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Someone Made An Elden Ring GeoGuessr Game

Where in the world are you, Tarnished?Image: FromSoftware / Kotaku If you played Elden Ring and are a fan of the wildly popular GeoGuessr game genre—in which you’re dropped into a Google Street View and tasked with pinpointing your location—then you may want to thank Redditor u/TheEdenChild. They recently announced they’d created an Elden Ring-based

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Rare Neopets Item Worth Millions Saved By Fans After Accident

Image: Neopets Most of us like to think that we’re good people. But if you picked up something worth millions in your local currency, it’s pretty unlikely that you’d give it back to its owner. Yet that’s exactly what one Neopets player did when they found a Wand of the Darkest Faerie. The Wand of

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The Best Pokémon Cards Ever Are Out In 2023 & They’re Generous

Image: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku It’s the end of an era. Over the last three years, the Pokémon Trading Card Game has been primarily focused on the Pokémon and characters from 2019’s Sword and Shield (SWSH) game, but come March 20, that’s all coming to an end. That’s when the world outside of Japan

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Former Halo Infinite Dev Blasts Management Over Layoffs

Image: 343 Industries / Microsoft Of all the Microsoft teams caught in the blast radius of mass layoffs announced yesterday, it’s possible Halo Infinite maker 343 Industries was among the worst hit. The studio has faced a wave of departures following Halo Infinite’s multiplayer struggles, and the new cuts have sparked strong criticism of those

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Pro Overwatch Teams Seek Legal Fight Vs. Activision Over Money

Image: Overwatch League The Overwatch League, an officially funded esports event, has been dealing with declining viewership and issues with sponsors following Activision Blizzard’s ongoing workplace culture scandal. Now, based on a report from Jacob Wolf, it seems the teams Activision Blizzard employs to play the game for a live audience are taking legal action

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Gaming

Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review

Co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic was first released on the PC back in 2018. It has a dedicated following online, and tons of loyal fans, but this is not a review of the video game. This is a review of the board game with, confusingly, the exact same name. And the name is not the

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Gaming

Drake Now Owns Pharrell Williams’ $20,000 Golden PlayStation

Hi, welcome, let’s take a break from industry news and global doom and talk about a rap video and very, very expensive PlayStation Portable handheld. Producer, rapper and anime enthusiast Pharrell Williams was, a very long time ago, slightly notable for owning a 14-karat gold Blackberry (I told you it was a very long time

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Omaha Fashion Week

A Virtual Conversation with POLIMODA — Omaha Fashion Week

We have the pleasure of hosting another virtual fashion conversation on February 28th at 10am CST with our friends at POLIMODA, a top fashion institute worldwide. Located in the heart of Florence, Italy, this discussion will showcase the most unique experiences students can have while studying abroad. Conversations between Florentine professor Niccolò and Canadian Italian

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Gaming

Wizards Of The Coast ‘Sorry’ After Dungeons & Dragons OGL Drama

As reported last week, Wizards had plans for a new OGL that “significantly restricts the kind of content allowed and requires anyone making money under the license to report their products to Wizards of the Coast directly”. Reaction to this leaked proposal were so negative that, as Dicebreaker point out, “an onslaught of bad press

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