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Overwatch 2 Pros Apologize For Rape Jokes During Practice

Content warning: language about sexual assault. Earlier this week the Overwatch League’s first-ever champions, the London Spitfire, apologized to fans after a video recording of a practice session in which two players joked about rape leaked online. The person who first surfaced the recording then later deleted it after apparent Discord messages of theirs involving

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Breath of the Wild’s Hottest New Speedrun: Getting All The Hoes

Twitch streamer Limcube has gone to great lengths to get all the hoes he can—wait, we’re talking about the Breath of the Wild gardening tool. You know, the ones used to cultivate soil and remove weeds. Get your head out of the gutter. Read More: Breath of the Wild Fans Are Still Finding New Tricks

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Gaming

Destiny 2 Lightfall: The Kotaku Review-In-Progress

There was a lot of hype going into Lightfall, Destiny 2‘s big cyberpunk expansion. The reality has been much more muted, full of ups and downs, fun discoveries and tedious chores. Live-service games are unwieldy creatures to try and examine under a microscope, and Destiny remains one of the toughest of them all. Free-to-play sandbox

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Gaming

Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet’s ex Cards Are Hugely Powerful

Tomorrow marks the first chance for Pokémon TCG players and collectors to get their hands on Scarlet & Violet cards. The Build & Battle pre-release boxes, available at specialist TCG stores, allow an early peek at the brand new era for the game due to be fully released on March 31. We’ve already torn open

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Movie Reviews

Shazam! Fury of the Gods movie review (2023)

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” meanders further in that direction. The first “Shazam!” works as well as it does because it’s mostly focused on two adolescent pipsqueaks, Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer), who get sucked into a generic fantasy, with some assistance from their extended family of orphan buddies. “Shazam!

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Inside movie review & film summary (2023)

That is bad, but as he soon discovers, things will get much worse. Although the apartment is filled with priceless works of art (the end credits list them like other films do with the songs on the soundtrack) and bric-a-brac, there’s little in the place that suggests human beings actually reside there. The fridge is

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Gaming

New Persona 5 Spin-Off Game Announced, P5 Cast Will Cameo

Image: P5X We’ve had Persona 5, we’ve had Persona 5 Royale, we’ve had Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight and also Persona 5 Strikers. That’s a lot of Persona 5, but Sega and Atlus figure we can handle even more, because another spinoff has just been announced, this one called Persona: Phantom of the Night. As

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Gaming

Death Threats Lead To Cancellation Of GDC Rust Fan Meeting

Screenshot: Rust The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is next week, and while that’s normally a time for developers from around the world to meet up, the developers of Rust were also planning on using the event to catch up with fans. That now won’t be happening. As PC Gamer report, the original plans were for

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Gaming

Two Classic 90s Adventure Games Are Getting Unexpected Remakes

Screenshot: Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure Our collective video gaming memory is a weird thing. Some games from decades past are committed to The Pantheon, where they will be spoken about and remembered for all time. Others, meanwhile, can be some of the biggest releases of their time, only to disappear and never be heard from

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Gaming

Artists Finally Have A Tool To Fight Back Against ‘AI’ Theft

It’s been almost a year since the emergence of “AI art” platforms (it’s neither truly “AI” or art), and in that time artists have had to sit back and watch helplessly as their creative works have been sucked up by machine learning and used to create new images without either credit or compensation. Now, though,

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