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Tears Of The Kingdom’s Great Fairy Quest Is Worth It To Upgrade Your Armor
18.5.2023
Weapons and shields are constantly breaking in Tears of the Kingdom, so you need some perks attached to the one constant you have: clothes. The Great Fairies, giant ladies with magical abilities found around Hyrule, can help you with that. In exchange for some materials, they can make your armor...
Epic Games Store Will Now Pay You Back For Buying Games
18.5.2023
The Epic Games Store is rolling out a new “Epic Rewards” program to give players five percent cash back on PC gaming purchases. Whether it’s in-game purchases like Fortnite V-Bucks or big blockbusters like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the new policy is essentially a discount on everything you...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Pirates Getting Hit With Malware
18.5.2023
If you thought you were being slick by downloading illegal uploads of The Super Mario Bros Movie online (and perhaps uploading them in parts to Twitter), there’s a chance your computer has a mystery item box of its own in the form of a malicious virus—womp womp. Read more
Zelda: This Tears Of The Kingdom Paraglider Trick Basically Lets You Fly Forever
18.5.2023
So you’ve overestimated how much stamina you have left as you paraglide Link over Hyrule. Fret not: if you have a Zonai Wing from a Zonai Dispenser in your inventory, you’re in luck. While it requires a little bit of practice to get the physics right, safely dropping from your paraglider onto...
New Mortal Kombat Will Be The Nintendo Switch’s Second $70 Game
18.5.2023
Mortal Kombat 1, a reboot of the long-running fighting game franchise, is somehow coming to the Nintendo Switch and will also cost $70. That makes it only the second game on the platform to adopt the new price point often reserved for “next-gen” games, and the first made by an outside...
Entire Class Of College Students Almost Failed Over False AI Accusations
18.5.2023
A class of seniors at a Texas university almost had their diplomas rejected and graduation rescinded, all because a professor reportedly used ChatGPT to falsely determine that the students’ final essays were written by artificial intelligence. Read more
Mortal Kombat Reboots Again, New Game Reimagines Iconic Characters
18.5.2023
Warner Bros. Games just announced the release of Mortal Kombat 1, a rebirth and reimagining of the Mortal Kombat universe and its characters. Read more
Here Are The Smelliest Links, According To Tears Of The Kingdom's Creators
18.5.2023
Link, hero of the Legend of Zelda series, has been through many visual changes over the years. We could all rank our favourites there. But have you ever stopped and wondered how the different Links across the timeline smell?Read more
Lego 2K Drive: The Kotaku Review
18.5.2023
I was on board with Lego 2K Drive the moment I learned we were getting an open-world Lego racing game, complete with the ability to build your own vehicles. And having played nearly 12 hours so far, I’m still having a lot of fun with the game. But it’s impossible to ignore a nagging feeling that...
That New Hawken Game Sucks
18.5.2023
Hey remember when a lot of people got excited that cult mech shooter Hawken was coming back from the dead? That was Monday! Now it’s Wednesday and I’m sad to say the excitement has been very short-lived.Read more
GTA VI Publisher Suggests 2024 Will Be A Very Profitable Year (Wink, Wink)
18.5.2023
Grand Theft Auto VI, the next entry in the popular open-world franchise from Rockstar Games, might be coming out as soon as next year based on some big numbers found in a new earnings report. Read more
Classic Trigun Manga Gets Fancy Reprint After Being Gone For 15 Years
17.5.2023
On Tuesday, Dark Horse Comics announced that the Trigun manga as well as its sequel manga, Trigun Maximum, are getting their own deluxe hardcover reprints later this year and in early 2024, respectively. Read more
BioWare Is Selling That Framed Photo Of Tali From Mass Effect
17.5.2023
Remember when the gamers were upset about the OG Mass Effect 3 using a stock photo of an attractive human woman to reveal what fan-favorite Quarian Tali looks like unmasked? Well, apparently developer BioWare wants you to forget about all that because, alongside patching Tali’s portrait into...
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Fixes Breath Of The Wild’s Most Controversial Feature
17.5.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s weapon degradation system was bullshit. Things got better in the back half of the game, but early on it was a pain in the ass and demoralizing to get a hot new sword only for it to break a few dozen hits later. Tears of the Kingdom fixes this. Weapons still...
Overwatch 2 Multiplayer Isn’t Good Enough To Justify Gutting Its Long-Promised PvE
17.5.2023
Overwatch players, it’s been a rough few years. When the hero shooter first debuted in 2016, it offered one of the best multiplayer experiences of all time: tight, focused combat centered on team compositions, an impressive hero pool with options for every kind of player, solid matchmaking, and...
Tears Of The Kingdom's Best Battery Upgrades Are Underground
17.5.2023
If you’ve been using Zonai items in your Tears of the Kingdom creations, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the battery icon representing your Energy Cell’s power. You’re also probably familiar with how quickly it whittles down to nothing, sending your fan-powered planes crashing down to the Hyrule...
Mourning Overwatch 2's Story Mode, A Tragedy That Didn't Need To Happen
17.5.2023
Yesterday, Blizzard held a livestream in which it announced that, yes, a new tank hero, map, and cinematic are coming to Overwatch 2. It also announced that its PvE story mode, y’know, the whole reason it said it was making Overwatch 2 in the first place, is getting nerfed into the ground. Deep...
Tears of the Kingdom Sells 10M In 3 Days, On Pace For 2023’s Biggest Game
17.5.2023
Everybody was expecting The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to be a big success. The follow-up to Breath of the Wild was destined to sell a lot and likely end up as one of the biggest games of 2023. Still, it’s surprising and impressive to see the latest Zelda game selling over 10 million...
14+ Games Whose Graphics Blew Us Away
17.5.2023
Graphics in video games are kind of a big deal: “Video” is right there in the medium’s name, after all. A game’s graphics can greatly contribute to our first impressions, sometimes memorably so. And visual creatures that we are, sometimes it just feels nice to be newly dazzled by the pixel-shader...
Where The Heck Is Tears Of The Kingdom's Hestu, The Korok Trader?
17.5.2023
The Korok seeds make a return in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but after you’re gifted these golden turds collectibles after gently and humanely returning a Korok to their friend across a body of water or other obstacles, where do you take them? Hestu, the lovable, maraca-playing Korok...