Sunday, November 27, 2016

News:: Battlefield Mod Brings Back The Falklands War

Despite losing many of its core team to the development of Squad, work continues on famous Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality, whose new update lets users fight out the Falklands War.

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News:: Review: Razer DeathAdder Elite

While the Razer Kraken 7.1 V2 Gaming Headset sat atop my head for the last few weeks, the DeathAdder Elite mouse has been under my right palm, clicking away to navigate both virtual battlegrounds and web pages alike. It's the next iteration in the DeathAdder line, last seen in Chris' review of the DeathAdder Chroma. There are a few small differences that set this mouse apart from past incarnations, and while I'd be hesitant to recommend upgrading if you already have a unit from this line, the DeathAdder is popular for a reason.

Between the Elite's comfortable design, chunky thumb buttons, and pleasant-to-the-touch matte plastic and textured rubber, I'm not surprised that people keep returning to the DeathAdder series.

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News:: When Video Games Get A Little Too Real

AndresMoreno1 was minding his own business playing some Watch Dogs 2 when the action inside the house started looking a little too much like the action outside the house.

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News:: Cyber Monday: get a PS4 racing wheel for $120 off - start your engines

Racing fans just don't get the love they deserve

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News:: The Week In Games: Get Ready To Bro

Time to hit the open road with ya’boys, fight some monsters, cry some tears, and maybe in the process find out a little something more about what makes the world tick. Final Fantasy XV is finally here.

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News:: The Best Cyber Monday Deals Available Right Now

Welcome to our home for comprehensive Cyber Monday deal coverage, brought to you by the Kinja Deals team! We’ll be updating this as new deals go live, so bookmark this page, and follow us on Twitter for the latest updates!

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News:: Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Final Postcard 

Final Fantasy XV nearly here, so it’s time to start imaging all the places the boys might go. Noctis and the crew no doubt have time to do a little sight seeing in-between all the bad dialogue and loot farming, so where would you like to see them end up on their quest to cement their bromance for all eternity?

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News:: Cyber Monday: 15% off almost everything at Target, get a PS4 or Xbox One for just $212.49 - Sunday and Monday only

Your patience has paid off. Rather than pounce on Black Friday savings, you've managed to w ...

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News:: Hot and Steamy: Hot Asians in their underwear with sexy dwarven beards

We made it gang. Thanksgiving has come and passed, Black Friday went off without a hitch, and we all gained a little weight. Thus is life.

Another constant in life until I tire of doing it is this here weekly series highlighting the potentially decent Steam games releasing for the week. I put on my wading boots and get waste high in the trash swamp known as the new release list of Steam to try to find you PC games that don't smell, look, or sound like shit. Appreciate me, thanks.

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News:: Cyber Monday: Save $300 on a 55" Samsung 4K UHDTV and get a $100 Amazon gift card

You've got your new video games, your new console, now all you need is a fancy TV to go with it

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News:: Watch A Dishonored 2 Villain Die In 80 Different Ways

Cosmic Contrarian knows how to kill people in Dishonored 2. The evidence is well documented by this point and fun to watch. But the latest murder clinic put on by the YouTuber shows just how filled to the brim with possibilities Bethesda’s gothic stealth game is.

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News:: Cyber Monday: The cheapest PS4 Pro yet! Only $339 from Amazon - one day only

The PS4 Pro hasn't even been out a month, but Amazon is slashing 15% off of its retail price for Cyber Monday 2016

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News:: Smash Bros. Melee Tournaments Are Shrines To Old TVs

At DreamHack Winter 2016 in Sweden this weekend, hundreds prayed at a competitive gaming alter consisting of a few dozen old cathode ray tube televisions. They were participating in a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, and the results were beautiful looking.

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News:: Amazon's New Xbox One Discounts Are $38-$45 Better Than Black Friday

Amazon’s blown right past the standard $50 Black Friday Xbox One discounts, and marked the 1TB Battlefield 1 bundle down to $255 ($45 less than Black Friday), and the 500GB Minecraft model down to $212 ($38 less).

