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Tears of the Kingdom Weapons Break Just Like BOTW

Nintendo dropped a wild 10-minute look at the highly anticipated sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK), today. We saw new abilities, the Sky Islands our Himbo of Time can ascend to, and the enemies he’ll encounter in Hyrule. We also learned weapon degradation has made a return, but it’s not all

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Tears of The Kingdom Gets The Most Elegant Switch Yet

Image: Nintendo / Kotaku Nintendo finally unveiled its long-rumored The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Collector’s Edition OLED Switch. It’s still not the Switch Pro upgrade many players have been waiting for, but it still looks pretty neat and is far and away one of better-looking special edition consoles its released in recent

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Tears of the Kingdom Gameplay Drops

Zelda fans have been starving for anything they can get, any crumb they can catch, and it seems like Nintendo is finally taking pity, rewarding them with a 10-minute gameplay trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the gameplay snippet, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma says through a translator that Tears has

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Fortnite’s Story Is Way Better Than It Gets Credit For

What makes Fortnite so engaging? Ask players what they love, and there’s a number of things they might mention about the hugely popular battle royale. The gameplay loop is fun, with solid third-person shooter controls and the unique complexity of its building mechanic nicely complicating the simple quest to be the last person standing. It

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Someone Just Found Cheat Codes For 2004’s Gran Turismo 4 On PS2

Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 4, released in December 2004, is a video game we have been playing for almost 20 years, and we have all been playing it, this entire time, without realising that it has cheat codes. The catch is that 365 days need to have passed on the game’s internal calendar before they’re made

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Lewd Ghibli Posters Now Very Sorry For Causing ‘Distress’

Governor Hideaki Ōmura, who has accepted the men’s apologiesPhoto: YUICHI YAMAZAKI (Getty Images) Earlier this month we reported that a small number of people had been taking and appearing in “lewd” photos with statues at Studio Ghibli’s new theme park, and that the act of posting those images on social media had reportedly “disturbed many

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Kirby Will Not Turn Into A Hot Man If He Swallows A Hot Man

Image: Nintendo Kirby’s whole thing is that he has a huge mouth, and anything he swallows he either absorbs their powers or transforms into. If he swallows Mario in a Smash fight he gets a red hat. In more recent times, if he puts a car in his mouth, he turns into a car. That’s

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Diablo IV’s Beta Has Us Kinda Obsessed With Hell

Diablo IV’s open beta has finally come to an end, meaning we won’t get another opportunity to play the loot-grinding RPG until it drops on June 6. Now that most of everyone at Kotaku had the chance to check out Hell (or at least the emissaries from it you encounter in the early game), we

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WB’s Smash Bros.-Like Shutters Until 2024 With No Refunds

Today, Warner Bros. Games and Player First announced that the MultiVersus open beta will be shutting down in 90 days. The publisher and devs promise the game will return in “early 2024.” In the meantime, players will be unable to play online, and no new updates will be released. And in bad news for players

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GDC Organizers Respond To Reports Women Were Drugged, Assaulted

Several game developers who attended this year’s Game Developers Conference have reported that they experienced harassment on the show floor, while others claim they had their drinks spiked at a networking event that took place off-site. CW: This story contains allegations of harassment and assault. The Game Developers Conference (commonly called GDC) is a massive

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