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Cannes 2023: Close Your Eyes, plus Quentin Tarantino | Festivals & Awards

The interview, by the Fortnight’s artistic director, Julien Rejl, followed a screening of a surprise film that turned out to be John Flynn’s “Rolling Thunder” (1977) on a suitably worn 35-millimeter print. The talk largely focused on Tarantino’s new book, Cinema Speculation. The director didn’t break much news, but it was fun to see his rapid-fire,

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Kandahar movie review & film summary (2023)

Butler’s character in this year’s far superior “Plane” had the same deadline challenge, only in that movie, the daughter was graduating college, whereas this daughter looks like she’s only graduating high school. Well. This development certainly made me sit up and take notice. How many stale ingredients was this script by Mitchell LaFortune to serve

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Nintendo Patches Tears Of The Kingdom’s Duplication Glitches

Image: Nintendo | Kotaku Nintendo just updated The Legend Of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to version 1.1.2, and while the company’s official patch notes don’t mention it, users are reporting that many of the game’s notorious (and handy!) duplication glitches have been removed. Type S: Chiaki’s Journey II Volume 1 As we’ve reported, there

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Cancelled Metal Gear Solid Board Game Is Back From The Brink

IDW’s Metal Gear Solid board game was cancelled back in 2021 after a number of delays, and at the time it seemed like that was that. But no! This week it has been announced that the game is back, only now it’s going to be published by rivals CMON instead. Type S: Chiaki’s Journey II

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Bungie Should Make Another Singleplayer Shooter, We Need It

Bungie got famous making Halo, and while Halo is famous for a few things—grumpy little aliens, green jeeps, Gregorian chants—I think its most enduring legacy is the way it completely reshaped the idea of what a singleplayer shooter could and should be. Type S: Chiaki’s Journey II Volume 1 Like, yeah, its multiplayer was and

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Warhammer 40K Video Gam Show Features EIGHT Warhammer Games

Two years ago I wrote a dumb post listing just how many Warhammer games had been released in the past few years. That post is now massively out of date, because there are so many Warhammer games coming in 2023-24 that Games Workshop was able to host their own damn show about it. Type S:

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New Over-Sized Mega Man Slippers Are Perfect

Image: Capcom / Fun.com / Kotaku Sometimes a product comes along and makes me go, “Well, damn, that’s a perfect idea!” That was precisely what happened the first time I saw these newly announced Mega Man slippers that turn your feet into big, blue, comfy boots that look just like the Blue Bomber’s heroic shoes.

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Retro Trade For Tears of the Kingdom Switch & $700 Shocks Fans

An indie store called Hey Bro Video Games in Houston, Texas recently celebrated an eye-catching retro trade-in on Instagram. The customer gave the store a limited edition Pikachu Nintendo 64 in the box, an original NES in the box, and several SNES classics in great condition. In exchange he got $700 and a Legend of

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PS5’s Prestige Pivot Makes The Innovative Games Stand Out

While Sony’s shuttering of Concrete Genie developer PixelOpus earlier in May wasn’t making headlines the way yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase announcement of the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake did, it still hangs over the PlayStation brand like a dark cloud, even when Sony’s showing an hour’s worth of upcoming games. Type S: Chiaki’s Journey II Volume

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How To Solve Dandelion Korok Puzzles

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a ton of Korok missions, just like its predecessor Breath of the Wild, but there’s a new type of Korok quest that left me confused: the dandelion. Type S: Chiaki’s Journey II Volume 1 A few hours into exploring Hyrule, I noticed

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