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UncategorizedAtchafalaya Arcade Turns Old Nintendo Hardware Into A Miniature Electronic Orchestra
Behold Atchafalaya Arcade. It’s an audio visual adventure that takes old technologies and scrambles them together in the present until something new and poetic arises out of the chaos. It’s the work of Tammy Duplantis who has been showing off the game at this weekend’s IndieCade Festival in LA. The game cartridge itself is the…
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Sunday Comics: All Sold Out
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 7. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 2. Read more…
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The Blade Runner point-and-click adventure game still looks stunning. Westwood Studios’ 1997 adaptation was groundbreaking at the time for having multiple endings and a story that changed with each new choice you made. But it also had some dazzling, painstakingly crafted backgrounds.
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Speedrunner Beats Every Cuphead Boss Using DDR Pads
Why fight demonic animations with a mouse and keyboard or game controller when you can just dance all those troubles away instead? Alright, so speedrunner PeekingBoo doesn’t exactly defeat Goopy Le Grande or Captain Brineybeard by dancing per se, but he does do it by stomping—patiently, methodically—until each is dead. You see PeekingBoo isn’t your…
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I Can’t Get Enough Of Star Wars Battlefront II‘s Leaves
There are Storm Troopers, Jedi, and tons of blasters. But the latest Star Wars game also has whirlwinds of leaves blowing through the city streets on Naboo and they are mesmerizing. After playing the game’s open beta for several hours last night, the floating foliage is what’s still on my mind a day later. Not…
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UncategorizedGod Eater 3 Gets Its First Trailer
The sci-fi action JRPG where tiny anime fighters slice up giant monsters is coming back for a third game. Bandai Namco released a teaser trailer for the game earlier today that shows God Eater 3’s likely hero breaking free of some futuristic handcuffs in order to go pummel some Aragami, the series’ main antagonists. There’s…
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EsportsThe Weekend In Esports: Worlds Group Stage And Overwatch Play-Offs
The Worlds 2017 group stage continues this weekend, alongside the season play-offs for Overwatch Contenders and a ton of Counter-Strike matches. In League of Legends, this morning saw North American hopefuls Team Solo Mid rip through Team WE followed by China’s Royal Never Give Up earning an important victory over South Korea’s Samsung Galaxy. But…
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UncategorizedWatch Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and Square Enix artist Kazuko Shibuya drink some wine and play around on the SNES Classic. The stream is apparently the first episode in a series of let’s plays by Mistwalker looking back at past games Sakaguchi and others have worked on.
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CultureWhat We Love(d) About AOL Instant Messenger
On December 15th, AOL Instant Messenger will be officially dead. Gita Jackson asked Paul Tamayo and Tim Rogers from Kotaku’s video team to share their memories of the messaging service of their youth. (If you can’t read the post below, a text transcript can be found here.)
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EsportsSorry, Marvel vs. Capcom Pros, But SonicFox Wants To Dominate Your Game Too
In the modern era of fighting game competition, few players are as accomplished as Dominique “SonicFox” McLean. Despite his young age, the 19-year-old competitor has three Evolution Championship Series victories under his belt andalmost half a million dollars in total tournament winnings. And now, he’s looking to translate his oppressive style to one of the…
By Ian Walker
