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Here’s What $30M Of Funko Pops Going To The Landfill Actually Looks Like
29.3.2023
Earlier this month, the pop culture collectible company Funko announced it was going to throw $30 million worth of Pop! figures in the garbage because its warehouses were overflowing with excess stock. Now images are beginning to emerge of unopened boxes full of Harry Potter-theme Funkos and more...
Dress-Up RPG Has Loophole That Lets Disney Princesses Wield Guns
27.3.2023
The most beautiful thing about the 2021 follow-up to dress-up role-playing game Love Nikki, Shining Nikki, is its arcane strangeness. The clothes are pretty, too—glittery dresses with skirts shaped like a tulip petals’ cup, tiaras with knots of pearls like dollops of cake frosting, one implausibly...
Reduce Your Screen Time With These Video Game-Inspired Board Games
23.3.2023
Between my PC, PS5, Switch, GameCube (yeah, I still have one of those), iPhone, and my friend’s Xbox 360 (yeah, he still has one of those), it’s hard not to feel completely boxed in by screens leaking evil, sleep-disrupting blue light. Though I like playing games every day, I also have screen...
Destiny 2 Fixing Gunship That Keeps Killing Everyone
23.3.2023
If you’ve played Destiny 2 at all in the weeks since Lightfall released, you’ve probably died more than once to a Thresher. The nondescript Cabal gunships have been utterly destroying players since the new expansion hit, but some much needed relief is finally on the way.Read more
Trump Hasn't Been Arrested But AI Images Keep Fooling People
21.3.2023
The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually be held...
Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
21.3.2023
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”Read more
Destiny Players Pay Tribute To Lance Reddick, Their Fallen Commander
17.3.2023
Lance Reddick, the actor who’s been lending his voice to games ranging from the Horizon series to Quantum Break, passed away Friday. He was 60 years old. While he’s been in films and TV shows such as John Wick and The Wire, Destiny players know him best as the commander of The Last City, the Awoken...
Silent Hill 2 Team Shows Terrifying Gameplay Preview Of Their OG Horror Remake
17.3.2023
2016 psychological horror game Layers of Fear is, in developers Anshar Studios and Bloober Team’s words, getting not quite a remake, but a “reimagining”—”a unified vision of horror” chaining together the stories of Layers of Fear, sequel Layers of Fear 2, all pre-existing DLCs and a new one, called...
The Internet Once Again Loses It Over Dudes Playing With Water
16.3.2023
TikTok isn’t just an algorithmic time waster for discovering viral dances and new memes. It’s also full of new niche genres like grindset grifting, chefs doing cooking commentary, and ASMR deep cleaning. Oh, and challenge-based trends like dudes playing with cups of water.Read more
Twitch Streamer Caught With Deepfake Porn Of Friends Returns, Wants To Help
15.3.2023
Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing—the Twitch streamer who in January accidentally revealed he was viewing explicit deepfake content featuring women streamers he’s friends with IRL, setting off a massive controversy—recently returned to the platform to update his fans.Read more
This OnlyFans Creator Has Devs Begging Her To Make A Horror Game
10.3.2023
You open TikTok to find a woman rushing toward you in her kitchen. “My parents are coming over,” she informs you, her jaw snapping open and shut like a stork swallowing a fish, “can you help me clean?”Read more
5 Huge Games Releasing This Spring (And Music You Should Jam While Playing)
2.3.2023
Congratulations, you made it to March, when it’s still freezing, but you might notice a tulip poke its green head out of the dirt. Like flowers as we get deeper into the year, video game releases are also beginning to flourish. But, perhaps controversially, I rarely manage to get myself excited...
Twitch Star Adin Ross Banned After Streaming Porn, Now Lashing Out
27.2.2023
Adin Ross, one of Twitch’s top broadcasters with over seven million followers, has been banned from the livestreaming platform for the eighth time. This time, it appears to be permanent following a string of incidents he’s engaged in on rival streaming platform Kick, including pulling up porn...
Metroid Prime Remastered Is Selling Out, Going For $100+ On eBay
23.2.2023
Earlier this month, Metroid Prime Remastered was announced and released digitally on Nintendo Switch. It’s very good and a perfect example of how to remaster an old game. However, it wasn’t available physically until yesterday, February 22. And uh, well, it’s still kind of not available physically...
Paper Mario-Like Game Dev Yanks Own Game Offline In Legal Fight
22.2.2023
The Outbound Ghost is a charming turn-based adventure RPG that’s been garnering hype on social media thanks to its cutesy blend of The Legend of Zelda, Paper Mario, and Undertale mechanics. The paper mache game hit Steam in late 2022, but if you look for it there now, you won’t find anything...
The Full Story Behind That Spinning Cat You're Seeing Everywhere Now
21.2.2023
If you’ve been on Twitter, Steam, Tiktok, or Reddit recently, you may have come across a 3D model of a black-and-white cat. This is Maxwell, and while the cat’s become very popular among modders and gamers over the last few months, its origins date back before 2023. So why is a low-poly model of...
Pokémon Collectors Keep Driving Up Prices On Trading Cards With Women And Girls
20.2.2023
On January 20, the latest expansion of the Pokémon Trading Card Game released in Japan in the form of twin sets Scarlet EX and Violet EX. They’re due for an English release in March, or you can pre-order the Japanese versions from importers right now. But there’s a catch.Read more
GameStop Employee Explains What Made Her Close A Store And Never Come Back
17.2.2023
Taylor Neubert did what so many GameStop employees have only dreamed about: quit on the spot. Fed up with working 10-hour days all by herself between piles of video games and stacks of Pokémon merchandize for less than $15 an hour, she closed her store in the middle of her shift, put a sign on...
Witcher 3 Devs Explain How 'Unintended' Next-Gen Vaginas Ended Up In Game
14.2.2023
At long last, the labiagate saga can come to a close. CD Projekt Red has confirmed to Kotaku that the realistically modeled vaginas that were recently found in the celebrated open-world RPG came from a mod…but not the one you might expect. Read more
Call of Duty Sexists Tell Twitch Streamer To Make Sandwiches, And She Does
14.2.2023
It’s 2023, and FPS gaming hasn’t really improved for anyone who sounds like a woman over voice chat. No matter how skilled they are, it seems inevitable that some fuckwad is going to tell the player to make a sandwich. One female Call of Duty streamer decided to respond to shitty opponents...