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Overwatch 2 Can’t Afford A Season This Mid

Overwatch 2 is getting its ass beat online lately and for good reason. With the exception of its Pride event, it’s been nothing but bad news for the hero shooter between Blizzard announcing it was gutting its planned PvE suite of skill trees and replayable hero missions to charging $15 for its story missions. It’s

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Twitch Streamer’s Car Torched By Viewer Who Drove 700 Miles

A Twitch streamer has come forward with a traumatizing experience of how an obsessive fan—if you can even call him that—drove 700 miles to torch her car. This Lesbian Mafia Anime Might Actually Make You Want To Play Golf Kylee “justfoxii” Carter is a popular streamer and social media star. Boasting nearly 600,000 followers on

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Tears of the Kingdom Fans Are Building Computers Now

I mean, it was only a matter of time, right? Nintendo’s hit open-world game Tears of the Kingdom features a surprisingly robust and dynamic physics system you can build with, so it stands to reason that if you create a few “if this then that” scenarios, then bam, you basically have the working fundamentals of

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10 Tips To Survive Hardcore Mode & Avoid Permadeath

If the inferno of Diablo IV’s normal gameplay isn’t enough for those who are a little more hardened, players can subject themselves to an extra-special level of hell by opting to play in “hardcore” mode. It’s not for the faint of heart, but there are ways to make your time in hardcore mode a little

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Here’s What An Armored Core VI Boss Fight Looks Like

Gif: FromSoftware / Bandai Namco / Kotaku 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

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Aww, Overwatch 2’s DnD-Inspired Season Shouts Out Critical Role

Image: Critical Role / Blizzard Entertainment / Kotaku Overwatch 2 has a tabletop-RPG-themed event going on right now, in some ways making explicit a connection that’s long been present between the two worlds. If you didn’t know, Cassidy, the gunslinging cowboy that’s been part of the roster since the first game launched in 2016, is

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It’s 33-Player Hades & You’re All Trying To Break Out Of Hell

If you thought 33 Immortals looked like Hades, just wait until you play it. The top-down cooperative action roguelike from developer Thunder Lotus has a lot of similarities to the award-winning game from Supergiant, from its gameplay to its concept, but there’s one key difference: 33 players will enter the fray together, and have to

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2023’s Biggest Mech Game Armored Core Goes All In & It’s Great

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 Core VI’s

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11 Best Armor Sets To Loot ASAP

Link’s a pretty fashionable guy. But he also has a number of needs from his threads beyond just looking great: increased defenses, the ability to withstand extreme temperatures, and now that he’s taken to jumpin’ off islands in the sky like a madman, having increased aerial maneuvers is pretty important too. What You Should Know

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Starfield’s Xbox Controller Lets You See The Triggers Vibrating

We’ve covered the special Starfield-branded Xbox controllers before. They were one of the worst-kept secrets of 2023, alongside the Starfield-branded Xbox headset that is already joining them on store shelves. What I did not know until today was how damn cool the controller’s triggers are. Thank You, PS Plus, For Making My Backlog Even Bigger

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