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News:: Review: Razer Kraken 7.1 V2 Gaming Headset

Right after I got back from Poland almost a month ago, I received a package with all sorts of Razer goodies inside, including the Ornata keyboard, the Death Adder Elite mouse, and the Kraken 7.1 V2 Gaming headset. I'm still working on reviewing those first two (Spoiler: I'm rather happy with them), but I've been using the headset for the past few weeks both in numerous matches of Killing Floor 2 and Battlefield 1 and for listening to music while I conjure up more words for you fine folks to read. 

It's gonna be hard to tear these off my head the next time I have to do another headset review.

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News:: Ben Heck's Virtual Boy, part 1

The Ben Heck Show - Episode 264 - Ben Heck's Virtual Boy Part 1: Teardown

Ben's seeing double this week with a retro virtual reality console that was ahead of its time: Nintendo's Virtual Boy (codename "VUE"). Though the technology was advanced in many ways, it didn't prevent the sort of dizziness that still plagues virtual reality headsets today. As Ben quips, "It's like a trip to the eye doctor!" Of course, this means Ben has to take it apart in a traditional teardown to find out what makes the Virtual Boy tick. Inside we find a 32-bit processor and graphics chip along with a very clever mechanical setup. Unfortunately, as ingenious as the internal design is, it's still prone to failure; indeed, Ben has to design and print a part using Autodesk Fusion 360 to help repair it. Now that it's fixed, though, it's time to improve it! Make sure you look out for the next episode, and in the meantime let us know what you think of VR technology over on the element14 Community.



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News:: Street Fighter V Mod Lets You Play As Sombra From Overwatch

It was surely only a matter of time before Overwatch’s latest hacker hero got spliced into Street Fighter V.

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News:: 101 cheaper-than-Steam-sale PC games for Cyber Monday

Its Cyber Monday week and if you're not loading up your Steam library with gazillion games then you're doing holiday "savings" wrong. To help you with this endeavor, we've rounded up 101 excellent game deals for you to browse through.

All deals below are cheaper than Steam's current sale (those in the known are already familiar with Steam not being the cheapest for awhile now).

Note: In actuality there are about 15 Steam titles below that can't be beat elsewhere, so there's technically 86 cheaper-than-Steam deals. But how else can I find an excuse to use 101 dalmatian as the headline image!?

Choice pick includes of course Civ VI for $43.91; Cities Skylines for $6.11; Baldur's Gate Complete Saga for $14.41; Tyranny for $33; and of course Rise of Tomb Raider: Digital Deluxe for a stupid low $22.49.

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News:: Major 'No Man's Sky' update arrives with surprises

That promised Foundation Update for No Man's Sky? It's already here for both PC and PS4... and it includes much, much more than Hello Games hinted at just a couple of days ago. The centerpiece remains base building, which turns out to be simple but helpful. If you find an uninhabited base, you can use modular structures to make it your own -- including automated resource farming and storage so you don't have to traipse across the planet harvesting items. You can also hire aliens to research technology, and teleport to and from space stations. And did we mention that you can buy freighters, which serve as spaceborne bases that you can summon anywhere in the galaxy? If you hated the forced mineral-gathering marches that you experienced on launch, you might be happy with this alone. Thankfully, there's more.

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News:: Black Friday deals: get these official Xbox One and PS4 controllers for $40/£40 or less

Friday may have been two days ago, but there's still plenty of Black Friday bargains to be had if you know where to look

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News:: Buy a PS4 Slim, Get a Bonus $50 Amazon Gift Card

Amazon just kicked off the best PS4 Slim deal we’ve seen to date: A $50 discount, plus a $50 Amazon gift card thrown in on top.

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News:: San Francisco Hack Feels Straight Out of Watch Dogs 2

The San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni for short, appears to have been hacked on Saturday after reports surfaced that terminals throughout various stations were displaying “You hacked. All data encrypted.”

