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Both PlayStation and Xbox are running big spring sales right now. From Lego Star Wars to The Last of Us Part 1, it’s the perfect time to dip into some of 2023’s biggest blockbusters so far, or catch up on last year’s releases.
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A former Konami employee was arrested this week for allegedly attempting to murder his boss by hitting him in the head with a fire extinguisher in the office, Livedoor reported.
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If you had previously enjoyed the blistering body damage and absurd headshot multiplier of Fortnite’s Mythic Havoc pump shotgun, I’ve got some sad news. In a recent update, Epic Games nerfed the brutal weapon. But don’t worry, as update 24.20 still has a few exciting things to take advantage of.
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Elden Ring modders just can’t stop tampering with FromSoftware’s latest Soulslike, adding all kinds of crazy things from jets and tanks to flying brooms and pocket monsters. While The Lands Between is already an expansive location to die in, prolific Souls modder Dropoff has added a familiar location to the game, one…
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Third-person team-based online free-to-play crossplay shooter Rogue Company is ending support for its Switch version on June 20. Developer Hi-Rez Studios cited “significant technical and process challenges” working on the Switch version in its announcement of the upcoming shutdown. Meanwhile—and I am just reporting…
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A clever mod makes it so that Half-Life: Alyx, the Half-Life series VR exclusive, no longer requires a VR set up to play. Appropriately titled “Half-Life: Alyx NoVR,” the mod allows you to experience the game’s full campaign without an Oculus Quest 2 to your name. This isn’t the first mod to attempt this, but from…
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Steam is often a free-for-all when it comes to game curation and content moderation, but the Valve-owned storefront appears to be on the march against spam commenters, especially those pestering other users about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin trades. A number of players have recently said they’ve recently been…
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A Genshin Impact voice actor recently came under public fire after several fans came forward to accuse him of sexually inappropriate behaviors towards them. Even fellow members of the cast came forward to support the alleged victims. A week later, Genshin developer HoYoverse announced that Elliot Gindi would no longer…
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The Studio Ghibli-style Lofi Girl has been sitting by her window since 2018, listening to soft hip hop beats forever playing in the YouTube livestream she lives in. She’s become a studying staple, a teammate to sit beside while you pore over homework or your half-finished sitcom script, and spawned countless…
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On Tuesday, Fortnite announced that it’s bringing Attack on Titan characters Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, and Levi Ackerman to the mega-popular battle royale game. However, Attack on Titan skins aren’t the only items _Fortnite’_s dropped into the game. It’s also tucked away the anime’s most important McGuffin: Grisha’s…
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Media Molecule has announced it’s ending support for Dreams, its PlayStation 4-based game-making suite, after four years.
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Discord rolled out Soundboard, a new voice call feature to a small number of users at the end of last month, allowing you to play a short audio clip to use as a reaction or add custom sounds to your server. Unfortunately, Discord hasn’t set a hard limit on how frequently you’re allowed to react, leading to some truly…
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A few days back a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player by the name of sp1cay was playing with some friends when, after a quick sprint and toss of a grenade, they whipped out their AWP sniper rifle and fired off a single shot.
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Dead Space originally came out in 2008. It was re-released to great fanfare earlier this year, its visuals updated for modern hardware. You might think that’s more than enough Dead Space for now, thank you very much, but we don’t always have to go so HD with these remakes. Sometimes we can go back.
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The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is an iconic Hollywood soundbyte that, thanks to its use in countless films, TV shows and video games over the years, is surely one of the most familiar yells in human history.
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In July 2020, artist Relan Daevath drew a piece of Elder Scrolls Online fanart and posted it on their Tumblr account. Now, three years later, they’ve discovered that seemingly the exact piece has appeared in the game itself, only they had nothing to do with it.
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Over the weekend Star Wars Celebration 2023 (an event dedicated to Star Wars news, panels, and more) happened, and while a lot of news came out of the event, the internet can’t stop talking about a relatively minor thing: Orange lightsabers. Are they really orange? What does that mean? Who are these new characters…
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Some retro gaming enthusiasts are so preoccupied with what they could build, they won’t stop to question if they should. One such diabolical maker has combined his love of retro consoles with his expertise in 3D printing and robotics to build the NESdestroyer: a repurposed NES console shell with a fully mobile,…
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Despite being called the Star Wars Celebration, this past’s weekend’s event didn’t just showcase a bunch of trailers and panels from a galaxy far, far away. The event also hosted a panel for LucasFilm’s upcoming Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny starring Harrison Ford. The big bad in the new …
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A massive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artbook leaked in February, and Nintendo hasn’t forgotten. The Switch maker is currently trying to subpoena Discord, where images from the artbook first started making the rounds, to force the social media platform to disclose the identity of one of the users alleged…
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When it comes to ranking Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, you’re really just ranking a group of top-tier games. A list ranking the Zelda series is a list of bangers, and even the “worst” entry is better than most other games. So don’t get mad if your favorite is on the lower half of this list, it’s standing…
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The wait for Bethesda’s Starfield, first announced in 2018, has felt like interstellar travel itself. But the journey is nearly over: On September 6, 2023, Starfield will finally arrive on Xbox Series X/S and Windows PCs. Promising an ambitious scale and signature Bethesda role-playing, there’s a lot to look forward…
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Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake is bursting with secrets and unlockables, things like extreme weapon upgrades and hidden gems hanging over your head, waiting to be found and taken. But in the case of unlimited ammo (which has been a discoverable feature in RE4 since the original game released, it’s not an exploit like…
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This weekend, the U.S. military was faced with a massive document leak that could have a significant impact on the war in Ukraine, and officials say that it’s one of the “most damaging in decades.” The leaks originated from a small Discord server, and then spread to a popular Minecraft one.
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Whether you’ve seen The Super Mario Bros. Movie or not, you’ve undoubtedly heard Chris Pratt’s fairly normal-sounding voice as the titular plumber. Initially derided for sounding nothing like the Mario we’ve come to know from the games, Pratt has put his own spin on the character. But in his quest to find the perfect…
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During Monday’s Star Wars Celebration event, we got to see the new trailer for the popular Star Wars anime series, Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 and boy howdy was it stunning.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie just wrapped up its first box office weekend and made a ton of money in the process. Its five-day opening run brought in $204.6 million in the U.S. and $377 million globally, beating Sonic the Hedgehog, which previously held the record for the “highest grossing” video game movie debut.…
KotakuAhead of its April 28 launch, developer Respawn Entertainment shared one last look at Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, complete with a Stormtrooper force thrown directly into a TIE-fighter. It also showed off Cal’s return to Coruscant, his home before the Jedi were wiped out at the end of the Clone Wars.
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Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we talked to rural and disabled Pokémon Go players about the impact of changes to the game’s Remote Raid…
