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New York Times Joins Last Of Us Finale Discourse 10 Years Later

Image: HBO / Kotaku Last night’s The Last of Us finale on HBO Max ushered in the inevitable, the thing so many of us have feared for a decade: Major publications, the same ones who refer to video games as if they’re all still like Pac-Man, are weighing in on its controversial ending. Perhaps it

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I Can’t Put Down This Zombie RPG That Mixes Tons Of Great Games

Image: Ishtar Games The second I saw The Last Spell’s first trailer back in 2021, I knew I had to play it. A city builder with Dungeons and Dragons-style units on an isometric battlefield where giant hordes of zombies are dispatched in turn-based tactics combat? And staged to a pulsing metal soundtrack? It seemed like

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Answering The Internet’s Big Resident Evil 4 Remake Questions

Image: Capcom We are less than two weeks away from playing Capcom’s glorious repaint of its iconic third-person shooter, Resident Evil 4, originally released in 2005. Though breathless questions on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Twitter suggest the remake is still operating from the mysterious shadows, there’s a lot we know for certain. We’ve been

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TotalBiscuit’s Widow May Delete His YouTube To Save It From AI

Screenshot: H3 Podcast / Kotaku Last week Genna Bain, whose late husband was the game critic and YouTube personality John “Totalbiscuit” Bain, broke the news to fans that she’s contemplating removing all of his videos from the internet to prevent “AI” machine-learning technologies from storing and manipulating his voice to promote particular political and social

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Dead Island 2 Devs Think ‘Development Hell’ Wasn’t Bad Actually

Image: Dambuster Studios Dead Island 2, the zombie RPG that passed through so many hands someone forgot it in the development oven for over a decade, is finally coming out on April 21. This is a week earlier than anticipated, which we love to see. What’s funny, though, is that developer Dambuster Studios is out

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Pokémon Fans Crushed That Team Rocket Disbands At End Of Anime

The latest Pokémon Journeys: The Series episode just aired in Japan this Friday, and it has fans panicking. The anime is in its final season, and fans hoped that the most recent episode would satisfyingly wrap up Team Rocket’s story—but it was quite the opposite. Even Team Rocket’s haters feel that the villainous team deserved

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GameStop Meme Stock Hollywood Adaptation Dumb Money Out Soon

Photo: Spencer Platt / Kotaku (Getty Images) GameStop’s Hollywood moment is finally coming this October. Sony announced its dramatization of the video game retailer’s meme stock explosion will hit theaters in October, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and more. It’s called Dumb Money. I hope it lives up to it. It’s adapted from

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The Week In Games: Umbran Witch Suplex

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Final Fantasy 16 Devs Say Only PS5 Can Handle The Game’s Combat

Maybe you were wondering why Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix’s highly anticipated action RPG, will only be available on PlayStation 5 when it launches on June 22. Well, according to Square Enix, it’s because of “the power of PlayStation 5″ that lets the team achieve next-gen (when do we call it current-gen?) combat. FFXVI is

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