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CultureShop ContestThe ‘Shop Contest Awards: 2020
Hello everyone and welcome to this year’s ‘Shop Contest Awards. This year, like last year, we will be looking back at the best, worst, funniest and weirdest images you all created over the course of 2020. And as always, I’ll be handing out some awards! No, these awards aren’t called the ‘Shoppies. Stop trying to…
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CulturePokemonHariyama Slaps So Hard They Stop Trains And Send Trucks Flying
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 Hariyama! Hariyama Details Type: Fighting Average Height: 7′ 07” Average Weight: 559 lbs First Added In Generation III When…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Worst Games Of 2020 According To Metacritic
2020 was a terrible year in many, many ways, but we did get some great games too. Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Fall Guys, Miles Morales, Crusader Kings III, and more all released this year. But as usual, it’s not all good and this year saw the release of some games that weren’t well-reviewed by critics…
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CultureMorning CheckpointThe Robot Apocalypse Looks Like A Lot Of Fun
Happy new year! This week we check in on the best games released in 2020, hang out with Dunkaccino, learn what this month’s PS Plus games are, mourn the lack of people playing Dreams and watch some robots dance like nobody is watching. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Just add Half-Life: Alyx, my…
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CultureBoth Sides Claim Victory In Massive EVE Online Battle
Ragnarök, the death of the Norse gods, played out in EVE Online in the wee hours of New Year’s eve. Hundreds of the game’s mightiest vessels gathered together in the M2-XFE system, and Titans from the game’s two largest factions spent over 12 hours exchanging fire and unleashing their incredibly devastating doomsday weapon systems. In…
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OpinionImpressionsCarto’s Cozy Puzzles Are Just Tough Enough
Ask people which superpower they’d want, and you’ll likely hear the same answers. Flight. Super-strength. Invisibility. You’re less likely to hear about the unusual ones—say, the ability to literally reshape the planet to fit your needs. Such an ability is the crux of Carto, a cozy adventure game that grants you enormous power but not…
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Tips & GuidesAssassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Hidden Ones Bureaus Hide A Great Series Callback
Between One-Punch Man, baseball man, and multiple nods to popular fantasy franchises, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is basically the Metropolitan Museum of Easter Eggs. But the best surprise—or at least the one that’s sure to delight series fans the most—doesn’t show up until late in the game. Spoilers follow for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Once you settle…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewWhat Are Your Video Game Resolutions For 2021?
Gaming resolutions? Well, I’m hoping to really go all in on 4K for…Hold on. What’s that? Ah, my editor tells me we more or less cracked this exact joke last year. And that it’s bad. And that I should feel bad. (I regret nothing.) New Year’s is usually a period of fresh starts and tuned…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryWith Xbox Game Pass I Am Too Powerful
Through a bit of luck, I managed to acquire an Xbox Series S for the holidays. I’ve only had it for about a week now, but the slim, be-speakered machine—and, more specifically, the Game Pass subscription I purchased for it—has utterly changed my gaming life in ways I’m still trying to process. For those of…
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OpinionImpressionsSuper Meat Boy Forever Is Not The Sequel I Was Hoping For
After 10 long years Super Meat Boy is back, this time as an auto-runner in a sequel that channels much of the original except for what I loved most about it: snappy controls and tight platforming. In the year of Spelunky 2 and Hades, it’s a letdown to see Meat Boy return without the key…
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CultureKoei Tecmo Shuts Down Forums Following Data Hack
The Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo announced over the Christmas holiday that some personal data from 65,000 users of its English language website was hacked, leading the company to take its US and UK websites offline for the time being. “Within the website operated by KTE, the ‘Forum’ page and the registered user information (approximately 65,000…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewFahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2020
In the 2020 gaming judgment system, year-end lists are determined by two separate but equally important groups: the players who play the games, and the games they enjoy playing. These are their stories. Bah-Dum. Everyone knows what happened in 2020, at least the broad strokes. What they may not know is that 2020 was a…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewEthan Gach’s Top 10 Games Of 2020
2020 was a shit year for a lot of things, but a bunch of really good games came out during it. And not just your run-of-the-mill, extremely playable, very good games, but a ton of truly special ones. This is another way of saying that I liked a surprising number of games this year that…
By Ethan Gach
