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Website Lets You Make GLaDOS Say Whatever You Want

3 years 3 months ago

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.

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Zack Zwiezen

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Don't Worry, Big Frog Is Here

3 years 3 months ago

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.

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Zack Zwiezen

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Persona 5 Strikers Feels More Like Persona 5 Than I Expected

3 years 3 months ago

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 system.

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Mike Fahey

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Video Game Spoilers Are Good, Actually

3 years 3 months ago

For the most part, the internet is a screaming void where nobody can agree on anything—not even what to scream about. But there is one unspoken rule that a remarkably large number of people hold sacred: no spoilers. Is that for the best, though, or is it limiting our ability to talk about games (and other pieces of…

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Nathan Grayson

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You're Toad, Not Mario. And That's OK

3 years 3 months ago

For as long as Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Princess Peach have existed, another group of characters have been waiting in the wings, ready to let players know about whose princess is in which castle. The Toads have always been there, and they have always been overlooked. But Toads can be heroes.

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Mike Sholars

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Let's Rank (A Few) Sonic Games

3 years 3 months ago

There are a lot of Sonic games. There aren’t too many Sonic games because one can never get enough of the blue streak, but in order to keep this list from spiraling out of control I created a few ground rules.

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Ash Parrish on The Bests, shared by Mike Fahey to Kotaku

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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

3 years 3 months ago

The weekend is for processing what happened last week and steeling ourselves for what’s going to happen next week. Video games are the perfect accompaniment to both of these activities.

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Mike Fahey

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Destiny 2 Will Bring Loot Back To The Moon Next Season

3 years 3 months ago

The moon was finally added to Destiny 2 back in 2019, but last year’s Beyond Light update made its loot obsolete. Bungie plans to fix that next season by re-issuing some of its old gear with a new infusion cap in the studio’s ongoing dance to try to get the game’s progression just right.

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Ethan Gach

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These Third-Party Mods Make 'Cyberpunk 2077' Tolerable

3 years 3 months ago

Assuming you haven’t thrown your hands up in the air and demanded a refund for the Duke Nukem-like gaming experience that is Cyberpunk 2077, there are a number of mods you can grab that address some of its issues and, dare I say it, make it more fun to play. At the very least, they’ll tide you over until developer…

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David Murphy on Lifehacker, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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