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The PC version of Sonic Mania has been pushed back from August 15 to August 29. Announced during a live stream this morning, the PC version apparently requires further optimization. Steam preorder customers will get a copy of the original Sonic the Hedgehog as compensation.
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Track: Akarui Mirai | Artist: Never Young Beach | Album: Fam Fam
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Customs officials in Shenzhen, China have arrested a woman with 102 iPhones stuffed into her clothing.
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Fire Pro Wrestling World has been out on Steam for two days. Already, it’s got a roster that includes all the greats, from Shinsuke Nakamura to Andre The Giant to the consensus best wrestler of all time, A Bear.
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I’m on the elimination spree of a lifetime. 28 kills, no deaths. I feel unstoppable. An enemy Reaper tries to sneakily teleport onto the payload. I, as Pharah, rocket into the sky and unleash the full fury of my ultimate on him, just because I can.
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An update on Blizzard’s Overwatch blog adds more more details about Doomfist, long suspected to be the game’s next hero.
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When the original Pokémon TV anime debuted in Japan on September 8, 1998, the theme song was “Mezase Pokémon Masutaa” or “Aim to be a Pokémon Master.” Now in 2017, the theme is back!
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Competitive first-person shooters operate on all sorts of sets of unspoken rules. Teams should be, more or less, evenly powered. Opponents should die occasionally. Everyone should be visible—at least, most of the time. Afterchargeaims to break those rules.
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The only thing more satisfying than a successful Monster Hunter hunt is wearing the armor you made out of the beast you took down. I watched as Monster Hunter World director Yuya Tokuda hunted down a giant beast during a demonstration at E3, and while the weapons and monsters were great, the game’s world was the most…
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Track: Wall of Glass | Artist: Liam Gallagher | Album: As You Were
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Ark: Survival Evolved is getting some proper achievements on Steam in next week’s big update, most of them pulled directly from the console versions. That’s great, kind of. As much as I love this dinosaur-themed survival time waster, it can lack direction, and achievements can give a bit of direction to an open-ended…
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Old Man’s Journey is a gentle storybook like adventure through an elderly man’s scattered memories as he walks his way to an inevitably sad conclusion.
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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arise, the expanded version of Dragon’s Dogma, is getting new ports. A higher res version is coming to PS4 and Xbox One as well as releasing once again on PC.
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With Nintendo’s motion controllers now into their second decade of life, I find myself… agnostic. I like Wii Sports and I think pointer aiming in Twilight Princess was awesome, but I don’t like gyro aiming in Splatoon and the less said about Star Fox Zero the better. So where does Arms fit in?
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This replica of a Fallout 4 Tesla Rifle, by Wasted Props, doesn’t just look like the real (well, you know) thing. It spins and “charges” like it as well.
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World War Z (the book): A meticulous, global history of the zombie apocalypse.
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Fa Yuen Street. Hong Kong. By Charlez Chong.
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Horizon Zero Dawn already has one of the most robust photo modes out there, but a patch landing next week is going to expand on its functionality even more.
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In May, UNIQLO are going to be selling a whole ton of new Nintendo-themed t-shirts, some of which are hot as hell.
KotakuAccording to The Wall Street Journal, when asked if there will be a mini SNES like the NES Classic, Nintendo top brass said there was nothing to talk about now.
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Between my keyboard-centric posts here on Kotaku and my Twitter feed, I’ve been posting a lot of pictures of very pretty keyboards lately, which leads to people asking me where they can buy those keyboards. For the most part, you can’t. You have to build them.
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Two Worlds II: Call of the Tenebrae is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on May 25, bringing over ten hours of new adventure and a major game engine upgrade to 2011's redemptive RPG sequel. The standalone expansion was originally planned for 2016, but the developers got a bit carried away.
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With select brands of popular Japanese potato chips vanishing from store shelves, folks are hoping to cash in.
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For a fun time, watch this trailer for the upcoming NBA Playgrounds—out in May—and see how close they come to saying “NBA Jam” without actually saying “NBA Jam”.
KotakuI’m laying down to recover health by bathing my photosynthetic skin in the sun when my evil twin leaps from a portal and starts firing a laser pistol at me. I’m about to conjure a couple of fireballs before my narcolepsy kicks in at the worst time. Just another day in Caves of Qud. It’s this week’s Indie Pick.
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Yooka-Laylee recaptures some of the best aspects of platforming. You run, jump, and climb your way around dazzling levels. But it also tries too hard to recreate the past without building upon the lessons old games taught us. We take a closer look in this critical video.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda had a couple of rough weeks thanks to high-profile technical issues, animation wonkiness, and general fan disappointment. In response to that feedback, BioWare has announced improvements to Andromeda that will start easing out the visual kinks, while also teasing some major changes yet to come.
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At $100, Best Buy's Gamers Club Unlocked was a decent deal for hardcore gamers, but a tough sell for most. Today though, they're dropping the price to $30, which gets you 24 months of the following benefits, among others:
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Humble is back with another weekly bundle. This time around, you get up to seven games with monochromatic art styles, and of course, you pay what you want. [Humble Monochromatic Bundle]
KotakuWe've got some great gift card deals for PlayStation AND Xbox owners today.