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The Week In Games: Ivalice Homecoming
Eleven years later, fans will once again be able to return to Final Fantasy XII’s vast, MMO-inspired fields and dungeons in HD and with a lot less jagged edges. You wouldn’t know it from this list, but the series twelfth outing was actually pretty phenomenal. Final Fantasy has always tried to do two completely incompatible…
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UncategorizedFan-Made Mega Man Game Will Let You Create Your Own Levels
There’s a trailer out for a fan project called Mega Maker that aims to do what Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker did for Capcom’s little blue bomber. It’s aimed for release on July 15, if it somehow doesn’t get shutdown before then. The project uses assets collected from Mega Man 1 through 6 and boasts over…
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Bidding War Over The Player’s Name In Earthbound Speedrun Goes Down To The Wire
This year’s Summer Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon finished with Earthbound. In part a charity event raising funds for Doctors Without Borders, viewers were allowed to bid on naming stuff at the beginning of the game. Ness’s favorite thing, for instance, was almost Bepis, beat out just barely by R.N.G. instead thanks to $25.12. The…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Christie On Vacation, Winners!
Last week I asked you to take Governor Chris Christie on vacation, and man does that guy get around. Pleasance13’s entry didn’t just take Christie to another beach or alternate universe, it took him inside a game that refused to release until it was something entirely different. I’d be about as likely to play something…
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Fable Fortune has been delayed until July 25. It was originally due out this Tuesday on July 11. I know I was looking forward to it (seriously!) but due to an “unexpected administration hiccup” we’ll have to bide our time. How is Fable Fortune still even a thing? Your guess is as good as mine
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UncategorizedSplatoon 2 Looks Noticeably Richer In Head-To-Head Comparison With The First Game
We’ve heard it a bunch. I’ve said it a bunch. “Splatoon 2 looks like more Splatoon.” But side-by-side it’s clear the sequel is a lot more polished looking. In his latest video, YouTuber NomComms took a look at both games based on their lobbies and the results are a bit jarring. While Splatoon 2 doesn’t…
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Sunday Comics: Beware The Hat
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 July 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 3. Read more…
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CultureSummer Games Done Quick 2017 Breaks Last Year’s Record, Raises $1.7 Million For Charity
Seven days later, this year’s Summer Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon has come to an end, but not before raising $1,760,400 for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Last year’s event raised around $1.3 million for the organization, making SGDQ 17 a record breaking year (AGDQ 17 was earlier this year and broke its own…
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Seven Neo Geo Games That Need To Get Ported To Modern Consoles
Every month a smattering of classic Neo Geo games comes to modern consoles thanks to Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives program, but some of the system’s most unique and unusual games have yet to make the leap. I pour over the lists of upcoming games every week, and I know full well how easy it is…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Man Carrying Stack Of Beers Is The Unofficial Winner Of This Weekend’s Counter-Strike Tournament
There have been a number of great matches at the event, and Cloud9’s push to the grand finals has fans hyped, but nothing will top this guy’s bold decision to carry a shitload of beers back to his seat all at once. Taking place in Germany, the ESL One Cologne Counter-Strike tournament has a ton…
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