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Newly Discovered Super Smash Bros. Melee Technique Turns Link Into A Rocket
Super Smash Bros. Melee turns 17 years old next month, but that doesn’t mean the game has been completely solved. Sure, there’s an upper echelon of competitors who you can count on to win just about any tournament they enter, but there are also Melee players like Joseph “Savestate” El-Khouri grinding out new techniques for…
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Bethesda Tries To Set Player Expectations Ahead Of Fallout 76‘s Beta
Late yesterday, Bethesda published a letter to its fans that appeared to be an attempt to set their expectations for today’s launch of the Fallout 76 beta test on Xbox One. The letter covered a variety of topics, but the most notable was when Bethesda touched on how buggy its games have been in the…
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Spider-Man’s Heist DLC Is Fun But Familiar
My favorite part of the new downloadable addition to the new Spider-Man on PS4 involves a hungry and exhausted Peter Parker eating a pizza on the roof of an apartment building with the city skyline behind him. Warring mob families, stolen art, a love triangle between the Black Cat Mary Jane can all wait. Everybody’s…
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Rimworld, As Told By Steam Reviews
Rimworld was officially released last week after being in early access for five years. All these years, players on Steam have been sharing their wild stories in their Steam reviews. I love games like Dwarf Fortress, so Rimworld has already stolen a lot of my time. It’s management sim where you build a base on…
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The Official SoulCalibur VI Arcade Sticks Look Like Candy, Work Like A Charm
While your results may vary, I’ve found that I play fighting games better with a nice arcade style fight stick. Hori’s SoulCalibur VI Edition Real Arcade Pro FightSticks for Xbox One and PS4are very nice, even if I do end up feeling like the guy wearing the band’s T-shirt to the concert. They’ve got nothing…
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Early Versions Of Animal Crossing Included ‘Dog Policeman’
While Animal Crossing made its debut in the States with the eponymous game on the GameCube in 2002, the series started out a year earlier in Japan, first on the Nintendo 64 and then the Gamecube in 2001. While there are only a few differences between the two games, looking at early English language press…
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Massive Tekken 7 Tournament Win Marred By Hardware Glitch
After 12 hours of intense play, MASTERCUP 10’s Tekken 7 team competition ended with the previous tournament’s runners-up finally claiming the title that they had almost managed to win a year ago. But what should have been a joyous occasion was tainted by controversy due to a slight technical malfunction during the championship match. Since…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Nobody
Yours truly is easing back into things from a weeklong vacation, so let’s dip our toes back into the pool with a classic track that I already know backward and forward. And by “classic”, I’m obviously referring to the late 2000s, as that was the era that I first dove headfirst into this genre and…
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