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The Best VR Game Nobody Played Doesn’t Need VR Anymore

A clever mod makes it so that Half-Life: Alyx, the Half-Life series VR exclusive, no longer requires a VR set up to play. Appropriately titled “Half-Life: Alyx NoVR,” the mod allows you to experience the game’s full campaign without an Oculus Quest 2 to your name. This isn’t the first mod to attempt this, but

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Steam Crackdown Hits CSGO Player With $500K In Skins

Steam is often a free-for-all when it comes to game curation and content moderation, but the Valve-owned storefront appears to be on the march against spam commenters, especially those pestering other users about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin trades. A number of players have recently said they’ve recently been locked out of their accounts at one

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Genshin Impact Has A New Voice Actor After Harassment Claims

Image: HoYoverse A Genshin Impact voice actor recently came under public fire after several fans came forward to accuse him of sexually inappropriate behaviors towards them. Even fellow members of the cast came forward to support the alleged victims. A week later, Genshin developer HoYoverse announced that Elliot Gindi would no longer be the voice

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YouTube Freaks As Lofi Hip Hop Girl Disappears From Big Stream

The Studio Ghibli-style Lofi Girl has been sitting by her window since 2018, listening to soft hip hop beats forever playing in the YouTube livestream she lives in. She’s become a studying staple, a teammate to sit beside while you pore over homework or your half-finished sitcom script, and spawned countless offshoots, including a Star

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Fortnite Gets Attack On Titan’s Secret Jaeger Basement

Image: Epic Games / Kotaku On Tuesday, Fortnite announced that it’s bringing Attack on Titan characters Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, and Levi Ackerman to the mega-popular battle royale game. However, Attack on Titan skins aren’t the only items Fortnite’s dropped into the game. It’s also tucked away the anime’s most important McGuffin: Grisha’s basement. Witch

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PlayStation’s Most Ambitious Game Ends Updates After 4 Years

Media Molecule has announced it’s ending support for Dreams, its PlayStation 4-based game-making suite, after four years. In Eternights You Press R2 To Hold Hands Just Like IRL In a post on the game’s website, the studio laid out the next few months, including a plan to end live support for Dreams on September 1.

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Discord Users Are Trolling Each Other With The New Soundboard

Image: Discord Discord rolled out Soundboard, a new voice call feature to a small number of users at the end of last month, allowing you to play a short audio clip to use as a reaction or add custom sounds to your server. Unfortunately, Discord hasn’t set a hard limit on how frequently you’re allowed

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GO Player Kills Five Guys With One Bullet

Image: Kotaku | sp1cay A few days back a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player by the name of sp1cay was playing with some friends when, after a quick sprint and toss of a grenade, they whipped out their AWP sniper rifle and fired off a single shot. We Taste-Tested The Super Mario Bros. Movie Hot Sauces

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Dead Space Demake Developed By Fan, Released for Free On PC

Dead Space originally came out in 2008. It was re-released to great fanfare earlier this year, its visuals updated for modern hardware. You might think that’s more than enough Dead Space for now, thank you very much, but we don’t always have to go so HD with these remakes. Sometimes we can go back. Suddenly,

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The Original Take Of The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ Has Been Uploaded

The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is an iconic Hollywood soundbyte that, thanks to its use in countless films, TV shows and video games over the years, is surely one of the most familiar yells in human history. The Week In Games: High On Witchcraft Its origins are well known. It comes from a movie called Distant Drums,

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