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Gloomhaven Loses Top Spot On BoardGameGeek’s Ratings Charts

Image: Gloomhaven While they are not a hard science, and should be viewed with as much scepticism as (video) gamers would look at a site like Metacritic, it cannot be denied that the user ratings on BoardGameGeek play a huge part in helping people choose which board games to buy, play and/or argue about. The

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Teen Detained After Playing On ISIS-Themed Roblox Servers

Screenshot: ISD | Roblox A 16-year-old boy has been detained by Singaporean authorities under the country’s strict new terror laws, after he was found to have been playing on ‘multiple Islamic State-themed servers on Roblox’. The boy, who cannot be named since he’s a minor, ‘was issued with a restriction order in January, limiting his

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Microsoft President Carrying Sony CoD Deal In Pocket, Weirdly

Microsoft President Brad SmithPhoto: Valeria Mongelli / Bloomberg (Getty Images) Earlier today, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Xbox boss Phil Spencer talked briefly to the media about its ongoing attempt to consume Activision Blizzard King, continuing once again to act like the larger spat is mostly about Call of Duty. At one point, Smith said

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Meet Maxwell, The Spinning Cat Taking Over The Internet

If you’ve been on Twitter, Steam, Tiktok, or Reddit recently, you may have come across a 3D model of a black-and-white cat. This is Maxwell, and while the cat’s become very popular among modders and gamers over the last few months, its origins date back before 2023. So why is a low-poly model of a

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NBA Pro Dropped Over Antisemitic Slur In CoD Gets New Contract

Photo: David E. Klutho (Getty Images) Nearly two years after NBA player Meyers Leonard blew up his whole career after shouting an antisemitic slur during a Call of Duty: Warzone livestream, ESPN reports he has signed a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks. Read More: NBA Player Drops Antisemitic Slur During Call Of Duty: Warzone

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Let’s Rank The Call of Duty Games, From Worst To Best

Will the Call of Duty series ever end? Gif: Activision / Kotaku There are many Call of Duty games. Some might say too many! I wouldn’t though, because while the franchise has become popular to hate, I think it can still offer up some exciting multiplayer action and big, fun single-player campaigns. Heck, if you

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The Week In Games: Octopath Dreamland Deluxe

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Bungie Wins Over $4 Million In Lawsuit Vs. Destiny 2 Cheat Dev

Image: Bungie Bungie’s two-year legal battle against a Destiny 2 cheat maker finally concluded last week. The judge agreed that cheat maker AimJunkies had violated Bungie’s copyright and ordered it to pay over $3.6 million in damages and $700,000 in legal expenses. AimJunkies is a website owned by Phoenix Digital Group, which creates aimbots for

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Get Ready, The Last of Us Show’s Left Behind Episode Is Brutal

Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku Every episode of HBO’s The Last of Us has had something emotionally devastating (some good and bad) to sit with, but episode seven, “Left Behind,” is probably going to be one of the hardest to deal with in the show’s nine-episode run. That’s because, as the title suggests, it looks like

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Translator Declares Popular Shonen Jump Manga Untranslatable

Screenshot: Viz Media / Shonen Jump / Kotaku Anime and manga enjoyers often come across the odd joke or pun in their favorite series that lands in Japanese but doesn’t translate well into English. While English translators do their damnedest to provide context behind either cultural or phonetic puns in editor’s notes (typically within a

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