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Let’s Talk About Stray’s Weird Bummer Of An Ending
3.8.2022
Stray, a post-apocalyptic adventure game about a cat, is mostly excellent. Two of us at Kotaku recently powered through its puzzles, devouring its dense, mysteriously post-apocalyptic environments and generally enjoying living out the power-fantasy of role-playing a cat. Then we hit the credits....
Garfield, Spyro, And More Sweet Stray Mods To Change Up The Cat’s Look
2.8.2022
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Ethereum Classic Climbs 124% in 2 Weeks, Hashrate Spikes, KRW Captures 20% of ETC’s Trade Volume
28.7.2022
Roughly six years ago in July 2016, an Ethereum hard fork was used to address the infamous DAO hack. This specific fork saw the chain split into two factions, and a new crypto asset called ethereum classic was introduced to the crypto community. For years now both chains have co-existed using...
Stray Strikes Down God Of War As Steam’s Best-Reviewed Game
27.7.2022
Stray and its little-cat-that-could is winning over literally everyone, even on PC, where it’s struggled a bit in the performance category. According to Steam250.com’s 2022 rankings, the game’s glowing Steam user reviews now place it above the year’s previous best-reviewed games, including...
Stray's Little Worlds Are The Best Part Of The Game
27.7.2022
Stray has been in the headlines for a lot of very good reasons over the last week, but having just finished the game, the one thing I can’t get out of my head is not the cat, or the robots, or the platforming, but how much I loved each one of its little worlds.Read more
Someone Beat Stray Without The Cute Cat Taking Any Damage
26.7.2022
Stray has completely taken over the internet, with seemingly everyone on my timeline currently playing the futuristic feline adventure. But one YouTuber has taken what is, to most folks at least, a fairly chill cat game and made it much harder by figuring out a way to beat the entire game without...
Stray Falls Into The Usual Orientalism Pitfalls Of The Cyberpunk Genre
25.7.2022
If you’ve felt uncomfortable about the rice paddy hats in Stray, you aren’t the only one. Stray lifts Asian aesthetics to evoke exoticism and danger, but it doesn’t engage with the history of the city it appropriates. This is especially problematic because its real-world setting carries painful...
Stray’s Secret Weapon: A PR Campaign Unlike Any Other In Gaming
25.7.2022
My method for gauging a game’s popularity doesn’t hinge on parsing sales figures from NPD or concurrent player lists from SteamDB. Nope, my tell is pass-fail: whether or not my mom has texted me about it. Over the past week or so, my mother has asked me more about “the cat game” than any other game...
Mod Turns The Cat From Stray Into CJ From San Andreas
25.7.2022
Because Stray is out on PC, there are already mods for the game, and because Stray is a game about cats, a lot of those mods are focusing on that.Read more
Plus: all hail Stray, as 'that cat game' goes big...
22.7.2022
Also looking at all the other new and trending PC/console games, of course!
Why The Cat In Stray Is Orange (And How You Can Change It)
22.7.2022
Stray strays from modern conventions in one notable way: It doesn’t allow you to customize your character—at all. But three days into the game’s release cycle, modders are already doing their damndest to set things straight.Read more
Stray Has Some Annoying Hiccups On PC
22.7.2022
My colleagues have been playing Stray on PS5 and by all accounts it has been an absolute joy. I, however, have been playing on PC, where things aren’t quite as rosy.Read more
The Times When Stray Perfectly Captures The Full Cat Experience
20.7.2022
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CAT S53 je prvním superodolným telefonem značky s 5G. Bezdrátově se dobíjí a odolá pádům na ocelový povrch
20.7.2022
CAT S53 je prvním superodolným telefonem značky s podporou 5G • Ve výbavě se dostalo i na bezdrátové nabíjení • Telefon se začne prodávat v srpnu společně s novým 5G hotspotem
Real Cats Also Love Stray, The Cyberpunk Cat Game
19.7.2022
You probably already know that humans like Stray, informally known as “the cat game,” very much. The more pressing matter is this: How do cats feel about it? Though it’s only been out for a matter of hours, purrliminary evidence so far suggests they’re quite taken with it.Read more
Stray: The Kotaku Review
18.7.2022
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Bitty Kitty: Cat spoils Bitcoin node during price crash with ‘dirty protest’
17.7.2022
The story of one Bitcoiner’s cat that sought to disrupt the decentralized network with a “dirty protest.”
Hey, It's Time To Show Some Love To Dwarf Fortress
9.6.2022
It’s time to pay the piper. Dwarf Fortress, the extraordinary, free roguelike that has blossomed into a total fantasy life simulator, was an inspiration for monoliths like Minecraft and Rimworld. It’s twenty years old this year, and due to come to Steam sometime soon. However, right now,...
Stray Won’t Show You The Cat’s Butthole (Probably)
8.6.2022
If there’s a cat in your house, how does it typically walk around? With its tail pointed straight up, probably—y’know, like any normal cat. But the feline protagonist of Stray is a bit more modest: He primarily keeps his tail down, at least based on gameplay footage viewed during a hands-off...
Three New Minutes Of Stray’s Cat-Centric Platforming AKA ‘Catforming’
8.6.2022
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