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War Thunder Players Once Again Post Military Documents On Forum

An unclassified look at an F-15E Strike EaglePhoto: aviation-images.com (Getty Images) You may remember that one of the funniest stories of 2022 was the way that players of War Thunder—an arcadey online shooter featuring real military vehicles—just kept on posting military documents in the game’s forums. Not as acts of espionage, but to win arguments

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It’s Always A Good Time To Play JRPG Classic Persona 3 Portable

Image: Persona 3 The increasing popularity of the Persona series in the West has been a wonderful if slow-burning thing to behold, ramping up over the last decade to the point where Persona 5 was a Very Big Video Game Release, and re-releases of older games are now headline news. So it’s easy finding people

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GTA Trilogy Arrives On Steam, Still Broken (But On Sale)

Screenshot: Rockstar Games Today, after some leaks and rumors, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition on Steam. The good news: It’s on sale, meaning you can grab all three classic games for cheap. The bad news: It’s the same infamously messy remaster that hasn’t received a substantial update since nearly

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New Soulslike Game Is A Solid Marriage Between Nioh And Sekiro

“OK, phew, I need a little breather.”Screenshot: Team Ninja Soulslikes, a genre of punishing action RPGs popularized by Japanese developer FromSoftware, are all too common these days. Ever since Dark Souls came onto the scene in 2011,a bunch of studios have been trying their hands at FromSoft’s iconic formula. Some attempt to mix things up

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Lone Ruin IS Hades, But With Twin-Sticks And More Purple

Gif: Cuddle Monster Games / Kotaku If you’re reading this, then I’ve somehow managed to pull myself away from my latest obsession: the generously purple, isometric twin-stick roguelike Lone Ruin. Though its main three-layer ruin might feel too short for some, I’ve found it to hardly dampen the perpetual fun; the creative possibilities from randomly

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The Last Of Us’ Co-Director Unhappy Over HBO Show Credits Snub

Screenshot: Wildflower Interactive Bruce Straley hasn’t been at Naughty Dog for six years, but the game director behind the original PlayStation 3 version of The Last of Us isn’t happy about his lack of credit in the HBO adaptation that began airing this week. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Straley’s relationship with

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Giant Bomb And GameSpot Face Layoffs Months After Fandom Sale

Image: Fandom Two of the biggest outlets in games media are the latest to face layoffs. A number of editorial staff across both Giant Bomb and GameSpot revealed they’d been let go on Thursday, just months after the sites were purchased by the Fandom wiki network. While it’s not clear what the extent of the

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Apparently Joe Rogan Is A Scrublord At Fighting Games

I had to check her age too.Image: Team Ninja / Kotaku / Christian Petersen (Getty Images) Listeners of Joe Rogan’s podcast often run the risk of witnessing the self-proclaimed “f—-ing moron” spew garbage like covid misinformation, platforming the internet’s biggest crybaby, or routinely exercise media illiteracy. On the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience,

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Marvel Snap’s Rickety Bridge Might Be The Worst Zone Yet

Image: Marvel / Second Dinner / Kotaku Another week, another new Marvel Snap location. And sadly, it’s becoming a trend that a lot of these new locations are just really annoying and bad. The latest awful Snap location is Rickety Bridge, a frustrating spot that destroys cards faster than an angry kid who didn’t pull

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Keke Palmer Is Playing The Sims On Instagram, And It’s Pure Drama

Image: Monkeypaw Productions / Maxis / Kotaku Keke Palmer, the actor known for her recent roles in Nope and Lightyear (or as the titular character in the Nickelodeon True Jackson, VP depending on which side of 2000 you were born) has been thriving as of late. As a former Nickelodeon/Disney Channel kid, I’m always happy

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