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CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Bite-Sized Link’s Awakening Is The Perfect Follow-Up To Breath Of The Wild
How do you create a follow-up to Breath of the Wild? The Switch launch game was a massive rethinking of the Legend of Zelda series, a colossal non-linear open world in which players could create their own journey. As it turns out, the perfect way to follow that was with a Zelda that is as…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Wuthering Heights
As we slide our way into October, and the true beginnings of fall begin to coalesce, it feels only right to listen to a moody track today. Enter Wuthering Heights Lucia (real name Sim Kyu Seon) is a long-running artist who debuted in 2010 with Cat Waltz. She might be most familiar to mainstream K-Pop…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Diversity In 80 Days Shocked Me, In A Good Way
80 Days, a game based on Jules Verne’s novel Around The World In 80 Days, is now available on Switch. Revisiting the game has allowed me to see myself and my culture in ways that aren’t always visible to me in video games. I am mixed race, with an Indian mother and a black father.…
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OpinionImpressionsThis Week’s Borderlands 3 Event Isn’t Worth The Time
We’re currently in the midst of a week-long Borderlands 3 event, during which players can expect bosses to drop specific legendary loot with greater frequency. As someone still looking for a decent class mod, this was an exciting prospect for me, but after spending some time farming the bosses in question, I don’t see myself…
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OpinionImpressionsGo Ahead And Do Every ‘Optional’ Tutorial In The Complex New Gundam Battle Game
Bandai Namco’s free-to-play PlayStation 4 mech combat game Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 came out in North America yesterday. It features fast-paced multiplayer battles on land and in space that players will surely fail at unless they complete every optional tutorial and put in some time in the game’s practice area. I learned this…
By Mike Fahey
