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Omaha: The City of Love – A Valentine’s Day Guide for Couples, Friends, and Families

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to show your loved ones how much you care about them, and Omaha offers a wide variety of options for couples, friends, and families to celebrate this special occasion. Whether you’re looking for a romantic dinner, an affordable date, or a fun activity to do together, there’s something for

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Gaming

PS Plus January Update Has Something For Everyone

Image: Deck Nine If you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you’re in for a pretty sweet time starting on January 17. And if you’re not, the first catalog update for 2023 is tough to say no to. The latest injection of games to Sony’s subscription service features some undead co-op slaying, Super Saiyan shenanigans, a couple

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Xbox Gets Nintendo-Style Direct, But Don’t Expect Starfield Yet

Image: Microsoft After rumors circulated earlier this week, Microsoft confirmed a Nintendo-style Developer_Direct will take place featuring Bethesda and Xbox. The presentation, planned for January 25 at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET, will focus on upcoming Xbox games like Forza Motorsport, Minecraft Legends, and Redfall, as well as new content for The Elder

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This Warzone TikTok Shows Why DMZ Is Amazing In Less Than 1 Min

Image: Activision Last year I described Call of Duty: Warzone’s newest Tarkov-inspired mode, DMZ, as capable of “emergent moments of thrilling FPS gameplay—the kind I’d expect from a […] single-player campaign, but without any of the narrative wrapping.” Now a TikTok video doing the rounds is demonstrating this very feeling: DMZ and the framework of

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New League Of Legends Trailer Is So Bad Riot Had To Explain It

Image: Riot Games A new year means a new League of Legends season. And for the past few years, this has also meant a big, cinematic trailer to announce the new season. However, this time the trailer for League of Legends’ next season was pretty dang boring and underwhelming, especially when compared to last year’s.

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I Played Eight Disturbing Mobile Games From Twitter, YouTube

Screenshot: Elex Technology / Kotaku All of us have seen our fair share of hilarious, disturbing, and surreal advertisements for mobile games. It seems almost impossible to avoid them while you’re watching gaming videos on TikTok or scrolling through your Twitter feed. Mobile games aren’t the only ones with bizarre and deceptive marketing. If you’re

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Movie Reviews

Calling All Youth Music Mixologists from Chicago: Enter the Lyric’s Opera Remix Competition | Chaz’s Journal

The Opera Remix contest encourages young artists to chop, mix, loop, or warp original recordings as they please — whatever it takes to remix their work to its operatic heights. The winner will receive a cash prize of $250 and four complimentary tickets to the world premiere of “The Factotum” at the Harris Theater in February. Participants

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Gaming

12 Games To Play After You’ve Beaten Game Pass Hit High On Life

Image: Insomniac If you want: no comedy and more FPS gameplay with experimental weaponsPlayable on: Resistance 3 is streamable via PS Plus. Resistance: Fall of Man is locked to PS3 (discs are pretty cheap on eBay) The PS3 had a number of shooters that I’d totally categorize as hidden gems. Killzone, SOCOM, the second iteration

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Six Of The Weirdest Nintendo Switch Accessories You Can Buy

Image: Armor3 / Amazon / Kotaku OK, please join Kotaku in the middle of an argument. I maintain this keyboard attachment for the Switch is the silliest thing imaginable. My boss and editor-in-chief, Patricia, maintains it’d be the most fantastically useful device, especially when playing something like Monster Hunter. Pick a side. I’m afraid that

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Movie Reviews

The Final Season of Servant Untangles Its Messy Family Tree | TV/Streaming

But there’s also the corrosive nature of their severely messed-up family dynamic, one that Shyamalan, show creator Tony Basgallop, and the rest of the cast and crew seem teed up to conclude in this fourth and final season. Just like each one before it, this season of “Servant” delights in upending the status quo of

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