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  The Worst Possible Ways To Play Team Fortress

  Thing about video game strategies is, they’re always helping you win. What’s the deal with that? What if you want to find the most spectacular routes to glorious failure possible? Well then, look no further. Muselk has an ongoing series of videos in which he selects the worst possible weapons for each TF2 class and…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014
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  Frozen Meets World Of Warcraft, The Cold Never Bothered Them Anyway

  Frozen’s Elsa meets WoW’s Lich King. Well, in this case, Queen. Cosplay by Chubear, photo by Darshelle Stevens. I’m surprised it took someone this long to think of this!

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  Far Cry 4 Tricks People Into Revealing They’d Pirated The Game

  If your copy of Far Cry 4 on PC doesn’t have FOV (Field Of View) options, and you complained about this on a forum, you might want to go and delete your comments. Because there’s a very good chance you’ve just outed yourself as someone who pirated the game. Ubisoft Montreal creative director Alex Hutchinson…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  Here’s The Attack On Titan Movie’s Cast, In Costume

  So, a live-action Attack on Titan movie is being made in Japan. And in case the spot where it’s being filmedwasn’t enough of a hint, these new posters revealing the cast in costume show it won’t be set in the manga/anime’s medieval-ish world. Instead, it appears to be set in a more modern post-apocalyptic location.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2014
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  People Are Scamming Walmart With Bogus Cheap PS4 Listings [Update]

  There’s nothing like some good ol’ fashioned corporation scamming on the holidays. And as we inch closer to Black Friday, some particularly ambitious shoppers have convinced the mega-chain Walmart to sell them PlayStation 4s for as cheap as $50 thanks to a simple new price-matching scam. Don’t cry for Walmart, though. Cry for price-matching. “We’re…

  By Jason Schreier Published November 19, 2014
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  World Of Warcraft Gains 2.6 Million Subscribers In One Month

  Enticed by the sweet siren call of the Warlords of Draenor expansion, World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have jumped from October’s 7.4 million to more than 10 million, all of them apparently on my home server of Moon Guard. Blizzard announced the massively multiplayer jump today, along with the news that 3.3 million copies of…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014
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  Your PC Must Be This Solid To Run Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

  Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE? Oh, sorry about the yelling. Just wanted to know what you’ve got under the hood of your PC. Konami’s released the PC specs for the (phantom) painfully long-awaited PC release ofMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the mini open-world prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Here’s what you’ll need…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014
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  ​LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham: The Kotaku Review

  Poor Hal Jordan. He can’t carry a movie, he can’t be trusted withhis own LEGO playset, and when Traveller’s Tales creates a LEGO video game that is very much an epic Green Lantern yarn, he has to take a back seat to Bruce Wayne, the tedious title character of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham It’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014
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  Someone Remade A Bunch Of Classic Custom Halo 3 Maps In The New Halo

  The ability to create and tinker with custom maps in the Halo series was first introduced in Halo 3‘s Forge mode. Players went wild with it, creating all sorts of maps and introducing new gameplay rules to go along with it. Take, for instance, Duck Hunt, where the objective isn’t exactly a team versus team…

  By Tina Amini Published November 19, 2014
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  When Dragon Age Goes Wrong, Everyone’s Michael Jackson

  Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker is no longer the moonwalking-est game on the block. Not by a longshot. Also, could Michael Jackson leap 800 feet in the air against his own will? Didn’t think so. Thanks to the dark magic that is glitches, Dragon Age: Inquisition characters absolutely can. OK, let’s start with the moonwalking, which can…

  By Nathan Grayson Published November 19, 2014
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  Xbox One Review Update: One Year Later

  Stop waiting. If you can afford it, it’s time to get a new-gen console, and the Xbox One is a worthwhile one to get. It’s been a year since the console’s launch, and Microsoft’s third home console finds itself in an interesting spot. On the one hand, many of its initial promises—to unite the devices…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 19, 2014
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  Rocket Raccoon And Groot Are One In Marvel Puzzle Quest

  How close are the Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Rocket Raccoon and Groot? So close that they count as one character in their big Marvel Puzzle Quest debut. With D3Publisher so up on adding Marvel characters to their popular puzzle RPG they’ve already got the new female Thor in the mix, I’m surprised it’s taken this…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014
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  More Hints That Dragon Age And Mass Effect Are In The Same Universe

  Hidden inside the vast world of Dragon Age Inquisition are a few nods and references to Bioware’s other big game, Mass Effect. And you know what that means, right? It’s Bonkers Theory That Connects Both Games Time™. First, let’s look at the easter eggs. Eagle-eyed Redditor grimxxmastr uploaded a screenshot of a Krogan’s head, which…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published November 19, 2014
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  In Battlefield, A Master Helicopter Pilot Can Save Your Butt

  Battlefield 4 players know just how clutch a helicopter pilot can be, but there’s a difference between being a solid helicopter pilot and being a master. In today’s Highlight Reel, you’ll see that as well as Far Cry 4 acrobatics, a lucky-as-hell moment in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and a speedrun from the Game Of The…

  By Chris Person Published November 19, 2014
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  Glitches Turn Pikachu Into Nightmare Fuel

  Pikachu…are you okay? Where did your face go? Why is your body doing that!? Turns out, all you need to transform the iconic critter into a demon is to glitch him out. In this case, Chadtronic finds that “cartridge tilting” a copy of Hey You, Pikachu! results in a Pikachu that would feel at home…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published November 19, 2014
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  Mystery Smash 3DS Patch Leads Players On A Hunt For What Changed

  Yesterday, Nintendo released the v1.0.4 update for Super Smash Bros. 3DS, which, as they announced last week, adjusts balance in the mascot fighting game. Yet… nobody’s quite sure what they actually changed. Yep, inexplicably, Sakurai and crew decided not to include patch notes in the most recent update for their handheld Smash game. Here’s the…

  By Jason Schreier Published November 19, 2014
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  People Are Taking Really Great Pictures in The New Grand Theft Auto V

  Many oohs and aahs rang out at the upgraded visuals when Rockstar first started showing off the upgraded PS4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V. Now that the game’s out, players are documenting the game’s beauty themselves with some amazing photographs. In-game tools let readers share in-game photography on Twitter, Facebook and…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 19, 2014
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  Free Monument Valley, GTAV, Black Friday TV Deals, Tarantino XX

  Mobile Gaming doesn’t get much better than Monument Valley. It’s one of Kotaku’s Best iPad Games, and today it’s free on Android from Amazon Check out all of today’s app deals in our Apps Post, lots of iPhone games on sale today. The now optionally first-person Grand Theft Auto V current gen port gets a…

  By Shane Roberts Published November 19, 2014
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  Far Cry 4’s Loot Is Full Of Hidden Jokes

  Far Cry 4 is the kind of game that’s deeply in love with its loot. It wants you, the player, to love its loot too. So it packs the stuff full of silly jokes and insular references. Here are some of the silliest I’ve seen so far. Is this a Grand Theft Auto V reference?…

  By Yannick LeJacq Published November 19, 2014
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  Snacktaku PSA: Pizza Hut’s Crazy New Menu Launches Today

  The spiraling shape will make you go insane, but everyone wants to eat that crazy thing. Today Pizza Hut launches their brave new menu, packed with new ingredients, strange crust variants and maddening spirals of special sauce. I don’t even know where to start. Pizza Hut is normally one of the last delivery joints on…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 19, 2014