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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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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Christmas 2019
Happy holidays! We have almost made it through 2019. What a year. A bad year, for most folks around the world. But we did it. Congrats. Christmas is almost here so let’s have some fun. Your challenge this week: Celebrate the holidays with video game characters. No other rules or requirements. A simple and open…
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CultureCats Is Getting Patched Like A Video Game
Something very weird is happening. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the recently released Cats film is being updated, only a few days after it hit theaters. This new version of the film will fix CGI issues. According to THR, this is the first time a movie has been updated while still in theaters after…
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CultureSunday Comics: Aww, You’re The Best!
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. 18. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Baby Yoda, Winners!
The Child, also known as Baby Yoda to everyone outside Disney and Lucasfilm, has quickly become a beloved part of Star Wars and the new The Mandalorian series. And with him popping up in The Sims 4 recently, I figured it was about time he got his own ‘Shop Contest. Our winning image this week…
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CulturePokemonStantler Pulls Santa’s Sleigh And Has Magical Antlers That Warp Reality
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 Stantler! Stantler Details Type: Normal Average Height: 4′ 07″ Average Weight: 157.0 lbs. First Added In Generation II Some…
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CultureMorning CheckpointLet Them Fight
Hello! This week we get excited about Wake Island’s return, check out some underrated games from the past decade, find some weird dancing crabs, get a new look for Batman and watch a cat dominate another cat. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger is one of the best games from…
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CultureMan Masters Time Crisis, Playing On Two Screens At Once
On December 15, cosplayer and light gun arcade game master Eddie Esguerra went viral on social media. DC Comics editor Andi Khouri Tweeted a video of him dual wielding two pistols in Time Crisis 2 as if he were a character in an anime by. The video, in which Esguerra dodges like a boxer and…
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CultureFans Are Hard At Work On A Witcher Total War Game
The Witcher books have already spawned a role-playing game trilogy, a spin-off card game, and even a Netflix TV show, but now some fans are trying to mod strategy game Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms into a Witcher game. The fan project, first spotted by PC Gamer, is titled Witcher: Total War and aims to…
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CultureAdam Sandler Decides He Wants To Act Today
The experience of watching Uncut Gems left me feeling like I was teetering on the edge of a cliff, not knowing when I would fall. I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. Yes, I’m talking about the Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler in it. There’s an artist I like named Bruce Nauman who has an…
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CultureFinisher Roulette Is My New Favorite Low-Key Destiny 2 Feature
Killing hordes of the same aliens over and over again feels a lot livelier thanks to Destiny 2’s new random finishers. Finishers seemed like a fun but mostly superfluous idea back when Bungie added them to the game with the release of the Shadowkeep expansion in October. The option to perform a finisher kicks in…
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