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Who Are Kathleen And Perry In HBO’s The Last Of Us?

Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku If you played The Last of Us game and are watching HBO’s TV adaptation, you probably saw a couple of characters in this week’s episode and wondered, “Who the hell are these people?” That’s because these characters weren’t in the original game, but there’s a reason you might have thought you

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Pedro Pascal Stars In Hilarious (Fake) Mario Kart x HBO Trailer

When I see news that Saturday Night Live has released another sketch dedicated to the Mario Kart franchise, I get flashbacks. I think we all remember the frankly quite frightening episode of Saturday Night Live back in 2021 where the world’s second-richest man and currently the world’s most punishing poster Elon Musk hosted. It wasn’t

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Car Accidentally Crashes Through Games Store, Trashes The Place

A video game store called Gameco, in Joplin, Missouri, was absolutely trashed over the weekend when a car drove straight through the front wall and ploughed through several shelves of stock, tyres screeching the whole time. Pocketoid and CRTpixels’ Jordan Starkweather shared some video of the crash—it’s his local games store— on Saturday, which you

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John Carmack Has Some Great Advice About Games Preservation

Screenshot: Star Wars | Kotaku Doom co-creator John Carmack, legendary game designer, rocket guy and VR enthusiast, left Meta/Facebook late last year after a decade working on the company’s virtual reality efforts. Just because he’s gone, though, doesn’t mean the company’s decisions are out of his thoughts. Accompanying the news last week that Meta had

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Nebraska’s Largest City: The Ultimate Guide To Omaha & Things To Do There

Omaha, Nebraska is the highlight of the state, with quirky and unique things to; the ultimate travel guide shows the way. Omaha is the biggest city in Nebraska and the state’s commerce and industrial hub. With its location near the Missouri and Platte Rivers juncture, Omaha was once popularly known as the “Gateway to the

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Nebraska’s Largest City: The Ultimate Guide To Omaha & Things To Do There

Omaha, Nebraska is the highlight of the state, with quirky and unique things to; the ultimate travel guide shows the way. Omaha is the biggest city in Nebraska and the state’s commerce and industrial hub. With its location near the Missouri and Platte Rivers juncture, Omaha was once popularly known as the “Gateway to the

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YouTuber Logan Paul Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over NFT Game

  Logan Paul, the YouTuber and wrestler has been saddled with a class-action lawsuit over “fraudulent actions” regarding his NFT game, CryptoZoo. After a year of investigation, Stephen “Coffeezilla” Findeisen, a YouTuber who looks into fraudsters and fake gurus in the crypto space, discovered that Logan Paul’s CryptoZoo was something of a scam. CryptoZoo, a

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Apparently Video Game Characters Look Great In Drag

Photo: Velvet Caveat There are many gifts to be found on self-proclaimed “video game siren” Velvet Caveat’s TikTok, like gay Team Rocket and, most recently, an electric blue Gyrados puppet holding down Ariana Grande’s part of “Rain On Me” during a lip-sync performance. “No, but Gyariana killed it,” Caveat writes in the caption, perhaps underselling

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Forspoken Actress Doesn’t Mind The Memes About Game’s Dialogue

And a very happy Black History Month to you, Sista Balinska. Image: Square Enix / Kotaku / Mike Marsland (Getty Images) Square Enix’s new fantasy parkour game Forspoken has had a bit of a rocky launch in terms of public perception among gamers, who found its Joss Whedon-esque dialogue in advertisements cringe-inducing. However, Forspoken’s lead

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