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Kotaku (2004)
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- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2004
A video game website and blog, launched by Gawker Media.
The name mixes Japanese "otaku", an obsessive fan, with the prefix "ko-", meaning small. PC Magazine ranked it 50th on its Top 100 Classic Web Sites list.
In 2004: Launched in October with Matthew Gallant as lead writer. A month later Brian Crecente was brought in to rescue it.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run Kotaku, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want Kotaku in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
