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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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I Love ‘The Worst’ Video Game Ranking List Of All Time

Screenshot: Sega Earlier today, The Times published what it hoped would be an esteemed list, an evergreen piece setting in stone what the paper considered the “20 best video games of all time”. Putting the list together was an “expert jury”, and I use quotation marks there only because it’s their exact words, not because

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It’s 2023 And Fortnite Is Adding Cyborgs To The Rocky Universe

Screenshot: Epic Games The first Rocky film was released way back in 1976. It was a gritty, well-written, and heartfelt movie about a down-on-his-luck boxer given one last chance to make a name for himself. Decades later, Creed was released as a spin-off for that franchise, and it kept the same gritty tone and down-to-earth

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It’s About Damn Time Games ‘Git Gud’ At Black Hair

When you think of Black hair in games, what comes to mind? Maybe a clean set of cornrows? What about some dreadlocks? Or, and this is probably the most likely, do you think of an afro, a Caesar fade, or just a bald scalp? This litmus test is a conversation that’s been raging in the

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In Sons Of The Forest, Everybody Loves Lobotomized NPC Kelvin

Screenshot: Endnight / Kotaku Where Skyrim had Lydia, the latest big Steam survival hit—Sons of the Forest—has Kelvin. He’s there to help, no matter how much his ears bleed, and people absolutely love the adorable, lobotomized handyman. In Sons of the Forest, the new Early Access sequel to the enormously popular The Forest, you play

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