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The Ron DeSantis And Disney Feud Is Heating Up

Image: Giorgio Viera / Arturo Holmes / Kotaku (Getty Images) This week, Florida governor Ronald Dion DeSantis signed a bill that targets the Disney Company’s control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a nearly 40-square mile area in Florida’s Orange and Osceola counties. The area covers the Walt Disney World Resort and was, until now,

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Hogwarts Legacy Seems Like It Was Supposed to Have Quidditch

Screenshot: WB Games / Kotaku Just outside the main castle grounds in Hogwarts Legacy, the vibrant and towering Quidditch stands sit on the horizon, beckoning. If you hop on your broomstick, you can soar up the pitch’s shorter walls and down onto the field itself, the impossibly green grass begging to be sullied by your

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Free Horror Game Is A Nightmare Version Of N64 Goldeneye

Screenshot: Jaime/Jaime / Kotaku The opening level of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 is one of the most iconic video game areas out there. The overcast skies, the low-res rock walls, the sniper towers, and the tunnel leading to an underground maze. Remember how it slowly causes your game to become more and more

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8 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Octopath Traveler II

Image: Square Enix In a lot of ways, Octopath Traveler II can feel like a pretty straightforward turn-based RPG, but when you take into account its eight characters’ original mechanics, its non-linear storytelling, and how unapologetic it can be about throwing you into the deep end, there’s a lot of complexity under the hood. Whether

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Inquisition’s Iron Bull Shows BioWare’s Limitations

Screenshot: Electronic Arts / Kotaku I like the Iron Bull a lot. I’d get a drink with a guy like him in real life. We’d get each others’ backs if anyone was giving shit to either of us. Which is why I can’t stop thinking about how badly his story arc concluded in the action

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Twitch Has A New Most-Subscribed King In Kai Cenat

Kai Cenat, the 21-year-old rising Twitch star who took the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform by storm in 2021 and 2022, has smashed another record on the last day of Black History Month. This time, it was the record for the streamer with the most active subscribers, an accolade previously attained by Tyler “Ninja” Blevins in April

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Lightfall Is Not What I Was ExpectingSlug

Image: Bungie Ahead of this week’s Lightfall release, Destiny 2 was on a roll. Season of the Seraph delivered on every front, including a terrific final mission and concluding cutscene showing the series’ infamous white orb called the Traveler finally getting off its ass. The pre-release marketing campaign for Lightfall was firing on all cylinders,

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One Piece Creator Asked AI To Write A New Manga Chapter

I blame the Egghead Arc.Illustration: Eiichiro Oda / Shonen Jump / Viz Media / Kotaku Last week, the official One Piece staff Twitter account posted a video of creator Eiichiro Oda diving completely off of the deep end by asking ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chat software, to write a new One Piece chapter

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Incredible Pokémon, Anime Sneaker Designs Are Too Good For Nike

While Nike likes to dabble in the out-and-out nerd market sometimes, from Doraemon to Hello Kitty, for the most part the company likes to keep its collabs subtle, and has not worked with Nintendo for a long time. Meaning it will likely never officially release shoes this nice. The sneakers you’re seeing in this gallery

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Union Says Activision Fired QA Testers Illegally Over Protest

Photo: Bloomberg (Getty Images) The Communications Workers of America (CWA) have today filed charges against publisher Activision—a company with a long track record of alleged union-busting—claiming the publisher violated several workplace laws in relation to the firing of two QA testers. The charges are related to Activision’s recent decision to begin forcing workers back into

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