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Kotaku Royale, A Week Of Battle Royale Themed Content

It’s Aries season, Women’s History Month, the start of spring, and Kotaku Royale week. What’s that last one, you ask? Well, we’re spending all week bringing you exclusive interviews with the teams behind your favorite battle royales, pointed opinions about the state of Warzone and the genre at large, hot takes on Fornite dance emotes,

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After Months Of Struggles, Ashika Island Saved Warzone 2.0

Since its release in November 2022, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 has undergone immense scrutiny from the community due to its rocky launch. Warzone 2.0 dropped with numerous missing features that undid a lot of the goodwill garnered during the first game’s lifecycle, and while it still has a long way to go, it’s headed

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Netflix Star Wants to Name Children After Elden Ring Bosses

Love makes you do crazy things. When you feel connected to another person, you feel compelled to go to the ends of the Earth for them. Maybe you’ll take a bullet for your significant other. Maybe you’ll do their taxes and handle their dirty laundry (figuratively and literally). Or maybe, as in the case of

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Uh-Oh, The Super Mario Bros. x Lush Bath Bombs Look Like Pee

Last week, the cosmetics retailer Lush unveiled their collab lineup of Super Mario Bros. bath items. Finally, gamers will have a reason to take a bath. A bath bomb is a compact ball of essential oils and other ingredients that are used for skincare. Lush’s founder invented them nearly thirty years ago and the company

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Nintendo About To Break Silence On Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

Screenshot: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is just two months away, and there’s still a ton we don’t know about the widely anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild. Like, for instance, how different will it actually be from the hit 2017 open-world game? Thankfully, Nintendo just announced a new gameplay

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Resident Evil 4 Remake’s First Fight Can Be Skipped In Cool Way

Image: Capcom Leon S. Kennedy may have brushed up on his Spanish, but that won’t help him when it comes to ducking and weaving through disgruntled villagers, chickens, and cows. Luckily enough, should you have John Wick-esque aim, you can avoid Resident Evil 4’s opening village fight. Grand Theft Auto 6 Comments: A Dramatic Reading

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Wall Street Threatens To Drop FaZe Clan Over Bad Stock Price

Photo: Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) Less than a year into gaming content creator mega-brand FaZe Clan’s disastrous Wall Street experiment, the Nasdaq has said please, no more. The New York-based stock exchange sent a “Notice of Delisting” last week to the esports company threatening to drop it from trading if it doesn’t get its stock

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Kotaku Reviews Terra Nil, Devolver Digital’s New City-Builder

Terra Nil is a city-builder that’s not really a city-builder. It plays like one, so it’s easy to use that label as shorthand (developers Free Lives call it a “reverse city-builder”), but Terra Nil doesn’t ask you to lay any roads or worry about residential taxes. It’s more of a “resource management puzzle game” (publisher

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Opera Omaha Presents Mozart’s Beloved “The Marriage of Figaro” at Orpheum Theater

Opera lovers in Omaha are in for a treat as Opera Omaha brings one of the world’s most popular and frequently performed operas to the Orpheum Theater. Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is a beloved classic that is known for its mix-ups, mistaken identities, and secrets that fly fast through this iconic tale of love,

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SBIFF 2023: Miranda’s Victim, American Outlaws: Faces of True Crime | Festivals & Awards

While Weir story is at the heart of “Miranda’s Victim,” there is no such rooting interest for the fugitives in “American Outlaws,” which belongs to the “only in America” true crime subgenre. That’s the tack that GQ writer Kathy Dobie took in her long-form piece, The Whole True Story of the Dougherty Gang, which was

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