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Marvel Snap Creator Says Snapping On Round 1 Is Smart, Actually

Image: Second Dinner You know the moment. You start a game of Marvel Snap, you get ready to play your first card in the first round, and then “OOOOH SNAP!” the game blurts out: your lunatic opponent just snapped first round before the game even started. Awful behavior, right? Well, when Kotaku spoke to the

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Embracing the Chill: Why a Winter Visit to the Omaha Zoo is a Must-Do

Visiting the zoo in the winter may not be the first thing that comes to mind when planning a family outing, but the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska offers a unique and exciting experience during the colder months. From the opportunity to see animals in their winter coats to special events and exhibits, there

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Competitive Overwatch 2 Is A Nightmare I Can’t Stop Playing

A screenshot from a rare play of the game I got as Moira. It’s the little things that keep me going.Image: Blizzard / Kotaku It’s another night, which means it’s another frustrating session of Overwatch 2’s competitive mode. My group of friends and I are all at wildly different ranks, despite playing together almost daily

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Marvel Snap Cards That Win & Lose The Most Are Hard To Believe

Image: Second Dinner / Kotaku When it comes to building any style of Marvel Snap deck, there’s always that nagging feeling that you might be including one or two cards out of habit, rather than necessity. But when Kotaku spoke to the game’s creator, Second Dinner’s Ben Brode, we learned that the cards we ought

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12 Amazing Games On Apple’s App Store

Screenshot: poncle Goth roguelike Vampire Survivors made its mobile debut recently and with appropriate gloominess—the indie game’s developers said in a Steam update that rampant clones “forced our hand to release the mobile game ASAP, and put a lot of stress on the dev team that wasn’t even supposed to worry about mobile in the

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Fortnite’s Plague Skin Is Back After 3 Years, Fans Blame COVID

Image: Epic Games / Kotaku Yesterday, after 1,410 days (or 3 years and 10 months) the Grim Medicine cosmetic set—complete with the popular Plague Doctor skin—returned to Fortnite’s in-game store, letting players buy it for the first time since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. And many believe it was the pandemic itself that kept

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Rising AI Twitch VTuber Inevitably Banned For ‘Hateful Conduct’

Screenshot: Vedal / Twitch / Kotaku If you watched even a minute of Neuro-sama streaming on Twitch you knew it was only a matter of time before the AI-controlled Vtuber got banned. The channel is currently offline for two weeks due to “hateful conduct,” though it’s not immediately clear what the offending incident was. “Okay

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Revealing Mortal Kombat 2 Code Leak Pulled By Warner Bros.

Image: Midway Games / Nether Realm / Warner Bros. Over the Winter holiday, someone filled all Mortal Kombat appreciators’ Christmas stockings up with something a lil’ extra: Mortal Kombat II’s source code on GitHub. The lawyers at Warner Bros. took exception to this by issuing a swift DMCA takedown notice that Github adhered to by

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14 Things Every New PS5 Owner Should Try Or Consider

Owning a new console can be an overwhelming thing. Let us guide you through some early steps of owning a PS5.Image: Sony / Kotaku If you’re reading this, that means you’ve managed to finally find a PlayStation 5. Which, according to Sony, is only going to become more common as it claims its overcome those

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