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OpinionImpressionsCloud Can’t Close Doors
Final Fantasy VII Remake looks so damn good, and it’s full of tiny graphical flourishes. You can even see which color materia Cloud has equipped in his sword. That might be why it’s so much more noticeable to me that Cloud can’t close doors. I’m only eight hours into playing the game, so maybe Cloud…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Fallout 76 Takes The Country Road To Steam
Fallout 76 is coming to Steam this week. And coming to all platforms is the big new update, Wastelanders, that adds human NPCs to irradiated West Virginia. Over the last six months or so I’ve tried to play Fallout 76, but even with a new video card and more RAM in my PC, the game…
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UncategorizedI Wish More Games Had Museums Like Modern Warfare 2
Modern video games are filled with so many character models, props, weapons, vehicles, and other things. In big-budget games, all of this content might be expertly crafted to look amazing and yet we rarely get to take a break and really admire all this work. However, the museum, a bonus level in Call Of Duty:…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Easter Sunday 2020
Happy Easter! Or if you are currently living mostly in Animal Crossing these days, happy Bunny Day! This Easter is a bit different than last year, what with the virus and all. So Agent 47 is being extra safe. He’s a murderer, not an idiot. Your challenge this week: Help video game characters celebrate Easter…
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CultureHow’s It Going?: Patio Edition
Welcome back to another Sunday and Kotaku’s daily open thread. I want to take a moment to talk about patios. It’s weird to think about, but nearly every house and apartment I have lived in has had a small patio or porch. Even the shitty places still had a small slab of concrete or some…
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UncategorizedSNL Sketch Features A Terrible Call Of Duty Twitch Streamer
Saturday Night Live returned after a hiatus away for a special and strange episode created at home by its cast and crew who are all practicing social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the filmed-at-home-sketches featured a streamer trying his best at Call of Duty and failing. The sketch starred Mikey Day, who seems…
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CultureSunday Comics: Fresh Ideas
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 April 9. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 6. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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Gizmodo A Grim Milestone: U.S. Reports More Coronavirus Deaths Than Any Country in the World | Jezebel Can I Please Smoke Weed and Drink Champagne With Rihanna Now? | The Root Diamond And Silk Were Suspended From Twitter, and for a Moment, Things Were Right With the World | Jalopnik The Legend Of The Reliable…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Zipper T. Bunny, Winners!
Soon, Zipper T. Bunny and his damn eggs will be leaving Animal Crossing. But last week I asked you folks to send Zipper anywhere other than our islands and you all delivered. Our winning image this week comes from Board1288 who has punished Zipper and stuck his head on a large spike. I don’t think…
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CultureYou Wanna Fight?
This week on Snapshots, a car on a basketball court, a creepy computer, a weird monster, a gorgeous field of flowers, an underwater tunnel and a tiny Star Wars creature with some attitude. “So you think you can take me! I will kick your Jedi ass up and down this ship.” Kotaku Snapshots is a…
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CultureMountain Dew Frost Bite Is Fine, But That Shark Artwork Is Awesome
The world is a mess right now, but we do have a new Mountain Dew flavor to enjoy. And it comes with a cool ice shark on the bottle. If only the flavor of this new blue Dew was as good as that icy great white artwork. I first saw this new flavor of Dew…
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UncategorizedFinal Fantasy VII Remake Needs A Photo Mode
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a gorgeous game with some wonderful looking character models and highly detailed worlds. Yet, it launched without a photo mode. Over this current generation of consoles, photo modes have become more and more common. And now we’ve reached a point where they almost feel like features all games should include…
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CulturePokemonFeebas Is So Ugly Everyone Ignores It
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 Feebas! Feebas Details Type: Water Average Height: 2′ 00″ Average Weight: 16.3 lbs First Added In Generation III Not…
By Zack Zwiezen
