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Razer's Project Hazel Is A Translucent Face Mask With RGB Lighting
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If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent plastic front, voice-amplification tech, and RGB lighting effects.
Grand Theft Auto V Actors Recreate 'Lamar Roasts Franklin' Scene
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Grand Theft Auto V, now available across two platform generations with a version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on the way, refuses to die. The game’s latest contribution to the online zeitgeist is the brief scene where side character Lamar Davis roasts protagonist Franklin Clinton, which has become the basis…
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Now Runs at 60 FPS On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S
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2019’s excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order now looks a little bit better on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to its latest update, though the improvements aren’t as dramatic as some other games have seen.
Oh No, He’s Hot
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A new trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario 3D World arrived earlier today featuring a first look at Bowser in Bowser’s Fury and y’all...damn.
Machine Games Is Making An Indiana Jones Game
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Bethesda studio Machine Games is making a new Indiana Jones game, the publisher announced in a short teaser on Twitter today.
Tuesday's Best Deals: Bulk Snacks, AeroGarden Harvest, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Dino Egg Dig Kit, 18TB External Hard Drive, Tacklife Portable Power Station, and More
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Nintendo Is Making Copyright Claims on Videos of Game & Watch Hacking
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Despite its retro charms, for $50 the Nintendo Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld felt like it could benefit from a few more games: an upgrade some talented hackers made possible before the device was even released. But Nintendo doesn’t like consumers messing with its hardware, and today it appears it started…
It's Giant Cat Mario Versus Kaiju Bowser In Bowser's Fury
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With a month remaining until its February 12 release, Nintendo gives us a peek at what the new Bowser’s Fury portion of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury looks like. They had me at Giant Cat Mario.
Last Fall's Cyberattack On Capcom Compromised Personal Info On Over 16,000 People
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Last November, Capcom suffered a cyberattack. As previously reported, the group claiming responsibility for the attack said they downloaded around 1TB of data, containing things like employee’s visa records, customer bank details, and internal Capcom information.
Fans Surprised By New CG Anime Show's Quality
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Cyberpunk manga Ex-Arm is getting a TV anime adaptation this month. The show, which is a CG anime, was originally slated for release last summer but got pushed back due to the pandemic.
A Full Throttle Movie Script Has Been Written By Moon's Director
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Duncan Jones, director of movies like Warcraft and Moon, has spent his time in lockdown better than most of us. He’s written a full-length “fan script” for classic 1995 adventure game Full Throttle.
Japan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation
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The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a fan translation for…
The Lucasfilm Games Name, At Least, Is Back
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LucasArts is dead, but for some reason, the powers behind The Brands have decided that the company’s previous name—Lucasfilm Games—is something that needs to be resurrected, so will now be on the box and the ends of trailers for every Star Wars game going forward.
Sony Gives Release Windows For Project Athia And Other PS5 Games
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The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show began today—virtually, of course—and during a video presentation Sony revealed new release date information about half a dozen games. But it didn’t announce these dates as you might expect. Instead, all the new info came from text that appeared at the bottom of the screen for only a…
What Happens After Impeachment?
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After Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, House Democrats have made impeaching the president a renewed priority, even as the clock ticks down on the last days of his term. So far, House lawmakers’ efforts to levy impeachment proceedings are contingent on whether Vice President Mike Pence and Trump…
Hades Is Life
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While playing through Supergiant Games’ Hades I kept asking myself, why is this game so freaking good?
Spanish Streamer TheGrefg Obliterates All-Time Twitch Viewership Record
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For years now, Twitch’s record for most concurrent viewers on a single streamer’s channel has been hotly contested, with streamers topping each other in slow-building increments. Today, however, Spanish streamer TheGrefg made everybody else look like they’d been wrestling for discarded peanut shells. As of writing, he…
Nier: Automata Dumped Me And I’m Okay With It
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I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god the game is over, I am free now,” way that I felt finishing The Last Of Us 2—a game hellbent on holding on to you long after what any normal, non-sadistic storyteller would consider the end of a game.…
What’s Your Favorite Jump In Video Games?
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It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.
What Are the Best Computer Speakers?
3 years 4 months ago
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Here’s a weird confession: Despite having made the jump from laptop to full PC years ago, I still don’t have computer speakers.
Breath Of The Wild Player Snipes Guardian From Over 1,400 Meters Away
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Although The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out almost four years ago, folks continue to pull off incredible feats in the game. Case in point: this player nailing a Guardian with an arrow from over 1,400 meters away.
Otterbox Is Making Mobile Gaming Gear Now
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Otterbox, one of the biggest names in phone and tablet cases, has teamed up with Microsoft to create a new line of clips, cases, and grips aimed at making the most of mobile gaming services like Xbox Game Streaming and Apple Arcade.
AGDQ 2021 Raises $2.7 Million For Charity
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $2,764,437 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is the second-highest amount raised at AGDQ, only beaten by last year’s total of over $3 million.
Riot And Bungie Go After Valorant And Destiny 2 Cheat Sellers In Joint Lawsuit
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Riot Games and Bungie have decided to work together in both companies’ ongoing crusade against people who make and sell cheats for their games. They’ve filed a joint complaint against Cameron Santos, the owner of several cheat distribution platforms, including Gatorcheats.
Monday's Best Deals: Tenet Blu-ray, Insulated NFL Mugs, Giant Floor Piano, Katamari Damacy Reroll, Cuisinart 3-in-1 Cooker, BuddyFlex Outdoor Heaters, and More
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Get Ready for Hitman 3 By Grabbing Hitman 2 Gold Edition for $10
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Now We're Playing Pokémon In A Twitter Profile Pic
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Gameloft Montreal programmer Constantin Liétard has created a script that allows Twitter users to control a game of Pokémon Red playing out in his profile picture. It’s like ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ without having to deal with Twitch chat.
It’s Time to Safely Watch Tenet at Home, Now $15 on Blu-ray or $20 in 4K
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The Week In Games: Hello Again, Friend Of A Friend
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After years of people asking, begging, and hoping, the Scott Pilgrim game is back this week.
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
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In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately…
Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
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Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site posed “a very real risk…
Please Play This Wolfenstein vs Monkey Ball Game
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Return to Castle Monkey Ball is what happens when you take two very different and beloved games and smash them together in a way that on paper sounds terrible, but which in practice is so very very excellent.
Custom Black PS5s Go On Sale, Then Don't, After Website Claims "Credible Threats To [Their] Safety"
3 years 4 months ago
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Last week, a website popped up promising to sell brand new PS5 consoles that would be purchased, painted black, then resold for a $100 premium. That’s no longer going to happen.
I Accidentally Ordered Burgers From A YouTuber
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Popular YouTuber MrBeast recently started a virtual chain of burger joints and I, being an old man who avoids non-gaming YouTube like the plague, had no idea. This is how I ended up eating some bland burgers over my Christmas vacation.
'Shop Contest: Gengar Plush
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Surprising absolutely nobody, this week’s Photoshop Contest is devoted to that wild new Gengar plushie-bed-pillow thing.