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Giraffe Calf Born at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium announces the birth of a female Giraffe calf at 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, March 19, 2023. She successfully stood for the first time at 1:30 a.m., weighed 108 pounds and was measured at 5 feet, 7 inches tall. Her mother is Zola, an 8-year-old Giraffe, and father is Jawara,

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Gaming

Blizz Explains Lack Of Couch Co-Op On PC

Gamers have finally had a chance to test drive the highly anticipated next entry in Blizzard’s action RPG series, Diablo IV. While the game offers up some contentious changes and sees balance concerns that will be debated furiously in the days to come, first impressions reveal a game that’s perfect to zone out to, preferably

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GameStop Profitable For First Time In Years Despite Mess

GameStop shocked investors, and anyone else who’s been paying attention to the meme stock video game retailer, when earlier this week it reported its first profitable quarter in over two years. It’s all the more surprising considering that everything else about the business, from botched pre-orders to employees just walking out of stores and never

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Nintendo Giving Away Zelda Book Previously In Special Edition

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, successor to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, is out soon. And while there’s a big fancy collector’s edition of the sequel available, which includes a book, Nintendo is this week taking the time to revisit the original, releasing for free a book called The Explorer’s

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Our Favorite Cosplay From Katsucon 2023: The Kotaku Gallery

After a few months off for Winter, the North American cosplay season is starting to heat up once again, with the year’s first major show—Katsucon—taking place last month just outside of DC. The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center played host to the con, which ran February 17-19 and drew around 15,000 people, many of

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Gaming

Ubisoft Proudly Announces An ‘AI’ Is Helping Write Dialogue

Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, tonight announced that an “AI tool” is currently helping its developers write dialogue for some of its games. This tool, called Ghostwriter, is described as: Introducing Ubisoft Ghostwriter, an AI tool developed in-house that aims to support our scriptwriters by generating the first draft

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Shazam Star Begs To Be In The Last Of Us After Shazam 2 Bombs

Image: DC / Kotaku Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released in theaters last week to a resounding “meh, okay” from audiences and critics alike. And now its main star and Jordan Peterson admirer, Zachary Levi, is out here on Twitter asking Neil Druckmann to cast him in the next season of the popular HBO

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Trump Hasn’t Been Arrested But But AI Images Are Fooling People

Photo: Shane Bevel/NCAA Photos (Getty Images) The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually

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Final Fantasy 16’s Party Looks Top Tier With This Wolf Buddy

We’re a few months away from Final Fantasy XVI’s June 22 release date, and more details about the upcoming not-so-final fantasy-RPG keep tricking out. In addition to learning that the game is approximately 80 hours long, we’ve finally gotten a short-but-sweet glimpse of the cute wolf buddy kicking ass. Read More: Final Fantasy 16 Devs

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Make Your Own Darn Call Of Duty Game

As regulators approach their deadline to approve or reject Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, those for and against the mega merger are filing every last argument they can think of to try and sway the outcome. My favorite one yet involves Microsoft telling Sony to quit whining already and just get started making

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