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Microsoft Is Struggling To Sell Xboxes, Again

Illustration: Chelsea Beck / Kotaku Two years in, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S is already losing steam. The tech giant reported on Tuesday that revenue from console hardware sales was down 30 percent from the same time in 2022 after big games like Starfield got delayed. Game Pass didn’t seem to be making up the difference.

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Respecing Is ‘Essentially Free’ Up To A Point

Screenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku We’ve all been there: Ya sink a bunch of hours into a dense RPG only to find out your character build isn’t working out as well as you’d like. When that happens, it’s time to respec. No two games handle this the same way, and it sounds like Diablo IV will

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Metacritic Will Improve Moderation After Horizon Review Bombing

Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful reviews. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns

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We ‘Cancel So Many Games’

In a new interview published Monday, PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida talked about how difficult and expensive it is to make video games, explaining that the company behind hits like God of War and The Last of Us cancels “so many games” in order to “save” developers from getting stuck on something. Blade’s Book Club Is The

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Rare ’90s Pikachu Pokémon Card Sells For A Wild $300,000

There’s a lot you can do with $300,000: buy a couple Teslas, invest in some stocks, get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X (or a few of them). It’s an amount of money some people will never see in their lifetimes. Yet, someone with the cash to burn took their $300,000 and bought a super-rare

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Bonkers Halo Mario Kart Mod Deserves To Be Its Own Game

Gif: 343 Industries / InfernoPlus / MintBlitz / Kotaku The Halo series has had so many legendary vehicles that it’s a wonder we haven’t seen an official racing spin-off by now (no, that Forza Warthog doesn’t count). While players have created no shortage of Forge-crafted mini-games focused on vehicle hijinks, one brave modder has finally

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Kiewit Luminarium -Omaha’s stunning new STEM museum at Lewis & Clark Landing provides fun and discovery for families

Kiewit Luminarium, the 82,000-square-foot two-story Omaha STEM museum, hummed with excitement. Visitors of all ages explored more than 120 interactive exhibits related to various STEM fields – from physics to earth science, biology to geometry, and fabric arts to finance. Located at Lewis and Clark Landing at the Missouri River’s edge,

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Today’s Wordle Answer Is Stumping 30% Of Players Somehow

Today’s Wordle answer is evading nearly 30 percent of players, The New York Times—which has been publishing Josh Wardle’s beloved word puzzle since buying it in 2022—said on Twitter. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s Midnight Suns The guessing game, a more streamlined, bloodless hangman, requires a bit of luck to solve,

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The 8 Best Star Trek Games To Play Now You’ve Finished Picard

Yes, no, stop, you’re right. This is an interactive movie, and it absolutely has as much interaction as any other interactive movie of the godforsaken era. But it has one other thing, and it’s really important: Q. Oh my goodness, if you didn’t live through video games in 1996, then count yourself lucky. The CD-ROM

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