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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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Ubisoft Has Canceled At Least Seven Games In Six Months

Image: Ubisoft In a new financially-focused press release, Ubisoft has confirmed that it has canceled three more unannounced games, meaning that since July 2022 the publisher has now canned at least seven different video games. It’s more bad news for the publisher, who also confirmed that recent games like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

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Xbox Is About To Get Some Big Energy Saving Updates

Image: Xbox / Kotaku / UniversalImagesGroup / Anadolu Agency (Getty Images) Today, Microsoft announced a bunch of energy-saving updates coming to the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Naturally, these updates came packaged with the humble brag that Xbox is the first carbon-aware console. Read More: Video Game Companies Vow Action On Climate Change, But

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Ubisoft Cancels Games, Delays Skull And Bones After Rough 2022

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft held an emergency call with investors on Wednesday to reveal that the company’s 2022 sales had fallen well below expectations and that it would be taking drastic measures going forward, including cancelling three more unannounced games, delaying Skull and Bones a few months yet again, and cutting roughly $215 million in costs

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Retro Action Game Asks What If Ninja Gaiden But Body Horror

Image: JoyMasher / The Arcade Crew Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider has everything you’d want from an indie tribute to 16-bit action platformers: there’s detailed industrial pixel art, crunchy death animations, and plenty of spike pits. It’s brief but explosive, and would be right at home in any ‘90s arcade cabinet hidden in the back corner of

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