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CultureYoutuber Memorializes Destiny 2 Campaigns Before They’re Vaulted
Destiny 2 will be a completely different game once Bungie vaults a number of its planets next month, so one dedicated player took it upon himself to create a cinematic record of each of the game’s campaigns before that happens. The idea came to YouTuber Jabonte immediately after he heard director Luke Smith announce Bungie’s…
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CulturePS5 Launch Game Destruction All-Stars Delayed To February
Destruction All-Stars, one of a handful of planned launch titles for the PlayStation 5, will no longer be available even close to day one. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, it’ll be available some time in February 2021. On the plus side, it’ll be available for two months at no additional cost to…
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CultureFacebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Streams Free-To-Play Mobile Games
Google’s got Stadia, Amazon’s got Luna, and now Facebook has its own cloud gaming service. But don’t expect to stream console and PC hits on Facebook Gaming’s cloud. At launch, it’s all about free-to-play, microtransaction-packed mobile games. Rolling out today in the U.S. in California, Texas, and the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, Facebook Gaming’s cloud…
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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…
By Zack Zwiezen
