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CultureThere’ll Be 31 Xbox Series X/S Optimized Games On Day One
Between games built for the Xbox Series X/S and older games optimized to take advantage of the new consoles’ power, there’ll be a lot to play when the fourth generation Xboxes drop on November 10. This morning Microsoft listed 31 games ready for Series X/S level play on launch day, from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to…
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CultureHere’s What The PS5’s UI Looks Like
Sony released a new trailer today showing off what it will look like to navigate the PS5. In some ways it’s a lot more streamlined, but in others it also looks a lot busier, with lots of extra information to digest depending on what you’re doing. Take a look: The PS5 will still have a…
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CultureSpider-Man: Miles Morales Lets You Wear A Cat On Your Back
Spider-Man: Miles Morales has a lot going for it. (Just to note, former Kotaku staffer Evan Narcisse was one of the writers on the game.) But everything—the visuals, the web-slinging, the pedigree of an extremely popular character from an extremely popular cross-media franchise—pales in comparison to one thing: the cat suit. It’s not a suit…
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CultureDoom Running On A Calculator Powered By Old Potatoes
If you’ve got 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator? That’s what YouTuber Equalo decided to do, spending almost a week planning out how many potatoes he would need and in what configuration they should be wired in order to get the appropriate number…
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CultureSomeone Actually Beat Spelunky 2’s Daunting Cosmic Ocean
Spelunky 2 is a massive game, even more so than the original. While most of us are just trying to survive the first couple of biomes, the best players can follow a variety of intersecting quest lines in pursuit of several unique endings. The holy grail of Spelunky 2 runs has been traversing the Cosmic…
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CultureAvengers Patch 1.3.3 Eliminates Some Of The Game’s Biggest Nuisances
Along with planting the seeds for new story content with the addition of a new remote S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost, tomorrow’s patch 1.3.3 for Marvel’s Avengers does away with several annoyances players have been complaining about since day one. For example, it adds remote faction terminals to outposts, increases the radius in which items are automatically picked…
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OpinionImpressionsMinecraft‘s Steve Is Super Weird In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Earlier this month, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai revealed the latest fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It wasn’t Crash Bandicoot, as rumors suggested. It wasn’t Master Chief, as hopes and dreams did. It certainly wasn’t the long-clamored-for Waluigi. It was Steve, from Minecraft. Last night, Steve officially joined the Ultimate roster as the…
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CultureSega Is Releasing A Mashup Of Yakuza And Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Kamurocho is Streets of Rage 2 starring Yakuza’s Kiryu and Majima and will be free-to-play on October 17 as part of Sega’s 60th Anniversary event on Steam. In addition to iconic Yakuza characters, the remixed beat ‘em up, created by Empty Clip Studios, will also feature levels inspired by the games and will…
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CultureHere’s The Trailer For The Monster Hunter Movie
Less fantasy than sci-fi, the new Monster Hunter movie is giving me major Stargate vibes. Instead of taking place completely in the world of Monster Hunter, the movie sees a military unit commanded by Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) transported through a magical portal while out on patrol. The place they end up in is full…
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