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Sonic Maker Sega Is The Game Industry’s Next Union Battleground

Over 140 workers at Sega of America’s Irvine, California office have announced plans to form a new union to fight for better pay, adequate staffing, and more balanced schedules. It’s the latest front in the video game industry’s growing unionization movement, and the first to move its focus beyond strictly game developers. The Week In

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Everyone’s Freaking Out Over Dead Island 2’s Incredible Gore

Dead Island 2 was always going to be a gory game. The first Dead Island, released in 2011, played like a schlocky, uninhibited horror B-movie, and Dead Island 2 developer Deep Silver made butchery a priority soon after it began working on the sequel in 2019. Blood and brains are also usually a given where

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Horizon Forbidden West Sequel And Multiplayer Spin-Off In Works

The Horizon Zero Dawn universe will continue to expand with multiple upcoming games. Guerrilla Games confirmed that Aloy’s “next adventure” is already in development, while work on a multiplayer spin-off continues as well. Life, and big robot dinosaurs in particular, finds a way. The Week In Games: Galactic Refugees And Stone-Age Life Sims The subtle

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YouTuber’s House Raided By WotC Over Magic: The Gathering Cards

Sometimes, you accidentally buy something before it hits the street date, and you get bragging rights with all of your friends. In the case of one Magic: The Gathering streamer, obtaining a box of cards early landed him in hot water with one of the most infamous private security companies in the world. The Week

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Simpsons Fan Reveals Secret Joke In 31-Year-Old Episode

Screenshot: Disney / Kotaku Die-hard Simpsons fans have a near encyclopedic memory of every joke and reference throughout the animated series’ decades-long run. Except for one. A punchline in the third season was basically impossible to hear until someone recently used audio software to decode it over 30 years later. The Week In Games: Galactic

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Pokémon Go Dev Doesn’t Read Room, Says Fans Love Going Outside

Image: The Pokémon Company Pokémon Go has been riddled with controversy over the past month after developer Niantic made changes to Remote Raid Passes. The changes included limiting how many times people could use these items to play the game remotely, rather than having to leave their home to take part. Alongside this, the studio

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Angry Birds Account Plays Smash Or Pass With Gaming Icons

Screenshot: Sega / Kotaku Existing on the internet means continuously watching popular culture get remixed and recycled until it’s memed into oblivion and still having the courage to log on each day and see what new delights, curiosities, and abject horrors await. Today it’s the Angry Birds mascot being horny on main for clout. This

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Pokémon Animations Peaked 17 Years Ago, Before Scarlet & Violet

Pokémon Battle Revolution by developer Genius Sorority was not a great game. Released in North America in 2007, it served as Pokémon’s Wii debut, but was more or less an extension of the DS games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Effectively a 3D battle simulator, it made competitive fights more compelling to watch, but as a

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Epic’s Billionaire CEO Gets On Twitter To Complain About Elites

If you had not already been made aware of the news—and I admire and respect everyone whose life choices means they are not—Twitter owner and exploding vehicle connoisseur Elon Musk spent the weekend further ruining his $44 billion purchase by messing around with the remains of the platform’s “verification” system. This New Series Completes Studio

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