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News:: Black Friday UK deals: Dishonored 2, Mafia 3, and Titanfall 2 are £30 or less at Tesco Direct

Picked up your new Black Friday bargain console and now looking for bargain games, too? Some of the best deals we've seen to date are at Tesco Direct

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News:: Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Hot Take: Slime Rancher (PC) • Wor

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Hot Take: Slime Rancher (PC)  World of Final Fantasy Is Basically If Tetsuya Nomura Tried Doing Pokemon  Behold My Prowess At Snake 97

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News:: Sunday Comics

Welcome to 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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News:: The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Deals Available Right Now

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News:: Overwatch data mining implies winter event is in the works

While most of the focus of the new update on Overwatch's Public Test Realm (PTR) has been on the changes to Symmetra, it looks like some other data for the upcoming patch may have given away Overwatch's next holiday event. Reddit user Venxa went digging through the patch's audio files and discovered several new voice lines, as well as a remix of the game's main theme:

It's not a lot to go on, but similar audio files preceded the Summer Games and Halloween events. The theme has a lot of instrumentation that aligns with traditional Christmas songs, including sleigh bells and some high notes on a xylophone. 

I was talking with a few of the friends I play with, and we discussed which of the stages might get a wintery overhaul, something like what was done with the Hollywood map during the Halloween event. Both Nepal and Volskaya industries already contain plenty of crystallized, frozen water on the ground. But part of Overwatch's appeal is that its cast of characters are very inclusive, and Nepal is the home territory for Zenyatta, who appears to be a Buddhist. I think it's more likely that Volskaya will be decorated with festive lights, presents and decorated pine trees, if only because it's somewhat less likely someone would get offended.

In addition to the remixed theme, Venxa discovered several new character interactions and even some new voice lines from Winston's digital assistant, Athena. Athena acts as Overwatch's announcer, and you've heard her voice before every match, letting you know what map is loading and sometimes how much time you have left in a round. These new lines appear to point to a new mode, since Athena is referring to an Arena,

A Challenger,

and a Gladiator.

Overwatch gained a one-on-one versus mode in the last major patch, but all duels take place on the Ecopoint: Antarctica map. Whether the Arena Athena refers to is a new map, a new mode, or both is unclear at this point.

Getting back to the winter update, I think a Santa hat and white beard for Torbjörn is pretty likely, and I wouldn't mind seeing D. Va's Mech preceded by eight tiny reindeer. Mei and Mercy would make adorable elves, and Genji would make a perfect ninjabread man. I'd love to see Yeti Winston smacking around a tinsel-draped Bastion, and maaybe it's just me, but I think Reaper would be perfect as the Queen of the Sugarplum Fairies.

Some Heroes interactions + SFX + Xmas Overwatch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Reddit]

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News:: Save Even More Than Black Friday On Game Controllers, Including the Xbox Elite

PS4 and Xbox One controllers were both marked down to $39 for Black Friday, but they just dropped an additional $5 to $34, the best price we’ve ever seen. In both instances, these are the new models, which means built-in Bluetooth and an improved palm grip on Xbox, and a front-facing light bar and wired gaming support…

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News:: No Man's Sky Gets Big Update Including Survival Mode, Base-Building

No Man’s Sky changed a great deal this morning, getting new modes and a ton of gameplay tweaks thanks to update 1.1, the largest one yet.

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News:: Here's Your $60 Cyber Monday PS4 Pro Discount

If only the best will do, you can save $60 on a bare PS4 Pro console today on Amazon. That beats a $40 pre-Black Friday discount, and is the best deal we’ve seen on the world’s most powerful game console. Also available at Target (discount shown at checkout).

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News:: Black Friday UK deals: get a New Nintendo 3DS XL for £169.99

It's been a crazy few days for Nintendo-related savings – you can check out all the best offers still live at our Black Friday Nintendo Deals hub – but Tesco has unleashed one of the most tempting of all: a brand new 3DS XL for under 170 quid

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