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  Culture

  Sunday Comics: What A Cute Rabbit!

  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. 17. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 20, 2019
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  CultureShop Contest

  ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Mask, Winners!

  Last week we all, sadly, got to see a new Halloween mask based on that terrible looking live-action Sonic film. I don’t know who wants to be Sonic for Halloween, let alone THIS particular version of the character. Regardless of all that, I still asked you folks to create some images featuring the mask. Our…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  Mario Maker Contest: Spooky And Scary, Winners!

  Last week I asked you folks to create some spooky and creepy levels. Halloween is almost here, so what better way to celebrate than by creating scary Mario courses. I got some great levels and surprisingly not all of them contained Boos. Just most of them. I got a few levels that were set underwater,…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  Ranking Every Plant In Plants Vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville Based On Tastiness

  Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville is filled with zombies and plants, as the name suggests. They fight each other for control of the world. Plants wanting to protect humans and zombies wanting to eat humans and their brains. Speaking of eating… I appreciate everything the plants have done for us humans, protecting us from…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  Culture

  Vampire: The Masquerade-Swansong Coming In 2021

  Big Bad Wolf Studios, the developers behind the narrative RPG The Council, has partnered with White Wolf and Paradox to create a new game set in The World Of Darkness tabletop universe. This new game, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong will release in 2021 and will be based on Vampire’s fifth edition tabletop rules and…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  CulturePokemon

  Duskull Loves The Sound Of Crying Children

  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 Duskull! Duskull Details Type: Ghost Average Height: 2′ 07″ Average Weight: 33.1 lbs. First Added In Generation III Throughout…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  CultureMorning Checkpoint

  This Guy Is Awesome

  Hello! This week we learn how much data game developers have on players, honk at Principal Skinner, play 2500 classic PC games, dye our underwear and watch a grandpa get it. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Our long national nightmare is finally over… A wonderful look into just how much data companies like…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  Culture

  Everything Paradox Interactive Announced At PDXCON 2019

  Earlier today at PDXCON 2019, Paradox Interactive revealed a ton of new expansions for many of their popular games. They also announced a new sequel to Crusader Kings II and a delay for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Crusader Kings III This was most likely the biggest announcement from the event. We have more…

  By Zack Zwiezen Published October 19, 2019
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  Rejoice, For Crusader Kings III Cometh

  Crusader Kings II, one of the greatest strategy (and family murder plot) games of all time is finally getting a sequel, publishers Paradox announced today. I’ve gone on at length on this website about how special CKII is, but the fact is, despite getting a ton of important expansions as recently as earlier this year,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 19, 2019
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  Culture

  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  The weekend is for doing basically everything that isn’t staring at that god damn Fortnite hole, which I am still tired from getting up at 3am to look at, because I am an old, old man. There’ll probably be some video games in there too. The Witcher 3 is on Switch now, which means time…

  By Riley MacLeod Published October 18, 2019
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  OpinionImpressions

  Manifold Garden Is A Puzzle Game About Infinity, No Big Deal

  Video games are quite fond of the work of M.C. Escher—you’ll see his influence in the mundane labyrinths of Control, the disorienting symmetry of the stealth game Echo, or in the clever puzzles of games like Monument Valley and echochrome. You can now add Manifold Garden to that list. And, like those other games, it’s…

  By Joshua Rivera Published October 18, 2019
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  Culture

  Ninja Streams A Game With A Woman; World Doesn’t End

  On Wednesday, controversy surrounding Fortnite golden boy Tyler “Ninja” Blevins resurfaced after a high-profile callout of his apparent avoidance of streaming with female gamers. Blevins defended himself on Twitter and, on Friday afternoon, did in fact play Fortnite with a female gamer. Blevins was criticized 14 months ago after telling Polygon “I don’t play with…

  By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 18, 2019
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  Tips & Guides

  So You’re Into Fortnite Now

  While those of us who play Fortnite were riveted to last weekend’s black hole, the rest of the world watched us watching it in confusion and, in some cases, curiosity. Almost two days later, when the game finally came back online, many of my friends—and many of you, in the comments—asked if you should get…

  By Riley MacLeod Published October 18, 2019
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  OpinionImpressions

  Plants Vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Has So Many Great Ways To Play

  There’s always something to do in Neighborville, the suburban wonderland that serves as the setting for the latest game in Popcap’s Plants Vs. Zombies third-person shooter spinoff. No matter which side of the conflict I choose, or what sort of competitive, co-op, or solo battle I dive into, the game never fails to put a…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 18, 2019
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  Culture

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senators Call On Blizzard To Reverse Hearthstone Suspension

  Today, United States Senators Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio signed a bi-partisan letter with support from Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mike Gallagher, and Tom Malinowski addressed to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, over the recent suspension of professional Hearthstone player Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai. “We write to express our deep concern about Activision Blizzard’s decision…

  By Joshua Rivera Published October 18, 2019
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  Tips & Guides

  A Foolproof Guide To Escaping A Corn Maze

  I love solving a good maze on paper, but it turns out real-life mazes can be trickier to solve. The biggest change is that you are down inside the maze and lose that coveted bird’s eye view. Outside of carrying a bag of breadcrumbs to mark your path, how do you escape? Well there’s a…

  Nathan Fouts Published October 18, 2019
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  Dentist Acquires Treasure Trove Of Rare Retro Games For $1.02 Million

  A dentist named Eric Naierman sunk a cool $1.02 million on some first-edition, sticker-sealed games in September, the Washington Post reported today. It was one of the biggest-money sales in gaming history. Naierman picked up about 40 factory-sealed Nintendo games in the million-dollar haul, all of which were assembled by three collectors who took 52…

  By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 18, 2019
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  CultureKotaku Game Diary

  Help, My Console Shelf Is A Mess

  I have a problem. It’s probably a fixable problem with a little ingenuity and time, but for now I live with a terrifying gaming shelf packed with consoles, wires, books, a hair dryer, and way too much nonsense. It is all there, messy and tangled. One day, it will consume me in its spider web…

  By Heather Alexandra Published October 18, 2019
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  Fortnite Trick Lets You Survive The Storm [Updated]

  Players are still discovering all the changes in Fortnite’s chapter 2, which means of course they’re finding exploits. A newly discovered one lets you use the shield-granting waters of Slurpy Swamp to avoid taking storm damage. As reported by Dexerto, the trick works like this: go to Slurpy Swamp, a new area of the map…

  By Riley MacLeod Published October 18, 2019
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  ReviewsPC

  Return of the Obra Dinn: The Kotaku Review

  “Realistically I think it’ll take me around half a year,” Lucas Pope wrote four and a half years ago about his game Return of the Obra Dinn, which he released today. What’s four extra years when the results are this brilliant? Meticulously constructed, from the stippled black-and-white graphics to the intricate, devious logic puzzle at…

  By Chris Kohler Published October 18, 2019