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Pokémon Spoiled The TCG By Making One Set Far Too Good
19.6.2023
When it comes to buying Pokémon trading card packs, there’s pretty much one thing that people care about the most: pull rates. What are the chances of getting a special card in any given foil-wrapped packet? And with early 2023's Crown Zenith set, they suddenly got a whole lot better. Then...
Diablo 4's Most-Played Class ATM Is The Sorcerer
19.6.2023
It’s been a couple of weeks since Blizzard’s latest ARPG adventure Diablo 4 opened its hell gates to the public. With players cumulatively logging in “over 276 million hours” into the game, it’s always a fun time to look at something everyone loves: stats! Blizzard has some fun facts to share with...
This Pokémon Quest About A Dying Man Still Has Fans Shook Years Later
19.6.2023
Pokémon games have dealt with death before, but it’s often in subtext. This goes as far back as the original Pokémon Red and Blue, as fans have long speculated that your rival Blue’s Raticate passed away after a rough battle. In recent years, mortality has become a more common theme in Pokémon...
The Real-Life Dog Behind Red Dead Redemption 2’s Cain Has Died
16.6.2023
Einstein, the dog who provided the motion capture performance for Red Dead Redemption 2’s pooch Cain, has passed away according to the pup’s owner. I’m sorry to bring you this sad news.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Devs List Their Top 3 FF Games, And The Top One Is Surprising Fans
16.6.2023
In a recent interview with IGN, three Final Fantasy XVI directors revealed their top three Final Fantasy games of all time. Surprisingly, none of the directors’ picks included mainstream fan favorites titles like mega-popular Final Fantasy VII. Instead, the devs earmarked deep-cut Final Fantasy...
The Last Of Us Comes To Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights
16.6.2023
If you’ve ever found yourself playing The Last of Us and getting frustrated that the horror was only happening behind the safety of a screen, well, I have good news for you. Starting in September, The Last of Us’ signature brand of post-apocalyptic terror is coming to Universal Studios during...
Concept Art From A Canceled, Live-Action Robotech Movie
16.6.2023
For 15 years now, people in Hollywood have been trying to get a live-action Robotech movie made. Specifically, a movie based on Robotech’s first and most popular season, which was a Western repackaging of Japanese masterpiece Macross. Read more
Playboy Founder’s Son Funds His Pokémon Obsession With An OnlyFans
15.6.2023
Marston Hefner, the son of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, is probably the most down-bad person on the planet. He started an OnlyFans account this year to sell tasteful and steamy nudes, and then used that secondary income to fund his habit of collecting Pokémon cards.Read more
Save A Bunch On Great Switch Games In Nintendo's Latest Summer Sale
15.6.2023
Another season, another Switch sale. In celebration of the summer solstice or just to pad those quarterly earnings, several Switch exclusives and excellent indie games have huge discounts right now. If you need something to play by the pool, like say a 2D side-scrolling arcade-y throwback like...
Layers Of Fear: The Kotaku Review
15.6.2023
There’s a lot to admire about Layers of Fear, Polish studio Bloober Team’s new reimagining of its (relatively) excellent surreal, psychological adventure horror series. Read more
Final Fantasy XVI's Menu Screen Does Something Ridiculously Neat
15.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI doesn’t hit PlayStation 5 until June 22, but players have already gotten a chance to check out the Game of Thrones-influenced action-RPG early thanks to a two-hour demo on the PlayStation Store. It’s excellent, and also reveals some cool features I hadn’t been aware of before....
Inside Scoop On Tom Holland’s Fortnite Collab: He Was Really Adorable And A ‘Good Guy’
15.6.2023
The Hollywood Reporter published a profile of Tom Holland on June 14 and revealed to the world how cute and nice Uncharted actor Tom Holland is. As it flew around Twitter, eliciting enthusiastic GIF reactions and photosets of Holland looking deep in thought (he is multitalented), video game writer...
Lies Of P Is Giving Steampunk Bloodborne With 60 FPS Performance
15.6.2023
FromSoftware’s Bloodborne will probably linger in your mind when playing Lies of P. While the similarities are obvious, the Pinocchio Chalamet-led Soulslike is more than just a xerox of the 2015 Victorian-era masterpiece, and the recent demo makes it clear that developer Round8 Studio is more...
Here's What An Armored Core VI Boss Fight Looks Like
14.6.2023
I got to see Armored Core VI in action last week, and while the game appears to be staying true to the mech action series’ roots—featuring quick combat and lots of customization—there are also some things that fans of Dark Souls, Sekiro, and FromSoftware’s other, more recent games will be happy...
2023’s Biggest Mech Game Armored Core VI Goes All In, And It’s Great
14.6.2023
I can’t tell you what it feels like to actually play Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. While FromSoftware’s new mech adventure is out in August, Bandai Namco wouldn’t let media actually get hands-on time with the game last week at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. But I did get to watch Armored...
Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell And Other Superstar Developers Star In...A Dragon Ball Z Video
12.7.2022
Comedy group Mega64 just released a super impressive new video in which the team re-enact the entire, epic Maijin Buu story arc from Dragon Ball Z in just five (well, five-ish) minutes. To get it done, though, they needed some help.Read more
The Best Cozy Switch Games To Tap Out Of Your Daily Grind
11.7.2022
I know your mind is racing, so why don’t you sit down tonight with your Nintendo Switch and try out one of these six relaxing games? Read more
Mass Effect Legendary Edition Is Free For Prime Day
11.7.2022
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is free for members of Amazon’s Prime Gaming service this week. It’s one of six games being given out by the e-commerce giant—which has struggled, despite pouring gazillions into various projects, to produce an acclaimed game of its own—for Prime Day, its annual ritual...
New Assassin's Creed Situation On Steam Is A Digital Nightmare
11.7.2022
When games started making the switch from physical to digital, everyone knew there were trade-offs. Digital downloads were quicker and more convenient, but also meant you didn’t entirely own the game you bought. You were just licensing it, making you subject to the whims and future solvency of...
It Looks Like A PlayStation Classic, But Your Grappling Hook Is A Frog
9.7.2022
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