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It’s only been 24 hours since I started playing Marvel Snap, and like everyone else who tries their hand at the free-to-play card battler, I am completely enamored by it. It’s simple, it’s colorful, it’s free—and it offers ample opportunity for you to act like a total asshole in matches without ever having to speak a…
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Five months after I posted about a Chinese action game featuring aerial combat, I’ve got another cool one to show you. Despite the silly name, Project: The Perceiver is a melancholy political drama that gives me some Ghost of Tsushima vibes. But Project: The Perceiver moves beyond the standard Soulslike combat. And…
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Kevin Conroy, the legendary Batman voice actor who rose to prominence in the beloved ‘90s show Batman: The Animated Series and later played the dark knight in the acclaimed Arkham games,has passed away at the age of 66 after after a short battle with cancer. The news of Conroy’s passing was announced by castmates…
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Game Freak’s new monster collecting and battling RPG launching on November 18 for Nintendo Switch, has already started leaking online. I mean, someone has been streaming the entire game, so be careful of spoilers if you care about that sort of thing. But one aspect of these games folks are…
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With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now about as comprehensively spoiled as a game can be prior to release, especially after yesterday’s 22-and-a-half hour livestreaming of the game, people are starting to dive into some of the nitty gritty spoilers you may not think to ask about prior to release. Most of these, we’re…
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In 2018, the first issue of a magazine called A Profound Waste of Time was released. Marrying heartfelt essays on video games with beautiful art, it was great, and did well enough that five years later a second edition was put together that was just as good. Now it’s time for issue #3.
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Hi, this is Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett, one of the 17 people on the planet regularly enjoying the game, reporting live from Battlefield 2042.
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Marvel Snap’s boss, Ben Brode, recently sat down and talked shop about the popular free-to-play card game. He revealed a few decks he’s currently playing—one of them being a nasty piece of work that likely annoys many players—and said who his favorite character in the game is. It’s Mysterio aka Jake Gyllenhaal in the …
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So, you’ve got this solid idea for a Lego set based on Nintendo’s popular action-adventure franchise The Legend of Zelda. You fine-tune the project and submit it to Lego Ideas, a section of the company’s website where fans share their own proposals for new sets, but…wait, hold on. Your idea just got rejected, with The…
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Netflix just released a new trailer for Dragon Age: Absolution, which is a six-episode animated show about a magical heist made in collaboration with BioWare. I criticized the last trailer for being generically bland. The new trailer is a significant improvement over what Netflix had originally shown. If you’re a…
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In between attempting to post through being tarred and feathered for transforming Twitter into the world’s silliest pay-to-win, Elon Musk is being asked to pay royalties to a manga artist after posting a popular anime meme.
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If I was playing a video game this year, odds were high that I was also dealing with some sort of crafting system. Sometimes I was fighting off zombies in a large open world. Or killing monsters and bandits in God of War Ragnarök. Or fighting bad guys on the mean streets of Gotham City as Batgirl. Once I was just …
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God Of War Ragnarök’s $200 Collector’s Edition comes in a gold embossed box, with a 16-inch replica of Norse god Thor’s Mjölnir hammer, a set of engraved dwarven dice, downloadable cosmetics, and more. That “and more” ideally will suck out some of the sting if you, like other buyers have reported, open up your $200…
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In less than a week, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 will massively overhaul the Warzone experience. There are a ton of changes and updates coming to CoD’s spin on the battle royale formula. The update contains the same core BR experience, but adds a ton of interesting twists that’ll surely shake some things up.
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The more I play Marvel Snap, the more dickish I become with my deck builds. Hate me, because I keep leaning toward those cards that mess with the opponent over and above winning a location. And hate me most, because after all the fun of playing cards like Scorpion, Killmonger and Hobgoblin, my favorite moment comes…
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent the last year on a victory tour. The “crypto kingpin” held court at Bloomberg’s Crypto Summit over the summer and was crowned as a mega donor savior to Democrats in the midterm elections. His company even gloated about him playing League of Legends during high-level meetings with…
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In a November 9 blog, as part of a stuffed first season, Call of Duty announced that it was introducing a pliable battle pass system to both Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0, a huge deviation from Call of Duty’s norm.
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The blue Twitter checkmark was once the lightning-shaped scar of the internet. It meant that you were marked by fate to achieve great things, and all unverified peons had to bow at your feet. That was before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Now verification is more like a Louis Vuitton bag—you paid for the privilege of…
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Usually, you play a few hours of a game and you can confidently give your thoughts on it. Not a full review or anything, but you can usually say, “Oh yeah, that’s a good one” or “Nah, pass, it’s awful” or something like that. But not Sonic Frontiers. A few hours in and I’m not sure at all what to think. Who is this…
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Elves, robots, zombies and pirates. Many of today’s internet stars aren’t even human, but outlandish characters that wouldn’t look out of place in a popular anime or manga. Such is the world of virtual YouTubers or “VTubers,” who have gone from a niche technology experiment to a full-blown cultural phenomenon in the…
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Sadly, it appears Nintendo is now just utterly helpless to leaks. So many first-party games from the last couple of years has found its way online—either being streamed, or even ripped and playable on PC—a week or more ahead of its release. Joining them, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has already seen a huge number of…
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We’ve featured German cosplayer Maul a ton of times on Kotaku, maybe more than any other individual cosplayer, and there’s a very good reason for that: just look at these photos.
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This month’s helping of PlayStation Plus games is as stuffed as a Thanksgiving turkey. A little seasonal analogy for you there, ahem. Anyway, it’s looking like a fantastic month for fans of a variety of popular game series.
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In a lengthy, 14,000-word Medium post, Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon accused id Software’s executive producer Marty Stratton of lying about the official soundtrack’s shoddy release and throwing him under the bus as the cause for its poorly mixed tracks.
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The latest in a seemingly never-ending list of dire consequences for Twitter users in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase is a very predictable one: after overhauling the site’s verification system a flood of fake—and yet still “verified”—accounts have begun using the platform to fuck with people.
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Nintendo wrapped up its Indie World Showcase today, highlighting a ton of upcoming and just-launched games for the Switch. There’s a little bit of everything here, from a cute puzzler with a mischievous cat to a Fox and the Hound-like adventure game. This indie presentation was pretty big, so let’s get into everything…
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As the sun rose on Twitter this morning, many users found new “Official” verification badges, which had just been announced yesterday, attached to their accounts. (Kotaku notably did not; what did we do to upset you, Elon?) But before anyone could even enjoy their first lunch as double-verified elites, the badges…
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I had one hell of a weekend. After I published my piece on Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida’s misguided comments about the next game’s overwhelming whiteness, the fans completely lost their minds. Sure, I saw the usual slurs and petty insults. But those weren’t the comments that stuck to my brain. What bothered me…
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In the new God of War games, Kratos is more mature and less angry. But before he was the Dad of War, he was a big asshole willing to kill anyone or let people die—often in horrible ways—if it meant he could continue his quest. And one poor soul, a nameless boat captain, encountered the terrible Kratos of the past…