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Detachable Screen Project Wants To Make Your Xbox Portable

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:40 AM PDT

The Xbox Series S is undeniably an impressively small box for a powerhouse of a console, but it takes a special pair of eyes to look at it and think, "Mmm, portable." Those special eyes belong to UPspec Gaming, an Australian start-up that has invented the xScreen, a detachable 11.6" screen for the little white box,…

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Kotaku Is Hiring, Come Work For Us

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Exciting times lie ahead at Kotaku, and we're looking to fill three positions that will help us try to redefine what a video game website can be. Two of these roles are staff writer positions, ideal for hungry reporters and critics who want to blog daily about what matters most in the world of video games and beyond.…

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Giant Cat Becomes The Latest, Inevitable Tokyo Landmark

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT

This was eventually going to happen, no? Near the east entrance of Shinjuku station, a digital display is now broadcasting an enormous calico cat.

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Japanese Theme Park Installs Cages On Ferris Wheel

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT

Ferris wheels are a typical date activity. You and your romantic partner can get spectacular views as you slowly churn through the sky. They're slow, yet relaxing. However, one Japanese theme park is putting a new spin, ahem, on Ferris wheels.

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Valve Finds A City Willing To Host DOTA 2's The International

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:35 PM PDT

It's 2021, Why Not Read A Video Game Magazine

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 07:15 PM PDT

All the way back in 2016, I wrote about a very pretty, very good magazine called A Profound Waste Of Time, that brought together some beautiful art with some great features written by famous developers. Five years later, and after one and a half years' work putting it together, it's back for a second issue.

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Konami Fires Soccer Star After Racism Controversy

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 06:00 PM PDT

Last month, Barcelona and France star Antoine Griezmann was announced as a global ambassador for Yu-Gi-Oh! He's now been dropped from that role after a video emerged of a teammate saying some pretty bad shit to their Japanese hotel staff.

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Pokimane's Immaculate Room Tour Has Twitch Streamers Showing Off Their Messy Bedrooms

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:20 PM PDT

What does it mean to be authentic on Twitch? Who is real and who is fake on a platform where everybody is a brand, but also where a cornerstone of that brand is the appearance of down-to-earth chillness? This is the implicit question of the week on Twitch, and it's all thanks to Imane "Pokimane" Anys.

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How Is This Even Minecraft Anymore

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Here's what Minecraft—humble, low-res, blocky ol' Minecraft—looks like in the Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand And Twenty One, when it's got a few fancy mods running over the top of it.

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Watch A Living Google Map Destroy Geoguessr

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:45 PM PDT

While scrolling through Summer Games Done Quick's website, you might have been confused seeing Geoguessr pop up on the schedule. You might have also wondered what a speedrun of what you understand to be a Google Maps version of Where's Waldo might look like. Well, I'm here to tell you: It looks like fucking sorcery.

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The GMMK Pro Brings The Premium Mechanical Keyboard Experience To The Masses

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 01:30 PM PDT

In the mechanical keyboard world, scoring a board with a unique 75 percent layout, machined aluminum case, and a keystroke-dampening gasket-mounted plate design normally requires investing in a very expensive custom build or paying into a group buy for a crowdsourced keyboard months or years from production. Or you…

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Shoot 'Em Up Development Goes Haywire

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 12:50 PM PDT

Making games, from one-person text adventures to multi-studio AAA blockbusters, is hard, but a lot of that difficulty is hidden away from fans. One independent developer, however, is putting their mistakes front and center.

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Respawn Dev: Apex Legends Hackers Failed At Anything But Forced Overtime

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 12:10 PM PDT

It was a weird weekend in the world of Apex Legends. On Sunday, players discovered that in-game playlists and notifications had been hacked by hackers who disliked different hackers—specifically, Apex hackers up in arms about the hacker-powered plight of Titanfall, one of developer Respawn's previous games. It was an…

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Cheat Maker: New Aimbot 'Undetectable' On Consoles, PC

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:35 AM PDT

Cheaters never prosper, but they sure do proliferate like roaches. On July 4, a video (which Kotaku has reviewed but will not disclose) was released on YouTube announcing a new cheat that promises to work on "any" platform, including consoles.

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Guilty Gear Player Stops Match Over Divisive Song

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

Guilty Gear, more than any fighting game, is a series defined by its music. As such, it only makes sense that fans would hold serious opinions about its soundtrack, even to the point of refusing to play if a song they dislike is chosen as the backing music to a match.

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