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Rockstar Just Got Everyone Talking With One Simple Image [Update]
Earlier this morning, Rockstar Games went red, with new versions of its logo appearing on social media accounts like Twitter and Facebook, as well as the loading screen for the company’s official website. Update: A second image appears, with cowboys. The studio didn’t actually mention the words red, dead or redemption. Instead, it simply tweeted…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Civilization And Its Battlefields
In the immortal words of Pat Benatar, “love is a battlefield, whoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhooooaaaa!” It’s something I’ll definitely be keeping in mind as I charge through the graveyards of nationalism on my gorgeous, Frostbite-rendered horse later this week. Come for the social commentary on a nearly century old slaughter that amounts to “war is hell” and stay…
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EsportsDaigo Uses Sixth Sense To Block Sonic Booms, Wins Tournament
Daigo Umehara is a legend when it comes to fighting games. Referred to sometimes as Daigo “The Beast” Umehara, the pro Street Fighter V player didn’t exactly need to win the European Regional Finals to qualify for Capcom’s Pro Tour. He would have gotten in on points alone. But that didn’t stop him from comfortably…
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Game Boy Jam Shows Everything That Made The Handheld Special
The fifth annual Game Boy Jam just wrapped up last weekend after receiving over four hundreds of entries. The rules were simple: all assets had to be created during the jam, the screen resolution had to match the original Game Boy, and each game could only include up to four colors. You can currently find…
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UncategorizedAdam Levine and Maroon 5 reenact Pokémon Go for their “Don’t Wanna Know” music video in the hopes it might get you to still care about them. Sarah Silverman, Vince Vaughn, and other celebrities also make an appearance. Unfortunately, Kendrick Lamar’s verse from the single is nowhere to be found.
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South Korea Still The Best At League Of Legends According To World Championships
There were three teams representing South Korea when the League of Legends World Championships began late last month. Now, a few weeks and many matches later, all three teams have made it through to the semifinals. SK Telecom T1, ROX Tigers, and Samsung Galaxy even did so without seeming to break a sweat, showing just…
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ReviewsSkylanders: Imaginators: The Kotaku Review
After a bit of a stumble with last year’s Superchargers, Skylanders is back and ready to go toe-to-toe with Disney Infinity in the creativity side of the toys-to-life battle. Had the competition not folded, Imaginators would have given it a run for its money. Skylanders was always a better game than Disney Infinity. Disney spent…
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Sunday Comics: Skin In The Game
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 10. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Technical Difficulties Spark Debate Over Rocket League Tournament Rules
Week three of the Rocket League Championship Series began with a match-up between Revival and NRG. Both teams came into the day with two wins so far this season, and no one expected either side to easily walk away with another. It was Revival, however, who came away empty handed, losing a hard fought series…
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UncategorizedA Party Game That Lets You Remix Levels On The Fly
The 2016 IndieCade Festival is going on right now in Los Angeles, which means there’s a lot of weird, cool stuff being shown-off, including a video game console called DOBOTONE The party game uses a combination of two-button controllers and a single Game Remixer that lets one player manipulate different variables with knobs while the…
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World of Warcraft’s next patch will arrive on October 25, bringing with it a new Karazhan dungeon. According to Blizzard, “Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan will take you further into the ongoing stories within Legion and bring with it new and exciting challenges.” You can find out more about Patch 7.1 in a recent Q&A
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Artist Re-Imagines One Little Corner of Final Fantasy VII
Ben Nicholas is an artist and concept designer formerly with 343 Industries who worked on Halo Wars 2. He’s also a huge fan of Final Fantasy VII, which is why he decided to embark on a project to re-imagine the game’s various interiors, beginning with pharmacy nestled deep inside the Wall Market strip of the…
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Pro Overwatch Player Fined For ‘Lewd Comment’ About Interviewer
Timo ‘Taimou’ Kettunen, a member of competitive Overwatch’s Team EnVyUs, was fined by the South Korean esports network OGN for making “a lewd comment” in a Twitch chat about one of its interviewers. Taimou made his sexist remarks during an interview with Thomas “Morte” Kerbusch of REUNITED after the latter was defeated 3-0 by Team…
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