Screenshot: Phantom Brigade Hello. Do you like XCOM? Do you like the recent and excellent MechWarrior Tactics game? And most importantly, are you interested at all in the passage of time? If so, then there’s someone I’d like you to meet. This is Phantom Brigade, a turn-based tactics game that came out last week. It’s

Image: Bungie Destiny 2’s newest expansion dropped its first major secret on Tuesday. Following the game’s weekly rest, players discovered clues in the European Dead Zone leading to a new exotic quest. I finished it earlier today, and can confirm it’s a certified banger. Spoiler warning: As with all new Destiny 2 secrets, this mission

Screenshot: Monuments To Guilt “Exclusionary Design”, also known as “Hostile Architecture”, are the names given to the relatively modern concept of “an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour”. Specifically, it targets the homeless and the young. Ever see a concrete railing that has little metal studs

Image: YouTube / Kotaku Good news for all the potty-mouthed YouTubers out there. A new update introduced by the monetization policy team makes some important changes, letting you cuss more often in your uploads and still collect that ad-revenue bag. Back in November, YouTube updated its profanity usage and violent content regulations. The change treated

Photo: eBay / Tomoya Ohno Everyone knows old Pokémon cards are incredibly hot right now, but nobody knows exactly what they’re worth to collectors. Exhibit A: Someone put a holographic Illustrator Pikachu in near-perfect condition up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $480,000, and it went over like a lead balloon. A

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Image: HoYoverse / Kotaku Genshin Impact is hardly the worst offender when it comes to portraying women in video games. The sexualization of its female cast is limited to extraneous hip windows. Their personalities are inoffensive and charming. But as I watch every major update usher in personal developments and new lore for its male

I hope you’ve got time to spare.Image: Shueisha / Pierrot / Viz Media / Toei Animation / Kotaku / PNGWing / Shareif Ziyadat (Getty Images) Last week, director and actor Michael B. Jordan revealed his top five anime recommendations during a press junket interview for Creed III. Read More: Creed III Director Michael B. Jordan

Image: Lucasfilm / Disney No, this game doesn’t use the Doom engine like some claim online, but it does play a lot like that classic PC shooter; just instead of demons and rocket launchers, you have stormtroopers and blasters. Dark Forces is considered one of the best Star Wars games ever made and while it

Photo: Kotaku / Sweet Anita / AnnaStills (Shutterstock) A month after Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed that he was watching sexually explicit deepfakes of his fellow streamers while on stream, Twitch has issued a lengthy statement regarding its stance on the controversy and what the company is calling “synthetic non-consensual exploitative images” or