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Naughty Dog Exec Kind Of Regrets Announcing TLOU2 So Early

Screenshot: Naughty Dog If you’ve been wondering why the critically acclaimed Sony studio Naughty Dog has been so mum about its current projects of late, the reason appears to be that it wants to focus more on maintaining a manageable work-life balance for its employees. Co-president Neil Druckmann, in an interview with ComicBook.com, said that

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The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away

Photo: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock) Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where they could exist in

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Gaming

This Final Fantasy VII Voice Mod Finally Lets Tifa Swear

You tell him, Tifa.Image: Square Enix / Tsunamods / PngWing / Kotaku Someone has created a mod for the original Final Fantasy VII that adds full voice acting to Square Enix’s megapopular ‘97 RPG. The FFVII voice mod, called Echo-S 7, was created by Tsunamods, a team of modders who specialize in re-textures and 3D

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Drink of the Week: Hot Buttered Rum

The Hot Buttered Rum is a warm and comforting winter cocktail that’s perfect for a cold evening. It’s made with rum, butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and hot water, and is typically served in a heatproof glass or mug. The butter and sugar create a rich and creamy texture, while the cinnamon and nutmeg add a

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Gaming

The Ben Brode Creator Interview

Screenshot: Kotaku Marvel Snap is just shy of three months old, and it’s fair to say it’s been a success. While the exact number of users hasn’t been shared, Google Play reports over five million downloads, even before you include iOS numbers. And with such popularity comes great scrutiny. Why are the store prices so

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Gaming

Genshin Impact’s Weakest Character May Be Its New Strongest

Screenshot: HoYoverse / Kotaku HoYoverse just put out a new story trailer for Genshin Impact, and one burning question is consuming the entirety of the fandom: How did a small child carry one of Genshin’s strongest DPS characters on her back? As of the time of writing, “SHE WHAT???” is currently the most upvoted topic

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Gaming

Atlus Demands Spoiler Warnings In Streams Of Old Persona Games

The Atlus team just waiting for a content creator to mess up.Image: Atlus Atlus is back with some peculiarly limiting stipulations for folks looking to livestream Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, the upcoming HD remasters of two pretty old RPGs slated to launch on January 19. You should be careful lest the developer-publisher

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Raise a Glass to Omaha’s Roaring Prohibition Past: A Look into the Speakeasies and Bootleggers of Nebraska’s Hidden History

Omaha, Nebraska may not be the first place you think of when you think of prohibition, but this Midwestern city has a rich and storied history when it comes to the “Noble Experiment.” Prohibition in Omaha began in 1916, two years before the national prohibition law, the 18th Amendment, went into effect. The city’s anti-alcohol

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Gaming

Ubisoft’s Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete Decade-Long Saga

Image: Ubisoft / Kotaku Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing. And just yesterday, Skull

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Gaming

All The Big Pokémon Games, Ranked From Worst To Best

By sending players back into the past, Pokémon Legends: Arceus told a radically different story.Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku For some, Pokémon Legends: Arceus might feel like an empty tech demo, but it also marks the most significant, refreshing leap forward the series has had in over a decade. Its open-world structure isn’t as

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