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Riot Threatens To Cancel Entire LCS Season Over Player Strike

Earlier this week League of Legends players voted “overwhelmingly” to strike over plans to make rule changes that would cut the North American Challenger’s League—which only launched last year—from 16 teams to seven. The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More The LCS Players Association, the body representing the region’s professional players,

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Video Game Studio Denies Laying Off Staff Artists For AI

Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that some of the company’s artists had been laid off and replaced with, you guessed it, machine-generated imagery. The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More As Gamerbraves report, the controversy began last

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Setris Is Tetris With Sand And It’s Incredibly Satisfying

Odds are high that, you a Kotaku reader, have played Tetris before. In fact, you’ve likely played a lot of Tetris or one of its many clones and knock-offs. But you’ve probably never played a Tetris-inspired game quite like Setris, a new take on the popular puzzler that adds physics and satisfying, shifting sand to

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I Put Dozens Of Hours Into Diablo IV & I’m Only 20 Percent Done

Image: Blizzard/Kotaku I was collecting boar tusks for an enterprising child in rain-soaked Scosglen, one of Diablo IV’s five major regions, when it hit me: I don’t have time for this shit. 8 Minutes Of Diablo IV’s Character Creator I was recently fortunate enough to play with a review build of the latest in Blizzard’s

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2023 Is Only Half Over And It’s Already Full Of Great Games

2023 is barely halfway over and yet this year has already seenh great games coming out across nearly every platform. And upcoming releases are shaping up to be bangers, too. A Foe From The Next Team Ninja Game Is Giving Me Sekiro PTSD 2022 wasn’t the best year for video games. This was a sentiment

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9 Times The Best GeoGuessr Player Pulled Off An Extra Wild Find

Graphic: Trevor Rainbolt / Kotaku GeoGuessr players are out of this world. If there’s anything that comes close to real magic on the internet, it’s seeing players use nothing but a photo of a telephone pole on Google Maps to determine where that object actually is. And there’s probably no one more skilled at this

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See Tears Of The Kingdom’s Horror-Filled Depths All Lit Up

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an incredibly polished game, so what happens if you try to completely break it? YouTuber Shesez pulls back the curtain on some of the game’s hidden secrets in latest video and reveals all of the amazing stuff Nintendo doesn’t want you to see, including what the

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Game Developers Open Up About The ‘Worst’ Games They Worked On

Last week, Daedalic Entertainment, the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The Lord of The Rings: Gollum, posted an apology for the game failing to “meet the expectations” of players and devs alike. Although Gollum being one of the worst-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic is a tough L to hold, it

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Union Soccer Captain Conor Doyle’s favorite Omaha spots for food and fun

Conor Doyle spends his workweek at Werner Park in Papillion. As captain of Union Omaha, the city’s professional soccer team, the player gives his all on the field. So when it’s his downtime, Doyle seeks out low-key, restorative activities in Omaha. He prefers cozy spots where he can relax with his wife, Danielle.

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