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Please Stop Taking Lewd Photos At Studio Ghibli’s Theme Park

Screenshot: YouTube | Studio Ghibli Ghibli Park, a large theme park dedicated wholly to the works of Japanese animation giants Studio Ghibli, opened late last year. And it hasn’t taken long for people to start being weirdos with some of the statues found at the park, prompting calls from local authorities to please stop. As

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The Resident Evil 4 Remake Demo Has Some Cool Secrets

Image: Capcom Last week, Capcom released a demo for its upcoming remake of the classic 2005 third-person horror game, Resident Evil 4. And while the demo is fairly small, fans have found a hidden weapon and other secrets tucked away in this small taste of what’s coming later this month. I pounced on the demo

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Russian Hackers Threaten Ukrainian Stalker 2 Devs, Bad Idea

Image: GSC Game World On the 11th of March, a post on a Russian fan page for the Stalker series boasted of having hacked the in-development Stalker 2, and started making threats to the Ukrainian developers of the game. Those developers have now responded, and basically told them to go to hell. The post and

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16+ Stellar Games To Play Before Starfield

Screenshot: Disney / Kotaku Availability:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Windows (Steam Deck Unsupported), macOS, iOS, Android, Original Xbox, Nintendo SwitchStar Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Windows (Steam Deck YMMV), macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Original Xbox, Nintendo Switch Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic first arrived in 2003,

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Pokémon Could Be Getting Into NFTs

Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku NFTs. Blockchain. The metaverse. It happened to other gaming companies, and it can happen to a Nintendo property, too—in fact, it just might. Last week, The Pokémon Company posted a job on LinkedIn that requires experience with NFT, blockchain, and the metaverse. When it comes to Pokémon, I wanted

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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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