exploit, some of the affected players are still waiting to hear if the company will be able to restore their lost loot. A video posted Sunday on YouTube showed…
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CultureKotaku’s Witcher Nerds Talk About The Netflix Series
Monsters, sorceresses, ballads, and swords. Netflix’s The Witcher is fun high fantasy pulp, particularly if you’re already a fan. We sit down to talk about what we did and did not like in this latest adaptation of the classic book series. The Witcher is rough around the edges but it has a lot of heart.…
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CultureCall Of Duty Players Are Getting Quick Nukes Thanks To Spawn Camping On New Map
Tactical nuke kill streaks are supposed to be hard to get in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but some players have been getting them incredibly fast thanks to bad spawn points on the game’s Shipment map. Over the weekend the TapXNation YouTube channel put up a video showing a player by the name of Streaking…
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CultureThe Week In Games: One More Wii U Game…
It is nearly 2020 and yet, on this list of games releasing this week, you will find a Wii U game. It’s a Christmas miracle. Digging around for information about this Wii U game, it was released on the Wii U in Europe back in 2017. And for some reason, in 2019, it is finally…
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