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NASA has Smash tournaments, and their poster is everything you could ever hope it to be.
We covered a lot of ground on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, from studio closures to cross-console play to…
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Maybe you’re waiting for more Zelda or Animal Crossing, but I tend to get the most excited for Nintendo’s stranger,…
Fuck cancer.
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I just wish Monty was still around to see this. ;-;
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This is an issue that we’ve been following very closely in Houston. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Dammed-if-they-do-dammed-if-they-don-t-7949554.php
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