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Survivor’s Player Customization Is Pretty Great

I’m still pretty early into Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and while I’ve not run into the game-breaking bugs PC players are dealing with on my PS5, I have run into one progress-halting issue: I can’t get back to playing the main story because I’m too busy dressing Cal Kestis in the cool (and not so

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10 Best Star Wars Games Of All Time

Image: Lucasfilm / Disney / Kotaku Looking online it seems there have been approximately 64,534 Star Wars games released since the first film hit theaters in the ‘70s. (Editor’s note: That’s incorrect.) But, while many of them are good, some are really, really good. These are the kind of games that are so great that

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Everything’s Getting More Expensive In Destiny 2

Destiny 2’s next season is right around the corner, and as always there are a ton of changes coming to the MMO shooter. Bungie outlined a bunch of them in a new blog post, including that it’s raising the price of season passes from $10 to $12. It’s a small amount in the scheme of

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Top Twitch Streamer Amouranth Got Banned Again For Some Reason

Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of Twitch’s top-performing and most popular female streamers, has been yeeted off the platform. She was hit with what appears to be a temporary ban on May 4, though the reason is unknown. This Wacky Magical Girl Anime Is Studio Trigger-Coded To Perfection Read More: The Surprising Reason Twitch Star Amouranth

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Discord Announces Forced Name Changes, Pisses Everyone Off

Discord is a pretty good product. It’s an easy way to communicate with friends, find realtime communities around topics of mutual interest, and it’s crucial for making use of voice chat across most online multiplayer games. And now Discord’s decided to muck it all up by forcing everyone to switch to a new username in

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Not Even Starfield Can Turn Around Series X/S Sales

In 2023, digital sales account for the majority of video games sold. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact, this really didn’t start until the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 era of gaming. And according to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, losing to Sony in that generation has put Xbox at a disadvantage, as

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The Star Wars Anakin Skywalker Renaissance Is Upon Us

If you were a teenage girl in the early aughts, prone to lurking amongst the towering shelves of Hot Topic tchotchkes and flat-ironing your fringe until it was crispier than Darth Vader’s body, then you always understood the Star Wars prequels, and more specifically, Anakin Skywalker. Fortnite Introduces Force Abilities In Latest Star Wars Collab

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11 Escape Room Tips So You Can Make It Out In Time

Escape rooms have gotten massively popular, and they’re a unique experience, standing out from outings at the movies or museums. They can be an amazing time, but the expectation that you’ll have to solve some puzzles can make them intimidating if you’ve never tried one before. And because the puzzles are meant to be secret,

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Legendary Horror Manga Creator Is A Little Worried About AI Art

The tumultuous digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern horror story for professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine-learning technologies go from being harmless-seeming fun to capitalist tools of extraction that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation. Things have gotten so dire that the legendary horror

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