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Travel to the Golden Age of The Witcher and See Pandemic's Newest Legacy in Gaming News

3 years 8 months ago

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, Gen Con Online gets things in full swing with its events schedule for the digital convention experience. Plus, a look at Pandemic Legacy’s upcoming season and a special anniversary edition for The Lord of the

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Beth Elderkin on io9, shared by Stephen Totilo to Kotaku

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13 Things You Can Buy to Beat the Summer Heat

3 years 8 months ago

The weird, rambunctious, and fragile human species was designed to operate safely within a very specific and narrow range of temperatures, and yet we’re constantly battling a massive fireball that just casually hangs out in the middle of our sky. And I’m no scientist, but apparently, it’s also supposed to help us…

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Quentyn Kennemer on The Inventory, shared by Ignacia to Kotaku

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Fall in Love With Kiki's Delivery Service All Over Again With This New Translation of the Original Novel

3 years 8 months ago

Studio Ghibli fans are well familiar with Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 film Kiki’s Delivery Service, about a young witch who flies to a new town for a series of adventures. But have you ever read the book that inspired the movie? Emily Balistrieri’s brand-new translation of Eiko Kadono’s 1985 fantasy story is out today, and…

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Cheryl Eddy on io9, shared by Stephen Totilo to Kotaku

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Halo 3 Comes To PC July 14

3 years 8 months ago

Eyes up, space marines: 13 years after it landed on console, Halo 3 is finally coming to PC. As announced by the official Halo Twitter account, it’ll be available next Tuesday as the next installment of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

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Ari Notis

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Happy 20th Anniversary To My Favorite Final Fantasy

3 years 8 months ago

In 2000, after a pair of PlayStation games that were more science fiction than swords and sorcery, I wanted a Final Fantasy that skewed heavily towards classic fantasy fare. Final Fantasy IX, released on July 7, 2000, in Japan, was exactly the game I was looking for.

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Mike Fahey

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Baki the Grappler, But In The Flesh

3 years 8 months ago

Long-running manga Baki the Grappler recently got a new anime adaptation on Netflix. It follows the exploits of macho Baki Hanma in the underground fighting world. Imagine Baki for real, minus the brutal battles but with the muscles. Meet bodybuilder Naotaka Yokokawa.

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Brian Ashcraft

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Boom! It's Super Mario Bros. With John Madden's Commentary

3 years 8 months ago

There’s a generation of kids who will only know John Madden as the guy whose name is on the football game’s box, and not as one of the best commentators to have ever worked in professional sports. For them (and all of us, really): a guy impersonating Madden talking Mario through level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.

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Luke Plunkett

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The 12 Best Games on the iPhone

3 years 8 months ago

Time was, iPhone games were a distraction. You’d play them on a commute, or while the water boiled, or during Destiny loading screens. But that was then, and this is now. In case you didn’t know, today’s options today are just as polished (and fun!) as many console counterparts. And now that there are more games on…

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Kotaku Staff

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Growing Up As A Taiwanese-American Gamer Was The Best Of Both Worlds

3 years 8 months ago

Early September, 1999. Britney Spears dominated the airwaves, fear of the Y2K bug hung in the air, and my teenage mind was still wrestling with whether or not Phantom Menace was good. It had been about a week since I had returned from a summer trip to Taiwan to my home in Atlanta. A couple of my friends who I hadn’t…

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Joe Shieh

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How to Predict 'Animal Crossing' Meteor Showers to the Second

3 years 8 months ago

One of the easiest things to predict in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the weather, and I’m not just talking about when it’s going to be a lovely sunny day on [your island name here]. With a brand-new data-mining hack, you’ll be able to know exactly when rainbows and the aurora borealis will appear—even when meteor…

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David Murphy on Lifehacker, shared by Stephen Totilo to Kotaku

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Sony’s Wearable Air Conditioner Is Finally Available to Help Make the Summer Less Sweltering

3 years 8 months ago

First revealed last Summer with an intended release to coincide with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Sony’s wearable personal air conditioner is finally available for sale to help you battle the summer heat when you occasionally step outside to brave the sun’s rage and the ongoing pandemic.

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Andrew Liszewski on Gizmodo, shared by Brian Ashcraft to Kotaku

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Persona 5's Anime Is Finally Getting A $300 English Dub

3 years 8 months ago

While Persona 5's anime has been out for over two years now, it’s only been available to watch with subtitles. The show’s upcoming Blu-ray release in the West is changing that, bringing back most of the game’s English-language cast for a dubbed release that...is going to cost you.

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Luke Plunkett

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In VR You Can't Escape The Loading Screen

3 years 8 months ago

Loading screens are something we all deal with while playing video games. As long as they are brief many of us will just grab our phone and check Twitter or grab a bite to eat. But in virtual reality, with a headset strapped to your face, you are trapped and forced to awkwardly stand and wait for the game to return…

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Zack Zwiezen

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'Shop Contest: Pascal

3 years 8 months ago

Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently received a new update that lets players swim around their islands. And it also brought back a fan favorite animal, Pascal. He’s cool. Let’s welcome back Pascal with some fun images!

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Zack Zwiezen

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Sunday Comics: What Color?

3 years 8 months ago

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.

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Zack Zwiezen

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