Luke Winkie
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The Best And Weirdest Ways People Used To Fight Screen Cheating
5Every couple of years, someone on the internet demonstrates how they adjudicate screen cheating.
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How I Gave In To Temptation And Started Boosting In World of Warcraft Classic
Months ago, I wrote an elegy for the lost traditions of World of Warcraft Classic for Kotaku. After a long hype cycle touting it as a perfect recreation of the game’s provincial culture in the mid-2000s — those halcyon days before it was thoroughly brutalized by Blizzard’s egalitarian approach to server identity, difficulty scaling, and…
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Games Leaving Xbox Game Pass Gives Me Anxiety
In the dying hours of my work week I desperately tried to blast my way through Yoku’s Island Express. It is the quintessential Game Pass game; released in 2018 to a sanguine reception, as enthusiasts everywhere marveled at Villa Gorilla’s ability to merge pinball dexterity with Metroid-style puzzle solving, and it’s been sitting patiently in…
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Eight Rare Games That Are Worth A Lot Of Money
If you’re into video games, you’re probably aware of the white whales. Earthbound for the Super Nintendo, Stadium Events for the NES, that impossible-to-find Nintendo World Championship cartridge that sold for $US100,000 ($133,804) on eBay a couple years ago despite a torn label.