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Steam Is Getting A GameCube And Nintendo Wii Emulator

The makers of Dolphin announced the GameCube and Wii emulator will come to Steam Early Access later this year. It promises to let users play classics like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Super Mario Galaxy with improved graphics and better performance than the original consoles offered. I’m sure Nintendo’s lawyers are thrilled.

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PUBG’s Landmark Popularity Is All About The Adrenaline, Baby

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill one another until only one remains. It’s a theme

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11 ‘Bad’ Games We’ll Die Defending

Image: Nintendo I’ve spent a lifetime hearing folks malign Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as “objectively the worst Zelda game” or making other similarly denigrating statements. (OK, occasionally they’ll make allowances for Spirit Tracks being even worse.) Well, I’m here to say that you’re all wrong. Zelda II is both a great game in

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Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Auto-Sort Feature Has Changed The Game

Making my way downtown, cases pass, and I auto-sort.Illustration: Capcom / Kotaku Resident Evil games have always been, in part, storage management simulators. You must carefully craft how each item fits into your bag, case, or whatever else you’re using to lug your gear around. Like many others, I took great pride in this. I

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10 Meh Games That Became Killer With Updates

Image: 343 Industries Oh, Halo. While you’ll always have a fan in me, those early days of The Master Chief Collection were friggin’ rough. In 2014, I was hypnotized by the idea of every numbered Halo game, and all of its multiplayer, packaged into a single experience. Were it so easy. MCC would be the

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Warzone 2.0’s Biggest Streamer Is Taking A Break

Aydan Conrad is one of the biggest competitive Call of Duty streamers with over 3 million followers on Twitch and over a million on YouTube. On March 27, Conrad announced that he intended to take a break from creating content for Warzone 2.0. The Witcher 3 Meets Tense Roguelike PvE Card-Battling In Rogue Mage “I

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The Gathering Card Keeps Breaking Records

The most sought after Magic: The Gathering card looks relaxedly dignified to people who don’t play the game, displaying a stretching flower the same color as an overripe blueberry and its name in muted gray text: “Black Lotus.” A novice could appreciate the card, the art provided by deceased, renowned Magic illustrator Christopher Rush, but

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Tears of the Kingdom’s New Crafting

Image: Nintendo / Kotaku Nintendo pulled back the curtain on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s gameplay on Tuesday to reveal a ton of new ways Link can craft stuff. Mushroom shields. Helicopter rafts. Big, huge sticks. The hero of time is handier than ever and fans are loving it. Skyward Sword HD

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Resident Evil 4 Remake As Told By Steam Reviews

Image: Capcom / Kotaku Capcom’s long-awaited and much-hyped remake of its classic survival horror game, Resident Evil 4, is finally here. Once again Leon S. Kennedy must venture to Europe to save the President’s daughter from a deadly and creepy cult of villagers who are infected by an ancient parasitic organism that mutates its hosts

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Men Lie About How They Play Game Out Of Embarrassment

You know that new-age internet saying, “all women do is eat hot chip and lie?” Well, now we’ve got a new gamer saying for men. And no, it has nothing to do with them chugging Monster energy drinks and punching holes in the wall when they lose in Warzone, because all men do is “play

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