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Tips & Guides
Tips For Playing Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition
Welcome new Diablo III players! You passed up the game on PC, held out for a more complete console edition, and your patience has paid off. You’re ready to plunge headlong into the Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition. Here are some tips to help you get started. Feel Free To Skip The Older Games Diablo…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Get Tons of Loot in Diablo III’s New Dungeons
Diablo III‘s patch 2.1 for the PC introduced new endgame content: Greater Rifts. These are tiered, higher level dungeons with a 15-minute timer and with a boss at the end who almost always drops awesome loot. And there’s a smart way to finish these dungeons and get huge amount of legendaries. Here’s Diablo III veteran…
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Tips & Guides12 Great Techniques For Dark Souls II‘s Multiplayer
Beating bosses in Dark Souls II can be frustrating if you’re a beginner, and playing against others is no different. Juutas on YouTube has a surprisingly well-edited clip, mostly for beginners, showing and explaining 12 techniques that are often used during PvP invasions. Here’s the full clip. Don’t let the Xbox 360 controller confuse you,…
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Tips For Playing Mario Kart 8
The latest installment of Nintendo’s popular kart racing franchise is upon us, and the urge to dive right in and start taking home trophies is strong, but first… …here are some general tips to get you started. Race Against The Machine I know, it’s rare that we get a Nintendo game with such a robust…
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Tips For Playing Dark Souls II
Dark Souls II can be notoriously difficult for the uninitiated. Sometimes we all could use a bit of help. Well I am here to help you! Here are some general tips to get you started. 1. Prepare to die. If you’ve never played a Souls game, be prepared for a pretty sharp learning curve. Chances…
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Tips & Guides12 Tips for When You’re Traveling To China
Oh China. The Middle Kingdom, the home of kung-fu and pandas, is one of the hottest travel and study destinations in the world right now. With over 5000 years of history, China is definitely worth a visit and here at Kotaku, we’ve compiled a few helpful tips. Keep in mind that these tips don’t include…
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Tips For Playing Titanfall
It’s Titanfall day, people. Are you prepared for a parkour-filled, multiplayer-only, first-person shooter experience? We’ve been playing for days and have a few tips on how to best take advantage of all its neat features. We’re not ready for an official review just yet. Servers only just went live and we want to make sure…
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Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare has arrived on the Xbox One and Xbox 360, with gameplay unlike anything the series has ever seen. It’s so wildly different, I thought you folks could use a few tips. Since Garden Warfare is an online multiplayer game, we’re giving our review an extra day to see how servers…
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One Easy Tip For Playing Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
I might not have recommended Lightning Returns, but I’m not going to let those grabbing the game anyway enter the fray unarmed. Though it goes against the hardcore role-playing game fan’s pride, I’d highly recommend playing the game on Easy Mode first. Boo! Hiss! Easy mode is for newbies and communists! Sure it is, but…
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How To Balance Video Games With Real Life
Growing up sucks. Jungle gyms are replaced by cubicles and healthy almonds replace gobs of Gushers. Or something like that. One of the worst things about growing up is that you never seem to have any time left over for yourself. For anything. Including video games, which are sometimes the first thing to go when…
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Tips & GuidesHelpful Tips For Navigating Your Xbox One
The Xbox One’s interface has been a source of much delight and frustration in my household. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson put together this nifty video to help befuddled folks like myself make sense of it all. The Xbox One has quickly become the central hub of my living room — we use it for games…
By Mike Fahey