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Nightmare Giga Roller Coaster Closes After Fan Spots Huge Crack

Amusement park rides scare the shit out of me. I have a fear of heights, and moving fast, and just about everything associated with roller coasters. But I can usually still persuade myself to get on one every now and then, secure in the knowledge that surely the ride would not be up and running

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Gaming

Overwatch 2’s Next Story Missions Won’t Launch Until 2024

Image: Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch 2’s long-awaited story missions start rolling out next month on August 10, but from the sound of it, the three levels that launch in the first wave will be the only ones that launch in 2023. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Diablo IV News of this comes from executive

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Gaming

Netflix’s Stop-Motion Pokémon Series Will Be Warm, Therapeutic

During an Anime Expo press junket for Netflix’s upcoming anime, Pokémon Concierge, actress Rena Nōnen, also known as Non, revealed what it was like working on the stop-motion anime series and how its warm animation style will make any fan wish Pokémon resorts were real. New Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Features Hot Profs, 4-Player

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Gaming

Netflix Pluto Producer Felt Pressure To Adapt Acclaimed Manga

During Anime Expo, I spoke with Masao Maruyama, producer of Netflix’s upcoming Astro Boy-inspired anime, Pluto. We spoke about the pressure his studio felt in adapting one of the most critically praised and best-selling manga of the 2000s, as well as his thoughts on how the kinds of machine-learning technologies prophesied in the original manga

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Gaming

Wit Studio President Shares His Thoughts On Anime Crunch

It’s no secret among anime fans that Wit Studio’s herculean efforts on earlier seasons of the mega-popular Attack on Titan and sleeper hit Vinland Saga helped make each series a household name in the anime industry. While both shows have since been passed on to Mappa, and fans have growing concerns over whether animators in the

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Gaming

Spy x Family Loid Actor’s Favorite Scene Isn’t In The Manga

Wit Studio and CloverWorks’ wholesome yet action-packed new anime series Spy x Family took the world by storm after it debuted last spring. Since its debut, Spy x Family became one of the highest-rated shows on the anime database and social media site MyAnimeList, beating out mega-popular shows like Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and even

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Movie Reviews

Acting Magic: Alan Arkin (1934-2023) | Tributes

Perhaps the greatest surprise in his career was his Oscar-nominated turn as John Singer, a deaf mute in the 1968 adaptation of Carson McCullers’s “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” Arkin has no dialogue in the film. His performance is built on glances and gestures; as such, he wears all his emotions on his face

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Gaming

14 Wild Loot Drops Fans Have Found

Image: Blizzard / Kotaku With so many skill trees and loot combinations, Diablo IV has no shortage of ways to eviscerate your foes and make them fear your mathematical superiority. Players are still finding all sorts of incredible Unique-rarity items, and certain of these weapons and armors are proving to be exceptionally worth hunting down.

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Gaming

Only Up! Pulled From Steam After Becoming A Twitch Sensation

Gif: SC-KR Games / Kotaku Only Up!, a not-so-endless runner that recently took off on Twitch, has been inexplicably removed from Steam with no warning, but there’s reason to believe it might’ve been removed due to a copyright dispute with an artist claiming the game uses one of their assets. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker

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Gaming

Man Is Selling A Retro Game Store On Craigslist For $1 Million

Hey, do want to own a retro video game store in California? And (this is important) are you not Elon Musk? Well, good news, someone is selling a game store, its entire stock, and even its 15-foot-tall Mario effigy on Craigslist right now, all for a cool $1,000,000. Why? Because the current owner just wants

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