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CultureThe Week In Games: Agent 47 Is Back
Load up on expired cans of soup, flamingo costumes, and explosive golf balls. Hitman 3 is almost here and it’s time to kill some assholes. A few weeks back, I finally got around to playing Hitman 2 beyond the first level. I have no idea why I waited this long to get around to playing…
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CulturePC Players Will Have To Buy Hitman 2 All Over Again To Unlock Its Levels In Hitman 3 (Update: A Fix Is In The Works)
IO Interactive outlined how levels and progress will be carried over to Hitman 3 from the previous games in a complicated FAQ over on its website today, and it’s a mess for players on PC seemingly thanks to Epic Games Store and Steam not playing nice with each other. Update – 4:08 p.m. ET, 1/17/21:…
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OpinionThe New York Times Is Worried Kids Are Playing Video Games Too Much During The Pandemic
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that focused on how kids are spending too much time playing video games and using their phones during the covid-19 pandemic. Today, that story was on the front page of the paper. This seems strange considering how the world is falling apart and democracy is dying in…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Potato CEO
Turns out, Taco Bell is run by some kind of sentient potato. Who knew? Though the reasoning behind removing potatoes from the menu now makes more sense. Your challenge this week: Spread this potato man. I expect he cried a lot after filming this promo. Being asked to go out and sell your own kind…
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CultureOdds and EndsWebsite Lets You Make GLaDOS Say Whatever You Want
Do you like GLaDOS, the homicidal, yet charming AI overlord of the Portal games? Do you also wish you could hear her sing the opening line from My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade?” Guess what? I got a website for you and your oddly specific dream. 15.aiis a site that lets you type in any text…
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CultureSunday Comics: Any Questions?
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Jan. 14. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Gengar Plush, Winners!
Last week, we got our first look at a new Pokemon plush Gengar toy that is also a bed and nightmare, rolled into one small package. Few things are more perfect for a Photoshop contest. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who created something called the “tongue train” and it’s… uh.. something. Someone…
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CultureCongratulations, You Are Being Rescued
This week on Snapshots we have some cool black and white screenshots, some urban decay, a swingin’ Spider-Man, some colorful cars, big and creepy bones, and a droid looking to chokeslam a Jedi. “My…doctor….said I don’t…have… to wear… a… mask..” “Bullshit.” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best, funniest and coolest…
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CultureOdds and EndsPirated Copies Of Take On Helicopters Make Your In-Game Pilot Drunk
For a very long time, people have been making games. And a moment after people started selling these things, other people began stealing them. So developers have continued to include features that trip up pirates. For example, getting drunk in a game about flying helicopters. This is seen in a new video from The Easter…
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CulturePokemonPoipole Is The Terrible Mascot Of Anti-Vaxxers
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Poipole! Poipole Details Type: Poison Average Height: 2′ 00” Average Weight: 4.0 lbs First Added In Generation VII Right…
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CultureOdds and EndsCommunity’s Paintball Episodes Have Been Turned Into A Free Online Game
I liked the first two seasons of Community. Then I liked the third season a bit less and then I just stopped watching. But those first seasons were good and I loved those paintball episodes a lot. And what do you know, some folks who are clearly streets ahead, created and released a free online…
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CultureMorning CheckpointDon’t Worry, Big Frog Is Here
This week we rank a bunch of Sonic games, control a fox with a controller, play Pokemon in a weird place, check out some of the new content coming to Puyo Puyo 2 and meet the wonderful and amazing Big Frog. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week How much longer before we are playing…
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CultureReport: Cyberpunk Development Didn’t Really Start Until 2016
Cyberpunk 2077 was announced back in 2012 and shown off to the world with a cinematic trailer in 2013, but work on the game didn’t begin for real until 2016, according to a new report by Bloomberg. That’s when CD Projekt studio head Adam Badowski took over as director, several veteran developers from The Witcher…
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OpinionImpressionsPersona 5 Strikers Feels More Like Persona 5 Than I Expected
When I heard Koei Tecmo studio Omega Force was making Persona 5 Strikers, I imagined a Dynasty Warriors game with Persona 5 characters. Turns out it’s not quite that at all. After playing through the first few hours of the full game, Strikers feels more like an extension of Persona 5 with a different combat…
By Mike Fahey
