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Entire GameStop Store Quits On Tears Of The Kingdom Release Day

Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear of entire GameStop stores quitting en masse as working conditions at the video game retailer continue to deteriorate. It’s rarer to hear of employees resigning the day the biggest game of the year launches. But that’s apparently what happened at a store in Michigan the day The Legend of

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What To Do On The Way To Kakariko Village

Following Link’s descent from Great Sky Island, your time is really your own. There’s a main quest which you should definitely make some progress in (especially if you want the all-important paraglider early on), but stretching your legs a bit and exploring what secrets this gorgeous world has in store for you is well worth

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Tears Of The Kingdom Players Are Popping Off

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lets you build all kinds of wild contraptions thanks to Link’s new abilities like Ultrahand, Fuse, and Autobuild. While some folks are out here making weapons of mass destruction, Japanese players are flexing their creative muscles in other ways, and I’m so here for it. An Anime

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Nintendo Switch Online Adds A Bunch Of Random Mario GBA Games

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku The Game Boy Advance isn’t the best gaming handheld ever, but it’s certainly the one I’m most nostalgic about. It let me take gorgeous spin-offs of my favorite 16-bit SNES games on the go, and most importantly included some incredible pixel art gems the likes of which we’ve never seen since.

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Tears Of The Kingdom Infinite Item Glitch Survives First Update

Image: Nintendo The first of what is sure to be many updates to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom dropped last night on May 18 and the first question on everyone’s mind was: Is the infinite item glitch safe? And yes, it is. Update version 1.1.1 fixes other bugs, but fortunately not that

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Movie Reviews

The Night of the 12th movie review (2023)

Very early on, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that a young woman has been murdered and the entire police force is male. These are professional men who do their job and do it very well, but at a certain level, there is a disconnect. The men slip into moments of judging Clara for her

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The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future movie review (2023)

Alegria’s film is rich with atmosphere, beginning with its opening images of sickened fish washing up on a riverbank and taking their last desperate gasps. Later, a lone cow stands in a forest amid strands of moonlight and seems to stare directly into our souls. Swarms of bees take flight in formation as if sending

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Linus Sebastian Is Stepping Down As CEO Of Linus Media Group

Screenshot: YouTube Canadian YouTuber Linus Sebastian, best known to most as the guy behind the insanely popular Linus Tech Tips channel, has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO of the companies he helped create and has been running for the past ten years. An Anime That Might Make You Put Your Minecraft Bed Next

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Kotaku’s Impressions Of Age Of Wonders 4, A New Fantasy 4X

Age of Wonders is a long-running PC strategy series that has been around since 1999. It takes the 4X genre—think Civilization—and transports it into a fantasy world where battles are resolved in tactical showdowns, there’s magic everywhere and your leaders are also RPG characters. An Anime That Might Make You Put Your Minecraft Bed Next

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Prequel To Japanese RPG Is Doing Very Nicely On Kickstarter

While the Golden Age of video games making bank on Kickstarter is long gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t still success stories on the platform. And a big one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s trying to deliver on dreams that fans have been harbouring for 15 years and

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