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What Your Cyberpunk Romance Says About You: A Brutal Callout

I see you hovering over our romance tips guide. Go ahead and click it, choom. Image: CD Projekt Red / Kotaku / Artur Debat (Getty Images) Gather around, chooms. Like a cross between Cupid and Cyberpunk 2077’s trash-talking anti-hero Johnny Silverhand, I’ve come to once again read gamers’ romance choices to filth. Read More: Cyberpunk

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16 Years After Release, Team Fortress 2 Getting A Major Update

Image: Valve I know it is still available and being played, but Team Fortress 2 can at times feel like a game from a different age. Partly because it is, but also because it’s so old—and has gone so long without a major update—that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was on its last legs.

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PlayStation Accuses Microsoft Of ‘Harassment’ In Court Battle

Screenshot: Phoenix Wright (PS4) The struggles to get Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard over the line aren’t just playing out at government watchdogs and in the public eye, but in courtrooms as well. And in one of those battlegrounds, Microsoft is making demands of its rival Sony that the latter say constitute

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9 New Things Zelda Fans Are Frenzied Over

Screenshot: Nintendo The start of the new gameplay trailer sees Ganon raising his army with a mechanic familiar to anyone who has played BOTW: the blood moon. In that game, blood moons caused enemies Link had slain to regenerate, and they appear to have a similar effect here, though things seem way more intense this

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Hogwarts Legacy Spoilers Are All Over The Internet

Double double, spoil and troubleImage: Avalanche Studios/ Kotaku Hogwarts Legacy spoilers are all over the internet right now. They’re in the Kotaku tips inbox, they’re in the comments on popular gaming website’s tweets, they’re casually getting scattered everywhere on the web, tossed into conversations with reckless abandon. Read More: PS5 Subreddit Doesn’t Want Players To

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10 Video Game Kisses We Can’t Forget

Kotaku staff writer Isaiah Colbert still thinks about Kirby giving their buddies a healthy kiss on the lips, a practice Ian Walker notes in a Kotaku article began in the 1996 anthology Kirby Super Star. A quick peek at the game’s North American instruction manual shows this move referred to as ‘lend[ing] a helping hand,’

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7 Ways To Save Space On Your PS5’s SSD

Image: mkfilm / Kotaku (Shutterstock) While a stock 825 GB storage drive on PS5 (for either the digital or disc-based versions of the console) might’ve sounded like an oasis of endless storage in days now long gone, the colossal size of many titles means that any active PS5 user is likely to run into space

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Concept Art For Resident Evil 7 That Never Happened Uncovered

Image: Capcom / Kotaku An eagle-eyed Resident Evil fan may have uncovered evidence of a scrapped Resident Evil 7 concept that would’ve had us playing as the duo of Leon Kennedy and Sherry Birkin. According to Twitter user AestheticGamer1, the original concept for Resident Evil 7 would have centered around a post-Resident Evil 6 Leon

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag And Origins Director Leaves Ubisoft

Image: Ubisoft Veteran Assassins’ Creed developer Jean Guesdon announced he’s leaving Ubisoft after 17 years on Thursday. A creative director on some of the most beloved entries in the franchise including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, his is the latest high-profile departure at a publisher currently struggling to overcome delays and cancellations. “Hello everyone, 2023

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February’s Game Pass Additions Have Something For Everyone

Image: Electronic Arts If you’re not satisfied simply watching the Super Bowl this weekend, Xbox has you covered. Starting today, Madden NFL 23 joins the Game Pass library for Xbox and PC. Other titles, including Cities: Skylines – Remastered, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and Atomic Heart will also come to Game Pass this month.

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